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AI companies working on foundation models have yet to even break even, let alone turn record-breaking investments into profit.
Investing

Major AI Companies Aren’t Even Pretending to Make Money

"True wealth is when you love yourself."

Full-grown adults are embracing AI companion toys in China as the government tries to reconcile a tricky contradiction.
Ethics

Chinese Adults Taking Strange AI Devices to Bed With Them

"It feels like something is waiting for me."

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has already spent $6 million on TV ads to convince Americans that data centers aren't that bad.
Ethics

You Will Laugh Out Loud When You Hear What the Tech Industry Is Spending a Swimming Pool’s Worth of Money to Convince the Public

Who's buying this?

NASA scientists have determined that Jupiter's moon Europa is covered in a seriously thick icy shell that measures 18 miles deep.
Exobiology

NASA Says Europa Is Covered by a Thick Icy Shell

Oh, she thicc.

China's solar energy production is reaching simply staggering levels, dragging energy costs down around the globe.
Renewable Energy

The Amount of New Solar Power Production Capacity China Is Manufacturing Is Legitimately Mind-Blowing

Simply incredible.

One tech publication's experience hiring a remote software engineer shows just how degraded the job search has become.
Ethics

If You’re a Real Person Looking for a Job, the Flood of Fake AI Job Applications Will Make Your Blood Boil

"Within 12 hours of posting the role, we received more than 400 applications."

Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.
Future Society

Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal

"We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."

A startup, called Aircela, has come up with an intriguing contraption that can turn carbon dioxide from thin air into usable gasoline.
Future Society

Intriguing New Machine Turns Air Into Gasoline You Can Put Straight Into Your Car

Too good to be true?

As AI appears to do much of the work of entry-level job seekers, the entire premiss of a college education seems to be collapsing.
Education

It’s Starting to Look Like AI Has Killed the Entire Model of College

"Colleges and universities face an existential issue before them."

Boston-based startup, Life Biosciences, is working on a treatment code-named ER-100 that involves reprogramming genes for rejuvenation.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Testing Controversial Human Rejuvenation Compound Called ER-100

"Aging has a relatively simple explanation and is apparently reversible."

The vast "sheet" of dark matter could explain why almost all of our galactic neighbors are running away from us.
Dark Matter

Our Entire Galaxy Appears to Be Embedded in a Colossal Sheet of Dark Matter

We live in a dark, dark, world.

Astronomers used an a custom-built AI tool to scour millions of Hubble images, uncovering the universe's overlooked curiosities.
Astrophysics

AI Discovers Hundreds of Anomalies in Archive of Hubble Images

"This is a powerful demonstration of how AI can enhance the scientific return of archival datasets."

In staggering brain drain, United States federal agencies have lost over 10,000 highly-experienced PhDs since Donald Trump took office.
Education

The United States Is Suffering Stomach-Churning Brain Drain

Embarassing.

Following a major Bitcoin crash, experts are now suggesting it's only the beginning of a prolonged crypto downturn.
Bitcoin

Experts Say Bitcoin’s Crash Is Only Getting Started

"I don’t see much support here for Bitcoin."

Newly released documents show how Elon Musk extensively communicated with Jeffrey Epstein to plan parties and trips to his island.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Asking to Visit His Notorious Island

"Do you have any parties planned?"

A man, dressed as an FBI agent, showed up to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in an apparent attempt to free Luigi Mangione.
Future Society

Mystery Man Dressed as FBI Agent Tries to Break Luigi Mangione Out of Jail

He didn't get very far.

OpenAI will retire GPT-4o, an especially sycophantic version of its chatbot linked in lawsuits to multiple deaths, next month.
Ethics

Amid Lawsuits, OpenAI Says It Will Retire “Reckless” Model Linked to Deaths

OpenAI says that GPT-4o is headed to the junkyard.

Darren Aronofsky signed a partnership for an almost entirely AI-generated drama series about the American Revolution. It's straight slop.
Art

Darren Aronofsky’s AI-Generated Show Contains Garbled Neural Gore, Even Just in the Teaser Trailer

"What a terrible time to have eyes."

A man who worked an AI watchdog reveals how OpenAI representatives suddenly showed up at his door step, demanding documents.
Ethics

OpenAI Representatives Are Going to Critics’ Houses With Threats and Demands

"It's a bit scary to know that the most valuable private company in the world has your address and has shown up and has questions for you."

Microsoft suffered a historic stock plunge in its stock price as it struggles to convince investors of its AI spending spree.
Future Society

Microsoft Stock Takes Most Massive Single-Day Loss Since Pandemic as Its AI Efforts Flail

A historic day at the stock market for all the wrong reasons.