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OpenAI is looking to turn a new leaf, with Altman discussing how GPT-6 will usher in a revolution once again.
OpenAI

After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6

What's GPT-5?

By Victor Tangermann

Shares of AI chipmaker Nvidia dropped by nearly three percent in early trading and is down almost five percent in the past week.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Industry Trembles as Nvidia’s Stock Nosedives

What's driving the selloff?

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is already shaking up his "Superintelligence Lab" just months into his multi-billion dollar push into AI.
Meta

Zuckerberg’s Huge AI Push Is Already Crumbling Into Chaos

We can't say we're surprised.

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a tiny moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the number of the planet's known satellites to 29.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Mysterious Object Orbiting Uranus

"It’s like staring into the headlight of a car and trying to look at a fly."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are offering a gross hypothesis about how those Walmart frozen shrimp bags were contaminated with radioactive materials.
Science & Energy

How Did Walmart Frozen Shrimp Become Contaminated With Radioactive Material?

Horrifying.

By Noor Al-Sibai

TikTok is flooding the platform with ads presented by AI "digital avatars" — and the actors behind these AI puppets are paid next to nothing.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Sells His Likeness So an AI Version of Him Can Shill Garbage on TikTok

And you'll never guess what he got paid.

By Frank Landymore

Researchers simulated a social media platform that was populated entirely by AI to see if we can stop them from turning into echo chambers.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened

We've got bad news.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have come up with a potentially groundbreaking — and entirely laser-free — alternative to LASIK.
Treatments

Scientists Testing New LASIK-Like System That Doesn’t Use a Laser on Eyeball

"The whole effect was discovered by accident."

By Victor Tangermann

A new analysis found that a ton of mental health problems are associated with AI — and more than two dozen chatbots are implicated.
Artificial Intelligence

Psychiatrists Warn That Talking to AI Is Leading to Severe Mental Health Issues

"The big tech companies have not felt responsible for making their bots safe for psychiatric patients."

By Noor Al-Sibai

"Punctum" may sound like type of punctuation, but to astronomers, it constitutes what may be a brand-new type of cosmic object. 
Off-World

Radio Astronomers Find Weird Object in Nearby Galaxy That Stands Out Against the Entire Sky

"Everything else disappeared... and only this little dot remained."

By Noor Al-Sibai

When it comes to our personal contributions to climate change, most people have no clue how damaging some of their individual actions can be.
Climate Change

Scientists Find Evidence That You’re a Hypocrite Who’s Causing More Than Your Share of Climate Change

Are you a hypocrite?

By Noor Al-Sibai

A young woman took her own life after talking to a ChatGPT-based AI therapist named Harry, according to her mother.
OpenAI

Woman Kills Herself After Talking to OpenAI’s AI Therapist

This is horrible.

By Victor Tangermann

It's looking more and more like NASA's helpless flailing could position China to beat the United States in the race to return to the Moon.
Moon

China’s Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly

"It seems quite likely that the Chinese will land on the Moon before NASA can return to the Moon."

By Victor Tangermann

A new, vaguely menacing class of talking toys is being sold online — but unlike the robot toys of yore, these are powered by AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Horror Story Looms as Children Get Stuffed Animals Powered by AI

There's something really fishy about these toys.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A bombshell document shines new light on the kinds of medical misinformation Meta's AI systems are allowed to regurgitate.
Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Has No Problem With People Using His AI to Generate Fake Medical Information

"The disinformation included claims about vaccines causing autism, cancer-curing diets, HIV being airborne and 5G causing infertility."

By Joe Wilkins

It appears that president Donald Trump's years of fast food and snack guzzling may have finally caught up to him, for the whole world to see.
Developments

Trump’s Limbs Are Looking Awfully Swollen

"Look, you see the president every day."

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX has sure gotten a lot of government welfare — and apparently, it doesn't have to pay taxes, either.
Elon Musk

Despite Getting Billions From the Government, Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pays Basically No Taxes

"Billionaire freeloaders don’t pay taxes."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his colleagues suggest the possibility interstellar space object 3I/ATLAS is generating "its own light."
Off-World

Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Find

One possibility, he suggests: it's a "spacecraft powered by nuclear energy."

By Victor Tangermann

An event in Beijing drew hundreds of competitors from around the world in what's being described as the first ever Robot Olympics.
Robotics

Hundreds of Robots Competed in the World’s First Robot Olympics. The Results Were Unintentionally Hilarious

"You can test a lot of interesting new and exciting approaches in this contest."

By Joe Wilkins

In a major blow to climate science, NASA is not continuing its work studying global warming and will instead just stick to space exploration.
NASA

It’s Official: NASA Is Giving Up on Climate Change Science

Houston, we have a problem.

By Sharon Adarlo