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Online fantasy and science fiction magazine Clarkesworld is drowning in an onslaught of AI-generated slop.
Artificial Intelligence

"We had reached the point where we were on track to receive as many generated submissions as legitimate ones."

Right wing extremists are using artificial intelligence to bring Adolf Hitler back to life for social media consumption.
Artificial Intelligence

Look who's back.

With Elon Musk at the wheel, Twitter is suspending millions of more users per year than it ever did before.
Elon Musk

Concerning.

People who take Novo Nordisk's semaglutide-based injectables Ozempic and Wegovy seem to be way less likely to die from overdosing on opioids.
RX and Medicine

Could this be the next tool to combat the opioid crisis?

Authors suing OpenAI for copyright infringement are going to get unprecedented access to its training data — but that access is very limited. 
OpenAI

This doesn't sound fun.

A Cybertruck owner was trying to clean the vehicle's windshield and unintentionally broke it with a simple wipe from a microcloth towel.
Advanced Transport

"I don’t think I’m that strong."

If true, this could resolve the information paradox posed by the existence of black holes, as first pointed out by Stephen Hawking.
Black Holes

The cosmos is stranger than we know.

Thousands of doctors are sending AI-generated messages to patients, despite the possibility of the AI introducing dangerous errors.
Developments

What could go wrong?

In a new book about Elon Musk buying Twitter, it's abundantly clear that the billionaire is proud to call Sean "Diddy" Combs his friend.
Elon Musk

"You know, he’s a good friend of mine. We text a lot."

Local law enforcement is accusing Yakima County coroner Jim Curtice of snorting cocaine he stole from dead bodies.
Developments

He admitted to everything after failing a lie detector test.

Google spent $2.7 billion to rehire AI expert Noam Shazeer, as part of a software licensing deal with his AI startup Character.
Google

"Noam is clearly a great person in that space. Is he 20 times as good as other people?"

Former president Donald Trump made a mind-meltingly dumb assertion that we should be more worried about "nuclear warming."
Nuclear Fusion

"What is he talking about?"

A woman with type 1 diabetes received her own stem cells and started producing her own insulin — a first time ever successful experiment.
RX and Medicine

"I can eat sugar now."

A Berkeley computer scientist is raising alarm bells about the state of the job market for new college graduates struggling to find work.
Future Society

"I suspect this trend is irreversible."

As AI chatbots get bigger and more powerful, they are also lying more, instead of declining questions they can't answer.
Artificial Intelligence

The AIs are "getting better at pretending to be knowledgeable."

As the US government works to get to the bottom of last summer's Titan submersible tragedy, NASA says it mostly wasn't the agency's fault. 
Advanced Transport

The agency's role was exaggerated by OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.

A Boeing engineer testified that OceanGate ignored its recommendations, and emphasized it only had a preliminary role.
Future Society

Wasn't us!

Michael Straight said ReWalk refused to repair his $100,000 exoskeleton, which only had a minor issue with its battery.
Health & Medicine

"This is the dystopian nightmare that we've kind of entered in."

OpenAI's namesake nonprofit roots are in the rearview mirror as it doubles down on making money, with CEO Sam Altman at the helm.
Future Society

"We can say goodbye to the original version of OpenAI that wanted to be unconstrained by financial obligations."

Donald Trump has a bizarre plan to solve California's water shortage — by shipping it down from Canada via "very large faucet."
Science & Energy

"I’m sure Mr. Trump has never studied hydrology or the economics of water management."