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Ethics

Prisons Using AI to Predict When Incarcerated People Will Commit Future Crimes

It's going to "optimize placement of incarcerated individuals."

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Patents an AI That Can Literally Put Words in People’s Mouths in Real Time

Talk about a new kind of filter.

Ethics

New Data Centers in the US Set to Wipe Out 15 Years of Greenhouse Gas Reductions

"The numbers continue to sort of boggle our minds."

Cryptocurrency

Former Crypto Regulator Insists That Gambling on the Weather Is Inherently a Good Thing and “Human Nature”

"Like it or not, people like to gamble."

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Living in Alternate World of AI Slop, Insiders Say

He also has a "court jester" of AI slop.

Future Society

Innocent People Are Being Accused of Shoplifting by Faulty AI-Facial Recognition Systems at an Alarming Rate

"It's the stuff of Kafkaesque nightmares."

Ethics

Fox News Takes Massive Ratings Hit As It Triples Down on Pro-Data Center Coverage

"Just in case there were any dummies who thought Fox News cares what voters want."

Off-World

A US Satellite Caught China’s Top-Secret Spaceplane on Camera

Here's what it actually looks like.

Future Society

Polymarket Just Can’t Stop Getting Hacked Over and Over Again

When will it stop?

OpenAI

Sam Altman to Infuriated Mathematicians: The Math Slop Won’t Stop

Sorry, not sorry.

Biology

Palantir Cofounder Announces Cruel Plan to Breed Thousands of Lab Monkeys for Medical Experiments

"Would you rather save your sibling or the monkey?"

Robotics

Better Start Hitting the Gym Finally Because AI Robots Already Are

Feeling pumped?

Drones

Canadian Mayor Alarmed at Trump’s Naval Drones Surveilling the Great Lakes

They look "like something from Mars."

Treatments

Psychedelic Compound in Toad Venom Can Treat Depression When Snorted, Scientists Find

"The benefits are sustained with or without re-treatment for eight days to six months."

Artificial Intelligence

Creeps Are Using AI to Undress Celebrities in Paparazzi Shots for Clicks

Callum Turner is probably not constantly walking around NYC topless.

Self-Driving Vehicles

After Uber Destroyed Taxi Cabs, Drivers Now Face the Existential Threat of Self-Driving Cars

"It feels like every time I adjust to a new reality, another technology comes along and threatens my livelihood."

Investing

Investor Says We’re Rapidly Approaching the Point At Which Economic Systems Collapse Under the Weight of AI

"We have maybe four years before the world as we know it stops working the way it does now."

Astronomy

We Were Totally Wrong About How Life on Earth Started, Study Suggests

Back to the drawing board?

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Leaders Kiss the Ring and Refuse to Call It “AI” After Trump Told Them Not to

(SI)gh.

Artificial Intelligence

Sam Altman Says Gen Z Are Lame for Not Worshipping AI

"They always want to go do the thing that was cool five years ago."