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The British Geological Society is warning that the Earth is about to get hit by the most powerful solar storm in over two decades.
NASA

Scientists Say the Largest Solar Storm in Two Decades Is About to Blast Earth

It's so fierce, Blue Origin just had to scrub a rocket launch.

Chinese company XPeng showed off a robot with distinctly female anatomy, including pronounced breasts and hips, sparking a discussion.
Robotics

Robotics Company Explains Why Its Terminator-Style Robot Features Prominent Bazongas

"These things are mega creepy."

XPeng's new "Iron" robot is a horrifying abomination without its skin, but that doesn't mean it's not an impressive piece of machinery.
Robotics

This Company’s Terminator-Style Robot Is Low-Key Terrifying

Horrifying abominations are walking in China.

Yann LeCun, Meta's top AI scientist, is reportedly leaving the company amid Mark Zuckerberg overhauling its AI strategy.
Meta

Meta’s Top AI Scientist Is Quitting as Zuckerberg’s Spending Spree Sputters

A massive shakeup is taking place at Meta.

Russia unveiled a humanoid robot, dubbed AIdol, during a flashy showcase in Moscow — only for it to fall on its face.
Robotics

Russia’s First Humanoid Robot Just Failed So Spectacularly During It’s Debut That We’re Suspicious the Entire Thing Was an Elaborate Joke

"He looks like he's been on the Vodka."

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas is using the troubling rise in AI companionship apps to hawk his company's AI web browser.
Ethics

Perplexity CEO Warns That AI Girlfriends Can Melt Your Brain

"Your mind is manipulable very easily."

Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered an idea to curtail crime during his latest meeting with the board of directors: robots that stalk criminals.
Elon Musk

Elon Says His Robot Will Follow Criminals Around to Make Sure They Never Offend Again

"It's just gonna stop you from committing crime, that's really it."

If there's any job artificial intelligence should be good at, it's spamming the internet with algorithmic comments.
Ethics

AI Is Failing at the Most Hilarious Task Imaginable

And it's failing by a lot.

OpenAI's AI video-generating app, Sora, is likely costing the company an astronomical amount of money to run, as Forbes reports.
OpenAI

OpenAI Is Reportedly Burning a Ludicrous Amount of Cash on Sora

Even OpenAI knows the "economics are currently completely unsustainable."

The tech giant's stocks tumbled after SoftBank pulled nearly $6 billion in funding, though the AI bubble isn't bursting yet.
Finance

Nvidia Stock Lurches Down as SoftBank Pulls Entire Investment

Is the bubble finally popping?

A clandestine startup privately funded by tech billionaires is looking into germline gene editing a human embryo.
Gene Editing

Startup Secretly Working to Gene-Hack Human Baby

Talk about an incubator.

Elon Musk had his personality effortlessly deconstructed by an 87-year-old novelist, and didn't take it well.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Got One-Shotted by an Extremely Mean Tweet

The world's richest man, bullied by an 87-year-old woman.

Viral footage shows a huge Blue Origin rocket trundling down the highway, showcasing its mind-boggling scale.
Blue Origin

You Haven’t Realized How Huge a Rocket Actually Is Until You’ve Seen This Video of One Being Moved on the Highway

Brain-melting.

A YouTuber named Chris Doel cracked open hundreds of vapes to build an energy cell capable of powering his entire house.
Pollution

Man Builds Huge Battery Bank From 500 Disposable Vapes to Power His Entire House

"This is just amazing, isn't it."

ChatGPT has been publicly linked to at least eight deaths. OpenAI has announced no plans to take it off the market.
Ethics

ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace

Jarring.

The MeerKAT radio telescope detected hydroxyl radicals from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, suggesting it's shedding a ton of water
Astronomy

Scientists Receive Interesting Signal From Mysterious Interstellar Object

"It tells us that the ingredients for life’s chemistry are not unique to our own."

Elon Musk is not beating the lonely loser allegations with his latest post of an AI woman declaring her love for him.
Future Society

Elon Boasts That His AI Can Generate a Beautiful Woman Saying “I Will Always Love You”

"They're calling it the most divorced post of all time."

The head of Tesla's Cybertruck program, Siddhant Awasthi, has announced that he's leaving the company after more than eight years.
Electric Vehicles

The Guy Responsible for the Cybertruck Is Suddenly Leaving Tesla

He's leaving a disaster behind.

Researchers at the University of Nottingham say they've come up with a new type of gel that can repair and rebuild tooth enamel.
Treatments

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Regrow Tooth Enamel

"The growth actually happens within a week."

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may have just broken up into well over a dozen pieces.
Astronomy

The Mysterious Interstellar Object May Have Just Exploded

"This would mean that 3I/ATLAS exploded at perihelion and we are witnessing the resulting fireworks."