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Shady Firms Say They’re Already Manipulating Chatbots to Say Nice Things About Their Clients
Artificial Intelligence

"Chatbots are highly suggestible."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"Automated decision-making" is being heralded as the next big thing  — but the people on the other side of it are not on board.
Artificial Intelligence

Who would possibly want to have AI making banking and rental decisions for them?

By Noor Al-Sibai

For about $20 per hour, an army of Tesla Autopilot annotators review troves of video taken by drivers while dealing with some weird rules.
Tesla

And naturally, trying to fight back resulted in people being fired.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists discovered a doughnut-shaped structure within our planet's liquid core, which could be influencing its magnetic field.
Science & Energy

The "peculiar structure remained hidden until now."

By Victor Tangermann

The scientists were tracking a seven-foot long porbeagle shark, which is a formidable predator in its own right.
Science & Energy

Devoured.

By Frank Landymore

Researchers are suggesting that concussions from college sports may be less harmful than previously thought — and possibly beneficial.
Studies

"People who take part in sport[s] seem to have better brain health regardless."

By Noor Al-Sibai

With billions of dollars in expenditures, Waymo is still not profitable, despite giving its impressive tally of paid rides per week.
Advanced Transport

Running a robotaxi empire ain't cheap.

By Frank Landymore

The objects lie beyond the known boundaries of the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies that encircle our Solar System.
Off-World

Whoa.

By Frank Landymore

Bill Gates, the seventh-richest man in the world, has come out as a major ChatGPT stan, admitting that he uses it for personal research.
OpenAI

What could possibly go wrong?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers suggest the outer boundary of the Milky Way may stretch much farther than initially thought and is already touching Andromeda.
Off-World

The "Milky Way and Andromeda are already overlapping and interacting."

By Victor Tangermann

The explosions during the second orbital Starship test flight created a hole in the ionosphere, according to new research.
Starship

Temporarily, at least.

By Frank Landymore

Donald Trump tapped Elon Musk for a "government efficiency commission." But given his stewardship of Twitter, he's an incredibly poor choice.
Elon Musk

It's a disaster waiting to happen.

By Victor Tangermann

A biologist with the US government's research and development arm is working on a radical new approach to anti-aging treatments.
Brain

"We're... a couple steps away from reversing brain aging."

By Noor Al-Sibai

The technique involves using a common food dye used in Doritos chips, which can be applied to mice skin to turn it transparent.
Developments

"You could see through the mouse. I've been working in optics for 30 years, and I thought that result was jaw-dropping."

By Frank Landymore

A Louisiana abortion law could cause doctors to take misopristol, used to treat life-threatening postpartum hemorrhaging, off emergency carts.
RX and Medicine

"That's death. That's a matter of life or death."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A woman prescribed Ozempic and Wegovy is now suing the company that makes it after losing her colon from complications caused by the drugs. 
RX and Medicine

"I had no warning that this was even a possibility."

By Noor Al-Sibai

retired NASA Johnson Space Center engineer Don Nelson warned that Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft could crash in a populated area.
Future Society

"Let them duck and run."

By Victor Tangermann

Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots
Artificial Intelligence

The feds seem to have him dead to rights.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Crew members on board the US Navy's combat ship USS Manchester got caught secretly bolting a Starlink terminal to the ship's weather deck.
Future Society

They named their network "STINKY."

By Victor Tangermann

A group of Tesla enthusiasts took their Cybertrucks well past the Arctic Circle and to the shores of the Arctic Ocean without a generator.
Advanced Transport

"Two Cybertrucks at the end of the road."

By Victor Tangermann