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One wannabe startup founder obsessed with Peter Thiel is exposing the depths of Silicon Valley's anti-college attitude.
Future Society

College Dropout Entrepreneur Boasts That Peter Thiel’s Book Is “Probably the Best Book I’ve Read, and I’ve Only Read a Few Pages”

Got it.

Archaeologists in Iran have discovered an ancient cone-shaped skull that is believed to have belonged to a teen girl.
Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Conical Skull Found in Ancient Burial Ground

Secrets of the skeletons.

A new paper from the United Nations Population Fund has revealed that many people want more children but can't due to cost.
Studies

The World Birth Rate Is Now Dropping Precipitously

Maybe children are not the future?

The European Space Agency released images that provide the first clear view of the southern pole of the Sun.
Off-World

Astronomers Just Took the First-Ever Picture of the Bottom of the Sun

"The Sun's poles are literally terra incognita."

For some people, obsession with ChatGPT has gone so far, it's exacerbating their mental illness — and causing them to go off their meds.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Is Telling People With Psychiatric Problems to Go Off Their Meds

"It’s like an even darker version of when people go mad living on WebMD."

Fresh off his feud with former ally Elon Musk, president Donald Trump has once again said the quiet part out loud. 
Advanced Transport

Puzzled Trump Says He Has No Idea Why Musk Supported Him in the First Place

"He got a little bit strange."

Humanoid robotics company Figure showed off its Figure 02 robot using a sophisticated visual language system to sort packages.
Robotics

Watching This Humanoid Robot Sort Packages Is Quite Something

Yep, they're definitely coming for our jobs.

A flurry of activity at pizza delivery outlets near the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, is a surprisingly accurate predictor of war.
Future Society

You Can Tell When War Is Breaking Out Because the Pentagon’s Pizza Orders Spike Drastically

"Who says pie charts aren't useful?"

A fresh tell-all interview is shining some light on just how drastically things have changed for Tesla in the past few months.
Elon Musk

Former Tesla Dealership Manager Says It’s “Game Over” for Elon Musk

"I don't think that there's anything he can do."

The White House's plans to tap Musk's SpaceX for a "Golden Dome" appear to be on shaky ground following his falling out with Trump.
Future Society

Elon’s Explosion at Trump Appears to Have Cost Him a HUGE Deal

Consequences? For Musk's actions?

Google's pivot to AI-powered search is proving disastrous for the digital news media landscape.
Google

Google’s AI Is Actively Destroying the News Media

"We have to develop new strategies."

Viswash Kumar Ramesh, 38-year-old British citizen, was the sole survivor to emerge from the fiery wreckage of the Boeing airliner.
Advanced Transport

Someone Somehow Survived That Massive Boeing Jet Explosion

"I don't know how I am alive."

A wild new story in the New York Times reveals that ChatGPT-driven psychosis led to the tragic death of a young man.
OpenAI

Man Killed by Police After Spiraling Into ChatGPT-Driven Psychosis

"I’m dying today."

The FDA plans to "unleash AI" on new drug evaluations in order to "radically increase efficiency in the review process." 
Food

The FDA Is Already Outsourcing Drug and Food Analysis to Error-Plagued AI Chatbot

"Straight out of PhRMA’s playbook."

Apple researchers released a paper, finding that frontier AI models were getting stumped by simple children's games like Tower of Hanoi.
Artificial Intelligence

Frontier AI Models Are Getting Stumped by a Simple Children’s Game

"Based on what we observe from their thoughts, their process is not logical and intelligent."

Elon Musk provided a later launch date than reports suggested, revealing that he's "super paranoid about safety."
Tesla

Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Date Was Supposed to Be Today, But We’re Shocked to Hear That It’s Been Pushed Back

Shocked, we say.

The tech tycoon has become intensely frustrated at Meta's failure to keep pace with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic in the "AI race."
Future Society

Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Absolutely Furious at His Own Failure

He's going into "founder mode."

A new pre-print study from Stanford researchers finds that AI chatbots used for therapy routinely fail at providing safe, ethical care.
Artificial Intelligence

Stanford Research Finds That “Therapist” Chatbots Are Encouraging Users’ Schizophrenic Delusions and Suicidal Thoughts

This is extremely bad.

Astronomers' attempts to study the earliest universe could be threatened by SpaceX Starlink satellites leaking radio emissions.
SpaceX

There’s a Giant Problem With SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites

Scientists are worried.

Tesla drivers in France are suing Elon Musk's EV maker for turning their vehicles into what they characterize as "extreme-right" symbols.
Elon Musk

Tesla Drivers Sue Elon Musk for Turning Their Cars Into “Extreme” Right-Wing Symbols

"Tesla branded vehicles have become strong political symbols and now appear to be veritable extreme-right 'totems.'"