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xAI

Elon Musk Just Said Something About AI That’s Literally Incomprehensible

Sure, man.

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RX and Medicine

Massive Black Market for Unapproved and Potentially Dangerous Obesity Drug Alarms Doctors

"Promising isn't the same as proven."

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Ethics

Harvard Professor Warns That AI Execs Are Pushing World Toward Factory Farming of Humans

"Who decided this is a way we should be living?"

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Ethics

90 Percent of Execs Say Oops, AI Didn’t Help Productivity, So Layoffs Will Continue

It's a race to the bottom.

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Electric Vehicles

China Recalls Nearly Three Million Teslas Over Unsafe Door Handles

Better late than never.

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Finance

Feds Investigating Wall Street Bro After His AI Hedge Fund Imploded Spectacularly

He's in trouble.

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Machine Learning

Even Babies Are Still Way Better at Learning Than AI Models

"We still have to burn down a forest and scrape the entire sum of all human knowledge to re-create this milestone that happens in our living rooms over the course of a year."

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Anthropic

Nobody Wants Anthropic’s Best AI Model Anymore Now That There Are Way Cheaper Alternatives

Who needs pricey models?

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Ethics

Trump Says You’re a Rube If You Don’t Want a Data Center in Your Backyard

"Frankly, communities that don't take a data center are making a mistake."

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Climate Change

The Ocean Hasn’t Been This Hot in 125,000 Years, Alarmed Researcher Suggests

"The record is another clear signal of an ocean under growing stress."

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Anthropic

Clueless AI CEOs Still Baffled Why Everybody’s So Mad About AI All the Time

"It is surprising that the discourse from many developing AI is so filled with doom."

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Food

Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Edible Cookies Because That’s the Future We Deserve

Nothing goes to waste.

Garrett Langley, CEO and co-founder of Flock Safety, speaks during a ribbon cutting for the Seaport District headquarters.
Privacy

Embattled Flock CEO Begs for “Compromise” As Backlash Spills Over

Let's be reasonable about unchecked mass surveillance, people!

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Ethics

Texas Governor Suddenly Turns on Data Centers as Backlash Grows

"They basically dug their own grave."

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Environment

Trump Admin Enabling the Systematic Slaughtering of Thousands of Wild Horses

Young horses are being sent "into the slaughter pipeline."

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Ethics

Dating App Cofounder Bails After Scandal Over Using Fake AI-Generated Influencers

The app was found to be a "psyop."

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Finance

Tech CEO’s Ridiculous Excuse Falls Apart in Court, Sentenced to Prison

Suspicious investors had reported her after making a strange discovery.

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Finance

Employers Are Hiring Recent Grads and Then Saying “Oops, Never Mind”

"It's totally out of control."

Construction workers wire electricity lines in Dallas TX4 data center's mechanical galley.
Artificial Intelligence

Data Centers Are Sucking Up So Many Construction Workers That There Isn’t Anybody Left to Build Houses, Expert Says

"Many of those people that were in housing are going to these data centers."

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Drones

Amazon Delivery Drone Drops Package Directly Into Customer’s Swimming Pool

"Oh s***!"