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Microsoft has secretly been selling AI to oil companies and claiming it can help them make even more money while degrading the climate. 
Environment

Microsoft Secretly Selling AI to Fossil Fuel Companies While Bragging About Environmental Progress

All while claiming the company will be "carbon negative" by 2030.

Biological robots such as xenobots and anthrobots perform new functions that their cells originally never exhibited.
Developments

Organisms Created in Laboratory Are “Third State” Beyond Life and Death, Scientists Say

"The third state challenges how scientists typically understand cell behavior."

Scientists have observed land surrounding a "unique" volcano in Tanzania bulging, a possible sign of an impending eruption.
Science & Energy

Giant Volcano Is Bulging, Scientists Find

It could be about to blow.

In 1996, Carl Sagan made a prescient prediction about a populist "charlatan" that seems to have come true some decades after his death.
Future Society

In His Final Interview, Carl Sagan Warned That Someone Just Like Trump Could Take Over America

"If we are not able to ask skeptical questions... then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan."

Tens of thousands of gallons of water were used to put out the Tesla Semi after its battery ignited and caught fire in a crash last month.
Tesla

The Tesla Semi Fire Closed a Freeway for 15 Hours and Took 50,000 Gallons of Water to Put Out

So. Much. Water.

For a few hundred thousand dollars, you can buy the machines you need to start producing lab-grown diamonds.
Future Society

You Can Officially Buy a Diamond-Generating Machine on Alibaba

Any takers?

Adam "WeWork Guy" Neumann's crypto company has been discreetly refunding investors after years of failing to do anything said it would do.
Cryptocurrency

You’ll Be Shocked to Hear That the WeWork Guy’s Crypto Startup Is Shriveling Up and Dying

You don't say?

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is set to explore one of the most promising spots to look for life in the solar system: Jupiter's moon Europa.
NASA

NASA Preparing to Launch Mission to World That “May Be Habitable Today”

It's unlike "anything we’ve seen before."

In a sweeping new lawsuit, over 900 people are claiming that Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs caused them long-term gastrointestinal damage.
RX and Medicine

More Than 900 Patients Say Ozempic and Similar Drugs Unexpectedly Injured Them

Does semaglutide have a dark side?

OpenAI's newfangled o1-preview AI model is still struggling with the absolute basics — like counting letters.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s New “Strawberry” AI Is Still Making Idiotic Mistakes

Oops.

NASA engineers have pulled off an incredible feat, switching the agency's ancient Voyager 1 probe to a different set of thrusters.
NASA

NASA Activates Ancient Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Most Distant Human Object in Existence

It's incredible that it still has fuel left.

Donald Trump's strange speaking patterns during his debate against Kamala Harris are cause for concern, a psychiatrist explains.
Health & Medicine

Psychiatrist Says Trump’s Speech Patterns at Debate Were Cause for Alarm

"Any fair-minded mental-health expert would be very worried about Donald Trump’s performance."

Boeing executives have been eerily quiet since its plagued Starliner limped back to Earth over the weekend.
Boeing

Boeing Execs Have Been Suspiciously Quiet Ever Since Starliner Limped Back to Earth

The silence is deafening.

Elon Musk built a massive, fume-emitting data center for xAI in South Memphis. Locals reportedly had little to no input.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Huge AI Supercomputer Visibly Spewing Fumes Into Surrounding Community

Grim.

Despite little evidence suggesting it works, Nevada is moving forward with plans to use AI to decide who gets unemployment benefits. 
Artificial Intelligence

The Geniuses in Nevada’s Government Are Letting a Half-Baked AI Decide Whether People Should Get Unemployment Benefits

And they gave taxpayers dollars to Google to build it.

Captured by the James Webb, the Little Red Dots indicate galaxies we've never seen before, and what's inside them is unclear.
James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Puzzled by Hundreds of Little Red Dots in James Webb Images of Distant Universe

What are they?

A few years before his passing, the late, great James Earl Jones teamed up with an AI voice startup to immortalize his iconic baritone.
Artificial Intelligence

Before He Died, James Earl Jones Signed Paperwork to Voice Darth Vader Using AI

This was a wise and prescient move.

OpenAI has released its long-awaited AI model, which was previously code-named "Strawberry," called OpenAI o1-preview.
OpenAI

OpenAI Just Released Its Long-Awaited “Strawberry” Model

It "performs similarly to PhD students on challenging benchmark tasks in physics, chemistry, and biology."

Elon Musk has had a longstanding crush on Taylor Swift, with his tweet suggesting he could impregnate her the latest in a long string.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Has Been Making Sad Attempts to Woo Taylor Swift for Years, and She’s Never Responded a Single Time

Elon Musk may just be the worst Swiftie alive.

OpenAI is rumored to release an AI model internally dubbed "Strawberry" that has a "human-like" ability to reason as soon as this week.
OpenAI

OpenAI Launching “Strawberry” Model With “Human-Like Reasoning” as Soon as This Week

The hype is unbearable.