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Tesla is yet again in hot water with regulators over its decision to rely exclusively on cameras for its "Full Self-Driving" feature.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It’s Too Late to Correct

A decision that could haunt him.

Despite increasingly dire global calls to curb deadly emissions, 2023 was apparently the worst year for global warming on record.
Global Warming

Congratulations, Buffoons! We Did More Global Warming Last Year Than in Any Other Year in Human History

"These are more than just statistics."

People canvassing for Elon Musk's America PAC are allegedly dealing with workplace conditions way harsher than expected.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s “Political Acivists” Aren’t What They Seem

"I felt embarrassed and played."

Elon Musk was a no-show at his court ordered appearance for a hearing on his pro-Trump scheme to pay voters in swing state.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Blows Off Court Appearance After Being Sued For Operating an Illegal Lottery

He's delaying.

In Silicon Valley, accurately reporting on a tech exec's domestic violence arrest seems to be a punishable offense.
Future Society

Tech Exec Sues Journalist for Reporting the Fact That He Was Arrested for Domestic Violence

A Constitutional scholar is calling bull.

NASA said that Voyager 1 suddenly stopped transmitting after its onboard emergency system activated without warning.
Off-World

Decrepit Voyager 1 Probe Runs Into Trouble Again

But it keeps on ticking.

Google paid billions to license Character.AI's tech — and is now facing hard questions over the AI chatbot company's alleged carelessness.
Google

Google Has Deep Ties to AI Startup Accused to Causing Teen Suicide

"These questions would not have been alien to Google prior to this happening."

New York City has been forced to reveal that its AI-powered gun-scanning pilot for its sprawling subway system was a total bust.
Artificial Intelligence

NYC Attempt to Scan Subway for Weapons With AI Fails Miserably as System Flooded by False Positives While Detecting Zero Actual Guns

Eat your heart out, Eric Adams.

Elon Musk's SpaceX just launched a bunch of spy satellites for the Pentagon — and some in the DOD are getting worried.
Off-World

Pentagon Uneasy About Elon Musk’s New Spy Satellites

And they have good reason to worry.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds dismissed the AI industry as "90 percent marketing" and bemoaned its "hype cycle."
Artificial Intelligence

Creator of Linux Trashes AI Hype

"My approach to AI right now is I will basically ignore it."

Grok now has image understanding capabilities, and to test and improve, Elon Musk wants you to feed it medical documents.
Developments

Elon Musk Recommends Feeding Your Medical Scans Into His Grok AI

It's a terrible idea.

During Google's latest quarterly earnings call, the tech giant's CEO boasted that a large percentage of its new code is written by AI.
Google

Google CEO Says 25 Percent of Its Code Is Now AI-Generated

"This helps our engineers do more and move faster."

A Tesla purportedly running Full Self-Driving mode fails to recognize a deer on the road and slams into the animal with slowing or stopping.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla on Full Self-Driving Mode Plows Through Deer Without Even Slowing Down

Guy whose Tesla just obliterated an animal: "FSD works awesome!"

NASA's Orion spacecraft chipped after reentering the Earth's atmosphere during its maiden voyage. The agency remains tight lipped about it.
Moon

NASA Keeping Issue With Moon Rocket a Secret

"When it comes out, it’ll all come out together."

Elon Musk is hellbent on crashing the economy if Donald Trump is elected, something that could result in "hardship" for many Americans.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says That If Trump Wins, He’ll Cause the Economy to Crash

He has promised to crash it himself.

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is still spinning through space uncontrollably. One of its boom arms has a bend as well.
NASA

NASA Solar Sail Spacecraft Damaged, Spinning Through Space

Uh oh.

Nabla, a popular medical AI transcription tool, is powered by OpenAI's Whisper model that researchers have found is horribly unreliable.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Model Used By Hospitals Caught Making Up Details About Patients, Inventing Nonexistent Medications and Sexual Acts

Generative AI and medical documents. What could go wrong?

A driverless Tesla crashed into a woman's car in a mall parking lot while being summoned by its owner through an app.
Tesla

Woman Annoyed When Tesla With No Driver Suddenly Smashes Into Her Car

"There was no driver, no passenger. It was an empty car that was driving itself into my car."

The man in charge of the United States stockpile of nuclear missiles, says the Pentagon is doubling down on artificial intelligence.
Nuclear Fusion

General in Charge of Nuclear Weapons Says Heck, Let’s Add Some AI

What could go wrong?

Chinese space startup Deep Blue Aerospace sold tickets for a 12-minute journey to space, which could take place as soon as 2027.
Off-World

Chinese Startup Offers Trips to Edge of Space for an Absolute Bargain, Sells Out in Minutes

Traveling to space could soon get a lot cheaper.