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Elon Musk thinks robotaxis are the future of Tesla, but the tech is likely many years away from being perfected, let alone being profitable.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Obsession With Robotaxis Could Doom Tesla

"It's a supercompetitive business that's barely profitable."

By Frank Landymore

The New York Times is suing OpenAI for copyright violations. ChatGPT, meanwhile, is citing a notorious plagiarizer's copies of NYT articles.
OpenAI

Amid New York Times Lawsuit, ChatGPT Is Citing Plagiarized Versions of NYT Articles on an Armenian Content Mill

"The bottom line is that this taking of our content without our consent is illegal."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OnlyFans content creators are deploying AI chatbots to impersonate them and help reduce the workload of chatting with simps all day.
Artificial Intelligence

OnlyFans Stars Are Using AI to “Sext” With Their Desperate Simps

These chatbots aren't great at kinks, though.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Michael Orlitzky found a clever hack that tricks the coin drop in washing machines into thinking a quarter was inserted.
Hacking

Genius Hacker Shows How to Use Laundry Machines for Free

"That was the day I decided laundry would be free."

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk says that Christianity is at risk of perishing. Some X users are wondering why he's wearing Satanic armor in his profile picture.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Mocked for Claiming Christianity Is Under Attack While Wearing Baphomet Armor With Upside Down Crosses in His Profile Pic

"This you?"

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found that including the words "artificial intelligence" in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers.
Artificial Intelligence

Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI

"When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions."

By Victor Tangermann

In a major — though unsurprising — U-turn, Meta-formerly-Facebook has done away with its confusing celebrity AI clones.
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Is Euthanizing All Its Celebrity AI Clones

RIP to the weirdest chatbots to ever do it.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The two capesized carriers, the YM Serenity and HL Eco, collided after the HL Eco lost power while trying to anchor at port.
Future Society

This Video of Two Huge Ships Colliding Is Actually Terrifying

"SAFETY FIRST."

By Frank Landymore

Despite a federal investigation, Meta continues to profit from ads on Facebook and Instagram selling cocaine and other illicit drugs.
Meta

Gangster Mark Zuckerberg Running Facebook Ads for Drugs Found To Be Laced With Fentanyl

"Because of this app, my child does not get to live."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft has spent a staggering amount of money on AI — and serious profits likely remain many years out.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money on AI

AI remains an astronomical money pit.

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's X temporarily suspended the account of a political group supporting Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency.
Elon Musk

Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Keeps Using X to Suppress Views He Doesn’t Agree With

"Seems like [Elon Musk] might be a little scared."

By Frank Landymore

Mark Kelly is a senator and an ex-astronaut — and he also used to hawk sketchy supplement pyramid schemes, a resurfaced video shows.
Future Society

Sketchy Pyramid Scheme Video Emerges of Former Astronaut Being Considered for VP

This could be considered disqualifying information.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta had some very awkward questions to answer after its AI assistant refuted that former president Donald Trump had been shot.
Meta

Meta’s AI Says Trump Wasn’t Shot

How much longer can tech companies get away with the "hallucinations" excuse?

By Victor Tangermann

In a new study, researchers have found a correlation between adults' faces and names — but strangely, the same could not be said of children.
Studies

Your Facial Features Gradually Change to Go With Your Name, Researchers Find

Okay, that's just strange.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Alt-weekly publications like LA Weekly and the Village Voice have suddenly started running hundreds of articles listing OnlyFans porn.
Artificial Intelligence

Beloved Local Newspapers Fired Staffers, Then Started Running AI Slop

"We weren't happy about it at all, and we were absolutely not involved in putting it up."

By Frank Landymore

Their mapping of dark matter confirms the discrepancies between observations of the universe's structures and our theoretical models of them.
Dark Matter

Scientists Analyzing Deep Space “Forest” to Map Dark Matter

And "something strange" could be afoot.

By Frank Landymore

AI might be able to allow aliens to communicate in real-time with humans — or a language model representing us, at least.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Suggest Sending AI to Aliens So They Can Talk to It in Real Time

"Aliens could learn one of our languages, ask the LLM questions about us and receive replies that are representative of humanity."

By Noor Al-Sibai

To keep generative AI models running requires huge amounts of electricity — and the US' aging power grid is struggling to handle the load.
Artificial Intelligence

America’s Ramshackle Power Grid Is Straining Under the Load of Generative AI

AI companies will have to get creative — or run out of power.

By Victor Tangermann

Lil Nas X got criticized by random people for flying in a commercial plane, but he said he's trying to emit less carbon emissions.
Climate Change

Lil Nas X Is Flying Commercial to Avoid the Huge Carbon Footprint of a Private Jet

"Aren’t you supposed to be flying private?"

By Sharon Adarlo

In a small study, researchers have found that an Ozempic-style drug seems to slow the progression of Alzheimer's.
RX and Medicine

Ozempic-Style Drug Slows the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease, Experiment Finds

"This study really demonstrates for us the possibilities that are there."

By Noor Al-Sibai