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Years after outsourcing marketing and customer service gigs to AI, the Swedish company Klarna is looking to hire its humans back.
Artificial Intelligence

Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

"What you end up having is lower quality."

Tesla investors were hopeful the latest refresh of the EV maker's bestselling Model Y would breathe new life into plummeting sales — and yet.
Tesla

As Crisis at Tesla Deepens, a Hail Mary Is Turning Out to Be a Major Bust

Elon Musk's automaker empire is on very, very shaky ground.

A man is embarrassed after being laughed at for his Cybertruck
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Owner Brutally Mocked by Dozens of Kids After Breaking Down at Baseball Practice

Life comes at you fast.

Elon Musk is mad that his AI chatbot, Grok, referred to The Atlantic and The BBC as credible news sources.
Elon Musk

Why Elon Musk Is Furious and Publicly Raging at His Own AI Chatbot, Grok

For Elon, the call is coming from inside the house.

baidu self-driving car rental
Self-Driving Vehicles

Chinese Company Leapfrogs Tesla, Announces Self-Driving Car Rental Service

The cars will bring riders to "a range of destinations, including cultural landmarks and urban tourist attractions."

A shockingly small proportion of CEOs surveyed by IBM reported that the tech was delivering on its promises.
Advanced Transport

Executives Are Pouring Money Into AI. So Why Are They Saying It’s Not Paying Off?

Where's the ROI?

New Law Would Ban All AI Regulation for a Decade
Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Ban All AI Regulation for a Decade

This is insane.

The US Copyright Office released a report that could be bad for powerful AI companies. The next day, the agency's head was fired.
Artificial Intelligence

The US Copyright Chief Was Fired After Raising Red Flags About AI Abuse

"A straight-ticket loss for the AI companies."

Federal agencies scrambled to reinstated hundreds of millions of dollars worth of contracts after Elon Musk cancelled them.
Elon Musk

Government Furiously Trying to Undo Elon Musk’s Damage

"They should have used a scalpel. But instead they went in with an axe and chopped it all down."

A former SpaceX employee with Crohn's disease says he was carefully timed when visiting the bathroom — and fired after he took too long.
Future Society

A SpaceX Employee Says He Was Fired for the Most Insane Reason

This is crazy.

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we have a clear view of Jupiter's auroras, which are hundreds of times more powerful than Earth's.
Off-World

There’s Something Very Unusual About Jupiter’s Auroras

"It just blew me away!"

Pope Leo XIV, the newly-crowned first American pope, is keeping the social costs of rapid AI advancement front and center.
Artificial Intelligence

The New Pope Is Deeply Skeptical of AI

New developments in AI "pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor."

Just a day after criticizing Elon Musk for the automaker's plummeting, a former Tesla manager says he was fired by the company.
Elon Musk

A Tesla Dealership Manager Blamed Elon Musk for Tanking Sales and Was Immediately Fired

"People no longer want to associate with Elon. That's it. That's the truth." 

Researchers have found that the universe around us is decaying far more quickly than we thought, thanks to Hawking radiation.
Off-World

Scientists Just Moved Up the Death Date of the Universe

Uh-oh.

South African-born Elon Musk says he's "doing a quiet trial" of president Donald Trump's dubious "gold card" immigration program.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Running a “Quiet Trial” of Trump’s “Gold Card” Billionaire Immigration Program

"I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people."

USA Today is publishing automated articles full of links to gambling sportsbooks, which may result in financial kickbacks for the publisher.
Artificial Intelligence

USA TODAY’s Disclaimers on Its Automated Sports Stories Are Longer Than the Actual Articles

It's "almost a naked cash grab."

The media giant Gannett is using AI to "automatically generate" content about lottery scores and tickets in local newspapers across the US.
Brain

Gannett Is Using AI to Pump Brainrot Gambling Content Into Newspapers Across the Country

"This results page was generated automatically..."

AI's desire to please is becoming a danger to humankind as users turn to it to confirm misinformation, race science, and conspiracy theories.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Brown-Nosing Is Becoming a Huge Problem for Society

"AI models want approval from users, and sometimes, the best way to get a good rating is to lie."

The Senate voted to shutter a program that provides free internet for low-income kids that don't have access at home.
Future Society

Lawmakers Want to Cut Low-Income Schoolchildren Off from the Internet

All in the name of "safety."

Chinese Tech Giant Wants to Translate Your Cat’s Meows Using AI
Artificial Intelligence

Chinese Tech Giant Wants to Translate Your Cat’s Meows Using AI

I can has cheeseburger?