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Unitree's G1 robot made its major stage debut by appearing alongside Chinese singer Wang Leehom during a Friday night concert in China.
Robotics

Robots Tear Up Stage as Backup Dancers

This is seriously impressive.

By Victor Tangermann

Google's horrible AI summaries are stealing recipes and throwing them together in a meaningless statistical stew.
Artificial Intelligence

Google’s AI Summaries Are Destroying the Lives of Recipe Developers

"I think this is an extinction event."

By Frank Landymore

Makers of Ozempic and other weight loss drugs are facing lawsuits that allege the drugs cause blindness in some patients.
RX and Medicine

Lawsuits Allege Ozempic Is Causing Blindness

More than 70 lawsuits are pending in federal and state courts.

By Sharon Adarlo

In a recent analysis, economist Dean Baker explains that crypto's collapse leaves the rest of us with a bigger piece of the economic pie.
Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Crashing Is Actually Awesome News for Regular People, Economist Says

"To put it simply: there's more for everyone else."

By Joe Wilkins

A sheriff in Sweetwater County, Wyoming still has no answers as unexplained drone sightings drag on into their 13th month.
Future Society

Sheriff Puzzled by UFOs Hovering Over Power Station

"It's like the new normal."

By Joe Wilkins

Basketball star Kyrie Irving gets into an altercation with a Unitree G1 humanoid robot, and it doesn't end well for the little machine.
Robotics

Kyrie Irving Has “Incident” With Humanoid Robot

"Skynet will remember that."

By Frank Landymore

The latest version of ChatGPT still comes up way short of identifying animals on an alphabet poster, a task meant for preschoolers.
Machine Learning

When Asked to Generate an Alphabet Poster for Preschoolers, the Latest Version of ChatGPT Just Flails Wildly

"Still needs more capex."

By Joe Wilkins

A Waymo robotaxi has once again been spotted driving on the wrong side of the road, leaving human motorists baffled.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Spotted Driving Wrong Way Down Busy Street

"Just another day in Austin."

By Frank Landymore

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has called for the halt of new data center construction to let democracy catch up to technology.
Future Society

Bernie Sanders Calls for Halt on Construction of New Data Centers

"This process is moving very, very, quickly, and we need to slow it down."

By Joe Wilkins

Trump's Truth Social company announced this week that it's merging with the fusion power company TAE, formerly called Tri Alpha Energy.
Nuclear Fusion

Truth Social Stock Explodes as It Merges With Nuclear Fusion Company

Of course it is.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA failed to reestablish contact with its MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars and hasn't received any signs of life since December 4.
Mars

NASA’s Mars Spacecraft Spinning Helplessly After Signal Lost

It's "rotating in an unexpected manner."

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software is still ironing out minor issues like being stun-locked by engilding rays of sunlight.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Owner Says FSD Is Great Except for the Part Where It Can’t Drive in the Sun

Full Self-Driving Teslas: coming to a Sun-soaked ditch near you.

By Frank Landymore

Private space tourist and billionaire pilot Jared Isaacman has officially been confirmed as NASA administrator.
NASA

New NASA Director Taking Over Agency in Crisis

Finally, NASA has a leader again.

By Victor Tangermann

Over six million conversations with private AI chatbots were scraped and sold to data brokers for profit, according to new security research.
Anthropic

Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit

"There is no user-facing toggle to disable this."

By Joe Wilkins

Scientists say they've found an unexpected, 12.4-mile-thick layer of rock lurking below Bermuda's oceanic crust.
Evolution

Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Under Bermuda

Deep down.

By Victor Tangermann

A hacker found a way into the backend of AI startup Doublespeed, which offers customers access to a massive phone farm network.
Hacking

Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated “Influencers” on Instagram

Talk about leaving the barn door open.

By Joe Wilkins

Students at Lawton Chiles Middle School were sent into lockdown after their AI system misidentified a student's clarinet as a gun.
Future Society

AI Sends School Into Lockdown After It Mistook a Student’s Clarinet for a Gun

"A student was walking in the hallway, holding a musical instrument as if it were a weapon, which triggered the Code Red to activate."

By Joe Wilkins

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is using his latest AI image model to imagine himself as a hunky, holiday-themed hero.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Uses His New Image Generator to Show Himself As a Jacked Fireman With Washboard Abs… With an Absolutely Hilarious Error

Look closely: there's a problem.

By Frank Landymore

After Elon Musk cut off the rest of the world by shutting USAID, the World Food Program's operations in Kenya were left in shambles.
Food

A Huge Number of People Starved to Death After Elon Musk Cut USAID’s Funding

"There was zero plan, except causing pain."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that lab mice that were released into a large, enclosed field were almost immediately less anxious.
Future Society

When You Hear What Happens When They Put Lab Mice in Nature, You Might Rethink Your Entire Life

A single week in an open field turned these lab mice's lives around.

By Victor Tangermann