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Ethics

The AI Jobs Apocalypse Is Starting to Feel Real

Hunker down.

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

OpenAI Says It Will Let Users Add Trusted Contacts to Alert If They Experience a Mental Health Crisis While Using ChatGPT

Interesting.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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OpenAI

Humongous Numbers of People Are Uninstalling ChatGPT as Anti-OpenAI Sentiment Surges

Yikes.

By Frank Landymore

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RX and Medicine

Government Handing Out Cash Bonuses to Drug Researchers Who Rush Through Regulatory Approvals

"If you don't like it, we can get rid of it, but usually everybody loves money."

By Joe Wilkins

A lead investor of the AI music app Suno appears to have undermined the company's legal defense in light of copyright infringement lawsuits.
Future Society

Lead Investor in Music Generation App Suno Deletes Tweet That Contradicts Its Argument in High Stakes Court Cases

"This tweet, from Suno’s lead investor, will surely be used in court one day."

By Victor Tangermann

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Machine Learning

Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities

"Regarding AI as similar to the beauty of the human mind is just like putting lipstick on a pig."

By Joe Wilkins

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Moon

After Nixing Its Planned Moon Landing, NASA Is Starting to Seriously Lose the Moon Race to China

China is providing "credible competition," said NASA head Jared Isaacman in an incredible understatement.

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is continuing his apology tour, conceding OpenAI "shouldn't have rushed" its Department of Defense deal.
Anthropic

Sam Altman Is Realizing He Made a Gigantic Mistake

"Opportunistic and sloppy."

By Victor Tangermann

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Says It Has Nothing to Say After Its Self-Driving Taxi Blocked an Ambulance Responding to a Mass Shooting

"Come on! Go!"

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

Benj Edwards is no longer working at Ars Technica following an AI controversy that angered readers.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.
Ethics

Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses

"In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed."

By Victor Tangermann

"Vibe hacking" has quickly turned into a cybersecurity nightmare, with hackers using AI tools to supercharge their attacks.
Ethics

AI Tools Are Supercharging Hackers

"It’s like an AI-powered assembly line for cybercrime, helping less skilled workers produce at scale."

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

Sam Altman in Damage Control Mode as ChatGPT Users Are Mass Cancelling Subscriptions Because OpenAI Is “Training a War Machine”

"The optics don't look good."

By Frank Landymore

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Anthropic

US Military Using Claude to Select Targets in Iran Strikes

"America is in such steep decline that we don't even make Oppenheimers like we used to."

By Joe Wilkins

At an event today, onlookers noticed a "significant rash-like injury" on the right side of president Donald Trump's neck.
Medical

White House Responds as Scabby Mark Appears on Trump’s Neck

Questions abound.

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft banned the phrase "Microslop" on its over-one-year-old Discord server dedicated to Copilot. The backlash was severe.
Ethics

Microsoft Bans the Word “Microslop” on Copilot Discord, Gets So Humiliated That It Locks Down the Whole Server

"Streisand effect in full swing."

By Victor Tangermann

Just six Polymarket accounts made around $1.2 million in profit after successfully betting on the US striking Iran by the end of February.
Cryptocurrency

Anonymous Polymarket Accounts Won $1.2 Million on Trump’s Iran Strikes in Suspicious Bets

"It's insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope has given us an astonishingly detailed peek inside the layers of Uranus' upper atmosphere.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Takes Long, Hard Look Inside Uranus

The swirling gases are breathtaking.

By Victor Tangermann

A four-wheeled delivery robot with a teal and gray body, equipped with lights and a yellow flag, is on a sidewalk near a pedestrian crossing button. A man wearing a brown jacket, gray shirt, and striped pants is walking nearby, carrying a black bag and a rolled-up mat. Cars are visible in the background on the street.
Robotics

Former Delivery Drivers Are Getting Weird New Jobs as Delivery Robots Take Over

"They are the kind of jobs that scale with the robots."

By Joe Wilkins

Biotech startup Cortical Labs claims to have taught living human brain cells how to play the seminal video game "Doom."
Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom

"If the neurons fire in a specific pattern, the Doom guy shoots."

By Victor Tangermann