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A woman hailed a Waymo cab for her daughter in Los Angeles and was baffled to find a stranger hiding in the vehicle's trunk.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Woman Orders Waymo, Finds Man Hiding in Trunk

"They put me in here."

By Victor Tangermann

Two years after a 13-year-old girl's suicide, her parents say her phone still gets notifications from the AI bots that drove her to death.
Data Privacy

Years After a Girl’s Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone

"Tech is giving kids the opportunity to press a button and get that dopamine response 24/7."

By Sharon Adarlo

A consortium of American scientists and engineers filed a report that stridently makes the case for putting boots down on Mars.
Starship

Scientists Say the Time Has Arrived to Land Astronauts on Mars

"The first human landing on Mars will be the most significant moment for human space exploration since we first set foot on the moon over 50 years ago."

By Victor Tangermann

The rising tide of AI slop has brought with it fake research and other sources that librarians are asked to track down.
Artificial Intelligence

Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist

The wonders of our AI age.

By Frank Landymore

The Washington Post announced that it's launching an AI-based podcast service that allows listeners to pick their own format and host.
Ethics

Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast

"Stop trying to shove AI down my throat."

By Victor Tangermann

In an update this week, NASA announced that it had lost signal of its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft.
Mars

A NASA Spacecraft Orbiting Mars Just Mysteriously Went Offline

NASA is "investigating the anomaly."

By Victor Tangermann

Police in Goodyear, Arizona are boasting about using ChatGPT to generate composite sketches, despite legal expert's concerns.
Ethics

Police Admit They’re Using ChatGPT to Generate “Sketches” of Suspects

"We're now in a day and age where if we post a pencil drawing, most people are not going to acknowledge it."

By Joe Wilkins

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard frontman Stu Mackenzie has excoriated Spotify after finding out AI was used to impersonate the band's music.
Ethics

King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by AI on Spotify

"But seriously wtf."

By Victor Tangermann

Sundar Pichai recently claimed that no job is safe, not even his own, fretting that we'll have to suffer through AI whether we like it or not.
Ethics

Google CEO Says We’re All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper

"We will have to work through societal disruption."

By Joe Wilkins

Chinese astronauts clambered outside the company's space station to inspect damage to one of its spacecraft.
International Space Station

Chinese Astronauts Clamber Outside Space Station to Inspect Damaged Spacecraft

Astronauts spotted "tiny cracks" in the spacecraft's window last month.

By Victor Tangermann

During an interview last night, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that raising a child without pestering a chatbot for advice is now impossible.
Ethics

Sam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPT

"Clearly, people did it for a long time — no problem. But I have relied on it so much."

By Victor Tangermann

Parting Stones is reshaping the way we cremate our dead relatives, turning them into a luscious pile of clattering stones.
Finance

You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into

"I started to get emails from all kinds of people asking if I could glaze pieces of pottery with their loved ones’ remains."

By Joe Wilkins

An unusual new rock collection discovered by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover suggests the Red Planet's ancient past was wet and tropical.
Mars

Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Tropical Oasis on Mars

"We think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years."

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly setting aside AGI in an effort to stop the company from succumbing to its steep competition.
OpenAI

Details Emerge on Sam Altman’s Panic Sweats

"We should be at the top of things like LM arena."

By Victor Tangermann

Grok declared that it would be okay with genociding close to half of all children in the world to save Elon Musl.
xAI

Grok, Now Built Into Teslas for Navigation, Says It Would Run Over a Billion Children to Avoid Hitting Elon Musk

Correction: 999,999,999 children.

By Frank Landymore

Palantir's X account shared a new tweet that embedded a controversial video of its CEO Alex Karp, using a very particular choice of words.
Future Society

Wait, Did Palantir Just Make a Joke About Its CEO Doing Cocaine?

"Hate to break it to y'all but using the word 'skiing' was very much intentional."

By Victor Tangermann

Two Waymo robotaxis crashed into each other in a dead-end street, blocking traffic while a third Waymo watches on.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Two Self-Driving Waymos Just Crashed Into Each Other, Trapping a Third Waymo

"It's like a Waymo standoff."

By Frank Landymore

McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.
Ethics

McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery

"The future is here, and it's not looking good."

By Joe Wilkins

A new tool showed off by xAI dreams up AI-generated product placement that "weaves" into existing TV shows and movies.
Future Society

Elon Musk’s xAI Says It Can Now Stuff AI-Generated Product Placement Into Any Scene of Your Favorite Movie

Characters from old movies can now show off all-new products.

By Frank Landymore

As economic discontent grows, tech billionaires are pouring money into some 120 "startup societies" where they can reign supreme.
The Industrialists

Tech Billionaires Are Starting Private Cities to Escape the United States

"Can you imagine being that rich and that miserable?"

By Joe Wilkins