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Roger McNamee has an ominous warning for the huge tech companies shredding billions in the AI race: it's winner take all.
Artificial Intelligence

Longtime Investor Warns the AI Industry Is Set to Collapse for a Basic Financial Reason

“Each big tech company needs a global monopoly in AI to sustain their success and market value. They are not all going to get one.”

Following years of being drowned out by AI slop, Spotify has finally officially acknowledged that it's a problem.
Art

Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Falls on Its Face

Too little, too late.

Chinese censors digitally altered a gay couple into a heterosexual couple in the Dave Franco movie Together.
Future Society

Chinese Release of “Together” Edited Woman’s Face Onto Gay Man to Censor Same-Sex Couple

"It’s also disrespectful to the LGBT community.”

Earlier this week, the Sun unleashed a flurry of plasma and magnetic fields, or coronal mass ejection, at interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.
Astronomy

Sun Fires Energy Blast Straight at Mysterious Interstellar Object Cruising Through Solar System

Will it weather the storm?

A suspicious seemingly AI-generated track appeared on the Spotify page of Bon Iver's side project, Volcano Choir.
Ethics

Bon Iver Side Project’s Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song

Spotify promised to fix AI slop drowning out real music less than a day ago.

A Trump adviser admitted to a Wired reporter that Larry Ellison is a "shadow president of the United States."
Future Society

Trump Adviser Admits Larry Ellison Is “Shadow President of the United States”

A billionaire president. A billionaire "First Buddy." And now...

In October, a newly discovered comet will come so close to Earth that people may be able to make out its heavenly fireworks unaided.
Future Society

A Huge Comet Is About to Become Visible in the Sky 

Look up!

The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.
Future Society

Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI’s Power Usage

It's even worse than we thought.

Tesla's plans for its robotaxi service are so convoluted that it's not clear the company understands them itself.
Future Society

Tesla’s Robotaxi Plans Are So Jumbled That Officials Are Begging It To Clarify What the Heck It’s Actually Doing

We'd also like to know.

It turns out that it doesn't take a lot to fool the lidar sensors used on robotaxis, if you go out of your way to do it.
Future Society

Putting Mirrors on Traffic Cones Causes Self-Driving Cars to Melt Down, Confounding Lidar

Is that Elon Musk we hear laughing in the distance?

A robotics technician is suing Tesla, alleging he was struck and knocked unconscious by a robotic arm at the company's Fremont plant.
Elon Musk

Tesla Worker Knocked Unconscious by Robot, Lawsuit Claims

He's suing the company for $51 million.

Freelance gig board Fiverr is laying off 250 workers or 30 percent of its workforce in a pivot to AI, after the CEO told workers to use AI.
Ethics

Fiverr Told Its Employees to Embrace AI, Then Stabbed Them in the Back

Where are fired Fiverr employees going to get work? On Fiverr?

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.
Robot Dogs

New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

"We built a robot brain that nothing can stop."

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be far more massive than previously thought.
Mars

Mysterious Object Screaming Toward Mars Is Huge and Far More Massive Than Scientists Thought, According to New Paper

It's absolutely enormous.

Chinese EV maker BYD's YangWang U9 Xtreme hypercar has absolutely obliterated the top speed record for a production car.
Electric Vehicles

Chinese Tesla Competitor Obliterates Top Speed Record for a Production Car

Yowzers.

A Russian satellite came back to Earth while carrying organisms, as part of a mission to test the theory that life was seeded from space.
Exobiology

Russia Tests Whether Life Could Spread Between Planets With Spacecraft Filled With Critters

This out-of-this-world experiment may affirm wild theory.

The mass adoption of AI chatbots is resulting in a marked increase in psychiatric patients arriving to mental health facilities.
Future Society

Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users

"We are witnessing the emergence of an entirely new frontier of mental health crises."

Recent DARPA robots include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.
Future Society

DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots

It's giving "bugged" a whole new meaning.

An analysis from the Financial Times makes a damning case of mindless AI band-wagoning among the US's top companies.
Future Society

Big Businesses Have a Major Problem With AI

They may not have thought things through.

A video showing a robotics engineer violently yanking a humanoid robot around by a chain wrapped around its neck is making its rounds online.
Robotics

Disturbing Video Shows Man Jerking Robot Around by Chain Around Its Neck

"This guy is the first one to die in the robot uprising."