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AI scientists are starting to study AI models as if they are novel biological organisms in order to understand their inner workings.
Anthropic

Scientists Now Studying AI as a Novel Biological Organism

"This is very much a biological type of analysis."

A journalism professor spent a month logging seven chatbots for their newsworthiness, with horrendous results.
Ethics

If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You’re Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain

News you can't use.

Startup GRU (Galactic Resource Utilization) Space has opened reservations for people who want to stay in the first hotel on the Moon.
Moon

Moon Hotel Now Taking Reservations

This startup is putting a new spin to the term one-star hotel.

Some scientists are coming out against the studies that claimed to have found alarming amounts of microplastics in human bodies.
Pollution

Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error

"The brain microplastic paper is a joke."

In the final days of the Biden administration, government officials spent millions to buy a device thought to cause the mystery illness.
Devices

Government Paid “Eight Figures” for Mysterious Device Believed to Cause Havana Syndrome

A small price to pay.

Beyond performing preprogrammed martial arts and dance moves, we can't shake the feeling that robots as they exist today just kind of suck.
Future Society

Robots Have a Small Problem: They Completely Suck

The gap between what's being promised and what robots are capable of today is growing fast.

Researchers found that the brain "shifts upward and backward within the skull following spaceflight," a new wrinkle for future space travel.
NASA

Astronauts’ Brains Are Being Displaced

"That kind of change is visible by eye."

The hottest paid app in China is an interactive timer meant to inform loved ones of a single user's lonesome death.
Future Society

Hot New App Makes Single People Check in Constantly in Case They Die Alone

Grim.

Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey filed eight trademark applications that featured videos and audio clips of him to thwart AI.
Ethics

Matthew McConaughey Is Using a Clever Legal Trick to Bludgeon AI Companies

"Alright, alright, alright."

Microsoft is gutting its employee library and cutting subscriptions in favor of what it's describing as an "AI-powered learning experience."
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Shuts Down Library, Replaces It With AI

Just tech company things.

AI data centers are using up so much energy that grid operator PJM may be forced to enact rolling blackouts on its customers.
Ethics

AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown

This summer may bring more than hot temperatures.

Washington State University professor of medicine Bruce Davidson says Trump appears to have suffered a stroke.
Neuroscience and Brain

Doctor Says Trump Appears to Be Showing Signs of a Stroke

"All of this is consistent with having had a stroke on the left side of his brain."

A University of Alaska Fairbanks student was detained after ripping AI "artwork off the walls and eating it in a reported protest."
Ethics

Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth

He's since been arrested for "criminal mischief."

A highly controversial study funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services on infants in West Africa has been halted.
Studies

Trump Administration Says It’s Not Canceling Tuskegee-Style Medical Study That Will Withhold Hepatitis Vaccine From Newborns

"This administration did not see people in Africa as valuable."

For over two decades, millions volunteered their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Exobiology

Network of Home Computers Detected 100 Potential Alien Signals

Here's what they found.

Researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying copyrighted data, not "learning" from it.
Anthropic

Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core

Could this be the smoking gun?

In an appearance on the Katie Miller Podcast, the health secretary said he's astonished that Trump is even alive.
Food

RFK Jr Startled by Trump’s Ability to Remain Alive Despite Dumpster-Tier Diet

"I don't know how he's alive, but he is."

The immigration agency reportedly deployed an AI system which failed to separate recruits based on prior law enforcement experience.
Future Society

ICE’s AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster

"They were using AI to scan resumes and found out a bunch of the people who were LEOs weren't LEOs."

Wikipedia has signed licensing deals with a host of major AI companies in a bid to recoup the costs of being pillaged by data scrapers.
Artificial Intelligence

After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them

It wants Big Tech to pay its fair share.

The Department of Homeland Security released a new video featuring something striking: an officer operating a Chinese drone.
Drones

There’s Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security’s New Drone Video That We’re Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute

Safeguarding American aerospace... with Chinese tech.