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The popular book app Fable has come under fire for its AI-generated annual roundups, which users say gave them offensive messages.
Artificial Intelligence

Book App Alarmed as Its AI Starts Mocking Users for Reading Books by Women and Minorities

Yikes.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced sweeping changes that seem like they'll open the door to hate speech.
Future Society

Zuckerberg Announces New Measures to Increase Hate Speech on Facebook

"I want to make sure that people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms."

The FBI has released extensive, first-person footage recorded by New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar on a pair of Meta smart glasses.
Future Society

New Orleans Terrorist Used Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, FBI Says

The footage is bone-chilling.

Amazon's Prime streaming service has adorned the iconic 1922 horror film "Nosferatu" with an appalling, seemingly AI-generated poster.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Mocked for Slapping AI-Generated Poster on Beloved 1922 Film “Nosferatu”

"A horrible one-two punch of anti-art sentiment."

In a fight on social media, Elon Musk decided to use a slur against disabled people — and it's far from the first time. 
Elon Musk

As He Calls for “Positivity” on Twitter, Elon Musk Keeps Using a Disgusting Slur Against the Intellectually Disabled as a Bullying Insult

"No wonder this algorithm is so messed up."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now claiming that the firm is nearing the dawn of AGI — and that he knows how to make it happen.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Has Figured Out How to Build AGI

"This sounds like science fiction right now, and somewhat crazy to even talk about it."

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OpenAI

It Costs So Much to Run ChatGPT That OpenAI Is Losing Money on $200 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions

"People use it much more than we expected."

A man had the misfortune of becoming trapped inside a driverless Waymo taxi, which drove in circles instead of to the airport.
Advanced Transport

Man Trying to Catch Flight Alarmed as His Driverless Waymo Gets Stuck Driving in Loop Around Parking Lot

"I have a flight to catch, why is this thing going in a circle?"

Flavored nitrous oxide is the newest drug to hit America's youth — and folks are developing startling side effects to it.
Developments

Kids Are Huffing Galaxy Gas Until They Get Tremors, Limps and Lose Bowel Control

"You could barely understand what they were saying."

Elon Musk is calling for NASA to ditch its Moon program, arguing that the "Moon is a distraction" and that "we're going straight to Mars.
Moon

Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA’s Moon Program

"The Moon is a distraction."

Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao says he encountered a pair of large metallic orbs while flying his plane over Houston, Texas in 2023.
Advanced Transport

Former NASA Astronaut Puzzled by Metallic Orbs He Encountered While Flying

"They came right at me."

In a freewheeling interview with Bloomberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took it out on the company's board members, who abruptly sacked him in 2023.
Future Society

Sam Altman Explodes at Board Members Who Fired Him

"And all those people that I feel like really f*cked me and f*cked the company were gone, and now I had to clean up their mess."

Meta was forced to euthanize its AI-generated "characters" after users discovered just how problematic they really are.
Meta

Meta Kills AI-Generated “People” Like “Proud Black Queer Momma”

Instagram created a fake, AI-generated Black woman — and the response was outraged.

The Cybertruck bomber made unsubstantiated claims about the recently spotted drones and left behind a deranged manifesto.
Future Society

The Cybertruck Bomber Seems to Have Made Strange Claims About the Mysterious Drone Sightings

"What we have been seeing with 'drones' is the operational use of gravitic propulsion systems powered aircraft..."

In the aftermath of the Texas abortion ban, documented cases of infant abandonment have surged in the state.
Developments

Babies Being Found in Dumpsters After Texas Abortion Ban

Unbelievably grim.

Kia issued a recall for nearly 23,000 EV9 electric cars for the 2024-25 model year after discovering seats that weren't fully bolted down.
Advanced Transport

Kia Concerned That Employee Forgot to Bolt Seats Down in Potentially Tens of Thousands of Cars

Hold onto your butts.

A video appears to show the future of transportation: a Waymo robotaxi smashing into a Serve Robotics delivery robot.
Robotics

Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot

The machines are fighting.

A Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside Trump Towers in Las Vegas early Wednesday morning. Elon Musk says it's a poor choice for a car bomb.
Elon Musk

After Cybertruck Terror Attack, Elon Musk Screeches That Cybertrucks Are Bad for Terror Attacks

Seriously?

Insane Clown Posse's Joseph Utsler, better known by his stage persona Shaggy 2 Dope, has an AI clone — and apparently, he's a fan.
Artificial Intelligence

Insane Clown Posse’s Shaggy 2 Dope Confronts AI Version of Himself

Will the real Shaggy please stand up?

Folks on Reddit are in an uproar after Meta announced that it's planning to load Facebook up with AI "users," which are better known as bots.
Meta

People Are Disgusted by Facebook’s Plan to Deploy AI-Powered “Users”

"Translation: 'Our real users are quitting the platform, so we will fill our community with fake users instead.'"