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On the British islands of Turks and Caicos, residents and tourists have been left to deal with the aftermath of SpaceX's Starship explosion.
Starship

Island Littered With Debris After Elon Musk’s Starship Explodes Overhead

"You need to come pick this up."

Elon Musk has a history of publicly singling out specific government workers. Now, he's decrying basic transparency around DOGE as unlawful.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Naming Specific Government Workers Is Illegal, After Doing Exactly That Himself

Are things only illegal when it's convenient for Elon?

Officials representing numerous aid groups are speaking out in response to the Trump administration's cuts to the USAID.
Elon Musk

Official Warns That Elon Musk Is Poised to Kill “Thousands, If Not Hundreds of Thousands” of People

"This is a matter of life or death."

Jewish leaders are pushing advertisers to drop Musk's hate speech incubator X-formerly-Twitter following his Nazi salutes and Holocaust jokes.
Elon Musk

Jewish Leaders Call for Boycott After Elon Musk’s Nazi Salute, Holocaust Jokes

"Elon Musk is one of the leading purveyors of antisemitism in the world and presents an urgent danger to Jews and many other groups the world over."

The future of NASA is uncertain, with the chaotic start of president Donald Trump's second term raising plenty of unanswered questions.
NASA

NASA Is In Tatters

Morale at NASA is "absurdly low."

Just a few weeks into Donald Trump's presidency, unelected official Elon Musk has already been wildly successful in his deregulation quest.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says It’s Time to Get Rid of All Regulations

Talk about saying the quiet part out loud.

An unusual number of great white sharks are turning up dead, and scientists are struggling to understand why.
Brain

Great White Sharks Are Suddenly Washing Up Dead With Swollen Brains

"I feel very strongly that there's something significant going on."

Researchers have found that the amount of microplastics in our brains is rising at an alarming rate.
Developments

The Weight of All the Plastic in Your Brain May Make You Queasy

An alarming quantity of your brain is now plastic.

A single mysterious benefactor is shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars to help humans learn how to become an aquatic species.
Science & Energy

Mysterious Ultra-Wealthy Figure Building Deepwater Settlement for Human Habitation

"The goal is to live in the ocean, forever."

If Donald Trump makes good on his campaign promise to impose tariffs on Canadian energy imports, it will devastate the nuclear energy market.
Nuclear Fusion

Trump’s Tariffs Poised to Wreck Nuclear Power

This really is the dumbest trade war ever.

OpenAI has unveiled a new AI agent that can perform "intensive" research for you all on its own, with a predictable but major caveat.
OpenAI

OpenAI Shows Off AI “Researcher” That Compiles Detailed Reports, Struggles to Differentiate “Information From Rumors”

Sounds helpful.

President Donald Trump's dubious meme coin just keeps sliding. But he may have already gotten what he was looking for.
Bitcoin

The Value of Trump’s Meme Coin Keeps Plummeting

Is that good?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is having some regrets about the company's closed-source approach, admitting he's been on the "wrong side of history."
OpenAI

Sam Altman Regrets Ditching Open Source, Says He’s Been on the “Wrong Side of History”

"Not everyone at OpenAI shares this view."

President Donald Trump's chaotic tariffs hit US-based AI chipmaker Nvidia's stock, wreaking havoc with the AI industry he claims to support.
Artificial Intelligence

Trump’s Tariffs Are Wreaking Havoc on the AI Industry He Claims to Support

That didn't take long.

Claire "Grimes" Boucher seems close to condemning her billionaire ex — though of course, she never comes right out and does it.
Future Society

Grimes Slams “Power-Hungry Warlords” Who “Tricked” Her

Who could she be talking about?

Elon Musk has gained access to the government's payment system and has declared his intent to shut down any flow of cash he doesn't like.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says DOGE Will Now Shut Down Government Payments He Doesn’t Like

"We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper."

A new bill looks to "prohibit United States persons from advancing AI capabilities within" China, effectively making DeepSeek illegal.
Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Make It Illegal to Use DeepSeek, Punishable With 20 Years’ Prison Time

It's "easily the most aggressive legislative action on AI."

Character.AI marketed a chatbot based on a real school massacre directly to an email account associated with a teenage user.
Artificial Intelligence

Character.AI Says It’s Made Huge Changes to Protect Underage Users, But It’s Emailing Them to Recommend Conversations With AI Versions of School Shooters

It's marketing this stuff directly to kids.

The founder of a San Francisco-based AI startup called On Platform was arrested after being accused of defrauding investors of $60 million.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Arrested for Raising $60 Million for AI Startup, Instead Spending It on Luxurious Lifestyle

"To our shock and horror, we discovered that, in reality, the account balance in that bank was only 37 cents."

Are Super Bowl ads the nail in the coffin for tech bubbles? We'll soon find out after this year's games, which will feature tons of AI ads.
Cryptocurrency

Super Bowl Ads Predicted the Dot Com and Crypto Bubbles. This Year’s Will Be Filled With Ads for AI Companies

The Superb Owl may as well be the Grim Reaper.