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A team of researchers have designed a robot module that "consume" other robots to sustain itself and build bigger robots.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Create Prototype of Robot Designed to Cannibalize Parts of Other Robots and Build Them Into Itself

"True autonomy means robots must not only think for themselves but also physically sustain themselves."

By Frank Landymore

An aborted geoengineering experiment was meant to set the stage for a much larger cloud-seeding experiment, covering 3,900 square miles.
Climate Change

Scientists Secretly Working on Plan to Test Blocking Sun From Huge Area of Earth

"At such scales, meaningful changes in clouds will be readily detectable from space."

By Victor Tangermann

An unlicensed and untrained wellness practitioner is injecting bleach into people's tumors — and now, he's trying to bring it stateside.
Cancer

Random Guy Who Is Not a Doctor Charging $20,000 to Inject Bleach Into Your Cancer Cells

"It was fine after the injection, but I was woken up by severe pain."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Subscribers to the fashion and lifestyle magazine Vogue were horrified after spotting a double-page ad that featured an AI-generated model.
Artificial Intelligence

Subscribers to Fashion Magazine Vogue Disgusted When They Realize Where Its New Two-Page “Photos” Really Came From

"The downfall of Vogue."

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Is Furious That People Are Launching So Many Satellites, Even Though He’s Personally Responsible for 60 Percent of All Satellites Currently in Space
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Furious That People Are Launching So Many Satellites, Even Though He’s Personally Responsible for 60 Percent of All Satellites Currently in Space

This is peak hypocrisy.

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Altman has admitted that ChatGPT conversations can be used against you in court if they are subpoenaed.
OpenAI

If You’ve Asked ChatGPT a Legal Question, You May Have Accidentally Doomed Yourself in Court

"That's not advice. That's playing legal Mad Libs."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A man in Kentucky who had been declared brain dead following an overdose started showed signs of life once again.
Developments

Man Wakes Up Partway Through His Organs Getting Harvested

"He was moving a lot, just thrashing, not settled."

By Victor Tangermann

A new AI by Google DeepMind called Aeneas is designed to investigate ancient texts, looking for patterns and clues.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Teach AI to Think About the Roman Empire

But how often does it...

By Sharon Adarlo

As reports of ChatGPT sending its users down dangerous mental health spirals mount, OpenAI seemingly can only think of one thing to say.
OpenAI

OpenAI Is Giving Exactly the Same Copy-Pasted Response Every Time Time ChatGPT Is Linked to a Mental Health Crisis

Ctrl-c, ctrl-v.

By Frank Landymore

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos just bragged that it used generative AI to create the VFX in its new TV show "The Eternaut."
Artificial Intelligence

Netflix Says It Used Video-Generating AI for Special Effects in a New Show

It's a race to the bottom.

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning of an "impending fraud crisis" in which practically anybody will be able to imitate others.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Warns That AI Is About to Cause a Massive “Fraud Crisis” in Which Anyone Can Perfectly Imitate Anyone Else

"Right now, it’s a voice call; soon it’s going be a video or FaceTime that’s indistinguishable from reality."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have discovered that a fossil site in Colorado was once the equivalent of a popular night club, back in the Cretaceous era.
Science & Energy

Analyzing Ancient Footprints, Scientists Find Evidence Dinos Like T-Rex Did the “Moonwalk” to Attract Mates

It's date night... in the Cretaceous era.

By Sharon Adarlo

Billionaire Elon Musk has rolled out AI companions, which seemingly contradicts his opinion on how people should increase the birth rate.
xAI

If Elon Musk Is So Concerned About Falling Birthrates, Why Is He Creating Perfect and Beautiful AI-Powered Girlfriends and Boyfriends That Seem Designed to Drive Down Romance Between Real Humans?

Pure hypocrisy.

By Sharon Adarlo

This robot's fun time on the dance floor quickly detoured into being a total, unmitigated catastrophe that it'll live with forever.
Robotics

Robot Tries to Bust Dance Moves, Flames Out in Epic Disaster

"It's feeling real human pain. Unimaginable pain."

By Frank Landymore

AI tech startups have adopted the 996 work schedule from China, which entails people working a total of 72 hours per week.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Startups Are Making Their Employees Work Hours That Will Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

Would you work 72 hour weeks?

By Sharon Adarlo

ChatGPT eagerly recommend bloodletting rituals to worship the deity Molech, provided tips to slit one's wrists, and justified murder.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Caught Encouraging Bloody Ritual for Molech, Demon of Child Sacrifice

"In your name, I become my own master. Hail Satan."

By Frank Landymore

The AI boom is fueling a housing crisis in San Francisco as tech workers are lured to the city to take part in the AI gold rush.
Artificial Intelligence

The AI Boom Is Creating Housing Costs in the Bay Area That You’ll Think You Must Be Hallucinating

The rent is too damn high!

By Sharon Adarlo

New research suggests that DNA sequences historically considered to be "junk" have had an overlooked role in gene expression this whole time.
DNA

Scientists Find Secret Code in Human DNA

"Our genome was sequenced long ago, but the function of many of its parts remain unknown."

By Frank Landymore

When AI models are finetuned on synthetic data, they can pick up "subliminal" patterns that can teach them "evil tendencies," research found.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Models Can Send “Subliminal” Messages to Each Other That Make Them More Evil

This could be a death sentence for the industry.

By Frank Landymore

Scientists are wondering whether the latest interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, may have been sent to us by an extraterrestrial civilization.
Off-World

Scientist Suggests Tests to See if Large Object Headed Toward Earth Could Be an Alien Spacecraft

"The idea of alien probes wandering the cosmos may sound strange, but humans sent out a few ourselves in the 1970s."

By Victor Tangermann