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TV studio audience erupted into cheers after "The Daily Show" aired footage about arsonists setting Cybertrucks on fire.
Advanced Transport

Crowd Cheers as TV Shows Cybertrucks Burning After Being Hit by Molotov Cocktails

They're taking to the streets... or the parking lots."

Taco Bell Piles on More AI While Customers Plead “Just Bring Back The Enchirito”
Future Society

Taco Bell Piles on More AI While Customers Plead “Just Bring Back The Enchirito”

It's all we've ever wanted.

Google's crappy "AI Overviews" regularly spits out dangerous and incorrect answers — and now it's being entrusted with health advice.
Google

Google Says Its Error-Ridden “AI Overviews” Will Now Give Health Advice

Brought to you by the same crappy AI that told you to put glue on your pizza.

During their months-long extended stay on the International Space Station, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore didn't get overtime.
Off-World

You Will Never Guess What the Stranded Astronauts Got Paid for Their Trouble

That's it!?

Elon Musk may be the richest and most powerful man alive, but that doesn't mean he should be held responsible for everything he does.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He Has No Idea What He Did to Make Everybody So Mad at Him

If you gotta ask...

Tesla's Cybertruck has been hit with an eighth recall — because a giant piece of metal that was simply glued to the exterior kept flying off.
Tesla

Tesla Hit With Massive Cybertruck Recall After Giant Pieces Kept Flying Off

"I've always wanted a car with a roof that flies off for no reason."

As the Financial Times reports, a whopping $1.4 billion is unaccounted for in Tesla's financial statements.
Tesla

A Huge Amount of Money Is Missing From Tesla

How did that happen?

Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk's transgender daughter, is opening up about her "cringe" father and his political antics.
Elon Musk

Here’s What Elon Musk’s Daughter Really Thinks of Him

"The only thing that gets to live free in my mind is drag queens."

The chatbot startup Character.AI is accused of causing the death of a 14-year-old user. Now, it's hosting AI impersonations of the dead teen.
Google

Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide

"If Character.AI can't prevent people from creating a chatbot of my dead child on their own platform, how can we trust them to create products for kids that are safe?"

Attempting to punish reasoning AI models for cheating only made them better at lying about their intent, OpenAI researchers found.
OpenAI

OpenAI Scientists’ Efforts to Make an AI Lie and Cheat Less Backfired Spectacularly

LLMs sure are slippery characters.

Donald Trump insists, incorrectly, that he was the one to rescue those stranded astronauts — and he's getting roundly called out for it.
Off-World

Trump Ridiculed for Claiming He Rescued the Stranded Astronauts

History used to be written by the victors — until the internet provided us with receipts.

Veterans shafted by cuts from Elon Musk are speaking out — and they don't have much nice to say to the unelected billionaire-in-chief. 
Elon Musk

Veterans Furious at Elon Musk

"I did not put my life on the line for some tech bro billionaire from South Africa to come in here and try to destroy our country."

YouTuber Mark Rober has kicked the hornet's nest with his latest video. But are Tesla fanboys right mistakes were made?
Tesla

Tesla Fans Furious at Video of Tesla Crashing Into Wall Painted Like Road

Did the fanboys just accidentally uncover something super shady about Tesla?

Student scientists have developed an incredible new way to synthesize drugs on plants — and they're using Ozempic as their test case.
RX and Medicine

Students Concoct Ingenious Scheme To Grow Ozempic At Home

We have Ozempic at home.

It was already expensive to insure a Tesla — and now, it looks like it's going to get even more costly amid a spate of vandalism.
Tesla

Sounds Like Insurance on Teslas Is Going to Skyrocket Because of All the Vandalism

"Carriers could refuse to offer coverage for Tesla vehicles altogether."

Microplastic pollution seems, as one researcher posits, to be coming from a surprising source: chewing gum.
Pollution

You May Be Horrified When You Learn What Chewing Gum Is Actually Made From

"The people I talk to are always surprised, and disgusted, when they find out they’ve been chewing on a lump of malleable plastic."

Character.AI and Google are facing allegations that they tested dangerous, dangerous, experimental AI chatbots on minors. Did they?
Google

Did Google Test an Experimental AI on Kids, With Tragic Results?

"It was like getting rats for an experiment."

Drivers for rideshare giants like Uber say they're being suddenly deactivated on the apps, with no fair process to dispute the decision.
Advanced Transport

Uber Drivers Say They’re Getting Locked Out of the App and Trapped in a Kafkaesque Limbo When They Try to Dispute It

"They treat you like a machine."

After splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico, stranded NASA astronauts Williams and Wilmore were greeted by a curious pod of dolphins.
Off-World

Dolphins Appear as Astronauts Splash Down in Ocean

"That was really fun to see."

Most human children learn how to tell time around ages six and seven — but artificial intelligence still can't parse a clock face. 
Artificial Intelligence

You’ll Laugh at This Simple Task AI Still Can’t Do

A second-grader could do that!