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Creative racists have devised new ways to trick Grok, Elon Musk's "anti-woke" chatbot, into using racial slurs. Yes, including that one.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can’t Stop Tweeting Out the N-Word

Seriously?

While it was getting ready to power down its Gaia spacecraft, the European Space Agency encountered some unusual resistance.
Off-World

Scientists Tried to Kill Spacecraft But It Was So Tough That It Refused to Die

"Spacecraft really don’t want to be switched off."

Coreweave's stock seemingly shook off the gloom and spiked over 20 percent before settling around 18 percent by midday.
Artificial Intelligence

CoreWeave’s Stock Now Spiking After Disastrous IPO

Didn't see this one coming.

Amid his latest alleged election meddling initiative, unelected wrecker Elon Musk was heckled by the protesters he so detests. 
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Gets Booed Right to His Face

And you'll never guess who he blamed it on.

NASA has officially added SpaceX's Starship to its launch vehicle roster despite the vehicle never having completed a successful test flight.
Starship

NASA Signs Contract for Elon Musk’s Starship, Even Though It’s Never Launched Without Exploding

"I'm sure whenever NASA needs a payload spread across 1000 km of ocean they'll pick Starship."

AIDS denialist RFK Jr. is reportedly planning to shut down an HIV prevention office just a few weeks after raiding a poppers company.
Health & Medicine

Man Who Believes Poppers Cause AIDS Is Planning to Gut America’s HIV Prevention Office

This could return America to the dark ages of the 1980s and 90s, when the government let hundreds of thousands of people die of AIDS.

A study in Finland found that kids with pediatric brain injuries, mild concussions included, were significantly less likely to go to college.
Neuroscience and Brain

After a Single Concussion, Kids Are 15 Percent Less Likely to Go to College

More bad news on the concussion front.

The CEO of Perplexity AI insists that his wannabe Google competitor is doing just fine, thank you very much.
Artificial Intelligence

Perplexity AI CEO Denies Rumors Company Is Disintegrating Behind the Scenes

"Our goal isn't to save money and scam you in any way."

The conservative influencer who claims to be Elon Musk's fourth babymama has sold her Tesla — and, of course, used it for publicity.
Future Society

Mother of Elon’s Child So Disgusted With Him That She Sells Her Tesla

Influencer's gotta influence.

Apple is working on an "AI doctor service" for its Health app that would use your health data to peddle medical advice.
Artificial Intelligence

Apple Quietly Working on AI Agent to “Replica” a Human Doctor

Would you trust it?

As Nature reports, consumer-genomics company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy — and legal permission to auction off all of that data.
Gene Editing

23andMe Is Selling All Your Data, in Largest Sale of Genomes in History

"There are many cautionary tales buried in the 23andMe story."

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire SpaceX astronaut, has shared a photo of himself during his unusual "commute into DC."
Future Society

Billionaire SpaceX Customer Flies Private Jet Into DC to Become New Head of NASA

It's quite a commute.

A rocket by German startup Isar Aerospace tore into the sky over Norway's Arctic Andoeya Spaceport, but exploded in a dramatic fireball.
Off-World

Rocket Falls in Icy Wasteland, Explodes in Epic Fireball

We've never seen a rocket explode with this kind of view before.

Tonight, SpaceX is scheduled to launch a first-of-its-kind mission that will carry four private astronauts to fly above the Earth's poles.
SpaceX

SpaceX Launching First-Ever Astronauts Over Earth’s Poles Tonight

A world's first.

According to a new survey, lots of people are having AI dreams — and some of these nightmares are pretty surprising.
Artificial Intelligence

Large Numbers of People Report Horrific Nightmares About AI

We now know that androids do, in fact, dream of electric sheep.

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a bizarrely textured rock covered in hundreds of egg-like spheres on Mars, astonishing scientists.
Mars

Scientists Puzzled When Mars Rover Finds Egg-Like Rock

Totally out of place.

Despite SpaceX already being NASA's largest private contractor, Elon Musk is still hellbent on assuming control over the space agency.
NASA

Elon Musk Secretly Working to Take Over NASA

Is NASA really getting ready to cancel the Artemis program?

CoreWeave's public debut struggles highlight the AI industry's challenges, with disappointing performance casting doubt on its future.
Artificial Intelligence

AI’s “Biggest Test” Is Turning Into a Catastrophe as CoreWeave Flounders

Uh oh!

Once a rising star of AI automation, the startup 11x is now facing new allegations of extremely sketchy behavior.
Artificial Intelligence

Startup Reportedly Claimed Fake Clients as Its AI-Powered Sales Bot Flailed

"The products barely worked."

As if the dating world wasn't already nightmarish enough, ChatGPT seems to be making it worse — or, at least, weirder.
OpenAI

Woman Alarmed When Date Uses ChatGPT to Psychologically Profile Her

"I was a bit taken aback."