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Google's AI-generated search summary for the query "baby elephant" includes an AI-generated photo of a clearly fake, teacup-sized elephant.
Google

We wish you were real, tiny baby elephant!!

Two "Punk" and "Emo" fossils are challenging scientists' understanding of the evolution of mollusks. The scene, folks, is not dead.
Science & Energy

Feeling old yet?

While we're not quite living in "The Matrix," experiences similar to the film's slowed-down "bullet time" do seem to exist in real life.
Health & Medicine

"Dodge this."

Robotics company Realbotix claims its robots are designed to "tackle the staggering loneliness epidemic" but somehow aren't sex robots.
Robotics

Come on.

Scientists say they've discovered evidence of a "lost world" lurking deep below the Pacific Ocean, a surprising finding.
Physics

Woah.

AI is like the fairy Tinkerbell: in the story of "Peter Pan," she only continues to exist if people believe in her and clap for her.
Artificial Intelligence

Keep clapping. Louder!

A dad and "AI evangelist" couldn't understand why his daughter didn't like the AI function of a toy he bought for her.
Artificial Intelligence

"She still loves playing with it, but every time I ask her if she'd like to chat with it, she says no."

The Kenya Space Agency identified a "red-hot" eight-foot metal ring as a piece of space junk. Experts are still torn about its exact origin.
Future Society

What the hell is it?

The American Psychological Association sent a letter to the FTC urging the agency to investigate Character.AI and other chatbot makers.
Artificial Intelligence

Bots are pretending to be therapists. Real psychologists aren't pleased.

An NVIDIA scientist seems to think that AI robots should be fighting wildfires despite the technology being majorly energy-intensive.
Climate Change

Read the room, dude.

Claire "Grimes" Boucher defended her ex Elon Musk after he blamed the Los Angeles fires on diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.
Elon Musk

Read the room, damn.

When preparing for its content moderation overhaul, Meta secretly provided its employees examples of admissible hate speech. %
Future Society

We're not kidding: users can now declare themselves "proud racists" on Facebook.

Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin is preparing to launch its New Glenn rocket just after midnight on Sunday.
Falcon

"It’s time to fly."

Elon Musk is blaming the Los Angeles fires on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, an extremely racist, bigoted lie.
Elon Musk

How does it just keep getting worse?

Newly unredacted court documents allege that Facebook knowingly used pirated books from the database LibGen to train its AI models.
Artificial Intelligence

And Zuckerberg personally approved the piracy, according to these documents.

As the New York Times reports, a civilian drone collided with a firefighting plane flying over the Palisades neighborhood on Thursday.
Drones

"We have a saying: ‘If you fly, we can’t.'"

OpenAI's o1 reasoning model was caught massively struggling to solve the New York Times' Connections word game.
OpenAI

Connections claims another victim.

Elon Musk has admitted he wishes he could get pregnant — and fortunately, his in-house AI can make that fantasy a reality.
Elon Musk

The world's most prominent hater of gender dysphoria just admitted something interesting.

President-elect Donald Trump has found the real culprit behind Los Angeles' massive and devastating wildfires: the Delta smelt fish.
Science & Energy

Big brain time.

Tesla is moving several workers away from Cybertruck production at its Austin factory to focus on the Model Y instead.
Tesla

They were reassigned to work on the Model Y instead.