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The average OpenAI employee is earning an astonishing amount in compensation compared to every other startup.
OpenAI

Your Jaw Will Hit the Floor When You Find Out How Much the Average OpenAI Worker Makes

Astonishing.

The Large Hadron Collider will be shut down, paving the way for a major upgrade, and perhaps its eventual, even bigger sucessor.
Quantum Physics

The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down

It's time to wind down.

The Trump administration is shutting down NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's library — NASA's largest — and threatening to destroy books.
NASA

NASA Reportedly Shutting Down Its Largest Library, Throwing Materials Away

"If you lose that history, you are going to make the same mistakes again."

As the Baltimore Sun reports, a couple used OpenAI's ChatGPT to name their firstborn son. Their decision was criticized heavily online.
OpenAI

New Parents Mocked for Letting ChatGPT Name Their Baby

"It's all so gross."

People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.
Ethics

Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women

This is awful.

Three symmetrical jets jutting out of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS are showing up in Hubble observations, puzzling astronomer Avi Loeb.
Astronomy

Scientist Puzzled by “Symmetric Jet Structure” on 3I/ATLAS

Fresh from the Hubble Space Telescope.

AI-powered software Draft One automatically generates police reports from body camera footage. It thought an officer turned into a frog.
Ethics

Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog

"That’s when we learned the importance of correcting these AI-generated reports."

A man controlling a Unitree robot accidentally made the humanoid kick him in the balls, forcing the man into a groaning heap.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Operating Robot Accidentally Makes It Kick Him Directly in the Nutsack

Happy New Year!

A surgical team in China successfully grafted a human patient's ear to their foot in a remarkable medical intervention.
Developments

Scientists Graft Human Ear Onto Foot

These surgeons stepped up.

Regulators at the Cyberspace Administration of China have proposed new laws meant to protect AI users' mental health.
Ethics

China Planning Crackdown on AI That Harms Mental Health of Users

The doctrine "highlights a leap from content safety to emotional safety."

"Godfather" of AI Geoffrey Hinton predicts that AI will continue to improve at a rapid pace, devouring our jobs in the process.
Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Warns That It Will Replace Many More Jobs This Year

Great.

Scientists have discovered that feeding mice with microplastics increases plaque buildup in the arteries of male mice.
Developments

Doctors Find Evidence Microplastics Are Clogging Arteries, Leading to Heart Attacks and Strokes

Curiously, male lab mice experienced dramatic plaque buildup compared to females.

Jack White issued a scathing rebuttal after congressman Tim Burchett reposted an AI-generated video of the musician.
Future Society

Jack White Rages After Congressman Shares AI Deepfake of Him Calling Fans “Fascists”

"What kind of joke are we all living in now?"

What happens when you down an ice-cold brew containing liquid nitrogen? One Moscow man is finding out the hard way.
Medical

Man in Intensive Care Unit After Slamming Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail That Ruptured His Stomach

And you thought your hangover was bad.

A report of suspicious explosives at a Space Force Base was made on Monday in Colorado, prompting an emergency response.
Space Force

Explosives Reported at Space Force Facility

Officials shut dowb the area for several hours during the investigation.

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova."
Gravitational Waves

Astronomers Appear to Have Caught a Star Splitting In Half, With Catastrophic Results

This is unreal.

OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
OpenAI

OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT “Prioritize” Advertisers in Conversation

The effort is a virtual goldmine for OpenAI.

A ship carrying nearly 40 scientists from across the globe is now heading straight to the "Doomsday Glacier" in Antarctica.
Climate Change

Ship of Scientists Headed to Doomsday Glacier

With good news to report, we hope.

More and more doctors are agreeing that using AI chatbots is linked to the delusional, cases of psychosis.
Artificial Intelligence

Doctors Say AI Use Is Almost Certainly Linked to Developing Psychosis

A consensus is emerging.

With a just a few dozen robotaxis on the road, Tesla is light years behind competitors like Waymo, experts say.
Self-Driving Vehicles

It’s Starting to Feel a Lot Like Tesla’s Robotaxi Program Is Mostly Smoke and Mirrors

"I've never seen a Robotaxi in Austin."