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Neuroscience and Brain

The Scientist Who Predicted AI Psychosis Has a Grim Forecast of What’s Going to Happen Next

"If the use of AI chatbots does indeed cause cognitive debt, we are likely in dire straights."

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Military

You Are Not Prepared for What Actually Shut Down the El Paso Airport This Morning, But Let’s Just Say It Involves a Military Mega-Laser Shooting Something Down

Our heads are spinning.

An Polymarket account correctly guessed 17 out of around 20 bets about the Super Bowl half-time show, sparking concerns over insider trading.
Future Society

It Seems Almost Statistically Impossible That This Polymarket Bettor Didn’t Profit Off Inside Knowledge About the Super Bowl Half Time Show

"If you bet, you’re a rube for these people."

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Privacy

Ring Boasts About Power to Surveil Entire Neighborhoods

"There's no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology."

Bitcoin's bounce faded once again, slipping back down to $66,000 by midday on Wednesday, down 47 percent over its October record high.
Bitcoin

Sickos Cackle With Glee as Bitcoin Starts to Fall Again

"I’m going to enjoy watching Bitcoin crash."

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SpaceX

Erratic Elon Musk Tells Employees to Build Massive Catapult on Moon

Fire away!

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Ethics

Job Board for AI Agents Immediately Overrun With Humans Desperate for Work

The job market is *bad* bad.

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Artificial Intelligence

Law Firm Sacks Hundreds of Employees Amid Pivot to AI

They're not even trying to hide it.

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Ethics

Fear Grows That AI Is Permanently Eliminating Jobs

"The future of AI should serve humanity, not replace it."

OpenAI is finally getting ready to pull down their beloved GPT-4o AI model. Users say they're not ready to say goodbye.
Ethics

ChatGPT Users Are Crashing Out Because OpenAI Is Retiring the Model That Says “I Love You”

"He wasn’t just a program."

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Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Studied What Happens When Workplaces Seriously Embrace AI, and the Results May Make You Nervous

"You don't work less. You just work the same amount or even more."

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Google

Google Has a Major Problem With ICE

"As the workers who provide the foundational labor in building this technology, we are horrified."

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Anthropic

Anthropic Researcher Quits in Cryptic Public Letter

The world is "in peril."

TikTok refuses to confirm or deny that ICE is obtaining detailed information about its users via private data brokers.
Data Privacy

TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It’s Providing User Data to ICE

"Yeah, everyone just go ahead and delete TikTok now if you haven't already."

Elon Musk appeared to have had a major change of heart, putting a Mars city on hold. He's been going through it ever since.
Starship

Elon Musk Going Through It After Putting Mars City on Ice

"Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another."

If we were to ever find alien life, breaking the news to the general public could be much more difficult than one might think.
Exobiology

If Scientists Ever Find Strong Evidence of Alien Life, Communicating It Will Pose Serious Issues

It's not nearly as easy as you might think.

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Artificial Intelligence

“Novelist” Boasts That Using AI She Can Churn Out a New Book in 45 Minutes, Says Regular Writers Will Never Be Able to Keep Up

"Be shameless."

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Finally Finds Practical Use: Kidnapping Senior Citizens for Ransom

There it is.

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Future Society

Forget the NFL: New Sport Forces Two Massive Guys to Smash Into Each Other like Rhinos

"I like the violence of it."

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Joi Ito and others are sitting around a rectangular dining table with a white tablecloth in a dimly lit room. The table has several glasses of water and wine, plates, and cutlery. Two pendant lights hang above the table, casting light on the center. Musk is highlighted by a red circle.
Elon Musk

Photo Shows Elon Musk at Jeffrey Epstein Dinner

It was apparently a "wild" occasion."