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Environment

Scientists Scan Gruesome Crystal Formed by Nuclear Blast, Find Something Bizarre

The Trinity test may have gone down in 1945, but scientists are still finding new discoveries at the blast site.

By Krystle Vermes

Elon Musk wearing a black suit and tie, sitting at a table and looking at his smartphone. There are wine glasses on the table, and blurred people in red clothing in the background.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Absolutely Obsessed With Tweets From Random Guy In India Who Constantly Glazes Him, Analysis Shows

"Musk loves to be glazed, and this person is the doughnut factory."

By Frank Landymore

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Meta

Meta Employee Attacks Zuckerberg for Collecting Every Employee Keystroke

“But zooming out, I don’t want to live in a world where humans — employees or otherwise — are exploited for their training data."

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold

"Please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Electric Vehicles

Crabby 82-Year-Old Politician Attacks 10-Year-Old Child for Thinking Electric Cars Are Cool

Painful.

By Jon Christian

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Ethics

AI Appears to Be Trapping Certain Job Applicants in a Limbo Where They Never Get an Interview for “Reasons” That Are Completely Unfair

"I crawled out of a f**king black hole."

By Joe Wilkins

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Science & Energy

Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes

Does anyone know anything?

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?

"AI generates the structural conditions historically associated with the onset of political violence."

By Joe Wilkins

Elon Musk is seated at a formal dining table, wearing a black suit and tie, looking upward with a contemplative expression.
OpenAI

Elon Musk Flees OpenAI Trial as Tide Turns Against Him

And he's gone.

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is shown in a light blue shirt and matching tie, holding a smartphone in his right hand and adjusting his jacket with his left hand.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Faces Nightmare Questions in Cross-Examination

"I believe I am an honest and trustworthy business person."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Anthropic

Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going to Make Their Bosses Extremely Mad

Relying on AI in the workplace? You may be about to discover a drastic problem.

By Krystle Vermes

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OpenAI

OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google

AI companies are tech companies — and they're vacuuming up your most personal secrets.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Energy

Electric Company Says It’s Cutting Off an Entire Town So It Can Sell All Its Power to Data Centers

"It's like we don't exist."

By Joe Wilkins

A stylized portrait of Elon Musk wearing a black cap with the word "DOGE" embroidered on it.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Accuses Elon Musk of Laughing at Memes During Important OpenAI Meetings

"MEMES ON HIS PHONE."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is standing in an elevator, wearing a black suit, white shirt, and black tie.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Attempts at AI Are Falling Apart

"OpenAI is Coke, Anthropic is Pepsi and Grok is RC Cola."

By Joe Wilkins

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Climate Change

Last Time an El Niño Was This Bad, It Killed 50 Million People

"It was arguably the worst environmental disaster to ever befall humanity."

By Joe Wilkins

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Admits Its Robotaxis Have a Small Issue With Driving Into Floodwaters

Flood-worthy vessels, they are not.

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

A Deranged New Wikipedia Clone Is Made Entirely of Surreal AI Hallucinations

An entire "universe" of nonsensical information that somehow all still fits together.

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Four Financial Journalists Accused of Being Fake AI-Generated Puppets That Shill Crypto in Forbes, HuffPost, and More

Oops!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Ethics

Software Engineers Say They’re Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them

"It's making me dumber for sure."

By Krystle Vermes