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Humanoid robot maker Figure has announced it has signed a new deal with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to make its robots understand language.
OpenAI

What could possibly go wrong?

OpenAI and its embattled CEO, Sam Altman, are apparently being investigated by the SEC about statements made to the company's investors.
OpenAI

Looks like Sam has more in common with Elon than either would care to admit.

Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed's widow and longtime collaborator, has been talking to an AI chatbot modeled after her late partner for years.
Artificial Intelligence

"People have styles, and they can be replicated."

Oprah Winfrey is leaving Weight Watchers after nearly a decade — and after admitting in recent months that she'd used weight loss drugs.
Health & Medicine

She didn't say which ones she'd taken, but she previously name-dropped Ozempic.

Space startup Varda Space Industries has shared a gorgeous video of one of its space capsules blasting through the Earth's atmosphere.
Off-World

It's a gorgeous clip.

Apple struggled to build its high tech car, burning billions of dollars while constantly changing its project's direction.
Advanced Transport

Doomed from the start.

A group of government scientists are suggesting a strategy to literally dehydrate the stratosphere to help cool the planet.
Climate Change

There are a lot of caveats here.

One recently shared image shows damage taken by NASA's Moon lander, with stripped pieces littering the lunar surface behind it.
Moon

That must've hurt.

Microsoft has responded to claims about Copilot's "SupremacyAGI" alter ego by admitting that it's an "exploit, not a feature."
Artificial Intelligence

"We have implemented additional precautions and are investigating."

Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a “Generally Reliable” Source After AI Scandal
Artificial Intelligence

"It's infuriating that Red Ventures' decisions have undermined the quality work done by CNET's writers, editors and producers."

Here's why the recent Willy Wonka Experience disaster in Glasgow was AI's Fyre Festival.
Artificial Intelligence

"They tried to Fyre Fest Willy Wonka."

As last year's record-breaking ocean temperatures cease to slow down, warming waters around the globe continue to alarm scientists.
Climate Change

"It's just astonishing. Like, it doesn't seem real."

Toyota engineers have created an ingenious air filter that can capture carbon dioxide from internal combustion engines in cars.
Advanced Transport

Okay, that's a pretty cool idea.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted an unusual "extremely red" supermassive black hole billions of light-years away.
James Webb Space Telescope

It's absolutely massive.

Bad news, stoners. New research suggests that any cannabis use is linked to increased risk for heart attacks and strokes.
Studies

Bad news, stoners.

Researchers have come up with an optical storage device that has the same shape and size as a DVD, but can store 1.6 petabits of data.
Science & Energy

It could be a game changer in data centers.

Google is paying publishers to test an AI tool that generates news — by reportedly gobbling up and regurgitating already-published news.
Google

Google, Google, Google...

The company that organized the Willy Wonka experience used AI to generate marketing and even the scripts for actors.
Artificial Intelligence

"The Unknown is an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls."

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is furious after his company's Gemini AI spat out unexplainable pictures of racially diverse Nazis.
Google

"To be clear, that’s completely unacceptable and we got it wrong."

Astronomers have discovered that a white dwarf star bears a never before seen metal "scar" near one of its magnetic poles.
Off-World

"Nothing like this has been seen before."