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In a San Francisco, four humanoid robots make up a machine-based fight club known as REK, which uses trains its bots as prize fighters.
Robotics

"Once people can really feel this and see this, it’ll be fully mainstream."

It has only been five days since OpenAI's GPT-5 model was released — and we've been given countless reasons to conclude it's a dud.
OpenAI

This is getting kind of embarrassing.

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.
Black Holes

"The end state of black hole formation."

Yet another psychiatrist is sounding alarm bells about AI psychosis, arguing that chatbots can work as a "hallucinatory mirror."
Artificial Intelligence

He has an intriguing theory for why it's happening.

The rollout of Amazon's new "GenAI-powered" Alexa+ blends Orwell's 1984 with the exciting world of e-commerce.
Artificial Intelligence

"I did not have a good experience with this thing."

One of Donald Trump's biggest desires is to gut NASA — and if Congress doesn't act soon against his budget cuts, he's going to get his wish.
NASA

The agency is running out of time.

Sam Altman is no stranger to accusations of lying — but according to one of OpenAI's biggest haters, he has a tick when he does it on camera. 
OpenAI

"He was straight up bluffing."

Grok, Elon Musk's "maximum truth-seeking" chatbot, was briefly suspended — and nobody knows what really happened.
xAI

Grok, is this true?

Users' obsession with "AI boyfriends" is playing out in a wildly concerning way, as perfectly exemplified by a subreddit dubbed AISoulmates.
Artificial Intelligence

"Everyone on this sub has been driven totally insane."

In our present moment, the AI boom has become both a lifeline and a smokescreen, sustaining the market while hiding the rot below.
Artificial Intelligence

Like lipstick on a pig.

Desperate for connection it's no wonder that even the faithful among us are falling prey to sycophantic algorithms masquerading as deities.
Artificial Intelligence

"I feel like I have discovered some new kind of sin that I did not know about before."

Computer science majors once met a red-hot job market graduation. Now, the reality couldn't be more different.
Artificial Intelligence

"It is difficult to find the motivation to keep applying."

Anthropic is appealing a judge's decision that would allow potentially millions of authors to sue for copyright infringement together.
Artificial Intelligence

A crying shame.

Folks who shelled out to buy Elon Musk's ugliest electric car are in for an upset should they try to sell or trade those Cybertrucks.
Tesla

These numbers are very depressing.

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri.
Off-World

All aboard!

It's only been out for a few days, but seems that OpenAI's long-awaited GPT-5 model may already be dead on arrival.
OpenAI

GPT-5 has landed... with a dull thud.

Grok Is So Deeply Antisemitic That Showing It a Picture of Some Random Clouds in the Sky Prompts an Outrageously Offensive Answer
xAI

Is this MechaHitler 2.0?

OpenAI declared just over 24 hours after the GPT-5 announcement that the "deprecated" GPT-4o model would be made available once more.
OpenAI

Addiction sells.

A lawsuit filed by a former police officer suggests Tesla's Fremont plant has a severe sexual assault, drug, alcohol, and racism problem.
Tesla

Chaos reigns.

It's no surprise that our partners judge us for our "body count" — but maybe not as much as we previously thought.
Studies

Surprise: they're judging you based on something other than the raw number.