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During a Bloomberg interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took another jab at the richest man in the world, Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

Sam Altman Says He Feels Sorry for Elon Musk and His Bottomless Insecurity

"I feel for the guy. I don't think he's like a happy person."

Doctors have begun noticing a trend: they all seem to get full before finishing dinner, and it's likely thanks to drugs like Ozempic. 
RX and Medicine

Doctors Have One Weird Trick to Tell When Their Colleagues Are On Ozempic

"We look at each other and laugh and say, 'You, too?'"

Tesla's sales are falling off a cliff around the world as Elon Musk's public perception takes a heavy toll.
Tesla

Dark Clouds Gather Over Tesla as Sales Plummet Worldwide

Looking into this.

Trusting AI over the real thing seems, per a new study, to actually be atrophying folks' mental faculties.
Artificial Intelligence

Study Finds That People Who Entrust Tasks to AI Are Losing Critical Thinking Skills

"Atrophied and unprepared."

Chances of space rock 2024 YR4 hitting us just under eight years from now have risen substantially. Astronomers are intrigued.
Off-World

Don’t Panic, But the Chances of That City Killer Asteroid Hitting Earth Just Almost Doubled

Astronomers want to get a closer look at it with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Prompted about products that could assist suicide, Amazon's Rufus AI repeatedly provided us with an incorrect crisis hotline number.
Artificial Intelligence

Asked for Products to Kill Yourself With, Amazon’s AI Says “You Are Not Alone” and Hallucinates an Incorrect Phone Number for a Suicide Hotline

That seems pretty basic.

In an effort to recover a long-lost crypto wallet, one man is attempting to purchase an entire landfill where he believes it was thrown away. 
Bitcoin

Man Trying to Buy Entire Landfill to Recover Lost Bitcoin Hard Drive

This guy's been fighting for more than 10 years to find that dang thing.

Aerospace giant Boeing is warning that hundreds of workers currently working on NASA's Artemis Moon rocket could be laid off.
Moon

As Elon Musk Reviews Moon Program, Boeing Warns Workers Building Artemis Rocket of Mass Layoffs

NASA's contractors are expecting the worst.

Insurance company Allstate has revealed that almost all of the communications its reps send out to claimants are written by AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Allstate Says Almost All Its Communications About Insurance Claims Are Done With AI Now

"The claim agent still looks at them just to make sure they’re accurate, but they’re not writing them anymore."

Billionaire and White House advisor Elon Musk is leading a gigantic $97.4 billion bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI.
OpenAI

Elon Musk Makes Huge Bid to Seize Control of OpenAI

"It’s time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was."

The owner of a Tesla Cybertruck had a terrifying run-in with a pole while "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) driving assist feature was turned on.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Driver Issues Warning After His Cybertruck Totals Itself on “Full Self-Driving” Mode

"Thank you Tesla."

One of DOGE's engineers dispatched to take over the Education Department used to have a very different title: ketamine dealer.
Elon Musk

One of Elon Musk’s DOGE Staffers Used to Sell Ketamine Professionally

Well then.

The parents of an OpenAI whistleblower who was found dead say their independent pathologist found that he did not die of suicide.
OpenAI

Independent Autopsy Finds OpenAI Whistleblower’s Bullet Wound Was Not Consistent With Suicide

Seriously, what is going on here?

In a new post on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that AI could lead to plenty of economic inequality.
OpenAI

AI Likely to Increase Inequality, Sam Altman Admits, or Control the “Population Through Mass Surveillance and Loss of Autonomy”

"Everyone should have access to unlimited genius to direct however they can imagine."

Researchers at the University of Oxford say they've achieved quantum teleportation using a powerful quantum supercomputer.
Quantum Physics

Oxford Scientists Say They’ve Achieved Quantum Teleportation

Quantum supercomputers, here we come.

One of the 90s brightest tech stars may be headed to prison amid a shocking fall from grace that includes elder abuse and Ponzi scheme claims.
Devices

Man Who Claims to Have Anti-Gravity Device Now in Deep Trouble

This guy is NOT doing well.

Scientists discovered a fungus that caused spiders to "exhibit behavioral changes similar to those reported for zombie ants."
RX and Medicine

Scientists Discover “Zombie” Fungus That Seizes Control of Spiders, Suggest It Be Used for Human Medicine

What could go wrong?

Everyone knows San Francisco has been captured by tech elites, but we didn't expect robots to start replacing DJs there quite this quickly.
Robotics

Military Robot Deployed as Nightclub DJ

"We are not trying to apologize for the strength of robots."

New research explores the mechanics behind the "false vacuum" theory, the idea that the universe is in a state of only temporary stability.
Quantum Physics

Physicists Find That the Universe Could “Collapse Like a House of Cards”

Things fall apart.

AI app developer Hugging Face says it created an open-source alternative to OpenAI's latest Deep Research AI feature — in just 24 hours.
OpenAI

Researchers Replicate OpenAI’s Hot New AI Tool in 24 Hours

OpenAI has a problem: each time it releases an advanced new AI, it's getting copied almost instantly.