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OpenAI

OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google

AI companies are tech companies — and they're vacuuming up your most personal secrets.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Energy

Electric Company Says It’s Cutting Off an Entire Town So It Can Sell All Its Power to Data Centers

"It's like we don't exist."

By Joe Wilkins

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OpenAI

Sam Altman Accuses Elon Musk of Laughing at Memes During Important OpenAI Meetings

"MEMES ON HIS PHONE."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Attempts at AI Are Falling Apart

"OpenAI is Coke, Anthropic is Pepsi and Grok is RC Cola."

By Joe Wilkins

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Climate Change

Last Time an El Niño Was This Bad, It Killed 50 Million People

"It was arguably the worst environmental disaster to ever befall humanity."

By Joe Wilkins

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Admits Its Robotaxis Have a Small Issue With Driving Into Floodwaters

Flood-worthy vessels, they are not.

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

A Deranged New Wikipedia Clone Is Made Entirely of Surreal AI Hallucinations

An entire "universe" of nonsensical information that somehow all still fits together.

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Four Financial Journalists Accused of Being Fake AI-Generated Puppets That Shill Crypto in Forbes, HuffPost, and More

Oops!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

Software Engineers Say They’re Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them

"It's making me dumber for sure."

By Krystle Vermes

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Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Is Realizing That When You Treat Your Workers Like Human Garbage, They Might Not Like You Anymore

"Your callousness to the concerns of your own employees is concerning."

By Frank Landymore

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RX and Medicine

Trump Says a New Drug Can Bring Dead People Back to Life

"We've taken people that were dead.... and the person became better. It works."

By Jon Christian

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Anthropic

Anthropic Says Claude Turned Evil for a Bizarre Reason

Anthropic would rather blame the internet than its poor training.

By Krystle Vermes

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Ethics

The AI Industry Is Secretly Powered by Homeless People

Companies like Mercor are ushering in a new Wild West with no standards.

By Krystle Vermes

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Future Society

MAGA in Shambles as Trump’s “Made in America” Phone Crumbles Into Dust

"Where the f*ck's my phones!?"

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly

Oops.

By Krystle Vermes

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OpenAI

OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Allegedly Killed College Student

"ChatGPT recommended a dangerous combination of drugs without offering even the most basic warning that the mix could be fatal."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

New York Times Issues Stern Warning to Its Freelance Writers About AI Use

"To be clear on AI..."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Google

Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It’s Inexorably Driving It Out of Business

Who could have seen this coming?

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take

We have to sit down.

By Jon Christian

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Artificial Intelligence

Unitree Shows Off Fully Functional Mecha Suit

"We kindly request that all users refrain from making any dangerous modifications or using the robot in a hazardous manner."

By Jon Christian