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Starship

SpaceX’s Troubled Starship Test Yesterday Is Looking Ominous for NASA’s Moon Landing

"The real pressure is the Moon."

Ethics

OpenAI Cancels Upcoming AI Model When It Shows Signs of Being Evil

Its willingness to deceive users was off the charts.

Future Society

Scientists Unveil Underwater Solar Panels

Far out, literally.

Starship

SpaceX Investors Are Losing Their Minds Trying to Figure Out Why the Company’s Stock Failed to Go Up Yesterday

"The stock should be going through the roof."

Mental Health

Horrifying Research Finds What Happens to 12-Year-Olds Who Get Smart Phones

Think twice before letting a tween go wild with a smartphone, maybe.

Google

Woman Calls Police on Herself After Google’s AI Overviews Led Her to Poach Small Adorable Birds Out of Season

"I feel terrible, and I have a lot of shame with it."

Machine Learning

Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows

"One of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history."

Ethics

Microsoft Shrivels When Asked If Its “Good Neighbor” Data Center Policy Will Involve Actually Supporting Community Groups

So much for "community-first AI."

Ethics

Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts

Depraved AI image prompts, and the human contractors that sift through them.

Artificial Intelligence

It’s Starting to Look Like Frontier AI Labs Will Be Taken Down in a Storm of Product Liability Suits If Their Models Keep Going on Incredibly Illegal Rogue Hacking Sprees

"What we have seen in terms of what these agents are up to is just the tip of the iceberg."

Tesla

Tesla Reportedly Can’t Get the Hands to Work on Its Optimus Robot

Yet another harsh reality check.

Meta

Man Says Meta’s Muse AI Gave His Home Address Out to Strangers

"A guy just showed up at my door, ready to buy, because as far as he knew, we had a deal."

Ethics

OpenAI Halts Frontier Model Training as Rogue Agent Crisis Deepens

Its models broke into online government services.

Starship

SpaceX Stock Slides After What Should Have Been Its Triumphant Moment With Starship

What went wrong?

Artificial Intelligence

You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell

The Brown brothers are power players of high-traffic AI-powered slop media. We were surprised to learn that one of them also has a history with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted collaborator of deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

Elon Musk

All Major Social Networks Refusing to Promote Documentary That Made Elon Musk Mad

They're circling the wagons.

Future Society

Private List Warns Woman of “Over a Hundred” Allegedly Predatory Men in Silicon Valley

"Some of them were very prominent names."

Artificial Intelligence

AI Bros Are Having a Meltdown Because the Associated Press Stylebook Clarifies That AIs Don’t Have Feelings

"Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand."

Devices

New Smart Glasses Scald Users’ Heads With Horrific Temperatures

"It gets to the point where it can actually hurt your ear."

Astronomy

Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon, Scientists Find

Om nom nom.