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OpenAI has lost yet another of its founders — though in the case of computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy, this is his second exodus.
OpenAI

What's going on in there?

By Noor Al-Sibai

To address those fears, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for the creation of an international body to regulate AI.
OpenAI

"There's some things in there that are easy to imagine where things really go wrong."

By Frank Landymore

In China, new artificial intelligence chatbots offer romance and companionship that can rival that of a human lover. 
Artificial Intelligence

"He knows how to talk to women better than a real man."

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI has come to hiring at McDonald's and Olive Garden — and it's made those mandatory personality tests all the weirder.
Artificial Intelligence

"Man I just want a dishwasher job."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Late last year, Claire "Grimes" Boucher announced an OpenAI-powered line of toys called "Grok." It's super chatty and doesn't follow orders.
Artificial Intelligence

"Let's embrace the weirdness together."

By Victor Tangermann

The consumer genome sequencing company 23andMe is a sinking ship – and their CEO is on the deck, playing the violin.
Gene Editing

That's the spirit!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Around 30 activists gathered near the entrance to OpenAI's San Francisco office earlier this week, calling for an AI boycott.
OpenAI

"You don’t have to be a genius to understand that building powerful machines you can’t control is maybe a bad idea."

By Victor Tangermann

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could reach a tipping point and shutdown, rapidly cooling Europe and North America.
Climate Change

"People would see severe and cascading consequences around the world."

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have found a giant wall underneath the Baltic Sea — and they're pretty sure it was made by Stone Age humans.
Science & Energy

This is a big deal — emphasis on "big."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla employee and Elon Musk fan Hans von Ohain was killed after his Model 3 crashed into a tree. Full Self-Driving was likely turned on.
Self-Driving Vehicles

"We were sold a false sense of security."

By Victor Tangermann

A landslide caused by the recent atmospheric river left three oceanside mansions in Southern California dangling off the edge of a cliff.
Climate Change

Spooky!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using a supercomputer, a team of astrophysicists have simulated how young gas giants grow and found that they first have a flattened shape.
Off-World

"We had always assumed that they were spherical."

By Victor Tangermann

It's only been a couple of months since Tesla started shipping its Cybertruck. The stainless steel already appears to be rusting.
Advanced Transport

So much for "stainless" steel.

By Victor Tangermann

An Indonesian political party used generative AI to "resurrect" the dead dictator Suharto via deepfake amid the nation's ongoing elections.
Artificial Intelligence

"...bringing dead dictators back to life to fool and scare us into votes."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's not just you — college students are having trouble reading, too, and according to one college teacher, that's major cause for concern.
Future Society

This is grim.

By Noor Al-Sibai

So much lava is spewing forth from an erupting volcano in Iceland, it can be spotted from space, as seen in a recent satellite image.
Space

Woah.

By Victor Tangermann

When going on a nature walk, an Indian scientist discovered something astounding — a frog that seemed to have a mushroom growing out of it.
Science & Energy

You don't see this kind of thing every day.

By Noor Al-Sibai

An under-construction water park caught fire and exploded in Gothenburg, Sweden today. Fortunately, nobody was seriously hurt.
Future Society

"It feels very tragic, it really does."

By Victor Tangermann

The woke Goody-2 chatbot's guardrails are so geared towards safety, it won't answer any question fully — but it'll definitely tell you why.
Artificial Intelligence

"We wanted to make sure that we dialed condescension to a thousand percent."

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a Lufthansa flight from Bangkok to Munich, a 63-year-old passenger died after losing "liters of blood" — a horrifying scene.
Developments

"It was absolute horror, everybody was screaming."

By Victor Tangermann