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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."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Man Dies After Being Mowed Down by Self-Driving Tesla, Police Say

Grim.

Biology

Palmer Luckey Says He’s Breeding Genetically Enhanced Dogs for the Military

They're calling it a "Captain America program for dogs."

Future Society

Airbnb Hosts Are Having a Meltdown After New Rules Means They Can’t Force Guests to Clean Up Everything For Them

A landlord meltdown like you've never seen before.

Robotics

Unitree Unveils Fearsome Bodyguard Robot

Personal security may start to look a little different.

Energy

Trump Admin to Blast Immigrants With Heat-Ray Gun

"It is capable of inflicting not only intolerable pain, but death."

The Industrialists

Trump Says He Called the CEO of Google to Rename the Atlantic Ocean

"Please don't ask us to do that."

Astronomy

US Government Accuses Russian Spacecraft of “Threatening Behavior” and Orbital “Weapons Operations”

One official called them "behaviors consistent with on-orbit weapons operations."