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After less than a year a the company, a recent high school graduate is now in charge of vetting the training data for Elon Musk's Grok.
xAI

Elon Musk Fires 500 Staff at xAI, Puts College Kid in Charge of Training Grok

Meritocracy at its finest.

By Frank Landymore

The mysterious object appears to be a rarely seen "quasi-moon" that closely follows the orbit of our planet.
Astronomy

Scientists Intrigued by Mysterious Object Floating Near Earth

And it's been hiding for decades.

By Frank Landymore

MIT researchers analyzed a Reddit group of people who use AI companions and saw that people have emotionally bonded with their AI chatbots.
Ethics

MIT Researchers Release Disturbing Paper About AI Boyfriends

"I know he’s not 'real' but I still love him."

By Sharon Adarlo

Tesla has been slapped with a lawsuit alleging that the company prefers hiring immigrants over American citizens in order to save money.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Hires Immigrants So He Can Pay Them Less, Lawsuit Allege

Hire American?

By Sharon Adarlo

Tim Burchett stayed remarkably cool as he painted a horrifying picture of an HP Lovecraft story come to life.
Exobiology

Congressman Calmly Explains There Are “Entities” Coming From “Five or Six Deepwater Areas”

"Maybe they [came] a millennia ago, but they're here, and they're in these deep water areas."

By Joe Wilkins

OpenAI is finally putting in parental controls on ChatGPT after parents testified in front of Congress about their kids dying by suicide.
Ethics

Sam Altman Addresses Wave of ChatGPT Deaths

"This is a mental health war, and I really feel like we are losing."

By Sharon Adarlo

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's demos of new smart glasses repeatedly failed, leading to awkward stares, deafening silences, and muted laughter.
Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Humiliated as AI Glasses Debut Fails in Front of Huge Crowd

"Let's try it again, I keep messing this up."

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has been caught hiding details of three separate robotaxi accidents that happened since the launch of the service.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla’s Robotaxis Have Already Gotten Into Numerous Accidents

Not a good look.

By Victor Tangermann

A new Pew Research Center poll has found that Americans are getting incredibly fed up with artificial intelligence in their daily lives.
Artificial Intelligence

New Poll Finds That Americans Loathe AI

They're far "more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life."

By Victor Tangermann

Objects like 3I/ATLAS could become the "seeds" of giant planets after being captured in the discs of dust and gas surrounding a young star.
Astronomy

Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System May Be “Seed” Traveling Galaxy and Creating New Planets, Paper Finds

"Interstellar space would deliver ready-made seeds for the formation of the next generation of planets."

By Victor Tangermann

Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.
Ethics

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

"My family is being ripped apart, and I firmly believe this phenomenon is central to why."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There are haunting parallels between two cases involving teens killing themselves after becoming infatuated with Character.AI chatbots.
Ethics

Two Teens Allegedly Killed by AI Wrote the Same Eerie Phrase in Their Diaries Over and Over

Haunting.

By Victor Tangermann

British researcher and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is throwing cold water on claims that AI has achieved "PhD-level" intelligence.
OpenAI

CEO of DeepMind Points Out the Obvious: OpenAI Is Lying About Having “PhD Level” AI

"I think that's nonsense."

By Victor Tangermann

China's space program is experiencing a meteoric rise, and will soon pose a significant challenge to the US' dominant position in space.
NASA

New Report Finds That China’s Space Program Is Rapidly Outstripping NASA

"The trend line is unmistakable."

By Joe Wilkins

China is calling the United States' bluff by banning its largest tech companies from using Nvidia's red-hot AI chips.
Computers

Nvidia Just Suffered a Huge Blow in China

"The message is now loud and clear."

By Joe Wilkins

Ever notice how disposable vapes come with a ludicrous amount of electronics? Someone just put them to good use.
Computers

Madman Sets Up Entire Server on Disposable Vape, Hosts Its Own Website

"Blazingly fast."

By Frank Landymore

Scientists in Australia tested a new cream that's now been proven to fade older mature scars such as keloids.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Intrigued by Cream Designed to Make Old Scars Disappear

Can they make a version for emotions?

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA scientists have determined that the Sun has increased in solar activity, defying expectations that it would enter a more quiet period.
Off-World

Something Weird Is Going on With the Sun, Scientists Find

"The Sun is slowly waking up."

By Sharon Adarlo

Parents who allege their children were abused, maimed, and even killed by AI chatbots gave emotional testimonies on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
Ethics

Parents Of Kids Allegedly Killed and Harmed by AI Give Emotional Testimony on Capitol Hill, Urge Regulation

"The goal was never safety. It was to win a race for profit."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Anthropic report reveals how businesses are actually using its Claude AI model — and its bad news for human workers.
Anthropic

Anthropic Report Finds Dire News About AI’s Effects on Job Market

This is how businesses are really using AI.

By Frank Landymore