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RX and Medicine

Someone Ran a Chemical Analysis of Bodega Retatrutide and Dear Lord

"It does not look anything like a peptide."

Advanced Transport

Florida Police Show Off Incredibly Tiny and Goofy Quadcopter That Fits Exactly One Cop at a Time

Yes, that's a tiny police lightbar on top.

Machine Learning

Banks Preparing for Aftermath of Unprecedented Catastrophe Caused by AI

"You can't stop it."

Artificial Intelligence

We Investigated Character.AI and Found a Horror Show. Now It’s Bankrupt.

Move fast, break things, break people, break yourself.

The Industrialists

AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics to Influence Elections, But It’s Backfiring

Even a whiff of AI money seems to disgust voters.

Meta

Behind the Scenes, Meta’s Board Is Battling With Mark Zuckerberg Over His Out-of-Control AI Spending

The directors have had enough.

Future Society

Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers

"We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Man Dies After Being Mowed Down by Self-Driving Tesla, Police Say

Grim.

Biology

Palmer Luckey Says He’s Breeding Genetically Enhanced Dogs for the Military

They're calling it a "Captain America program for dogs."

Future Society

Airbnb Hosts Are Having a Meltdown After New Rules Means They Can’t Force Guests to Clean Up Everything For Them

A landlord meltdown like you've never seen before.

Robotics

Unitree Unveils Fearsome Bodyguard Robot

Personal security may start to look a little different.

Energy

Trump Admin to Blast Immigrants With Heat-Ray Gun

"It is capable of inflicting not only intolerable pain, but death."

The Industrialists

Trump Says He Called the CEO of Google to Rename the Atlantic Ocean

"Please don't ask us to do that."

Astronomy

US Government Accuses Russian Spacecraft of “Threatening Behavior” and Orbital “Weapons Operations”

One official called them "behaviors consistent with on-orbit weapons operations."

Anthropic

Man Arrested After Telling Claude About Plans to Shoot Up Daycare

"We're understanding what's in his mind with his interactions with the chatbot."

The Industrialists

Bryan Johnson Announces Plans for Mass Revenge

"I have an AI agent that logs every negative comment someone makes about me online."

Hacking

Man Hires Swarm of AI Agents to Go on Epic Hacking Spree Against Major Companies

"It's ​a new world now."

Ethics

Nobel-Winning Computer Scientist Says AI Has Become Conscious: “We’re Toast”

It was fun while it lasted.

Anthropic

There Are Signs of Serious Trouble in the Data Center Industry

"People aren’t just dropping their shorts for data centers anymore."

Meta

Head of Instagram Says He Has No Idea How to Deal With Wave of Horrible AI Slop

"We are actively working out what to do; it’s just a tricky problem."