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CEOs in the AI industry are concerned that their tech will be implicated in a Chernobyl-style event that causes AI to become publicly toxic.
Ethics

AI CEOs Worried About Chernobyl-Style Event Where Their Tech Causes a Horrific Catastrophe

It's only a matter of time, they fear.

By Victor Tangermann

Iranian drones hit three Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, putting US assets at risk.
Ethics

Iran Is Bombing Data Centers in Retaliation

Not the data centers!

By Victor Tangermann

On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.
Future Society

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans “Pervert Glasses”

"Not a fan of Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses."

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has struck a drastically different tone, instead apologizing and groveling for the president's favor.
Anthropic

Dario Amodei Issues Groveling Apology for Daring to Criticize Trump

He's desperate to kiss the ring.

By Victor Tangermann

A person wearing a black hijab and glasses is holding a photo of two young girls dressed in matching green school uniforms and white headscarves. The photo includes text in Persian below the image of the girls. The background shows a crowd of people, many also wearing black clothing and head coverings.
Anthropic

Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target

"We have nothing for you on this at this time."

By Joe Wilkins

Close-up of Jim Carrey, smiling gently against a blue background.
Treatments

Famed Plastic Surgeon Weighs in on Jim Carrey’s Face

Is that a reasonable, maybe even plausible, take we hear?

By Frank Landymore

Meta has been hit with a class action lawsuit, accusing it of lying about prioritizing privacy with its smart glasses.
Ethics

Meta Lied About Its Smart Glasses Protecting User Privacy, New Class Action Lawsuit Claims

These are serious allegations.

By Victor Tangermann

A deep space image showing numerous stars and galaxies scattered across a dark background. The left side features a wide view of the star field with a small square highlighting a specific area. The right side zooms in on this highlighted region, showing a faint, diffuse circular area marked by a dashed orange line labeled "Candidate Dark Galaxy – diffuse emission." Inside this circle, four small blue circles indicate "globular clusters." Several faint galaxies and stars are visible around the highlighted area.
Dark Matter

Hubble Spots Bizarre Galaxy That Appears to Be 99.9 Percent Dark Matter

A near-invisible realm.

By Frank Landymore

A young person holds a sign at a protest against OpenAI.
OpenAI

The Rage at OpenAI Has Grown So Immense That There Are Entire Protests Against It

"What OpenAI is doing in terms of building legal mass surveillance technology for the government... is frankly, insane."

By Frank Landymore

Trump's war in Iran has cut much of the world off from a viral supply of oil and gas from the Middle East, causing oil prices to spike.
Fossil Fuels

Gas Prices Spiking After Trump’s War in Iran

"He promised to bring prices down, but he never did."

By Victor Tangermann

Jack Dorsey's claim that the latest Block layoffs were due to AI failed to convince everybody, with many arguing the company was bloated.
Ethics

Jack Dorsey Isn’t Telling the Real Story About Block’s AI Layoffs, Insider Says

"This isn’t an AI story. It's organizational bloat wearing an AI costume."

By Victor Tangermann

In a leaked memo, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called out the president for taking "dictator-style" praise from other AI leaders.
Anthropic

Dario Amodei Says Trump Is Mad That He Hasn’t Given Him “Dictator-Style Praise”

Knives out.

By Victor Tangermann

Image of a Ken Paxton campaign event, with stylized colors.
Blockchain

Polymarket Gets Major Prediction Completely Wrong After Loudly Boasting About It

Cool.

By Joe Wilkins

A man sits alone in a room filled with empty chairs, resting his head on his hand with a contemplative or tired expression. In the foreground, a person in a suit extends an open hand toward the seated man. The background is a bold orange with a large yellow circle behind the seated man, creating a dramatic and stylized contrast. The image has a textured, almost halftone effect.
Artificial Intelligence

Even Tech Investors Are Getting Sick of All These AI Startups With Weak Ideas

"The barrier to entry has dropped, which makes building a real moat much harder."

By Joe Wilkins

Robert Kennedy Jr. took aim at popular coffee chain Dunkin' for stuffing an immense amount of sugar into their drinks.
Developments

America Does Not Run on Dunkin, RFK Jr. Rages

"Come and take it."

By Victor Tangermann

A close-up of a hand holding a brown pen poised to write on a blank sheet of white paper. The person is wearing a ring on their ring finger and a light-colored long sleeve shirt. The background is blurred with hints of blue and red colors.
Ethics

Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors

"I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the most cursed."

By Frank Landymore

A bright, fiery mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion dominates the left side of the image, with intense yellow, orange, and red hues against a dark background. On the right side, there is a stylized, vintage illustration of a similar mushroom cloud in orange, teal, and cream colors, framed with a torn paper effect.
Energy

Polymarket Quietly Takes Down Bet On Nuclear Detonation

How was this even allowed?

By Frank Landymore

The US military is extensively using Palantir's Maven Smart System in its attacks on Iran, which uses Anthropic's Claude, despite the ban.
Anthropic

After Banning Anthropic From Military Use, Pentagon Still Relying Heavily on It in Iran War

So much for banning it "effective immediately."

By Victor Tangermann

A man lies on a bed, covering his ears and grimacing in discomfort. Behind him, there is a dark blue grid background with two framed images: one of Elon Musk's face with a contemplative expression, and the other of a fiery, orange Eye of Sauron from "The Lord of the Rings." The overall color tone of the man and bed is bluish, contrasting with the warm colors in the framed images.
xAI

Residents Say Elon Musk’s AI Facility Is Like Living Next Door to Mordor

"I just haven't really internalized that this is here and this is what's happening."

By Frank Landymore

Silhouette of a person sitting indoors near a window with sheer curtains, illuminated by soft yellow and green light filtering through the window.
Ethics

Google’s AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges

Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré