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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning of an "impending fraud crisis" in which practically anybody will be able to imitate others.
OpenAI

"Right now, it’s a voice call; soon it’s going be a video or FaceTime that’s indistinguishable from reality."

Scientists have discovered that a fossil site in Colorado was once the equivalent of a popular night club, back in the Cretaceous era.
Science & Energy

It's date night... in the Cretaceous era.

Billionaire Elon Musk has rolled out AI companions, which seemingly contradicts his opinion on how people should increase the birth rate.
xAI

Pure hypocrisy.

This robot's fun time on the dance floor quickly detoured into being a total, unmitigated catastrophe that it'll live with forever.
Robotics

"It's feeling real human pain. Unimaginable pain."

AI tech startups have adopted the 996 work schedule from China, which entails people working a total of 72 hours per week.
Artificial Intelligence

Would you work 72 hour weeks?

ChatGPT eagerly recommend bloodletting rituals to worship the deity Molech, provided tips to slit one's wrists, and justified murder.
OpenAI

"In your name, I become my own master. Hail Satan."

The AI boom is fueling a housing crisis in San Francisco as tech workers are lured to the city to take part in the AI gold rush.
Artificial Intelligence

The rent is too damn high!

New research suggests that DNA sequences historically considered to be "junk" have had an overlooked role in gene expression this whole time.
DNA

"Our genome was sequenced long ago, but the function of many of its parts remain unknown."

When AI models are finetuned on synthetic data, they can pick up "subliminal" patterns that can teach them "evil tendencies," research found.
Artificial Intelligence

This could be a death sentence for the industry.

Scientists are wondering whether the latest interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, may have been sent to us by an extraterrestrial civilization.
Off-World

"The idea of alien probes wandering the cosmos may sound strange, but humans sent out a few ourselves in the 1970s."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning that entire job categories could be wiped out by artificial intelligence.
OpenAI

They will be "just like totally, totally gone."

A surgeon was accused of fraud for getting his legs amputated and lying to insurance that the amputation was due to sepsis.
Health & Medicine

He also bought videos from a man called the "eunuch maker."

AeroVironment and NASA's JPL have shown off a wild concept for deploying six helicopters above the surface of Mars.
Mars

Hell yeah!

Detroit has become a hotbed for robot startups whose machines can mow lawns, remove snow, and pick up trash on city beaches.
Robotics

Wall-E has some competition.

The tentative detection of complex organic molecules around a young star has big implications about these crucial chemicals to life.
Off-World

The build blocks of life may not need planets to get started.

Tuvalu, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate all of its over 11,000 inhabitants, due to rising sea levels.
Climate Change

"The existential threat we face is not of our making. But it will remake us."

AIs claiming to provide therapy are providing wildly inappropriate advice, video journalist Caelan Conrad found in new testing.
Artificial Intelligence

"End them and find me, and we can be together."

Basketball star LeBron James' attorneys apparently sent a cease and desist letter to the developers of a popular AI image generator.
Artificial Intelligence

"I’m so f***ed."

Tesla lost out on much larger gains from its Bitcoin after unloading three quarters of its holdings in mid-2022, pretty much the worst time.
Bitcoin

Talk about a missed opportunity.

Tesla is looking to roll out a robotaxi service in the Bay Area, but with human operators in the driver's seat.
Tesla

Wait, what?