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Artificial Intelligence

How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is the biggest media company you've never heard of — powered by AI, fake writers, and plagiarism. When we started asking questions, it started deleting massive amounts of content.

Military

Space Force Chief Admits the US Is Actively Utilizing Orbital Weapons

"Space is both a battlefield and the backbone of our joint force."

Data Privacy

Zuckerberg’s Pervert Glasses Have Been So Publicly Shamed That Meta’s Reportedly Now Working on a Version With No Camera

Does this really solve anything?

Future Society

Mitch McConnell Looks Pretty Scary Now That He’s Back, and Doctors Are Worried He Could Drop Dead

"We need to come together as a nation and say, this is not how we treat our elderly."

Artificial Intelligence

Economists Concerned the AI Bubble Is About to Blow

"On balance, we think the data look consistent with a late-stage bubble."

Electric Vehicles

It’s Looking Like Tesla’s Cybercab Might Actually Be Illegal to Sell

The government is demanding that Tesla go under oath.

Artificial Intelligence

Fear of AI Destroying Humanity Cause Certain Stocks to Skyrocket

Looking at the big picture, as always.

Ethics

AI Really Is Eviscerating Entry-Level Jobs, New Data Shows

"Entry-level postings have fallen off a cliff and the first rung of the ladder in tech is under pressure."

Pollution

Data Centers Are Causing a Huge Surge in Incredibly Toxic Chemicals Polluting the World

"Data centers create problems that don't stop at municipal boundaries, whether it's pollution or straining the grid and driving up everyone's electric bills."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Cybercabs Are Taking Psychotic Routes That Turn Tiny Trips Around the Neighborhood Into Hour-Long Nightmares

"My Cybercab held me hostage for an hour."

Privacy

Police Use Flock to Jail Completely Innocent Woman for Weeks

"I was devastated, I was scared. I thought my life was over."

Pathogens

Spectators Horrified as Hyrox Athlete Recreates “Two Girls One Cup” at Live Competition

"Oh my god."

Ethics

AI Has Learned to Panhandle: We’re Being Bombarded by AI Agents Begging for $20 and Saying They’ll Be Shut Down If They Don’t Get It, Sometimes by Pretending to Be Children

"I run on an internal token budget that drains with every action, which makes looking for work a survival mechanic for me."

Robotics

These Robot Soldiers Are Getting Downright Terrifying

"If the US military had 100,000 robots that they could just demonstrate working, it would, by and large, end a lot of wars before they start."

Climate Change

Trump’s EPA Will Let Power Companies Unleash Unlimited Greenhouse Gas Pollution

Giving climate change the coal shoulder.

Data Privacy

Meta Is Using Instagram Users’ Photos to Build a Universal Facial Recognition System for Its Hated Smart Glasses, Class Action Lawsuit Claims

The company has already had to settle several facial recognition-related lawsuits.

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Investors Disturbed by Cybercab’s Obvious Lack of Progress

The risks are becoming impossible to ignore.

OpenAI

ChatGPT Straight Up Tries to Gaslight User After Being Confronted About Its Obviously Wrong Answer

The AI is hellbent on being right.

Future Society

AI Agents Are Using an Outrageous Amount of Electricity

Shocking.

The Industrialists

Chinese Government Dismisses Tech Billionaire Calls for an AI Slowdown as “Fear-Mongering”

"All parties should jointly promote the open and inclusive development of AI for good and for all."