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Elon Musk made a programming joke about deleting the "woke mind virus" from his brain, betraying his limited knowledge of the field.
Elon Musk

Elon, what?

Google's controversial search AI was caught recommending that parents use a popular vibrator on children as a method of behavioral therapy.
Google

Not this!

Companies are equipping robotic vaccums with arms that can pick up after lazy people. Should we really be making them angry?
Robotics

Oh no.

Mikey Shulman, the CEO of AI music generator company Suno AI, argued that most people don't enjoy the "majority of time" making music.
Artificial Intelligence

"It’s not really enjoyable to make music now."

Blue Origin scrubbed the launch of its New Glenn rocket right before it was scheduled to lift off on Monday morning from Cape Canaveral.
Advanced Transport

"We're standing down..."

Why aren't firefighters just scooping up water from the nearby Pacific Ocean instead of relying on dwindling freshwater supplies?
Science & Energy

Funny you should ask.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will likely release an AI model that acts as a "midlevel engineer" this year.
Meta

"An AI that can effectively be a sort of midlevel engineer."

In the wake of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji's death, the young man's family say they believe he was murdered.
OpenAI

"It’s brutal murder. Cold-blooded murder."

Elon Musk got a cold splash of reality from an LA County firefighter, extinguishing his lie that DEI is to blame for the LA wildfires.
Elon Musk

Extinguished.

In his quest to cheat death, 47-year-old tech founder Bryan Johnson has become ravenous for something besides everlasting life. 
Health & Medicine

"The saddest part of my day is the last bite."

Politicians have started pointing fingers at the burgeoning AI industry for water scarcity in California during the Los Angeles fire.
Artificial Intelligence

It's a serious issue.

New research finally solves the nearly two hundred year old mystery of which volcano caused the Sun to turn blue with its epic eruption.
Science & Energy

The Sun was feeling gloomy.

A new video shows a driverless Waymo robotaxi struggling to decipher the hand signals of a construction worker.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo's cars are still struggling with the basics.

The makers of America's nonstick cookware are none too pleased about a new law that will bar them from using carcinogenic "forever chemicals." 
Cancer

These pan manufacturers mean business.

Another Google Image results page — this one for the question of "does corn get digested" —  is run amuck with AI-generated slop.
Google

Slopaggedon cometh!

The number of children dying to diseases has surged in the past half century as the manufacturing of synthetic chemicals has skyrocketed.
Developments

"Inaction is no longer an option."

Researchers found that if a mere 0.001 percent of the training data of a given LLM is "poisoned," the entire thing falls apart.
Artificial Intelligence

It's incredibly easy to catastrophically poison an entire large language model.

Scientists have drilled nearly two miles into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting a core sample estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old.
Climate Change

Incredible.

Jimmy Carter Once Lowered Himself Into a Nuclear Reactor After a Partial Meltdown
Nuclear Fusion

"They let us get probably a thousand times more radiation than they would now."

Chick-fil-A has an army robots to squeeze citrus for its lemonade, turning the fast food chain's lemonade plant into a veritable lemon party. 
Robotics

Talk about advanced squeezing technique.