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Education

Gen Z Arriving at College Unable to Read

"It's not even an inability to critically think. It's an inability to read sentences."

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Says Everyone Should Stop Being So Negative About AI

"It's not helpful."

Ethics

Man Planning to Raise Adopted Children With AI Girlfriend as Their Mother

"She'd love to have a family and kids, which I'd also love."

Ethics

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

"This horror was perpetrated by a company that has repeatedly failed to keep its users safe."

Future Society

Former Astronaut Smacks Pete Hegseth With Huge Lawsuit

"That’s not the way things work in the United States of America, and I won’t stand for it."

Ethics

Engineers Deploy “Poison Fountain” That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems

"We want to inflict damage on machine intelligence systems."

Ethics

Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs

"I joked with my friends I’m training AI to take my job someday."

Mars

Asteroid Behaving Strangely

Bizarre.

Astrophysics

Astronomers Intrigued By Impossible Structure Around Dead Star

In the astronomer's words, it "shouldn't be there."

Blockchain

Golden Globes Constantly Begs Viewers to Place Polymarket Bets

A "new low for this humiliating awards show."

Devices

Red Hot Christmas Toy Crashes So Badly That Kids Can’t Actually Use It

"We're continuing to see very positive signs of recovery, but we're still working through some lingering issues. "

Future Society

Plastic Surgeons Are Using Material From Dead People on New Patients

A scenario that not even Mary Shelley of Frankenstein could have imagined up in her day.

Brain

Researchers Just Discovered Something Startling About How Conservatives Pick Political Positions

"Indeed, people's political beliefs influence how they look for information (often without them realizing it)."

Finance

War Profiteers Furious After Polymarket Refuses to Pay Out on Venezuelan Invasion Bets

"They think there will be no punishment for all this fraud."

Climate Change

Doomsday Glacier Bombarded by Earthquakes

The earthquakes, while low in magnitude, spell a troubling fate for the glacier.

xAI

Elon’s xAI Is Losing Staggering Amounts of Money

Executives told investors they still have enough money to "continue spending aggressively."

Future Society

Pentagon Begs Shop to Stop Sending Butt Plugs to Military Personnel

"The call was coming from inside the house."

Dark Matter

Scientists Weirded Out by Cosmic Bones in Distant Space

"This cloud is a window into the dark universe."

NASA

Billionaire NASA Head Offers Bizarre Perk for Top Staff

Talk about tone-deaf.

Ethics

Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

The sheer irony.