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In the wake of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji's death, the young man's family say they believe he was murdered.
OpenAI

Parents of Dead OpenAI Whistleblower Say They Believe He Was Murdered

"It’s brutal murder. Cold-blooded murder."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk got a cold splash of reality from an LA County firefighter, extinguishing his lie that DEI is to blame for the LA wildfires.
Elon Musk

Firefighter Shuts Down Elon Musk to His Face

Extinguished.

By Joe Wilkins

In his quest to cheat death, 47-year-old tech founder Bryan Johnson has become ravenous for something besides everlasting life. 
Health & Medicine

Tech Guy Doing Bizarre Things to Live Forever Says He Now Suffers From Endless Hunger

"The saddest part of my day is the last bite."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Politicians have started pointing fingers at the burgeoning AI industry for water scarcity in California during the Los Angeles fire.
Artificial Intelligence

Politicians Blame Los Angeles Fires on Explosion of AI Data Centers

It's a serious issue.

By Victor Tangermann

New research finally solves the nearly two hundred year old mystery of which volcano caused the Sun to turn blue with its epic eruption.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What Turned the Sun Blue

The Sun was feeling gloomy.

By Frank Landymore

A new video shows a driverless Waymo robotaxi struggling to decipher the hand signals of a construction worker.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Self-Driving Taxi Flummoxed by Construction Worker’s Hand Signals

Waymo's cars are still struggling with the basics.

By Victor Tangermann

The makers of America's nonstick cookware are none too pleased about a new law that will bar them from using carcinogenic "forever chemicals." 
Cancer

Nonstick Cookware Industry Furious at Suggestion They Should Stop Causing Cancer

These pan manufacturers mean business.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Another Google Image results page — this one for the question of "does corn get digested" —  is run amuck with AI-generated slop.
Google

Behold the AI Slop Dominating Google Image Results for “Does Corn Get Digested”

Slopaggedon cometh!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The number of children dying to diseases has surged in the past half century as the manufacturing of synthetic chemicals has skyrocketed.
Developments

Scientists Say Children Are Getting Sick and Dying in Huge Numbers Due to Chemicals and Plastics

"Inaction is no longer an option."

By Frank Landymore

Researchers found that if a mere 0.001 percent of the training data of a given LLM is "poisoned," the entire thing falls apart.
Artificial Intelligence

If Even 0.001 Percent of an AI’s Training Data Is Misinformation, the Whole Thing Becomes Compromised, Scientists Find

It's incredibly easy to catastrophically poison an entire large language model.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have drilled nearly two miles into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting a core sample estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old.
Climate Change

Scientists Recover 1.2 Million-Year-Old Ice Core From Two Miles Deep in Antarctica

Incredible.

By Frank Landymore

Jimmy Carter Once Lowered Himself Into a Nuclear Reactor After a Partial Meltdown
Nuclear Fusion

Jimmy Carter Once Lowered Himself Into a Nuclear Reactor After a Partial Meltdown

"They let us get probably a thousand times more radiation than they would now."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chick-fil-A has an army robots to squeeze citrus for its lemonade, turning the fast food chain's lemonade plant into a veritable lemon party. 
Robotics

Chick-fil-A Using Advanced Squeezing Robots to Conduct Huge Lemon Party

Talk about advanced squeezing technique.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's AI-generated search summary for the query "baby elephant" includes an AI-generated photo of a clearly fake, teacup-sized elephant.
Google

Google’s AI Overview Believes Baby Elephants Can Sit in the Palm of a Human Hand

We wish you were real, tiny baby elephant!!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Two "Punk" and "Emo" fossils are challenging scientists' understanding of the evolution of mollusks. The scene, folks, is not dead.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover “Punk” and “Emo” Fossils

Feeling old yet?

By Frank Landymore

While we're not quite living in "The Matrix," experiences similar to the film's slowed-down "bullet time" do seem to exist in real life.
Health & Medicine

Humans Can Access Something Akin to “Bullet Time,” Scientist Says

"Dodge this."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Robotics company Realbotix claims its robots are designed to "tackle the staggering loneliness epidemic" but somehow aren't sex robots.
Robotics

“Companionship” Robot That Its Creator Says Is Definitely Not a Sex Robot Looks Around With a Dazed Expression

Come on.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say they've discovered evidence of a "lost world" lurking deep below the Pacific Ocean, a surprising finding.
Physics

Scan Detects Evidence of “Lost World” Under Pacific Ocean

Woah.

By Victor Tangermann

AI is like the fairy Tinkerbell: in the story of "Peter Pan," she only continues to exist if people believe in her and clap for her.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Believe in It

Keep clapping. Louder!

By Jathan Sadowski

A dad and "AI evangelist" couldn't understand why his daughter didn't like the AI function of a toy he bought for her.
Artificial Intelligence

Dad Baffled When 6-Year-Old Daughter Turns Off AI Function on High Tech Doll and Plays With It Like Regular Toy

"She still loves playing with it, but every time I ask her if she'd like to chat with it, she says no."

By Frank Landymore