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A robotic claw picks up a dangling business person by the foot, while a crumpled dollar bill fills in the background.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Hype Is Dropping Off a Cliff While Costs Soar, Experts Warn

Generative AI is sliding towards "the trough of disillusionment."

After analyzing "super-continent" structures deep inside the Earth, scientists believe they could be up to billions of years old.
Science & Energy

Scientists Listening to Signals From Huge, Mysterious Objects Inside the Earth

"Nobody knew what they are, and whether they are only a temporary phenomenon."

Scientists claim that China's "Artificial Sun" nuclear fusion reactor has more than doubled its own previous world record.
Energy

China’s “Artificial Sun” Just Smashed the Record for Stable Fusion Reaction

The reactor contained plasma for almost 18 minutes.

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is free after spending over a decade behind bars — and he's taken his little prison plant with him. 
Blockchain

Silk Road Mastermind Ross Ulbricht Seen Leaving Prison Holding a Small Plant

He's out!

A team of scientists subjected AIs to a number of games, forcing them to choose between pain and gain or pleasure and loss.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Experiment With Subjecting AI to Pain

A very human thing to do.

The company announced that it has rolled out a "GS AI assistant" to around 10,000 employees as part of its longer-term doubling down on AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Goldman Sachs Starts Process of Replacing Bankers With AI

"The AI assistant becomes really like talking to another GS employee."

After heavy lobbying by SpaceX, President Trump now seems poised to disband the White House's National Space Council.
SpaceX

Trump Appears to Be Dissolving the National Space Council at SpaceX’s Request

Will Trump bow to Musk's will?

A fake meme coin named after Trump's youngest son, dubbed Official Barron Meme, took off on Monday, before crashing almost immediately.
Blockchain

Gullible Trump Supporters Lose Millions on Fake $BARRON Meme Coin

It crashed by over 90 percent almost immediately.

Elon Musk blasted OpenAI, accusing it of not having enough cash for Donald Trump's "Stargate" project. CEO Sam Altman has since shot back.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Blasts Elon Musk for Defying Donald Trump’s AI Deal

"Want to come visit the first site already under way?"

In an executive order geared towards denying transgender rights, President Donald Trump seems to have made a huge mistake about biology.
Biology

Trump Appears to Have Accidentally Declared That Every Person in America Is Now Female

"Donald used the highest office in the land to declare all Americans legally female."

Elon Musk isn't convinced of the Stargate project; late on Tuesday evening, he mocked the AI infrastructure plans on X.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Blasts Donald Trump’s Huge AI Infrastructure Deal

"They don’t actually have the money."

Elon Musk's DOGE.gov website has launched -- complete with a sloppy AI-generated American flag that was quickly removed.
Future Society

DOGE.gov Website Launches With Mangled, AI-Generated American Flag

They already deleted it.

The Pentagon is bullish on its recent AI advances that apparently help the military kill people faster than ever before.
Military

Pentagon Official Boasts That AI Is Helping The Military Kill People Faster Than Ever Before

"We’ll always have humans involved in the decision to employ force."

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek announced a new model called R1, which the outfit says is performing "on par" with OpenAI's o1.
OpenAI

Chinese AI Firm Says Its Open Source New Model Is Beating OpenAI’s Most Advanced Publicly Released Model

A win for open source.

President Trump is preparing to approve a $500 billion investment into private sector-built AI infrastructure, according to CBS.
Artificial Intelligence

Trump Set to Approve $500 Billion Deal to Build Huge AI Datacenters

That's a *lot* of money.

The Brutalist director Brady Corbet admits that AI was used to clean up the Hungarian accents of Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones.
Artificial Intelligence

Director Admits “The Brutalist” Used AI to Alter Characters’ Accents

Is this the future of filmmaking?

The CIA has been stepping up its efforts to keep up with AI advances — and has developed a particularly spy-tastic way of using chatbots.
Artificial Intelligence

The CIA Is Quietly Using AI to Build Emulated Versions of World Leaders

That's one way to use chatbot technology.

Chinese carmaker BYD's Yangwang U9 hypercar can leap over giant potholes and even police road spikes, as a recent video shows.
Advanced Transport

New Electric Hypercar Can Leap Over Police Road Spikes With Cheetah-Like Powered Suspension

Eat my dust, cops.

As Trump eyes the border, tech moguls are lining up to pitch him their brand of AI-powered surveillance tech, robot dogs included.
Future Society

A Peek Into Trump’s AI Border Dystopia

Welcome to surveillance hell.

Artifacts in Trump's executive orders have led to speculation that those who penned them might have turned to AI for help.
Artificial Intelligence

Trump Admin Accused of Using AI to Draft Executive Orders

"This is poor, slipshod work obviously assisted by AI."