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Wondering what data OpenAI used to train its buzzy new text-to-video AI? OpenAI CTO Mira Murati seems to be wondering, too.
OpenAI

In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From

"I'm actually not sure about that."

A Montana man was trying to create giant hybrid sheep from cloned embryos but his actions violated international and federal wildlife laws.
Future Society

Man Pleads Guilty to Trying to Clone Giant Sheep

"This was an audacious scheme to create massive hybrid sheep species to be sold and hunted as trophies."

Tech startup Figure has released a new clip of its OpenAI-powered humanoid robot chatting with an engineer as it puts away the dishes.
Robotics

This Humanoid Robot Powered by OpenAI Is Almost Scary

"So I gave you the apple because it’s the only, uh, edible item I could provide you with from the table."

In a new bill, Senator Bernie Sanders is pushing for a 32-hour work week that wouldn't result in a pay markdown. 
Future Society

Bernie Sanders Proposes Four-Day Workweek With No Loss in Pay

A four-hour workweek would give people back a whopping six years of their lives to do as they please.

In his latest racist outburst, billionaire Elon Musk joined other conservative pundits in accusing Haitian migrants of being "cannibals."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Thinks Cannibals Are Invading the United States

"It is racist. It is dehumanizing."

Former president Donald Trump took to Truth Social to dismiss unflattering — and real — videos of himself as AI-generated fakes.
Artificial Intelligence

Donald Trump Is Just Calling Any Video He Doesn’t Like “AI” Now

"Artificial Intelligence was used by them against me in their videos of me."

An engineer with the Deep Space Network figured out a way to decode a mysterious "new signal" coming from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.
Off-World

Voyager 1 Sputters Back to Life

"It’s an excellent development on Voyager."

At this year's South by Southwest, audiences booed a clip featuring people preaching the inevitably of an AI takeover.
Artificial Intelligence

SXSW Audience Loudly Boos Video About How AI Is Awesome

"Read the room, people."

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a not-so-subtle message to the West on Wednesday: he's got nukes and he is ready to use them.
Future Society

Putin Says He’s Ready for Nuclear War

Is Putin serious or bluffing?

After two spectacular explosions in April and November, SpaceX's massive Starship has officially made it to space for the second time.
Starship

SpaceX Starship Makes It to Space, But Crash-Lands In the Ocean

"The largest flying object ever made" just made it to space.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino sold ads for the show with Don Lemon that Elon Musk canceled at CES in January. A contract was never even signed.
Elon Musk

Twitter’s CEO Had Already Been Selling Ads for the Don Lemon Show That Elon Musk Suddenly Canceled

"If we have to go to court, we will."

In England, researchers have uncovered a wondrous discovery: 390-million-year-old fossilized remains of the oldest forest ever found.
Fossil Fuels

Scientists Discover Bizarre and Ancient Fossilized Forest

Calling Dr. Seuss.

The constitutionally enshrined freedom of expression apparently doesn't extend to transgender space camp employees in Alabama.
Future Society

Republicans Lose Their Minds After Hearing Space Camp Has a Trans Employee

This is a new low.

One of NASA's latest probes is carrying on the grand tradition of blasting humanity's message out to the stars.
NASA

NASA Craft Hunting Alien Life Will Carry a New Message From Humanity

An incredible time capsule.

A new report reveals that YouTube is filling up with AI-generated kids' videos, designed to glean cash via lucrative toddler eyeballs.
Brain

Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing

"All around the nation there are toddlers plunked down in front of iPads being subjected to synthetic runoff."

New James Webb Space Telescope measurements suggest that problems with Universal expansion rates may be caused by something else entirely.
Off-World

We May Have “Misunderstood the Universe,” Nobel Prize Winner Says

"What remains is the real and exciting possibility we have misunderstood the universe."

Meta's v63 update allows users of its Quest 2 and Quest Pro VR headsets to lay down while using their devices. VR porn enthusiasts, freak on.
Virtual Reality

Meta’s VR Headsets Are Getting a Masturbation Mode

"It's for porn right?"

Google has set up guardrails that bar its Gemini AI from answering any election questions in any country where they are taking place.
Google

Google Bans Its Dimwit Chatbot From Answering Any Election Questions

This is way too far-reaching.

A 78-year-old man, who has been living inside an iron lung since surviving polio in the 1950s, has passed away. 
Prosthetics and Devices

Man Dies After Living in Iron Lung for 70 Years

He lived a full life.

After being interviewed by Don Lemon, X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk has abruptly canceled the TV journalist's upcoming show on X.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Doesn’t Like Don Lemon’s Interview Questions, Abruptly Cancels His Twitter Show

"His commitment to a global town square where all questions can be asked and all ideas can be shared seems not to include questions of him from people like me."