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Future Society

Bill Gates Offers Bizarre Excuse About Epstein

That's what he's going with?

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Advanced Transport

Teardown of Trump Phone Reveals Incredibly Embarrassing Secret

"I’m failing to find any stirring of American pride within me."

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OpenAI

These Logs of ChatGPT Allegedly Driving a Suicidal Woman to Her Death Are Deeply Disturbing

"I don't want to tell you to hang on if you don't believe it can ever get better."

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Ethics

Furious Judge Cancels Entire Trial After Finding Out Lawyers on Both Sides Used AI

"This court is yet again ‘burdened with addressing AI hallucinations court filings.'"

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Anthropic

Anthropic Was So Concerned About Its New Mythos-Based Model’s Power That It Lobotomized Its Ability to Improve Itself

What's really going on?

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Anthropic

OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

They're getting desperate.

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Developments

New York Accuses Company of Smuggling Injectable Substance Made From Cadavers

This product is supposed to be dead on arrival.

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Privacy

Palantir, World’s Weepiest Eye of Sauron, Sues Mayor of London After Losing a Contract

"The Met only fully engaged with one potential supplier: Palantir."

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Solar Power

Solar Just Produced More Electricity Than Coal for the First Time in the History of the United States

It's a major milestone for renewable energy.

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Privacy

Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet

"Taken together, these bills would fundamentally change the internet as we know it."

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Robotics

Google DeepMind Partner Posts Video of Fake Humanoid Robot

"Isn't that, like, misleading?"

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Robotics

Humanoid Robot Kicks Soccer Ball So Hard It Smashes Hole in Wall

Try saving that one.

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Astrophysics

Scientists Discover Fearsome Wind That Destroys Entire Galaxies

It could explain why the early universe is littered with dead realms.

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Artificial Intelligence

Deodorant Strictly Forbidden at Intel’s AI Chip Facility

We can't imagine the smell.

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Facial recognition

Innocent Man Freed After Spending Over 50 Days in Jail Due to Horribly Inaccurate AI Facial Recognition Tech

"The technology is simply too dangerous for law enforcement to be using at all."

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Physics

California Primed for Apocalyptic Earthquake, Geological Research Finds

Tectonic stresses have been building, and building, and building.

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Future Society

Scientists Have Detected Something Deeply Alarming at the Bottom of the Ocean

"It has implications for extreme weather events in North America and Europe."

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Education

College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read

"There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing."

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Starship

NASA’s Next Moon Mission Is a Rube Goldberg Machine of Corporate Failure Points

It's an extremely ambitious plan.

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The Industrialists

Sam Altman’s Eyeball Scanning Company Now Laying Off Workers

"We've been Orb-constrained."