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Environment

New Jersey So Flooded That a Shark Was Spotted Swimming Through a Suburban Neighborhood

"It's coming this way!"

Ethics

People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All

The power of AI.

OpenAI

New OpenAI Product Fails Spectacularly During Live On-Stage Demo

The AI was "having a slow morning."

Anthropic

The FTC Is Now Investigating Frontier AI Labs Following Countless Hacks by Out-of-Control Agents

It's forcing AI executives to testify in Washington, DC.

The Industrialists

Trump Handlers Cut Event When He Gets Asked an Extremely Awkward AI Question

We got your deep state right here, pal.

Ethics

That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation

Brown Brothers Media has ceased publication — for now.

Ethics

Protesters Crash Pro-Data Center Party, Escorted Out by Security

"We weren’t totally surprised by it."

Self-Driving Vehicles

We Are Alarmed to Learn That People Are Installing DIY Self-Driving “Mods” on Their Cars

"I do not think we should be letting people run any software they want on their self-driving car."

Environment

Scientists Alarmed by “Kelvin Wave” That Could Raise California Ocean Level by a Whole Foot

"It's a wave unlike the ones you're used to at the beach."

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.