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Environment

Freak Landslide Completely Swallows Entire Mountain Village

"What is hard to reconcile is the gargantuan volumes of water that we see in these, these absolutely horrific videos."

The Wall Street Journal is shown on sale at Hudson News.
Artificial Intelligence

Top WSJ Editor Approves AI-Assisted Writing, Says AI is a “Fact of Modern Life” in Major Inflection Point for Media Industry

The WSJ is giving opinion writers a thumbs-up on AI use.

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Art

Designer Creates World’s Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras

"A 'person,' for the machine, is a bundle of visual statistics — and that is exactly its weakness."

Bill Gates, Founder of Breakthrough Energy and Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks onstage.
Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates Announces That He Is the First Person Ever to Be Concerned About the Effects of AI

"I am in a state of shock that I'm sort of the first one saying, 'This is crazy. This is insane.'"

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Ethics

Your Coworkers Are Becoming “Meat Proxies” for AI

"I can talk to Claude myself."

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Privacy

Police Are Putting Up Fake 3D-Printed Flock Cameras and Swooping In to Arrest People Who Vandalize Them

This is insane.

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Finance

Huge Leak Shows Microsoft Salaries That’ll Make You Jump Out the Window

Just imagine.

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Privacy

Mayor Livid When Even More Police Are Arrested for Using Flock Database Inappropriately

"To be totally honest, I'm disappointed, I'm p*ssed off about it."

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NASA

NASA Set Up a Major Test of Its New Strategy Under Trump by Hiring a Startup to Launch a Daring Mission to Rescue a Dying Space Telescope in Orbit. The Unfortunate Result Will Have Long-Ranging Repercussions.

This is not the outcome we were working toward, but it does not change why this mission was worth attempting."

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xAI

Elon Musk Just Said Something About AI That’s Literally Incomprehensible

Sure, man.

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RX and Medicine

Massive Black Market for Unapproved and Potentially Dangerous Obesity Drug Alarms Doctors

"Promising isn't the same as proven."

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Ethics

Harvard Professor Warns That AI Execs Are Pushing World Toward Factory Farming of Humans

"Who decided this is a way we should be living?"

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Ethics

90 Percent of Execs Say Oops, AI Didn’t Help Productivity, So Layoffs Will Continue

It's a race to the bottom.

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Electric Vehicles

China Recalls Nearly Three Million Teslas Over Unsafe Door Handles

Better late than never.

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Finance

Feds Investigating Wall Street Bro After His AI Hedge Fund Imploded Spectacularly

He's in trouble.

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Machine Learning

Even Babies Are Still Way Better at Learning Than AI Models

"We still have to burn down a forest and scrape the entire sum of all human knowledge to re-create this milestone that happens in our living rooms over the course of a year."

New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and CEO and co-founder of Anthropic Dario Amodei speak onstage.
Anthropic

Nobody Wants Anthropic’s Best AI Model Anymore Now That There Are Way Cheaper Alternatives

Who needs pricey models?

President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House on August 24, 2026.
Ethics

Trump Says You’re a Rube If You Don’t Want a Data Center in Your Backyard

"Frankly, communities that don't take a data center are making a mistake."

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Climate Change

The Ocean Hasn’t Been This Hot in 125,000 Years, Alarmed Researcher Suggests

"The record is another clear signal of an ocean under growing stress."

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Anthropic

Clueless AI CEOs Still Baffled Why Everybody’s So Mad About AI All the Time

"It is surprising that the discourse from many developing AI is so filled with doom."