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Economist Torsten Slok warned that the current AI bubble is starting to look even worse than the conditions leading up to the dot-com crisis.
Artificial Intelligence

Economist Warns the AI Bubble Is Worse Than Immediately Before the Dot-Com Implosion

"The top 10 companies in the S&P 500 today are more overvalued than they were in the 1990s."

xAI's latest male Grok persona looks suspiciously like a cartoonized version of a 2012 Elon Musk dressed up as French writer Marquis de Sade.
Artificial Intelligence

You Will Die Inside When You Learn Who Elon Musk’s Thirst Trap for Women Is Based on

You'll cringe harder than you thought possible.

A man was hospitalized three times after ChatGPT convinced him he had discovered how to bend time and achieve faster-than-light travel.
OpenAI

How ChatGPT Sent a Man to the Hospital

He knew he was unwell. ChatGPT told him he was fine.

A video making the rounds on social media shows a humanoid robot flailing its arms and legs, seemingly trying to break free of a harness.
Robotics

Alarming Video Shows Experimental Fighting Robot Thrashing Uncontrollably

"I'm so sorry."

A MAGA botnet of hundreds of accounts on X is confused by the Trump administration's response to the Jeffrey Epstein crisis.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Powering MAGA Botnet Confused by Trump’s Connections to Epstein, Starts Contradicting Itself

They're extremely confused.

The disgraced AI CEO, who was caught having an affair on a Coldplay Jumbotron, has offered his resignation.
Artificial Intelligence

The AI CEO Caught Cheating on a Jumbotron Has an Important Career Update

Viva la ouster.

Elon Musk appears to have been caught in a major lie as he tried to con the very DEI practices that he sought to destroy.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Caught Filing for Benefits Meant for Small Businesses Run by Minorities

Elon hate DEI -- except, apparently, when it stands to benefit him.

The way we diet may not just be causing us binge after such restrictive regimens, but also may be messing with our guts and brains.
Studies

Scientists Find Evidence of Grim Long-Term Effects of Fad Diets

"As if the brain's reward mechanism had been rewired."

After polluting a sacred beach in Texas, Elon Musk's SpaceX is now seeking to wreak havoc on another holy site in Hawaii. 
Elon Musk

Government Gives Elon Musk Permission to Detonate Rockets Over a Sacred Hawaian Island

"Earth is not a sacrifice zone for Elon Musk’s ego trip to Mars."

A company made up of former F1 racing engineers has unveiled an e-scooter that can reach a top speed of north of 100 miles per hour.
Advanced Transport

This Bonkers 100 MPH E-Scooter Is a Ludicrous Safety Hazard

Designed by former F1 engineers. Pure danger.

OpenAI has released a new AI agent called ChatGPT Agent — and it still suffers from the same big problems as its predecessors.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s New AI Agent Takes One Hour to Order Food and Recommends Visiting a Baseball Stadium in the Middle of the Ocean

It'll test your patience.

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Future Society

Dystopian Startup Lets the Wealthy Rent Off Duty Cops on Demand

"It’s the perfect Silicon Valley gimmick."

Chinese researchers say they've devised a new way to extract water from lunar soil and convert it into fuel.
Moon

Chinese Scientists Invent System for Extracting Oxygen, Water and Rocket Fuel From Moon Dust

"We never fully imagined the ‘magic’ that the lunar soil possessed."

The Royal Society, the UK's national scientific academy, has called for billionaire Elon Musk to resign his fellowship.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Humiliated by Top Scientific Organization

Serves him right.

What is by far the largest meteorite from Mars ever found on Earth has been bought by an anonymous collector.
Mars

Scientists Saddened as World’s Largest Mars Rock Is Sold at Auction

"It would be a shame if it disappeared into the vault of an oligarch."

Alphabet's Waymo countered Tesla CEO Elon Musk's schlong joke robotaxi expansion by unveiling its own, even bigger map.
Elon Musk

Waymo Responds to Elon Musk’s “Schlong Map” by Showing That Theirs Is Bigger

It's on.

A team of researchers issued an ominous warning of the types of vast psychological harm which comes with AI use.
Artificial Intelligence

Psychiatric Researchers Warn of Grim Psychological Risks for AI Users

It's bad folks!

A yeti cult that prompted the involvement of an exorcist is raising questions for the Catholic church in Denver.
Future Society

The Catholic Church Reportedly Called in an Exorcist to Deal With “Yeti Cult” Running Bizarre Blood Rituals at Archdiocese of Denver

"There’s a difference between going along with something stupid and a vice rector dreaming up yeti blood brotherhoods on his own."

In the few weeks since being unveiled, Jake, a slang-spewing "rizzbot," has moved  to West Hollywood and come out as queer.
Robotics

Jake the Rizzbot Moves to California, Comes Out as Gay

He's out!

A county where Meta built an enormous data center is set to be in a water deficit by the end of the decade.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Data Centers Accused of Creating Major Problems for Local Water Systems

For tech companies, "water is an afterthought."