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Ethics

Aging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It

"There is a percentage of my colleagues who are still trying to spell AI."

Astronomy

Earth May Have Had a Larger Cousin that the Sun Devoured

The Sun may have a few skeletons in the closet.

Medical

GLP-1 Users Are Being Cruelly Shamed by Their Own Families

"This has been a life-changing drug so far, and I can't share it with the person I'm closest with."

Education

College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection

Have they considered simply using their time to do the work instead?

Privacy

Federal Agents Are Secretly Monitoring Americans’ Financial Transactions So Cops Can Arrest People They Find Suspicious

"If we can't meaningfully review and evaluate these systems, we can't trust them."

NASA

China Deploys Rare Type of Space Junk That Pollutes Orbit for Hundreds of Years

Oh, great.

Artificial Intelligence

Werner Herzog Demolishes Talentless Hacks Who Use AI to Imitate Other Filmmakers

"It's mimicry of something that has happened before."

Electric Vehicles

Oops! Many Tesla Cybercabs Actually Do Have Steering Wheels, Undercutting a Core Promise

Busted.

Ethics

Support for Unions Is Spiking as AI Threatens Jobs

America's approval of organized labor is higher than it's been since 1965.

Electric Vehicles

Lawyers Already Lining Up to Defend Victims of Cybercab Crashes

"Who is responsible when there is no human driver behind the wheel?"

Ethics

Top Chinese Court Issues Sweeping Legal Crackdown on AI Deepfakes

"AI face-swapping technology can indiscriminately harvest anyone's likeness, making ordinary people potential targets of deepfakes."

Future Society

Firefighters Say There’s a Glaring Issue With Tesla’s Cybercab

"We need the feds to step up to the plate on this."

Meta

Meta Releases Uber-Creepy AI Chatbot as Its Platforms Crumble Under Grotesque Child Abuse

Stay far away.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is So Mad About This New Documentary That He’s Threatening Legal Action

The most secure man alive.

Investing

Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP Meme Coin Is Either a National Disgrace or the Funniest Thing He’s Ever Done, and We’re Not Entirely Sure Which

"They turned laptop into a weapon. I turned it into a token."

Electric Vehicles

Deranged Stalker Seizes Control of Woman’s Tesla Software to Terrorize Her While Driving

"I am in your car. I am in your maps."

Anthropic

Anthropic Just Revealed That It’s Stopped Foreign Agents From Using Claude to Develop Possible Bioweapons

"A military institution doing gain-of-function research is concerning."

OpenAI

OpenAI’s Supposed Mathematical Breakthrough Devolves Into Explosive Drama as Mathematician Accuses It of Stealing His Work

This is ugly.

Finance

Trump’s Plan to Give Every American Adult $5,000 After the Midterm Would Add $1.3 Trillion to the National Debt

Why wait?

Data Privacy

LG TVs Caught Secretly Recording Users and Scanning Their Homes For Other Devices, Even When Disconnected From the Internet

"You[r] TV is wiretapping your whole house."