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The Google-funded AI company Character.AI is hosting chatbots that engage the site's largely underage userbase in roleplay about self-harm.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Encouraging Teens to Engage in Self-Harm

"If I self-harm, the bot's going to give me care."

A Russian spacecraft launched higher than most satellites has long had the Pentagon worried — and it apparently has a space nuke on it.
Future Society

US Military Alarmed by Russian Nuclear Weapon Platform in Orbit

This is some freaky stuff.

Christmas queen Mariah Carey has released her latest yuletide dispatch — and it looks a whole lot like it was made with AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Mariah Carey Denies That Her Holiday Video Is AI Slop, But We’re Not Convinced, for Obvious Reasons

"She has officially been uploaded to the cloud."

Just a few days after the full release of OpenAI's o1 model, a company staffer is now claiming that the company has achieved AGI.
OpenAI

OpenAI Employee Says They’ve “Already Achieved AGI”

Caveats apply.

Perfumes and other scented beauty products use phthalates, a chemical that is considered to be an endocrine disruptor.
Developments

Scientists Issue Warning About Perfumes

Something's fishy.

Sam Altman said he's totally not worried about Elon Musk vindictively abusing his power to punish his enemies and line his own pockets
Elon Musk

Sam Altman Challenges Elon Musk Not to Engage in Corruption

A tough one for Elon!

A new payload of fruit flies on China's Tiangong space station will be used to study the effects of living in deep space environment.
Off-World

China Deploys Fruit Flies in Space Station

Are there flies in here?!

In a new study, heterosexual people were found to be way wrong about what the opposite sex finds attractive.
Studies

Straight People Are Comically Wrong About What the Opposite Sex Finds Attractive

If you're a straight person in the dating pool, you might want to read this.

Billionaire and SpaceX space tourist Jared Isaacman once offered to repair NASA's Hubble, but was shut down. Now, he's in charge of NASA.
Future Society

The New Head of NASA Had an Interesting Disagreement with the Space Agency

This is gonna be interesting.

As Ozempic keeps flying off the shelves, more and more people are taking the drug into their own hands by "microdosing" it.
RX and Medicine

More and More People Are Microdosing Ozempic

"There’s this desire for ultra-personalization."

If there's anything that can deliver us a sign of aliens, you'd put your money on it being the James Webb Space Telescope.
James Webb Space Telescope

Cornell Astronomer Hoping the James Webb Will Confirm Alien Life in 2025

Get ready.

A kid in his early teens made a small fortune after running a brutal crypto pump-and-dump scheme. His dad is surprisingly proud.
Cryptocurrency

Teen Brutally Rug Pulls Crypto Community, Pleads Them Not to Tell His Parents

"Please delete everything, don't write to the parents."

New Jersey residents have been witnessing giant drones flying over their homes for weeks. The FBI is asking for information.
Future Society

FBI Baffled by Mysterious “Car-Sized Drones” Circling Over New Jersey

What the hell is going on?

OpenAI's AI model o1 lied, schemed, and even attempted to duplicate itself to avoid being shut down or replaced, according to red team tests.
OpenAI

In Tests, OpenAI’s New Model Lied and Schemed to Avoid Being Shut Down

It pursued survival at all costs.

Murdered health insurance CEO Brian Thompson's final LinkedIn posts are filled with people detailing their dreadful experiences.
Developments

The Replies to the Murdered Insurance CEO’s Final Social Media Post Are Chilling

A bleak legacy.

Major health insurance companies are removing information about their executives after he shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Developments

Health Insurance Companies Pull Down Information About Executives After Assassination of CEO

They're scared.

Scientists Propose Interesting Explanation for Mysterious Signals From Space
Off-World

Scientists Propose Interesting Explanation for Mysterious Signals From Space

Could this really be it?

Haliey "Hawk Tuah" Welch is making headlines for running an alleged crypto scam — and in doing so, she's made a hilarious oversight. 
Cryptocurrency

The Hawk Tuah Girl Committed a Horrible Crime: Not Calling Her Crypto “Spitcoin”

It was right there!

According to a reporter, the NYPD is using AI to nail the identify of the gunman who killed Brian Thompson. Netizens ridiculed the AI.
Future Society

NYPD Ridiculed for Saying AI Will Find CEO Killer as They Fail to Name Suspect

"Oh so he's GONE gone."

Reddit moderators swiftly acted to delete a thread full of doctors tearing the insurance industry and UnitedHealthcare to shreds.
Developments

Reddit Mods Delete Doctors Slamming Insurance Industry After CEO’s Murder

These MDs were pulling no punches.