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The popular book app Fable has come under fire for its AI-generated annual roundups, which users say gave them offensive messages.
Artificial Intelligence

Yikes.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced sweeping changes that seem like they'll open the door to hate speech.
Future Society

"I want to make sure that people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms."

The FBI has released extensive, first-person footage recorded by New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar on a pair of Meta smart glasses.
Future Society

The footage is bone-chilling.

Amazon's Prime streaming service has adorned the iconic 1922 horror film "Nosferatu" with an appalling, seemingly AI-generated poster.
Artificial Intelligence

"A horrible one-two punch of anti-art sentiment."

In a fight on social media, Elon Musk decided to use a slur against disabled people — and it's far from the first time. 
Elon Musk

"No wonder this algorithm is so messed up."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now claiming that the firm is nearing the dawn of AGI — and that he knows how to make it happen.
OpenAI

"This sounds like science fiction right now, and somewhat crazy to even talk about it."

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OpenAI

"People use it much more than we expected."

A man had the misfortune of becoming trapped inside a driverless Waymo taxi, which drove in circles instead of to the airport.
Advanced Transport

"I have a flight to catch, why is this thing going in a circle?"

Flavored nitrous oxide is the newest drug to hit America's youth — and folks are developing startling side effects to it.
Developments

"You could barely understand what they were saying."

Elon Musk is calling for NASA to ditch its Moon program, arguing that the "Moon is a distraction" and that "we're going straight to Mars.
Moon

"The Moon is a distraction."

Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao says he encountered a pair of large metallic orbs while flying his plane over Houston, Texas in 2023.
Advanced Transport

"They came right at me."

In a freewheeling interview with Bloomberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took it out on the company's board members, who abruptly sacked him in 2023.
Future Society

"And all those people that I feel like really f*cked me and f*cked the company were gone, and now I had to clean up their mess."

Meta was forced to euthanize its AI-generated "characters" after users discovered just how problematic they really are.
Meta

Instagram created a fake, AI-generated Black woman — and the response was outraged.

The Cybertruck bomber made unsubstantiated claims about the recently spotted drones and left behind a deranged manifesto.
Future Society

"What we have been seeing with 'drones' is the operational use of gravitic propulsion systems powered aircraft..."

In the aftermath of the Texas abortion ban, documented cases of infant abandonment have surged in the state.
Developments

Unbelievably grim.

Kia issued a recall for nearly 23,000 EV9 electric cars for the 2024-25 model year after discovering seats that weren't fully bolted down.
Advanced Transport

Hold onto your butts.

A video appears to show the future of transportation: a Waymo robotaxi smashing into a Serve Robotics delivery robot.
Robotics

The machines are fighting.

A Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside Trump Towers in Las Vegas early Wednesday morning. Elon Musk says it's a poor choice for a car bomb.
Elon Musk

Seriously?

Insane Clown Posse's Joseph Utsler, better known by his stage persona Shaggy 2 Dope, has an AI clone — and apparently, he's a fan.
Artificial Intelligence

Will the real Shaggy please stand up?

Folks on Reddit are in an uproar after Meta announced that it's planning to load Facebook up with AI "users," which are better known as bots.
Meta

"Translation: 'Our real users are quitting the platform, so we will fill our community with fake users instead.'"