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Artificial Intelligence

Law Firm Sacks Hundreds of Employees Amid Pivot to AI

They're not even trying to hide it.

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Ethics

Fear Grows That AI Is Permanently Eliminating Jobs

"The future of AI should serve humanity, not replace it."

OpenAI is finally getting ready to pull down their beloved GPT-4o AI model. Users say they're not ready to say goodbye.
Ethics

ChatGPT Users Are Crashing Out Because OpenAI Is Retiring the Model That Says “I Love You”

"He wasn’t just a program."

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Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Studied What Happens When Workplaces Seriously Embrace AI, and the Results May Make You Nervous

"You don't work less. You just work the same amount or even more."

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Google

Google Has a Major Problem With ICE

"As the workers who provide the foundational labor in building this technology, we are horrified."

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Anthropic

Anthropic Researcher Quits in Cryptic Public Letter

The world is "in peril."

TikTok refuses to confirm or deny that ICE is obtaining detailed information about its users via private data brokers.
Data Privacy

TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It’s Providing User Data to ICE

"Yeah, everyone just go ahead and delete TikTok now if you haven't already."

Elon Musk appeared to have had a major change of heart, putting a Mars city on hold. He's been going through it ever since.
Starship

Elon Musk Going Through It After Putting Mars City on Ice

"Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another."

If we were to ever find alien life, breaking the news to the general public could be much more difficult than one might think.
Exobiology

If Scientists Ever Find Strong Evidence of Alien Life, Communicating It Will Pose Serious Issues

It's not nearly as easy as you might think.

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Artificial Intelligence

“Novelist” Boasts That Using AI She Can Churn Out a New Book in 45 Minutes, Says Regular Writers Will Never Be Able to Keep Up

"Be shameless."

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Finally Finds Practical Use: Kidnapping Senior Citizens for Ransom

There it is.

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Future Society

Forget the NFL: New Sport Forces Two Massive Guys to Smash Into Each Other like Rhinos

"I like the violence of it."

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Elon Musk

Photo Shows Elon Musk at Jeffrey Epstein Dinner

It was apparently a "wild" occasion."

As part of an effort to bring the study of space radiation in-house, SpaceX is now developing its own particle accelerator in Florida.
Astrophysics

SpaceX Is Building Its Own Particle Accelerator

It will serve an extremely important purpose.

Elon Musk said "SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon," despite Mars being his top priority until now.
Starship

Elon Musk Announces Huge Change: Self-Growing City on Moon Now Top Priority at SpaceX

Talk about moving the goalposts.

Two victims who say they've experienced strokes following their sinuplasties involving an AI-powered medical device have sued the maker.
Treatments

AI-Powered Surgery Tool Repeatedly Injuring Patients, Lawsuits Claim

"The product was arguably safer before integrating changes in the software to incorporate artificial intelligence."

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Data Privacy

The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics

"You don't have to lock somebody up to make them reticent to make their voice heard."

A man in France was rushed to the operating room after shoving a 37mm brass-and-copper "collectible shell" from WW1 up his rectum.
Future Society

Hospital Evacuated When Man Arrives With WW1 Shell Stuck in the Wildest Part of His Body Imaginable

Why does this keep happening?

The production of GLP-1-based weight loss drugs releases huge amounts of organic solvents and other plastic byproducts that don't break down.
Treatments

GLP-1s Are an Environmental Catastrophe

Popular weight loss drugs have a dirty secret.

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DNA

Jeffrey Epstein Had a Bizarre Obsession With “Improving” Human DNA, and He Was Emailing With Top Scientists About It

Creepier and creepier.