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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.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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."

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Noor Al-Sibai

More and more people are taking weight loss injectables like Wegovy — but not everyone prescribed these drugs should have access to them. 
RX and Medicine

Pharmacists Warn That People With Eating Disorders Are Misusing Wegovy Prescriptions

This is a very real and overlooked concern.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A mouse with two dads — or a bi-paternal mouse, in the scientific parlance — has made it to adulthood. Several mice, in fact.
Gene Editing

A Mouse With Two Dads Has Reached Adulthood

Finally, some good news.

By Frank Landymore

An AI tool analyzes a man's face, with dizzying digital effects.
Future Society

Police Use of Facial Recognition Backfires Spectacularly When It Renders Them Unable to Convict Alleged Murderer

"50+ Billion images in our law enforcement database — the largest in the world by far."

By Joe Wilkins

State legislators are lining up to be the first to gamble away public funds in digital assets like crypto and NFTs.
Cryptocurrency

States Are Racing to Throw Taxpayers’ Money Into “Strategic Cryptocurrency Reserves”

All my gold bullion gone

By Joe Wilkins

A bizarre AI-obsessed group may have inspired a pair of deadly assaults that took place thousands of miles apart.
Artificial Intelligence

Members of AI Fringe Group Arrested for Two Killings

This is getting weird, even for AI.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese astronauts claim to have created rocket fuel on board the country's Tiangong space station using "artificial photosynthesis."
Off-World

Chinese Astronauts Create Rocket Fuel in Space Using “Artificial Photosynthesis”

Could this be the key for generating breathable air on the Moon?

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's new AI agent, Operator, isn't trustworthy or reliable enough to work without constant user supervision.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s AI Agent Has to Be Monitored Nonstop to Catch Its Constant Screwups

Then what's the point?

By Frank Landymore

Pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht appears to be honoring a tradition in the world of crypto: losing money on doomed meme coins.
Blockchain

Pardoned by Trump, Founder of Silk Road Now Appears to Be Squandering Donations on Stupid Meme Coins

"Wow... welcome to the trenches."

By Victor Tangermann

A Chinese company has unveiled a massive new 85-foot electric bus, said to be a world's first in transit infrastructure.
Advanced Transport

China Unveils Comically Gigantic 85-Foot Electric Bus

We're gonna need a bigger bus.

By Joe Wilkins

While Sam Bankman-Fried rots away behind bars for fraud, his parents are making the rounds in Trumpworld to plant the seeds for a pardon. 
Blockchain

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Mommy and Daddy Have a New Plan: Suck Up to Trump Until He Pardons Her Beautiful Boy

The least surprising return of recurring characters.

By Noor Al-Sibai

After UnitedHealthcare's drug arm jacked up the price of inhalers, a young man with severe asthma had to go without — and then died.
RX and Medicine

Mother Says Her Son Died After UnitedHealth Jacked the Price of His Inhaler From $66 to $539

"Chose rent over his medicine."

By Noor Al-Sibai

As Wired reports, insiders are concerned that OpenAI could soon fall behind DeepSeek, in part due to a power struggle.
OpenAI

OpenAI Staff Turn Guns on Each Other After DeepSeek Humiliation

They're scared.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that DeepSeek's R1 AI "failed to block a single harmful prompt" after being tested against 50 jailbreaking prompts.
Artificial Intelligence

DeepSeek Failed Every Single Security Test, Researchers Found

It scored a zero out of 50.

By Victor Tangermann

When it comes to scamming online retailers and getting free stuff, wealthy Gen Z and Millennials are way ahead of the game.
Future Society

Rich Kids Are Using a Clever Trick to Get Stuff From Amazon for Free

It's completely unethical, but it gets results!

By Noor Al-Sibai

A pro-Israel bot keeps going rogue and randomly criticizing Israel and the United States for the ongoing war in Palestine.
Artificial Intelligence

Pro-Israel AI Bot Goes Off the Rails, Calls IDF Soldiers “Colonizers” and Demands Palestinian Statehood

We've never seen anything quite like this before.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former DEA officer is going away for a long time after admitting to swapping bricks of seized cocaine with 3D-printed decoys.
3D Printing

Florida Cop Headed to Prison for 3D Printing Fake Drugs and Switching Them With Real Ones

You gotta respect the hustle.

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a recent lawsuit, Uber says that it's the victim of a huge, fake car accident racket to keep it on the hook for medical payouts.
Future Society

Uber Says Drivers Are Staging Fake Car Accidents to Steal Its Money

Riiight.

By Frank Landymore