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A Tesla driver fatally ran down a motorcyclist last year, while he was on his phone and his car was on Full Self-Driving mode.
Self-Driving Vehicles

"I'm not sure how it happened, but I am freaking out."

Conservative Christian business owners believe that covering HIV prevention medication violates their freedom of religion rights.
RX and Medicine

"This could have more broad impacts on all of us."

A new FDA proposal would reduce the amount of feel-good nicotine in cigarettes to near-inconsequential levels.
Developments

Light 'em up.

Dotdash Meredith, one of the largest publishing companies in the US, will lay off about 4% of its workforce to make room for OpenAI.
OpenAI

"This partnership delivers the best, most relevant content right to the heart of ChatGPT."

UK police have impounded a Tesla Cybertruck, which mysteriously made it across the Atlantic, for being "not road legal in the UK."
Advanced Transport

Oops!

The FBI admitted that they believe hackers broke into AT&T's systems last year to steal months of call and text logs.
Hacking

"Not good."

A top AI investor says that a cohort of "America-Hating Communists" are destroying his companies from the inside.
Artificial Intelligence

"We’re burning the system down. You are all evil."

According to Amazon AI team lead Rohit Prasad, the company still has to solve the problem of "hallucinations" before releasing an AI Alexa.
Artificial Intelligence

Easier said than done.

Trump is following in the footsteps of luminaries like Haliey "Hawk Tuah Girl" Welch, by launching a meme coin creatively dubbed $TRUMP.
Blockchain

Very presidential, sir.

Walgreens has discovered that locking its wares behind lock and key in an apparent effort to stop shoplifters has backfired spectacularly.
Future Society

"When you lock things up, you don’t sell as many of them."

Character.AI, the AI chatbot platform accused of causing mental and physical suffering to minor users, is open for brand partnership deals.
Artificial Intelligence

Is a Character.AI partnership worth the risk?

Hundreds of miles north of a scorched LA, a lithium-ion battery plant has caught fire — and it wasn't the first time it's had issues.
Science & Energy

This is so much worse than an e-bike fire.

A Utah-based startup has graced us with an AI-powered Anne Frank chatbot, and it's very eager to forgive and forget.
Artificial Intelligence

"It's a kind of grave-robbing and incredibly disrespectful to the real Anne Frank and her family."

Billionaire tech investor Ken Howery, who happens to be a longtime friend of Elon Musk, is Trump's guy to serve as US ambassador to Denmark.
Elon Musk

Wonder if Elon had any say in that.

Elon Musk stares down ominously at his phone in a dark room.
Elon Musk

We're just trying to understand.

Apple engineers flagged major flaws with the "reasoning" abilities of top AI models: that it's mostly a front.
Artificial Intelligence

And they released it anyway.

Matthew Livelsberger, the soldier behind the Cybertruck bombing, tried to impress his ex-girlfriend with his choice of vehicle.
Future Society

"I feel like Batman or [H]alo."

Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk has grown so close to president-elect Donald Trump, he's willing to move in with him.
Elon Musk

They're ready to move in together.

An apparent Character.AI bug caused chatbot outputs to devolve into multilingual gibberish, complete with inexplicable mentions of sex toys.
Google

W... What?!

Beloved director David Lynch lived just off of Mulholland Drive — and his death may have been related to nearby wildfires.
Health & Medicine

"Deeply Lynchian."