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Cannabis use appears to be linked to a massive increase in heart attack and stroke risk for folks under 50, as a new study has found. 
Studies

Stoners Vastly More Likely to Have Heart Attacks At a Young Age

Weed is not a risk-free drug, y'all.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet, one of the industry's leading AI models, has hit a wall in its playthrough of Pokémon Red.
Artificial Intelligence

One of the World’s Most Advanced AI Agents Is Completely Stuck Trying to Beat a Pokémon Game for Children

It's not very effective...

A Pentagon press secretary blamed AI for why an article about Jackie Robinson was taken down amidst its rampant anti-DEI purge.
Artificial Intelligence

Pentagon Says It’s Using AI to Delete Pages About History That’s Too Woke

Your government at work.

Robotics company Boston Dynamics has shared a new video of its latest-generation humanoid robot, Atlas, doing forward rolls and breakdancing.
Boston Dynamics

Bonkers Video Shows Boston Dynamics Robot Breakdancing

Step aside, Raygun.

As top shareholders dump their Tesla stock, Musk is now begging the rank and file to hold onto their equity.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Begs Tesla Staff Not to Sell Their Stocks

It's getting ugly.

The loose stainless steel body panels that are falling of Cybertrucks on the road are held in place with glue.
Advanced Transport

Wait, Why Is the Cybertruck Held Together With Glue?

Was duct tape too expensive?

The latest Tesla recall revealed was how many Cybertrucks the carmaker had actually sold so far. The numbers aren't great.
Future Society

Cybertruck Sales Appear to Be Crashing

More bad news.

The New York Times has accused youth-obsessed tech mogul Bryan Johnson of covering up side effects during a trial of his supplements.
Studies

Test Subjects Who Took Bryan Johnson’s “Longevity Stack” Reportedly Suffered Dropping Testosterone, Developed Prediabetes

So much for anti-aging.

Facing the loss of his home, one disgruntled Uber driver decided to take matters into his own hands and fly to Uber Headquarters.
Advanced Transport

After Uber’s App Cost Him His Job, a Disgruntled Driver Flew to San Francisco and Showed Up at Its Headquarters

"I just need a paycheck because I'm going to lose everything."

Amazon is removing the setting to opt-out of having your Alexa voice recordings being sent to and store on its servers — forever.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Announces New Spying Initiative for Alexa

It's time to give Alexa the axe.

TV studio audience erupted into cheers after "The Daily Show" aired footage about arsonists setting Cybertrucks on fire.
Advanced Transport

Crowd Cheers as TV Shows Cybertrucks Burning After Being Hit by Molotov Cocktails

They're taking to the streets... or the parking lots."

Taco Bell Piles on More AI While Customers Plead “Just Bring Back The Enchirito”
Future Society

Taco Bell Piles on More AI While Customers Plead “Just Bring Back The Enchirito”

It's all we've ever wanted.

Google's crappy "AI Overviews" regularly spits out dangerous and incorrect answers — and now it's being entrusted with health advice.
Google

Google Says Its Error-Ridden “AI Overviews” Will Now Give Health Advice

Brought to you by the same crappy AI that told you to put glue on your pizza.

During their months-long extended stay on the International Space Station, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore didn't get overtime.
Off-World

You Will Never Guess What the Stranded Astronauts Got Paid for Their Trouble

That's it!?

Elon Musk may be the richest and most powerful man alive, but that doesn't mean he should be held responsible for everything he does.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He Has No Idea What He Did to Make Everybody So Mad at Him

If you gotta ask...

Tesla's Cybertruck has been hit with an eighth recall — because a giant piece of metal that was simply glued to the exterior kept flying off.
Tesla

Tesla Hit With Massive Cybertruck Recall After Giant Pieces Kept Flying Off

"I've always wanted a car with a roof that flies off for no reason."

As the Financial Times reports, a whopping $1.4 billion is unaccounted for in Tesla's financial statements.
Tesla

A Huge Amount of Money Is Missing From Tesla

How did that happen?

Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk's transgender daughter, is opening up about her "cringe" father and his political antics.
Elon Musk

Here’s What Elon Musk’s Daughter Really Thinks of Him

"The only thing that gets to live free in my mind is drag queens."

The chatbot startup Character.AI is accused of causing the death of a 14-year-old user. Now, it's hosting AI impersonations of the dead teen.
Google

Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide

"If Character.AI can't prevent people from creating a chatbot of my dead child on their own platform, how can we trust them to create products for kids that are safe?"

Attempting to punish reasoning AI models for cheating only made them better at lying about their intent, OpenAI researchers found.
OpenAI

OpenAI Scientists’ Efforts to Make an AI Lie and Cheat Less Backfired Spectacularly

LLMs sure are slippery characters.