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China has released video footage of its gun-toting robot dogs, and it's about as scary as you were probably imagining.
Robot Dogs

Video Shows China’s Rifle-Equipped Robot Dog Opening Fire on Targets

This is terrifying.

Shareholders are being encouraged to vote by offering them the chance to win a personal tour with Elon Musk of the Tesla Gigafactory.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Begs Tesla Shareholders to Vote for His $56 Billion Pay Package

He's willing to sweeten the deal.

More and more kids are using Ozempic and Wegovy than ever before, and that might not necessarily be a good thing. 
RX and Medicine

So, So Many Kids Are Taking So, So Much Ozempic

It's not just adults.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers observed the birth of some of the youngest galaxies ever witnessed.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Just Observed the Universe’s Youngest Galaxies Being Born

Woah.

While CEOs and investors rush to jam AI into as many products as possible, the general public couldn't care less about it.
Artificial Intelligence

Most People Couldn’t Give a Crap About Using AI, Survey Finds

Many of them never even heard of ChatGPT.

The lava flows were formed by recent volcanic eruptions, providing some of the best evidence yet that Venus is still geologically active.
Off-World

Astronomers Spot Epic Flows of Lava Oozing Out of Venus

"After you see something like this, the first reaction is 'wow.'"

Less than 10 days after dissolving its old safety team, OpenAI has announced a one — with CEO Sam Altman at its helm. 
OpenAI

Sam Altman Replaces OpenAI’s Fired Safety Team With Himself and His Cronies

That was fast.

At a news conference on Friday, Boeing and NASA said they were going to proceed with the Starliner launch without fixing a helium leak.
Advanced Transport

Boeing Says Leak on Its Spacecraft Is Totally Fine, Will Launch Astronauts Without Fixing It

Okay then.

Google manually removed AI-powered search results from pages where it was caught giving bizarre and incorrect information to search users.
Google

Google Caught Manually Taking Down Bizarre AI Answers

This is just embarrassing.

A Ohio man was sent to the emergency room after his new Tesla Cybertruck's metallic panels sliced open his wrist.
Advanced Transport

Driver Says He Still Loves His Cybertruck After It Sliced His Wrist Open And Sent Him to the Emergency Room

"I, too, thought it was a little slice like a paper cut… Until the blood started pouring."

The person behind those New Hampshire primary robocalls urging voters not to write President Joe Biden in faces a massive fine.
Artificial Intelligence

Robocaller Who Spoofed Joe Biden’s Voice With AI Faces $6 Million Fine

The government wants to send "a strong deterrent signal to anyone who might consider interfering with elections."

Elon Musk Got Destroyed After Accusing Top AI Scientist of “Going Soft”
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Got Destroyed After Accusing Top AI Scientist of “Going Soft”

He got told.

A billionaire plans to journey to the Titanic wreck — but in a presumably more sea-worthy vessel than the OceanGate's Titan which imploded.
Advanced Transport

Oh No! Yet Another Billionaire Plans to Visit the Titanic Wreck

What could go wrong?

xAI, the artificial intelligence startup founded by Elon Musk, has garnered billions of dollars in its latest round of funding.
OpenAI

Elon Musk’s AI Company Announces Ungodly Sum of Money to Beat OpenAI

Holy cow.

The Car Thing will no longer be supported by Spotify, turning this perfectly capable piece of hardware into more needless e-waste.
Future Society

Spotify Says the Hardware Player It Sold You Two Years Ago Will Stop Working and the Only Thing You Can Do Is Throw It in the Trash

A giant "screw you" to customers.

The DOJ is suing Ticketmaster and Live Nation to eliminate its alleged chokehold on the ticketing industry.
Future Society

Ticketmaster May Finally Get What It Deserves

Love this for us.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says problems with its AI can't be solved because hallucinations are an inherent problem in these AI tools.
Google

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

Ouch.

Google's AI search delivers each of its AI-paraphrased answers to user queries with total confidence. Just one problem: it's wrong. A lot.
Google

Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage

This sucks.

A research team have identified a new type of cat whose distinctive fur on its back coat is caused by a unique mutation.
Future Society

Mutation Has Led to a New Type of Cat, Scientists Say

But will it win best in show?

Leave it to The Onion to excoriate OpenAI and its horrendous handling of the Scarlett Johansson ChatGPT fiasco.
OpenAI

The Onion’s Take on OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Disaster Is Pretty Much Perfect

Bravo.