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The winning robot of this year's humanoid robot half-marathon in China beat the human record holder by several minutes.
Robotics

Chinese Humanoid Robot Runs Half Marathon, Beats Fastest Human Time in History

This is seriously impressive.

By Victor Tangermann

Knicks owner Jim Dolan, wearing a black jacket and white shirt, stands smiling next to a control panel with various dials, gauges, and levers.
Ethics

Madison Square Garden Reportedly Used Facial Recognition to Stalk Trans Woman For Two Years

"She wasn't taking pictures in restricted areas. She wasn't trying to go places she shouldn't be."

By Joe Wilkins

A person wearing a hooded sweatshirt is holding and looking at a smartphone. The image is dark with dramatic red and green lighting highlighting the edges of the figure and the phone. The person's face is not visible.
Ethics

The Florida Mass Shooter’s Conversations With ChatGPT Are Worse Than You Could Possibly Imagine

If a human uses an AI chatbot to plan a mass shooting, is the company liable for the ensuing deaths?

By Sharon Adarlo

An elderly person holding a nasal spray bottle in one hand and a tissue near their nose with the other hand. The image is primarily black and white, with a yellow background and a large red circle behind the hand holding the nasal spray.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Intrigued by Nasal Spray That Reverse Brain Aging in Mice, Say It May Work on Humans as Well

It just takes two sprays into the nasal cavity to make a difference.

By Sharon Adarlo

A digital art piece combining the Chinese flag with a humanoid figure. The image is stylized with horizontal lines and glitch-like effects, blending the red background and yellow stars of the flag with the soldier's face and helmet. The overall color scheme is dominated by red and yellow tones.
Machine Learning

China Is Starting to Pull Ahead of US in AI Race

China "appears to have nearly erased any US lead."

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers uploaded two fake studies about a fake skin condition to a preprint server to trick large language models.
Future Society

Researchers Invented a Fake Disease to Trick AI and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened

You can make this stuff up.

By Victor Tangermann

A hand wearing an orange glove holds a syringe against the backdrop of the Pakistan flag, which features a white crescent and star on a green field. The image has a grid overlay effect.
Viruses

Hospital Reuses Syringes, Infects Hundreds of Children With HIV

"They filled the same syringe and gave it to one child, then filled it again and gave it to another."

By Joe Wilkins

After a litany of bad press, Character.AI announced a feature that's seemingly designed to stop children from reading books.
Ethics

AI Company Known for Teen Suicides Launches New Feature to Turn Books Into Roleplaying Experiences

The company wants to make books "impossible to ignore."

By Victor Tangermann

Railroad crossing sign with "RAILROAD CROSSING" in black letters on white crossbuck boards, a red octagonal stop sign below it, and a white rectangular sign underneath that reads "LOOK FOR TRAINS," all set against a blue sky with scattered white clouds. The signs appear slightly blurred, suggesting motion or vibration.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Driver Alarmed as FSD Takes Him Directly Into the Path of an Oncoming Train

"I'm thankful I'm still here."

By Joe Wilkins

A cartoonish red brain with large, googly eyes and thin, stick-like arms and legs is looking at a smartphone held up in front of it. The background is bright yellow with a grid pattern and an orange circle behind the phone.
Mental Health

Study Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users’ Confidence in Their Own Brains

It's a lot to think about.

By Joe Wilkins

A pixelated image of a brown donkey with upright ears and a raised tail, set against a light blue background.
Ethics

Democrats Warned Not to Upset Multi-Million Dollar AI Lobbyists, Even Though It’d Be a Slam Dunk With Voters

"In a lot of cases it is going to be easier to say nothing."

By Joe Wilkins

Close-up of a lifelike reconstruction of a prehistoric human face with wide, expressive eyes, a broad nose, and a thick beard and mustache. The skin has a reddish-brown tone, and the hair is long and dark. The expression appears intense or startled.
Evolution

You Are Not Prepared to Learn the Size of Neanderthal Infants

If only peewee football existed back then.

By Sharon Adarlo

Silhouettes of raised arms holding various tools and weapons, including pitchforks, a machete, a hammer, and a megaphone, set against a bright red background with a pattern of orange stars.
Ethics

City Council Wrecked in Voter Bloodbath After Allowing New Data Center

"This is a referendum against all of them based on their support of the data center."

By Joe Wilkins

The octogenarian mother of a man who was killed in a road accident has been unknowingly talking to his AI clone via regular video calls.
Ethics

Mother Reportedly Doesn’t Know Her Son Died Because She’s Been Talking to an AI Version of Him

Her family "hoped to conceal the news" of her only child's death.

By Victor Tangermann

President Donald Trump sipping Diet Coke.
Cancer

Trump Secretly Believes That Diet Coke Kills Cancer Cells Inside the Body

News flash: Trump is wrong.

By Sharon Adarlo

A person with short hair wearing a dark jacket is sitting with their hands covering their face. Their wrists are secured with handcuffs. The background features a large blue circle centered behind the person, set against a red backdrop with a grid pattern.
Ethics

Things You Told ChatGPT or Claude May Have Already Doomed You in Court

"Disclosure of privileged communications to a third-party AI platform may constitute a waiver of the attorney-client privilege."

By Joe Wilkins

Rocky, cracked terrain with a reddish-brown hue, featuring fragmented and weathered rock formations. The lower left corner shows part of a mechanical structure with the word "CURIOSITY" partially visible, indicating the image was taken by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.
Mars

NASA’s Mars Rover Comes Across Formation That Looks Like the Scales of a Massive Cosmic Reptile

What can this strange landscape tell us about Mars' mysterious past?

By Sharon Adarlo

Illustration shows an abstract representation of the universe.
Big Bang

Physicists Have a Major Problem With the Universe

Two steps forward, one step back.

By Victor Tangermann

Three images show delivery robots running into trouble while navigating urban environments.
Robotics

Wild Video Shows Delivery Robots Causing Havoc, Getting Obliterated

When will it end?

By Joe Wilkins

A former programmer spoke up during a city council meeting in a small town in Ohio, making a well-articulated argument against data centers.
Future Society

Man at City Council Meeting Makes Devastating Case Against Proposed Local Data Center

"We are being asked to drain our reservoirs so a chatbot can write a poem."

By Victor Tangermann