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Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly working on a $100 billion supercomputer, codenamed Stargate, to train advanced new AI.
OpenAI

Microsoft and OpenAI Reportedly Building $100 Billion Secret Supercomputer to Train Advanced AI

That's "billion" with a "b."

For a period of time in 2023, the person in charge of OpenAI's $175 million startup fund appears to have been completely fake.
OpenAI

The Person Who Was in Charge of OpenAI’s $175 Million Fund Appears to Be Fake

"Jacob Vespers does not exist to our knowledge."

British archaeologists have found microplastics amidst historic sediment excavated in York that date as early as the 1st and 2nd centuries.
Pollution

Scientists Alarmed to Discover Microplastics in Ancient Archaeological Dig

Is nothing safe?

Chinese scientists have developed an implantable battery that ingeniously uses oxygen already inside the human body.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Test Battery Powered by the Body’s Oxygen

Imagine a battery inside your body you never have to change.

The James Webb Space Telescope's dazzling imagery actually arrives to researchers in black-and-white and is colored via educated guessing.
James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb’s Beautiful Images Actually Arrive in Black and White

"We're just trying to enhance things to make it more scientifically digestible and also engaging."

Boulders that were released after NASA's DART spacecraft collided with asteroid Dimorphos could eventually smash into Mars.
Mars

Debris From NASA Smashing Asteroid Could Strike Mars, Scientists Find

We literally created our own meteor shower.

Ever since a huge cargo ship named Dali leveled Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, people have been scrambling to explain how it happened.
Future Society

Experts Say Bridge Collapsed Because It Was Struck by Giant Ship

"My crazy conspiracy theory is the bridge collapsed because it got hit by an absolute unit of a boat."

The NYPD is looking to address a recent spike in car theft by shooting GPS-enabled darts at fleeing vehicles.
Robots and Machines

NYPD Shooting Fleeing Cars With GPS Darts

"What we want to do is to mitigate as many high-speed chases in the city as possible."

An official New York City chatbot designed to help business owners navigate city law apparently knows very little about said laws.
Artificial Intelligence

Official NYC Chatbot Encouraging Small Businesses to Break the Law

"Yes, you can take a cut of your worker's tips."

The first astronauts to walk the surface of the Moon in almost 50 years will bring a greenhouse to study how crops adapt to the environment.
Moon

NASA’s First Artemis Moon Astronauts Will Bring Small Greenhouse to Lunar Surface

Could we really grow food on the surface of the Moon?

Results from a study suggests that transfusions of blood, bone marrow, organs and other biological matter can spread Alzheimer's Disease.
Neuroscience and Brain

Alzheimer’s May Spread Through Blood Transfusions, Scientists Find

Ominous.

As investors are pouring billions of dollars into AI companies, analysts are starting to become wary of an "AI bubble" that's forming.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Concerned by Signs of AI Bubble

"When the music stops there will not be many chairs available."

Astronomers captured the black hole at the center of the Milky Way in polarized light and its surrounding magnetic fields for the first time.
Future Society

Scientists Capture Amazing Image of Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy

Woah.

A pod of sperm whales used "defensive defecation" to successfully deter a vicious swarm of orcas off the coast of Western Australia.
Science & Energy

Footage Shows Whales Fighting Off Orcas Using Explosive Diarrhea

"It's called defensive defecation."

Reddit shares are cratering right now, plunging almost 25 percent in just two days, less than a week following its IPO.
Future Society

Reddit’s Stock Is Already Collapsing

Shares slipped almost 25 percent in just two days.

The Daily Beast reports that Boston University suggested its professors should use AI to replace the work of striking graduate students.
Artificial Intelligence

University Leadership Suggest Using AI to Replace Striking Grad Students

Be serious, people.

A new report reveals the chaos behind the startup Stability AI, including an incident where its now-ex CEO disappeared in his pajamas.
Artificial Intelligence

Stability AI CEO Disappeared in His Pajamas in Bizarre Incident

"That level of souring is pretty uncommon — at least that early anyway."

Senator Bernie Sanders is calling on Ozempic and Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk to slash its prices for the treatments in the US.
Health & Medicine

Bernie Sanders Demands Cheaper Ozempic

"The American people are sick and tired of paying, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs while the pharmaceutical industry enjoys huge profits."

Gay dating platform Grindr is betting big on generative AI, and is working on an AI chatbot you can have sexually explicit chats with.
Artificial Intelligence

Grindr Working on Chatbot You Can Sext With

"AI boyfriends" are the new "AI girlfriends."

Two beluga whales have died at Niagara Falls tourist attraction Marineland this month, raising the total number of whale deaths to 17.
Science & Energy

Marineland Under Investigation Amid 17 Beluga Deaths

"Marineland has lost the trust of the public and has no business caring for animals."