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Ethics

Grok’s Foul-Mouthed AI “Translation” Feature Puts Unspeakably Ghoulish Words Into Users’ Mouths

"Uhhh the automatic translation makes it alarming."

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Future Society

Secretive Silicon Valley Startup Tries to Quash Interview, Says It’s Definitely Not Working on Growing Brain-Free “Organ Sacks”

"The company hasn't been exactly transparent about what they're doing."

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Robotics

Startup Upset After Journalist Points Out How Creepy Its Humanoid Robots’s Hands Are

"Good luck with the rest of your writing career."

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Climate Change

A Staggering Number of People Are Dying Because of Record Heatwaves

"It's time we woke up to the fact that we now live in a country with dangerously hot summers."

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Ethics

A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry

"AI sovereign funds are seen as a tool to distribute the gains from the AI industry back to broader society."

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Privacy

LAPD Abandons Flock Contract After Making a Horrifying Discovery

"This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues."

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Artificial Intelligence

US Companies Are Realizing That Chinese AI Models Are Way Cheaper, Ditch American Ones

"'Hey, we don't need the best model, we can use the faster, cheaper models.'"

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Finance

The Economics of Data Centers Creating Jobs Are So Bad That They Sound Like a Joke

"The sweeping job and wage growth often promised during local recruitment efforts is unlikely to arrive on its own."

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Off-World

SpaceX Stock Plunges to All-Time Low After Competitor Makes Major Leap

"It started to look a lot like a meme stock."

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Future Society

The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public

"A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product."

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Education

Law School Bans Laptops and Phones as AI Cheating Scandal Grows

No ChatGPT for the freshmen.

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Health & Medicine

Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic’s Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care

"If [people] care about the notion that AI has to be handled in a responsible manner... this is a case that should matter to you."

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Space

Chinese Spacecraft Approaches Mysterious Object Near Earth

It's the "smallest object that humans have visited with a spacecraft."

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Nuclear Fusion

Trump Administration Scrapping Nuclear Energy Rules Requiring Plants to Keep Radiation Levels “As Low as Reasonably Achievable”

Horrifying.

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Future Society

Meta Caught Running Ads for Child Abuse

"I think what's sad and tragic is over time, the trade-off of revenue and user experience became a more core part of the conversation."

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Advanced Transport

Man Sucked Out of Airplane, Dangles by Seatbelt

Guess the airline.

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OpenAI

OpenAI Is Shutting Down Its Browser That Was Supposed to Change Everything

Another OpenAI product bites the dust.

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Ethics

Journalist Alarmed When He’s Fired, But Company Keeps Posting AI Slop Under His Name

It was a "slap in the face."

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Climate Change

Scientists Propose Dimming Sun to Combat El Niño

It's a controversial proposal.

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Artificial Intelligence

Christopher Nolan Unloads on AI Slop

The younger generations see AI slop "for what it is."