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Scientists are offering a gross hypothesis about how those Walmart frozen shrimp bags were contaminated with radioactive materials.
Science & Energy

Horrifying.

By Noor Al-Sibai

TikTok is flooding the platform with ads presented by AI "digital avatars" — and the actors behind these AI puppets are paid next to nothing.
Artificial Intelligence

And you'll never guess what he got paid.

By Frank Landymore

Researchers simulated a social media platform that was populated entirely by AI to see if we can stop them from turning into echo chambers.
Artificial Intelligence

We've got bad news.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have come up with a potentially groundbreaking — and entirely laser-free — alternative to LASIK.
Treatments

"The whole effect was discovered by accident."

By Victor Tangermann

A new analysis found that a ton of mental health problems are associated with AI — and more than two dozen chatbots are implicated.
Artificial Intelligence

"The big tech companies have not felt responsible for making their bots safe for psychiatric patients."

By Noor Al-Sibai

"Punctum" may sound like type of punctuation, but to astronomers, it constitutes what may be a brand-new type of cosmic object. 
Off-World

"Everything else disappeared... and only this little dot remained."

By Noor Al-Sibai

When it comes to our personal contributions to climate change, most people have no clue how damaging some of their individual actions can be.
Climate Change

Are you a hypocrite?

By Noor Al-Sibai

A young woman took her own life after talking to a ChatGPT-based AI therapist named Harry, according to her mother.
OpenAI

This is horrible.

By Victor Tangermann

It's looking more and more like NASA's helpless flailing could position China to beat the United States in the race to return to the Moon.
Moon

"It seems quite likely that the Chinese will land on the Moon before NASA can return to the Moon."

By Victor Tangermann

A new, vaguely menacing class of talking toys is being sold online — but unlike the robot toys of yore, these are powered by AI.
Artificial Intelligence

There's something really fishy about these toys.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A bombshell document shines new light on the kinds of medical misinformation Meta's AI systems are allowed to regurgitate.
Meta

"The disinformation included claims about vaccines causing autism, cancer-curing diets, HIV being airborne and 5G causing infertility."

By Joe Wilkins

It appears that president Donald Trump's years of fast food and snack guzzling may have finally caught up to him, for the whole world to see.
Developments

"Look, you see the president every day."

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX has sure gotten a lot of government welfare — and apparently, it doesn't have to pay taxes, either.
Elon Musk

"Billionaire freeloaders don’t pay taxes."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his colleagues suggest the possibility interstellar space object 3I/ATLAS is generating "its own light."
Off-World

One possibility, he suggests: it's a "spacecraft powered by nuclear energy."

By Victor Tangermann

An event in Beijing drew hundreds of competitors from around the world in what's being described as the first ever Robot Olympics.
Robotics

"You can test a lot of interesting new and exciting approaches in this contest."

By Joe Wilkins

In a major blow to climate science, NASA is not continuing its work studying global warming and will instead just stick to space exploration.
NASA

Houston, we have a problem.

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI said that it would be "making GPT-5 warmer and friendlier based on feedback that it felt too formal before."
OpenAI

The company is giving in to the pressure.

By Victor Tangermann

Power users of OpenAI's blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT were left largely unimpressed by the company's recently unveiled GPT-5 AI model.
OpenAI

"It seems like something that would have been released a year ago."

By Victor Tangermann

Stellar death is a complex and mysterious process — but in the case of one supernova, things were more gruesome than any astronomer had seen.
Off-World

"We can finally start connecting the dots between how a star lives and how it dies."

By Noor Al-Sibai

ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data
Future Society

"I saw the rap sheet and license plate numbers and was like WTAF."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré