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A creepy Sora output of the streamer Pokimane shows that despite guardrails, the video generator is good at depicting real-life people.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s Sora Is Generating Videos of Real People, Including This Unintentionally Demonic Version of Pokimane

Why does Sora know who Pokimane is?

The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson sparked a fiery debate over the widespread hatred of the US health insurance system.
Developments

Americans Point Out That UnitedHealthcare Tried to Kill Them First

"We live in a country where people are truly kicked down when they are at their weakest and most vulnerable, both physically and emotionally."

While AI chatbots keep making headlines for their bad behavior, one company is leaning into that propensity — and then some.
Artificial Intelligence

Companion Chatbot App Makes Its AI’s Personalities Horrible, Saying It Engages Users More Effectively

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Character.AI promised to prioritize "teen safety" after being sued by two families, who said their kids were abused by the firm's chatbots.
Google

Google-Backed AI Startup Announces Plans to Stop Grooming Teenagers

"This initiative has resulted in two distinct models and user experiences on the Character.AI platform — one for teens and one for adults."

Congress is pushing to break up the nation's biggest insurance monopolies after Brian Thompson's murder last week.
Health & Medicine

Congress Introduces Bills to Break Up UnitedHealth Group

This is major.

Scientists Say Something May Have Visited the Solar System and Rearranged the Planets
Off-World

Scientists Say Something May Have Visited the Solar System and Rearranged the Planets

And it was *big.*

OpenAI has finally opened its much-hyped Sora video generator to the public — and many of its outputs seem remarkably bad.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s Super-Hyped Sora Goes Absolutely Freakshow If You Ask It to Generate Gymnastics Videos

"The Turing test for AI video."

Bravo star Brandi Glanville claims that she has a parasite living in her face that has caused her massive physical pain and embarrassment.
Parasites

Real Housewife Details Battle With Parasite Living Inside Her Face

"I personally say it's Bravo."

Solar particles have wreaked havoc with satellites in our planet's orbit, messing with tractors and other farming equipment that rely on GPS.
Off-World

Farmers Say Intelligent Tractors “Acted Like They Were Demon Possessed” After Signal Out of Space

Solar storms are driving farmers "crazy."

Google Says It Appears to Have Accessed Parallel Universes
Future Society

Google Says It Appears to Have Accessed Parallel Universes

Can they access one where Steve Irwin is still alive?

Designer Babies Running Into Trouble Now That They’re Teenagers
Gene Editing

Designer Babies Running Into Trouble Now That They’re Teenagers

The kids grow up "knowing they were an experiment."

A security startup ominously named Sauron is offering elaborate but dystopian sounding surveillance systems for wealthy homes.
Future Society

Home Security Startup Sauron Secures Funding for All-Seeing Eye

"The bad people, they know they're being watched."

Footage recently shared by NASASpaceflight shows a massive robotic arm appearing to weld one of the company's Starship nosecones.
Robotics

Video Shows Robot Welding SpaceX Starship

Look at it go!

After discovering that his Cybertruck had a fatal flaw, one of the motors gave out completely, and had to be towed.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Owner Brags and Brags About Performance in Winter… Before Suffering Terrible Surprise

Tesla's service center blew him off repeatedly while he was waiting for his truck to be fixed.

SpaceX's valuation has sky-rocketed to $350 billion following a secondary share sale, making it worth more than McDonald's.
Future Society

SpaceX Now More Valuable Than McDonald’s and Coca-Cola

This is wild.

Sightings of mysterious drones that began in New Jersey mid-November have now reached the state of New York.
Future Society

Mystery “Car-Sized” Drones Reach the Skies of New York

The East coast is lighting up.

"Wanted" posters for healthcare executives begin cropping up in the wake of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson's stunning assassination.
Future Society

Wanted Posters for More Insurance Executives Appearing in NYC

"Health care CEOs should not feel safe."

Elon Musk claimed that "in most cases, the word 'homeless' is a lie," a bizarre and easily disproven claim.
Elon Musk

Befuddled Elon Musk Proposes Theory That Homeless People Don’t Actually Exist

"The richest man in the country is going to tell us what 'homeless' means... totally relatable!"

Google is distancing itself from Character.AI amid piling controversy. But in 2023, Character.AI was named Google Play's "best" AI app.
Google

Character.AI Was Google Play’s “Best with AI” App of 2023

"We've been increasingly impressed by what AI can do..."

Authorities are now confident that the weapon recovered from suspected CEO shooter Luigi Mangione was 3D-printed.
Future Society

Cops Say CEO Shooter’s Pistol and Silencer Were Both 3D-Printed

Homemade solution.