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Researchers have found that including the words "artificial intelligence" in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers.
Artificial Intelligence

Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI

"When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions."

In a major — though unsurprising — U-turn, Meta-formerly-Facebook has done away with its confusing celebrity AI clones.
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Is Euthanizing All Its Celebrity AI Clones

RIP to the weirdest chatbots to ever do it.

The two capesized carriers, the YM Serenity and HL Eco, collided after the HL Eco lost power while trying to anchor at port.
Future Society

This Video of Two Huge Ships Colliding Is Actually Terrifying

"SAFETY FIRST."

Despite a federal investigation, Meta continues to profit from ads on Facebook and Instagram selling cocaine and other illicit drugs.
Meta

Gangster Mark Zuckerberg Running Facebook Ads for Drugs Found To Be Laced With Fentanyl

"Because of this app, my child does not get to live."

Microsoft has spent a staggering amount of money on AI — and serious profits likely remain many years out.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money on AI

AI remains an astronomical money pit.

Elon Musk's X temporarily suspended the account of a political group supporting Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency.
Elon Musk

Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Keeps Using X to Suppress Views He Doesn’t Agree With

"Seems like [Elon Musk] might be a little scared."

Mark Kelly is a senator and an ex-astronaut — and he also used to hawk sketchy supplement pyramid schemes, a resurfaced video shows.
Future Society

Sketchy Pyramid Scheme Video Emerges of Former Astronaut Being Considered for VP

This could be considered disqualifying information.

Meta had some very awkward questions to answer after its AI assistant refuted that former president Donald Trump had been shot.
Meta

Meta’s AI Says Trump Wasn’t Shot

How much longer can tech companies get away with the "hallucinations" excuse?

In a new study, researchers have found a correlation between adults' faces and names — but strangely, the same could not be said of children.
Studies

Your Facial Features Gradually Change to Go With Your Name, Researchers Find

Okay, that's just strange.

Alt-weekly publications like LA Weekly and the Village Voice have suddenly started running hundreds of articles listing OnlyFans porn.
Artificial Intelligence

Beloved Local Newspapers Fired Staffers, Then Started Running AI Slop

"We weren't happy about it at all, and we were absolutely not involved in putting it up."

Their mapping of dark matter confirms the discrepancies between observations of the universe's structures and our theoretical models of them.
Dark Matter

Scientists Analyzing Deep Space “Forest” to Map Dark Matter

And "something strange" could be afoot.

AI might be able to allow aliens to communicate in real-time with humans — or a language model representing us, at least.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Suggest Sending AI to Aliens So They Can Talk to It in Real Time

"Aliens could learn one of our languages, ask the LLM questions about us and receive replies that are representative of humanity."

To keep generative AI models running requires huge amounts of electricity — and the US' aging power grid is struggling to handle the load.
Artificial Intelligence

America’s Ramshackle Power Grid Is Straining Under the Load of Generative AI

AI companies will have to get creative — or run out of power.

Lil Nas X got criticized by random people for flying in a commercial plane, but he said he's trying to emit less carbon emissions.
Climate Change

Lil Nas X Is Flying Commercial to Avoid the Huge Carbon Footprint of a Private Jet

"Aren’t you supposed to be flying private?"

In a small study, researchers have found that an Ozempic-style drug seems to slow the progression of Alzheimer's.
RX and Medicine

Ozempic-Style Drug Slows the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease, Experiment Finds

"This study really demonstrates for us the possibilities that are there."

According to Truist Securities analyst William Stein, almost crashed with Tesla's Full Self-Driving tech turned on.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Analyst Tries Full Self-Driving, Has to Stop It From Crashing

"My quick intervention was absolutely required to avoid an otherwise certain accident."

X owner Elon Musk fell for fake news on X-formerly-Twitter after making fun of people who "believe everything" in the news.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Bashes the News Media, Then Immediately Falls for Fake News

A colossal self-own.

As Yahoo Finance reports, Meta's Reality Labs has spent almost $50 billion in just over four years, a staggering amount.
Virtual Reality

Facebook’s VR Department Is Apparently a Complete Catastrophe

"In hardware, you’re stuck with your mistakes for a long time."

Google's new pitch for generative AI, as seen in its new Olympic ad: don't teach your kids how to build something from a blank page.
Google

Google’s Latest Pitch for AI Is So Sad It Sounds Like a Spoof

This is so depressing.

A video making its rounds on X shows one daring Tesla fan walking on top of a gaudy, camouflage-wrapped Cybertruck, cracking the windshield.
Tesla

Tesla Fan Climbs on Cybertruck to Show How Tough It Is, Accidentally Cracks Windshield

"This thing was built to last."