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Soundcloud, after backlash from musicians, artists, and the music-listening community, changed their policies on AI.
Artificial Intelligence

SoundCloud Backtracks on AI and Changes Policies After Artist Outrage

SoundCloud's CEO admitted the AI training policy was "too broad."

Many students aren't allowed to use artificial intelligence, and when they catch their teachers doing so, they're often peeved.
OpenAI

Student Livid After Catching Her Professor Using ChatGPT, Asks For Her Money Back

"He’s telling us not to use it, and then he’s using it himself."

A video captured during the 2025 Myanmar earthquake may be a first-of-its-kind recording of a surface-level fault rupture.
Science & Energy

Extremely Rare Video Shows the Earth Being Violently Torn Apart During an Earthquake

This looks absolutely terrifying.

The Tesla board have formed a new committee to review Elon Musk's pay, which includes exploring a brand new pay package.
Elon Musk

As Sales Continue to Plummet, Tesla Is Considering a Massive Payday for Elon Musk

That's what they're worried about?

Researchers using CERN's Large Hadron Collider found that experiments with lead nuclei caused the element to briefly transmute into gold.
Physics

Scientists Accidentally Turned Lead Into Gold

They achieved the "dream of medieval alchemists."

A Chinese crypto service called Xinbi Guarantee, an online marketplace for laundering money and sex trafficking, was hiding in Colorado.
Cryptocurrency

Colorado Has a Massive Home-Grown Crypto Crime Problem

Scammers are making billions of dollars.

Donald Trump's eponymous meme coin is all but worthless now — but that's not stopping his kids from launching their next crypto scheme.
Cryptocurrency

Trump’s Memecoin Tanked, But His Family Has a New Crypto Hustle

Like father, like sons.

Years after outsourcing marketing and customer service gigs to AI, the Swedish company Klarna is looking to hire its humans back.
Artificial Intelligence

Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

"What you end up having is lower quality."

Tesla investors were hopeful the latest refresh of the EV maker's bestselling Model Y would breathe new life into plummeting sales — and yet.
Tesla

As Crisis at Tesla Deepens, a Hail Mary Is Turning Out to Be a Major Bust

Elon Musk's automaker empire is on very, very shaky ground.

A man is embarrassed after being laughed at for his Cybertruck
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Owner Brutally Mocked by Dozens of Kids After Breaking Down at Baseball Practice

Life comes at you fast.

Elon Musk is mad that his AI chatbot, Grok, referred to The Atlantic and The BBC as credible news sources.
Elon Musk

Why Elon Musk Is Furious and Publicly Raging at His Own AI Chatbot, Grok

For Elon, the call is coming from inside the house.

baidu self-driving car rental
Self-Driving Vehicles

Chinese Company Leapfrogs Tesla, Announces Self-Driving Car Rental Service

The cars will bring riders to "a range of destinations, including cultural landmarks and urban tourist attractions."

A shockingly small proportion of CEOs surveyed by IBM reported that the tech was delivering on its promises.
Advanced Transport

Executives Are Pouring Money Into AI. So Why Are They Saying It’s Not Paying Off?

Where's the ROI?

New Law Would Ban All AI Regulation for a Decade
Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Ban All AI Regulation for a Decade

This is insane.

The US Copyright Office released a report that could be bad for powerful AI companies. The next day, the agency's head was fired.
Artificial Intelligence

The US Copyright Chief Was Fired After Raising Red Flags About AI Abuse

"A straight-ticket loss for the AI companies."

Federal agencies scrambled to reinstated hundreds of millions of dollars worth of contracts after Elon Musk cancelled them.
Elon Musk

Government Furiously Trying to Undo Elon Musk’s Damage

"They should have used a scalpel. But instead they went in with an axe and chopped it all down."

A former SpaceX employee with Crohn's disease says he was carefully timed when visiting the bathroom — and fired after he took too long.
Future Society

A SpaceX Employee Says He Was Fired for the Most Insane Reason

This is crazy.

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we have a clear view of Jupiter's auroras, which are hundreds of times more powerful than Earth's.
Off-World

There’s Something Very Unusual About Jupiter’s Auroras

"It just blew me away!"

Pope Leo XIV, the newly-crowned first American pope, is keeping the social costs of rapid AI advancement front and center.
Artificial Intelligence

The New Pope Is Deeply Skeptical of AI

New developments in AI "pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor."

Just a day after criticizing Elon Musk for the automaker's plummeting, a former Tesla manager says he was fired by the company.
Elon Musk

A Tesla Dealership Manager Blamed Elon Musk for Tanking Sales and Was Immediately Fired

"People no longer want to associate with Elon. That's it. That's the truth."