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Finance

The AI Bubble Has Become So Surreal That It’s Now Propping Up the Toilet Industry

This is getting ridiculous.

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Is Taking a Nasty Swim

Prices are down over 45 percent from all-time highs — and falling.

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Climate Change

United Nations Issues Grave Warning About El Niño

"El Niño conditions will pour fuel on the fire of a warming world."

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Education

College Professors Say Incoming Students No Longer Understand Middle School Math and Science

"We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics."

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SpaceX

SpaceX Is Massively Overvalued Ahead of Its IPO, Analysts Find

Some are advising to stay far away.

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Artificial Intelligence

In Leaked Document, Microsoft Plots How to Get People “Addicted” to Its AI

Might want to rethink how you phrase that one, guys.

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Ethics

State of Florida Sues OpenAI, Saying Sam Altman Showed “Utter Disregard for the Risk to Human Life”

"This litany of harms is driven by Defendants' insatiable quest to win the AI arms race and amass large fortunes, despite knowing the danger of ChatGPT."

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Ethics

Amazon’s AI-Generated Animated Series Canceled After Relentless Derision

It all fell apart after just two days of outrage.

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Anthropic

Anthropic and DeepMind Now Actively Investigating AI Consciousness

"We think the question is serious enough to study carefully."

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Finance

All These Galaxy-Scale IPOs Are Piling on Risk of an Economic Crisis

Could the AI bubble finally be about to burst?

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Artificial Intelligence

Film Community Aghast as Martin Scorsese Extolls AI Startup, Says He Now Uses AI for Storyboards

"Cannot stress enough how disappointing it is that Martin Scorsese is collaborating with an AI company and putting a stain on his name so late in his life and career."

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Boston Dynamics

World Cup Will Be Patrolled by Security Robodogs

"Well, that puts a chill down my spine."

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Biology

There’s Something Living Inside Fog, Scientists Find

The fog is not what it seems.

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Future Society

Bernie Sanders Announces Plan to Seize Half of AI Industry for the Public Good

"Who will own and control that future? Who will benefit from it, and who will be hurt by it?"

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Mars

Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is Approaching Is Actually a Derelict Spacecraft

Could this Soviet-era spacecraft be pretending to be a "dark comet?"

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He Only Got Involved in Politics Because He Couldn’t Deal With Having a Transgender Child

Even if he's being facetious, it's a weird thing to say.

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Artificial Intelligence

Now You Gotta Buy a Second Computer Just for Your AI Agent, Nvidia Declares

Nvidia says it's "reinventing the personal computer."

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The Industrialists

AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared

Talk about backpedaling.

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Future Society

Jeffrey Epstein’s Biopreserved Sperm Is Missing

We're sorry to even make you think about this.

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SpaceX

Trump Shovels $4 Billion Directly to Elon Musk, Who Spent a Fortune Getting Him Elected

It's paying off for him in a big way.