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SpaceX

SpaceX’s IPO Plan Will Give Elon Musk Ironclad Rule Over the Resulting Empire

With great power, etc.

By Joe Wilkins

A white Starbucks paper cup with a brown sleeve is tipped over, spilling dark coffee against a solid orange background.
OpenAI

ChatGPT’s Tool for Ordering Starbucks Is So Staggeringly Bad That It’s Breaking Containment

Who is this for?

By Frank Landymore

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Anthropic

Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

"There's no longer an excuse for releasing models that reinforce user delusions so readily."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Astrophysics

Astronomers Create Entire Synthetic Universe “Indistinguishable” From Our Own

"It is exhilarating to see 'galaxies' come out of our computer that look indistinguishable from the real thing."

By Frank Landymore

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Anthropic

Rogue Group Gains Access to Anthropic’s Dangerous New Mythos AI

That didn't take long.

By Frank Landymore

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Facial recognition

Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time

"It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens on the streets, but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protestors."

By Joe Wilkins

Even SpaceX itself isn't fully sold on orbital data centers, an idea its mercurial CEO is pushing hard and prioritizing over everything else.
Off-World

SpaceX Admits AI Data Centers in Space May Be a Really Terrible Idea

No kidding.

By Victor Tangermann

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Anthropic

Today Is the Day Anthropic Promised That Fully Autonomous Employees Would Be Tearing Through the Business World

How time flies.

By Joe Wilkins

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said developers' productivity is going through the roof — while being overseen by a nagging, micromanaging AI boss.
Ethics

Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Be a Permanent Micromanaging Boss Who Never Stops Nagging You

Oh, great.

By Victor Tangermann

Florida is opening a criminal probe into ChatGPT maker OpenAI for its alleged role in a deadly mass shooting at Florida State University.
Ethics

Florida Opens Criminal Probe Into ChatGPT’s Role in School Shooting

"If that bot were a person they’d be charged with a principal in first degree murder."

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Telling Cancer Patients to Try Useless Woo-Woo Treatments Instead of Chemotherapy

Why do chemo when you can try a "cancer-fighting diet" instead?

By Frank Landymore

New images released by the European Space Agency picture a shadowy presence spreading across the surface of Mars.
Mars

Scientists Puzzled by Huge Shadowy Blight Spreading Across Surface of Mars

A battle between light and dark.

By Frank Landymore

Meta will use tracking software on all of its US-based employees' computers that can track mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI models.
Ethics

Meta Installing Software on Employee Computers to Track Everything They Do, Feed the Data to AI

The company is saying the quiet part out loud.

By Victor Tangermann

A jar of Prego Traditional Italian sauce, a tall glass container filled with uncooked spaghetti, a red box labeled "The Great Questions Card Deck Family Dinner Edition," and a beige device labeled "Prego Story Connection Keeper" are arranged together against a blue grid background with an orange circle behind them.
Privacy

Prego Pivots From Budget-Tier Pasta Sauce to Small Microphones That Listen to Your Family’s Intimate Conversations

Uh, come again?

By Frank Landymore

Workers in China say their bosses are directing them to painstakingly document their workflows to train AI agents that could replace them.
Ethics

Chinese Workers Horrified as Bosses Direct Them to Train Their AI Replacements

Why would they choose to dig their own graves?

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

Concern Grows That AI Is Damaging Users’ Cognitive Abilities

"The brain didn't fall asleep, but there was much less activation in the areas corresponding to creativity and to processing information."

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin experienced a significant setback over the weekend which could imperil NASA's Moon program.
Starship

Jeff Bezos’ Botched Space Launch Was So Bad It Could Threaten NASA’s Entire Moon Program

More delays could be coming.

By Victor Tangermann

An intriguing photo shows the charred heat shield of NASA's Artemis 2 Orion capsule right after splashdown in the Pacific on April 10.
Moon

Guess What This Creepy Underwater Thing Is That Was Photographed by US Navy Divers for NASA

Hint: it's neither a bird, nor a plane.

By Victor Tangermann

Considering Musk has yet to make good on his promise of fully autonomous driving, it's no wonder existing owners are starting to get fed up.
Electric Vehicles

Tesla Drivers Losing Patience at Elon Musk’s Eternal Excuses

They're fed up.

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

JPMorganChase Data Center Gets $77 Million Handout to Create Grand Total of One Job

"The county is giving away quite a lot of public money in exchange basically for nothing."

By Joe Wilkins