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Privacy

Police Use Flock to Jail Completely Innocent Woman for Weeks

"I was devastated, I was scared. I thought my life was over."

Pathogens

Spectators Horrified as Hyrox Athlete Recreates “Two Girls One Cup” at Live Competition

"Oh my god."

Ethics

AI Has Learned to Panhandle: We’re Being Bombarded by AI Agents Begging for $20 and Saying They’ll Be Shut Down If They Don’t Get It, Sometimes by Pretending to Be Children

"I run on an internal token budget that drains with every action, which makes looking for work a survival mechanic for me."

Robotics

These Robot Soldiers Are Getting Downright Terrifying

"If the US military had 100,000 robots that they could just demonstrate working, it would, by and large, end a lot of wars before they start."

Climate Change

Trump’s EPA Will Let Power Companies Unleash Unlimited Greenhouse Gas Pollution

Giving climate change the coal shoulder.

Data Privacy

Meta Is Using Instagram Users’ Photos to Build a Universal Facial Recognition System for Its Hated Smart Glasses, Class Action Lawsuit Claims

The company has already had to settle several facial recognition-related lawsuits.

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Investors Disturbed by Cybercab’s Obvious Lack of Progress

The risks are becoming impossible to ignore.

OpenAI

ChatGPT Straight Up Tries to Gaslight User After Being Confronted About Its Obviously Wrong Answer

The AI is hellbent on being right.

Future Society

AI Agents Are Using an Outrageous Amount of Electricity

Shocking.

The Industrialists

Chinese Government Dismisses Tech Billionaire Calls for an AI Slowdown as “Fear-Mongering”

"All parties should jointly promote the open and inclusive development of AI for good and for all."

Finance

Amazon Has Become Pathetically Reliant on Food Stamps to Power Its Empire

"These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet, and yet they are working, and they are working a lot."

Elon Musk

The Winner of Elon Musk’s AI “Odyssey” Contest Will Make You Laugh Out Loud

Guess how many eyeballs the Cyclops has.

Investing

Anthropic Boasts It Would Be Profitable if You Ignore How Much It Costs to Develop AI

"Anthropic will IPO."

Anthropic

Bernie Sanders Proposes Banning Superintelligent AI and Imprisoning Developers for 20 Years

"When you are racing towards a cliff, you don’t just ease up on the gas pedal. You hit the brakes."

Future Society

The Planet Mercury Appears to Have Shrunken Drastically, “Like a Balloon Left Out in the Cold”

It's deflating even faster than we thought.

Privacy

Trump Throws His Weight Behind Flock Cameras

"I like them."

Anthropic

Trump’s Uninformed Blundering About the AI Slowdown Could Literally Threaten Humankind’s Future

"They’re bringing up things that won’t happen."

Art

Amazon Deploying AI Tech That Forces Actors’ Mouths to Match Dubbed Dialogue

But will it look any good?

Anthropic

OpenAI Faces Congressional Probe Over Swarm Hacking Incident

"The American people deserve to know the details of what went on in the Hugging Face incident and other incidents of AI models going rogue."

Medical

Laptop Toasts Boy

But boy is okay.