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President Donald Trump's chaotic tariffs hit US-based AI chipmaker Nvidia's stock, wreaking havoc with the AI industry he claims to support.
Artificial Intelligence

Trump’s Tariffs Are Wreaking Havoc on the AI Industry He Claims to Support

That didn't take long.

Claire "Grimes" Boucher seems close to condemning her billionaire ex — though of course, she never comes right out and does it.
Future Society

Grimes Slams “Power-Hungry Warlords” Who “Tricked” Her

Who could she be talking about?

Elon Musk has gained access to the government's payment system and has declared his intent to shut down any flow of cash he doesn't like.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says DOGE Will Now Shut Down Government Payments He Doesn’t Like

"We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper."

A new bill looks to "prohibit United States persons from advancing AI capabilities within" China, effectively making DeepSeek illegal.
Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Make It Illegal to Use DeepSeek, Punishable With 20 Years’ Prison Time

It's "easily the most aggressive legislative action on AI."

Character.AI marketed a chatbot based on a real school massacre directly to an email account associated with a teenage user.
Artificial Intelligence

Character.AI Says It’s Made Huge Changes to Protect Underage Users, But It’s Emailing Them to Recommend Conversations With AI Versions of School Shooters

It's marketing this stuff directly to kids.

The founder of a San Francisco-based AI startup called On Platform was arrested after being accused of defrauding investors of $60 million.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Arrested for Raising $60 Million for AI Startup, Instead Spending It on Luxurious Lifestyle

"To our shock and horror, we discovered that, in reality, the account balance in that bank was only 37 cents."

Are Super Bowl ads the nail in the coffin for tech bubbles? We'll soon find out after this year's games, which will feature tons of AI ads.
Cryptocurrency

Super Bowl Ads Predicted the Dot Com and Crypto Bubbles. This Year’s Will Be Filled With Ads for AI Companies

The Superb Owl may as well be the Grim Reaper.

More and more people are taking weight loss injectables like Wegovy — but not everyone prescribed these drugs should have access to them. 
RX and Medicine

Pharmacists Warn That People With Eating Disorders Are Misusing Wegovy Prescriptions

This is a very real and overlooked concern.

A mouse with two dads — or a bi-paternal mouse, in the scientific parlance — has made it to adulthood. Several mice, in fact.
Gene Editing

A Mouse With Two Dads Has Reached Adulthood

Finally, some good news.

An AI tool analyzes a man's face, with dizzying digital effects.
Future Society

Police Use of Facial Recognition Backfires Spectacularly When It Renders Them Unable to Convict Alleged Murderer

"50+ Billion images in our law enforcement database — the largest in the world by far."

State legislators are lining up to be the first to gamble away public funds in digital assets like crypto and NFTs.
Cryptocurrency

States Are Racing to Throw Taxpayers’ Money Into “Strategic Cryptocurrency Reserves”

All my gold bullion gone

A bizarre AI-obsessed group may have inspired a pair of deadly assaults that took place thousands of miles apart.
Artificial Intelligence

Members of AI Fringe Group Arrested for Two Killings

This is getting weird, even for AI.

Chinese astronauts claim to have created rocket fuel on board the country's Tiangong space station using "artificial photosynthesis."
Off-World

Chinese Astronauts Create Rocket Fuel in Space Using “Artificial Photosynthesis”

Could this be the key for generating breathable air on the Moon?

OpenAI's new AI agent, Operator, isn't trustworthy or reliable enough to work without constant user supervision.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s AI Agent Has to Be Monitored Nonstop to Catch Its Constant Screwups

Then what's the point?

Pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht appears to be honoring a tradition in the world of crypto: losing money on doomed meme coins.
Blockchain

Pardoned by Trump, Founder of Silk Road Now Appears to Be Squandering Donations on Stupid Meme Coins

"Wow... welcome to the trenches."

A Chinese company has unveiled a massive new 85-foot electric bus, said to be a world's first in transit infrastructure.
Advanced Transport

China Unveils Comically Gigantic 85-Foot Electric Bus

We're gonna need a bigger bus.

While Sam Bankman-Fried rots away behind bars for fraud, his parents are making the rounds in Trumpworld to plant the seeds for a pardon. 
Blockchain

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Mommy and Daddy Have a New Plan: Suck Up to Trump Until He Pardons Her Beautiful Boy

The least surprising return of recurring characters.

After UnitedHealthcare's drug arm jacked up the price of inhalers, a young man with severe asthma had to go without — and then died.
RX and Medicine

Mother Says Her Son Died After UnitedHealth Jacked the Price of His Inhaler From $66 to $539

"Chose rent over his medicine."

As Wired reports, insiders are concerned that OpenAI could soon fall behind DeepSeek, in part due to a power struggle.
OpenAI

OpenAI Staff Turn Guns on Each Other After DeepSeek Humiliation

They're scared.

Researchers found that DeepSeek's R1 AI "failed to block a single harmful prompt" after being tested against 50 jailbreaking prompts.
Artificial Intelligence

DeepSeek Failed Every Single Security Test, Researchers Found

It scored a zero out of 50.