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Finance

“Prediction” Markets Were Comically Wrong About the Brazilian Election

Flávio Bolsonaro was the overwhelming favorite, right up until the moment he unceremoniously lost.

Finance

New Analysis Finds Signs the AI Bubble Is About to Blow

"The odds of a deep and severe AI crash are rapidly increasing."

Ethics

Leaked Video Shows China Taking Apart Thousands of RTX 5090s and Turning Them Into Zombie AI Servers

Consumer prices have soared well past $10,000 in the US.

Ethics

Americans Are Officially More Scared of AI Than a Loved One Getting Cancer

"We expect concerns about AI to remain a significant part of the national conversation in the years ahead."

Ethics

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Says She Used AI to Identify What’s Special About Her Daughter

"I just can't help myself."

Future Society

Man Cracks Open Fortune Cookie, Disgusted by What He Finds Inside

"I’d quite literally never order from this place again."

Ethics

Top Economist Finds That AI Has Provided “Zero Financial Payoff” to Companies Outside Tech

"There are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth."

Health & Medicine

Rehab Charged With Providing Illegal Drugs to Addicts in Grim Scam

One twisted road to recovery.

Robots and Machines

Are Delivery Robots Scanning You Into a Database Scarier Than Flock?

Et tu, ramen messenger?

Artificial Intelligence

Growing Majority of Americans Convinced That AI Is Bad for Society

Public opinion is not on the AI industry's side.

Artificial Intelligence

Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games

AI is being used to "churn out" video games.

OpenAI

ChatGPT Is Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users

"...there is no boundary anymore; the system is acting as your advisor, your friend, your doctor, your lawyer, and so it has information on everything."

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Says Its New AI Is Better at Diagnosing Patients Than Real Doctors

"This is just going to change the way care is delivered in a big way."

RX and Medicine

Someone Ran a Chemical Analysis of Bodega Retatrutide and Dear Lord

"It does not look anything like a peptide."

Advanced Transport

Florida Police Show Off Incredibly Tiny and Goofy Quadcopter That Fits Exactly One Cop at a Time

Yes, that's a tiny police lightbar on top.

Machine Learning

Banks Preparing for Aftermath of Unprecedented Catastrophe Caused by AI

"You can't stop it."

Artificial Intelligence

We Investigated Character.AI and Found a Horror Show. Now It’s Bankrupt.

Move fast, break things, break people, break yourself.

The Industrialists

AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics to Influence Elections, But It’s Backfiring

Even a whiff of AI money seems to disgust voters.

Meta

Behind the Scenes, Meta’s Board Is Battling With Mark Zuckerberg Over His Out-of-Control AI Spending

The directors have had enough.

Future Society

Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers

"We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest."