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Elon Musk is calling for NASA to ditch its Moon program, arguing that the "Moon is a distraction" and that "we're going straight to Mars.
Moon

Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA’s Moon Program

"The Moon is a distraction."

Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao says he encountered a pair of large metallic orbs while flying his plane over Houston, Texas in 2023.
Advanced Transport

Former NASA Astronaut Puzzled by Metallic Orbs He Encountered While Flying

"They came right at me."

In a freewheeling interview with Bloomberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took it out on the company's board members, who abruptly sacked him in 2023.
Future Society

Sam Altman Explodes at Board Members Who Fired Him

"And all those people that I feel like really f*cked me and f*cked the company were gone, and now I had to clean up their mess."

Meta was forced to euthanize its AI-generated "characters" after users discovered just how problematic they really are.
Meta

Meta Kills AI-Generated “People” Like “Proud Black Queer Momma”

Instagram created a fake, AI-generated Black woman — and the response was outraged.

The Cybertruck bomber made unsubstantiated claims about the recently spotted drones and left behind a deranged manifesto.
Future Society

The Cybertruck Bomber Seems to Have Made Strange Claims About the Mysterious Drone Sightings

"What we have been seeing with 'drones' is the operational use of gravitic propulsion systems powered aircraft..."

In the aftermath of the Texas abortion ban, documented cases of infant abandonment have surged in the state.
Developments

Babies Being Found in Dumpsters After Texas Abortion Ban

Unbelievably grim.

Kia issued a recall for nearly 23,000 EV9 electric cars for the 2024-25 model year after discovering seats that weren't fully bolted down.
Advanced Transport

Kia Concerned That Employee Forgot to Bolt Seats Down in Potentially Tens of Thousands of Cars

Hold onto your butts.

A video appears to show the future of transportation: a Waymo robotaxi smashing into a Serve Robotics delivery robot.
Robotics

Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot

The machines are fighting.

A Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside Trump Towers in Las Vegas early Wednesday morning. Elon Musk says it's a poor choice for a car bomb.
Elon Musk

After Cybertruck Terror Attack, Elon Musk Screeches That Cybertrucks Are Bad for Terror Attacks

Seriously?

Insane Clown Posse's Joseph Utsler, better known by his stage persona Shaggy 2 Dope, has an AI clone — and apparently, he's a fan.
Artificial Intelligence

Insane Clown Posse’s Shaggy 2 Dope Confronts AI Version of Himself

Will the real Shaggy please stand up?

Folks on Reddit are in an uproar after Meta announced that it's planning to load Facebook up with AI "users," which are better known as bots.
Meta

People Are Disgusted by Facebook’s Plan to Deploy AI-Powered “Users”

"Translation: 'Our real users are quitting the platform, so we will fill our community with fake users instead.'"

The family of dead OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji is claiming that the young man was murdered, and did not commit suicide.
OpenAI

Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Alleges He Was Murdered, Says There Were Signs of Struggle

"Private autopsy doesn’t confirm cause of death stated by police."

In South Korea, a jet crashed and burned when it hit a wall that was placed at the end of an airport runway, killing 179 people.
Future Society

Experts Alarmed by Huge Wall at Airport That Jet Crashed Into, Killing 179 Passengers

"Normally, on an airport with a runway at the end, you don't have a wall."

OpenAI says it wants to transform into a for-profit corporation because it needs "to raise more capital than we'd imagined."
Future Society

OpenAI Admits It Needs Vastly More Money Than It Thought

Of course it does.

OpenAI's recently unveiled o3 AI model can cost well over $1,000 per task when used in its most powerful mode.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s Latest AI Can Cost More Than $1,000 Per Query

Brainpower, at an extreme premium.

Just days after going to war with his critics, Elon Musk now wants to foster "positive" vibes on his platform X, formerly Twitter.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Begs People on Twitter to Be Nicer

"Too late. You created this cesspool."

The latest research suggests that addictively consuming mind-numbing digital content may almost literally be rotting our brains.
Neuroscience and Brain

“Brain Rot” Is Poisoning Our Minds

It's "altering the way we perceive and respond to the world."

Meta says it envisions Facebook as being filled with AI generated characters that exist on the platform the same way as human users do.
Meta

Facebook Planning to Flood Platform with AI-Powered Users

"We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do."

We may be seeing some of the first major fissures forming in the dalliance between Donald Trump and his billionaire backer Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

MAGA Figures Turn on Elon Musk for Not Hating Immigrants Enough

"It's wild to see MAGA turning against Elon..."

A trick as simple as deliberately incorporating typos into your prompt is often enough to dupe the industry's leading AI chatbots.
Artificial Intelligence

Stupidly Easy Hack Can Jailbreak Even the Most Advanced AI Chatbots

Are you serious?