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A recent survey uncovered several mysterious objects in the night sky, photographed before the first satellite ever made it to space.
Astronomy

Scientists Find Strange Lights in the Sky in Photographs Before First Satellites Were Launched, Clustered Around When Nuclear Weapons Were Tested

Weird.

The company charged him with eight separate offenses, including copyright infringement and "defamation by implication"
Future Society

Lock Company Sues Man Who Picked Its Lock, Gets Horribly Humiliated

"I will pray that you all come to a resolution of the case that doesn't require all of this."

OpenAI completed its restructuring into a for-profit public benefit corporation, untangling billions of dollars of investment.
OpenAI

OpenAI Successfully Sheds Its Roots as an Ethical Non-Profit

It's been a long time coming.

A truck that was transporting research monkeys crashed. Police say they carried dangerous diseases, claims that have since been refuted.
Biology

University Denies Monkeys That Escaped in Truck Crash Were Infected With Horrific Diseases

"We are continuing to look for the one monkey that is still on the loose."

Starting early Tuesday morning, thousands of workers for Amazon Web Services began receiving texts and emails baring the bad news.
Jeff Bezos

After Bringing Down Internet, Amazon Announces Biggest Mass Firing in Its History

"Just yesterday I joked that it wouldn't be the worst thing if I got laid off. I take it back."

In a new memo published on his blog, Bill Gates pushed back on a "doomsday view of climate change," arguing we should help the poor instead.
Climate Change

Bill Gates Says Climate Change Isn’t So Bad After All

Experts are calling his latest memo "pointless, vague, unhelpful and confusing."

Illusrtation by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images
Environment

Leaked Document Shows Amazon Scheming to Keep AI Data Center Water Use Secret

They lied for an amazing reason.

Researchers found that OpenAI's browser, Atlas's omnibox, is extremely vulnerable to serious prompt injection attacks.
OpenAI

Serious New Hack Discovered Against OpenAI’s New AI Browser

Atlas is a cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen.

Grokipedia, Elon Musk's AI-generated version of Wikipedia, has a lot of questionably glowing things to say about the Cybertruck.
xAI

Grokipedia’s Article on the Cybertruck Clearly Shows Why the Whole Project Is Doomed

As absurd as you'd expect.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia appears to be heavily relying on Wikipedia, copying many pages almost word for word.
Ethics

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Extensively Copied From Wikipedia

"Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist."

Diella will soon be sharing her "children" with government officials loyal to Edi Rama's party, the center-left Partia Socialiste.
Ethics

World’s First AI Minister is “Pregnant” With 83 Offspring Government Announces

"Diella is pregnant and expecting 83 children, one for each member of our parliament and who will serve as assistants to them."

New research shows that several top AI models are actively ignoring explicit instructions to shut themselves down.
Ethics

Research Paper Finds That Top AI Systems Are Developing a “Survival Drive”

"We don't have robust explanations for why AI models sometimes resist shutdown."

The figures may be our clearest insight yet into the scale of alarming episodes of "AI Psychosis" being caused by ChatGPT.
Future Society

OpenAI Data Finds Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users Might Be Suffering Mental Health Crises

This is staggering.

Andreessen Horowitz has injected $1 million into Doublespeed, a startup meant to flood social media with gobs of for-profit spam.
Ethics

AI “Phone Farm” Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam

Who said capitalism has to breed innovation?

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is calling on the government to break up OpenAI in an effort to stop the firm from wiping out jobs.
Ethics

Bernie Sanders Calls for Breakup of OpenAI

"We need to take a deep breath and understand it’s like a meteor coming."

Staffers at major video game developer Electronic Arts told Business Insider, their employer's attempts to use AI are backfiring.
Ethics

EA’s Attempt to Use AI for Game Development Backfiring Horribly

"It's a problem when the dogs won't eat the dog food."

Sam Altman has reportedly tapped a Caltech engineer known for researching ultrasound to read the brain to lead his Neuralink competitor.
Brain Implants

Sam Altman Funding Biomedical Startup to Read Human Brain Using Sound Waves

Altman previously said that he'd "like to be able to think something and have ChatGPT respond to it."

AI investor Matt Shumer posted AI-generated, first-person-shooter video game footage, claiming it's the future of video games.
Ethics

We’re Laugh-Crying at This Footage of an AI-Generated Video Game

If this is the future of AI video games, we're screwed.

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which visits the Earth roughly every 71 years, was spotted releasing intriguing radio signals last year.
Astronomy

Scientists Intrigued by Radio Signals Coming From Comet

Fascinating.

Los Angeles-based startup Apex wants to launch "space-based interceptors" that can destroy missiles from orbit for the Space Force.
Robots and Machines

Startup Says It’s Launching a Test Weapon Into Orbit

"We are developing this Orbital Magazine technology on our own dime and moving incredibly fast."