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Finance

Polymarket Is Being Used for Massive Money Laundering

"In the regulated space, this kind of thing does not happen."

Climate Change

Climate Change Is Turning Prisons Full of Human Beings Into Industrial-Scale Air Fryers

It's cruel, and increasingly usual.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Journalist Alarmed When His Waymo Barges Into Path of Presidential Motorcade

"I realized my vehicle was potentially obstructing the president of the United States."

Biology

Scientists Say They’ve Found Remnants of Huge Life-Giving Continent Beneath Antarctica

Future Society

Harvard Scientists Detect Radio Signal Coming Directly From Planet Outside the Solar System

It's a first in scientific history.

OpenAI

OpenAI Tried to Hide ChatGPT Giving Extremely Specific Advice to a School Shooter on How to Maximize Casualties. The Logs Are Horrific.

"In a hallway, indoors, or a crowded classroom..."

Future Society

Wealthy Tech Guys Can’t Get Dates Because They’re So Widely Hated That Not Even Money Is Making Women Grimace and Deal With Them

"Sometimes people would just straight up stop talking to me."

Artificial Intelligence

Provost of Dartmouth Busted Using AI for His Own Writing in Newspapers and Academic Journals

It's "an incredible, almost unbelievable insult to our community."

Cryptocurrency

Department of Justice Seizes Stablecoin Tether’s Bank Accounts

Not a great look for crypto.

Artificial Intelligence

Murder Trial Struggles to Keep Composure as Lawyers Play Horrendous Love Songs Caleb Flynn AI-Generated for His Mistress

"Know that you still own every piece of my soul," wailed a plaintive AI voice.

Ethics

Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts’ Ability to Function

"An AI supercomputer would struggle to find meaning in some of the prose used in this case."

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Says AI Companies Will Be Sued to Death If Their Frontier Models Keep Doing Horrible Things

"The liability's incredible."

Investing

Trump’s Stargate AI Project in Huge Trouble As $18 Billion Data Center Shrivels Toward Oblivion

It may be the first domino to fall.

Starship

SpaceX Preparing for Most Important Launch in Company History on Monday

A lot is riding on this attempt.

The Industrialists

After Layoffs, AI Startup Defends Bizarre Plan to Launch a Hundred 24/7 Cafes

"They were pretty much talking to everybody in the market at the same time."

Mental Health

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children’s Minds to AI Is a Price He’s Willing to Pay

"Does it matter?"

Meta

Meta Desperately Wants People to Lust After Its Muse Mascot, But It’s Just Not Happening

Meta is trying to meme thirstiness for Muse into existence, but there are no signs that it's working.

Ethics

Kalshi Admits That It Took a Random Guy’s Video and Used AI to Make Him the Host of an Ad, Changing His Race in the Process

This is so gross.

Tesla

Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances

Witnesses also report being deceived by Tesla lawyers.

Elon Musk

Google Gearing Up to Launch Experimental “Data Center” Into Space Next Week

Could this really solve our data center woes?