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Moon

China’s Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly

"It seems quite likely that the Chinese will land on the Moon before NASA can return to the Moon."

Artificial Intelligence

Horror Story Looms as Children Get Stuffed Animals Powered by AI

There's something really fishy about these toys.

Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Has No Problem With People Using His AI to Generate Fake Medical Information

"The disinformation included claims about vaccines causing autism, cancer-curing diets, HIV being airborne and 5G causing infertility."

Developments

Trump’s Limbs Are Looking Awfully Swollen

"Look, you see the president every day."

Elon Musk

Despite Getting Billions From the Government, Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pays Basically No Taxes

"Billionaire freeloaders don’t pay taxes."

Off-World

Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Find

One possibility, he suggests: it's a "spacecraft powered by nuclear energy."

Robotics

Hundreds of Robots Competed in the World’s First Robot Olympics. The Results Were Unintentionally Hilarious

"You can test a lot of interesting new and exciting approaches in this contest."

NASA

It’s Official: NASA Is Giving Up on Climate Change Science

Houston, we have a problem.

OpenAI

OpenAI Announces That It’s Making GPT-5 More Sycophantic After User Backlash

The company is giving in to the pressure.

OpenAI

Evidence Grows That GPT-5 Is a Bit of a Dud

"It seems like something that would have been released a year ago."

Off-World

There’s Something Really Suspicious About the Way This Star Died

"We can finally start connecting the dots between how a star lives and how it dies."

Future Society

ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data

"I saw the rap sheet and license plate numbers and was like WTAF."

Off-World

Astronomers Say They’ve Finally Solved the “Little Red Dots” Mystery

Not everybody agrees.

Genetics

Scientists Create Ultimate Antiviral Using Rare “Superpower” Genetic Mutation

This could be a game changer.

Robotics

Scientists Taught a Robot to Play the Drums and He Is Shockingly Horrible at It

"My first band had a drummer this bad once, too."

Artificial Intelligence

The US May Have Already Lost the AI Race to China Due to a Key Weakness

China has a major advantage.

Electric Vehicles

Car Company Charges Monthly Fee for Its EVs to Drive Faster

We're living in microtransaction hell — for cars.

Exobiology

Astronomer Suggests New Interstellar Object Could be Advanced Aliens Testing Our Intelligence

Did we just fail the test?

OpenAI

OpenAI Seems Really Confused About Why People Use ChatGPT

Who's gonna tell them?

xAI

Grok’s “MechaHitler” Meltdown Reportedly Cost xAI a Massive Government Contract

Actions have consequences.