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Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.
Environment

If these companies were one country, their actual emissions would rank them as the 33rd biggest emitter in the world.

By Frank Landymore

Roughly three-quarters of people who took both an injectable and pill version of a new GLP-1 weight loss drug in trials experienced vomiting.
RX and Medicine

Even for GLP-1s, this is concerning.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Larry Ellison, cofounder of the software giant Oracle, believes that an age of surveillance supercharged by AI will soon be upon us.
Artificial Intelligence

"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on."

By Frank Landymore

As pokesperson for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed that the RFK Jr. is indeed the of a probe.
Science & Energy

Confirmed krill.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Thousands of union members rejected Boeing's offer by an overwhelming majority compounding a growing crisis.
Advanced Transport

"Our business is in a difficult period."

By Victor Tangermann

A tiny and adorable pygmy hippo called Moo Deng has been melting hearts across social media. We must protect her at all costs.
Science & Energy

"As terrible as the world is right now, I love that we can all come together and collectively love these hippolings."

By Victor Tangermann

A ChatGPT conversation went viral on Reddit purportedly showing the chatbot reaching out to a user first. Other users are crying foul.
OpenAI

"Did you just message me first?"

By Victor Tangermann

o1-preview's "chain-of-thought reasoning" allows users to get a glimpse of what the model is "thinking." It also shows how its deceiving.
OpenAI

Instead of just lying, it'll walk you through how and why it lied.

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk posted — and later deleted — an unhinged post wondering why no one has tried to murder Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Elon Musk

Unhinged.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The man alleged to be Donald Trump's second would-be assassin once asked Elon Musk if he could buy a rocket off of him. 
Elon Musk

"It can be old and used as not returning."

By Noor Al-Sibai

The hidden Mars structures are mysterious because they appear to be significantly denser than their surroundings.
Mars

"There seems to be no trace of them at the surface."

By Frank Landymore

In a creepy new video, ChatGPT's voice mode is heard screaming eerily when a user prompted the OpenAI chatbot to do so.
OpenAI

This is beyond uncanny.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have few regrets about ditching Starliner, according to a recent livestream.
Future Society

"In this case, we found some things that we just could not get comfortable with putting us back in the Starliner."

By Victor Tangermann

Nonprofit environmental organization The Ocean Cleanup has announced that it can clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within a decade.
Science & Energy

It claims it can get rid of the patch within just five years.

By Victor Tangermann

With so many kids already taking Ozempic, a new finding from the company behind the drug may expand its pediatric market. 
RX and Medicine

"Are they going to have delayed puberty? Are they going to have delayed growth?"

By Noor Al-Sibai

A local newspaper in Hawaii called The Garden Island is using AI to power fake news anchors. Unsurprisingly, they're freaky.
Artificial Intelligence

"This is so grim."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This bizarre looking, two-door car spotted in L.A. might be a Tesla robotaxi, though there's more than meets the eye.
Tesla

Is this the long-awaited robotaxi?

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk gave the name he discussed with Grimes to a baby he had with a woman who worked at one of his companies, Neuralink.
Elon Musk

A total dirtbag move.

By Frank Landymore

According to a pair of new studies, a passing star could have scraped the outer limits of the Solar System billions of years ago.
Off-World

Talk about a close call.

By Frank Landymore

There's a chance that the 1,100 foot long asteroid Apophis could hit our planet after all, if it gets nudged by another asteroid.
Off-World

The suspense is unbearable.

By Frank Landymore