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Parasites

Evidence Grows That Taco Bell Infected Massive Number of Customers With Explosive Diarrhea

Live más — on the toilet.

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Artificial Intelligence

Sixteen Nobel-Winning Economists Warn That Major AI Job Losses Are Coming

The consequences could be devastating.

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Ethics

OpenAI Strikes Bold Deal With Kalshi to Mix Together the Most Hated Technologies in Existence: AI and Prediction Markets

A match made in hell.

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Ethics

Health Care Workers Furious as NYC Replaces Nurses With AI

"We are outraged about these layoffs because these dedicated nurses are being replaced by AI."

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Environment

Terrifying Video Shows Locomotive Engulfed in Wildfire Flames

"Y'all need to hurry up here. Like, seriously, we're encased in flames now."

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SpaceX

SpaceX Investors Are Lamenting All the Money They’ve Lost

"So my Roth IRA is down 25 percent."

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Ethics

We’d Rather Live Through the Trojan War Than Spend 135 Minutes Watching an Entirely AI Version of “The Odyssey”

We can't believe somebody spent tens of thousands of dollars on this.

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Astronomy

Astronomers Horrified by Enormous Mirror Satellite That Reflects Sunlight Back Down to Earth at Night

It's an "existential threat."

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Meta

Meta Used Its Own Flawed AI to Pick Which Employees to Lay Off, Lawsuit Claims

These are some serious allegations.

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Anthropic

New Anthropic Ad Implies AI Could Kill Us All

One heck of a marketing strategy.

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Artificial Intelligence

New York Becomes First State to Ban AI Data Centers

"When companies succeed because of New York, New Yorkers succeed too."

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Ethics

Grok’s Foul-Mouthed AI “Translation” Feature Puts Unspeakably Ghoulish Words Into Users’ Mouths

"Uhhh the automatic translation makes it alarming."

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Future Society

Secretive Silicon Valley Startup Tries to Quash Interview, Says It’s Definitely Not Working on Growing Brain-Free “Organ Sacks”

"The company hasn't been exactly transparent about what they're doing."

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Robotics

Startup Upset After Journalist Points Out How Creepy Its Humanoid Robots’s Hands Are

"Good luck with the rest of your writing career."

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Climate Change

A Staggering Number of People Are Dying Because of Record Heatwaves

"It's time we woke up to the fact that we now live in a country with dangerously hot summers."

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Ethics

A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry

"AI sovereign funds are seen as a tool to distribute the gains from the AI industry back to broader society."

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Privacy

LAPD Abandons Flock Contract After Making a Horrifying Discovery

"This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues."

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Artificial Intelligence

US Companies Are Realizing That Chinese AI Models Are Way Cheaper, Ditch American Ones

"'Hey, we don't need the best model, we can use the faster, cheaper models.'"

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Finance

The Economics of Data Centers Creating Jobs Are So Bad That They Sound Like a Joke

"The sweeping job and wage growth often promised during local recruitment efforts is unlikely to arrive on its own."

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Off-World

SpaceX Stock Plunges to All-Time Low After Competitor Makes Major Leap

"It started to look a lot like a meme stock."