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President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders are calling on the makers of weight loss drugs like Ozempic to make them cheaper.
RX and Medicine

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders Demands Drug Companies Cut Price of Ozempic and Other New Weight Loss Drugs

Oh.

One Tesla megafan received not just one but two subsequent Cybertrucks, that turned out to be complete lemons.
Tesla

Tesla Megafan Receives Two Subsequent Cybertrucks That Completely Fail

"Do not try to fix this truck anymore, just send a replacement from Texas ASAP!"

Mercedes-Benz's autonomous driving head Jochen Haab criticized Tesla's autonomous driving rollout, arguing it erodes trust.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Mercedes Exec Blasts Tesla for Reckless “Full Self-Driving” Rollout

"If things are overpromised or do underperform, even if it's very seldom, the entire trust in autonomous driving itself loses confidence."

We found the one piece of AI-generated Facebook sludge to rule them all — and it has one giant boot and a birthday wish.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Has Unlocked a Level of Facebook Pandering Previously Unknown to Science

Haven't you heard? Today's their birthday!!

As the tech sector reels from layoffs, one underemployed worker is urging others to sell their blood to make ends meet.
Future Society

Laid Off Tech Worker Suggests That Unemployed People Should Sell Their Blood to Survive

"My chances of obtaining another great-paying [full-time] job are next to zero."

A 72-year-old man in Florida has been arrested after shooting a Walmart delivery drone with his 9mm handgun.
Drones

Elderly Florida Man Arrested for Shooting Walmart Delivery Drone

"A bullet hole was discovered in the payload the drone was carrying."

In its latest environmental impact report, Google admitted that its 2023 emissions saw a 13 percent year-over-year increase. The culprit? AI.
Google

Google Is Failing to Meet Important Climate Targets so Its AI Can Tell You to Put Glue on Pizza

Maybe watch your AI consumption.

We're just not good enough at complicated ways space junk falls through the atmosphere, even stuff that's designed to burn-up.
Off-World

Experts Warn That We’re Vastly Underestimating the Threat of Falling Space Junk

Space junk should be burning up upon re-entry, but it's not.

The factors that YouTube will consider to determine if AI content impersonates someone, however, is considerably hazy.
Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Now Lets You Request the Removal of AI Content That Impersonates You

Good.

Would-be Tesla buyers are more turned off by Elon Musk's brand and politics than ever before, a new survey shows.
Elon Musk

Drivers Are Not Buying Teslas Specifically Because of Elon Musk’s Annoying Behavior

"You’re basically driving around a giant red MAGA hat."

Elon Musk is now claiming that the update to Grok, his dad joke-spewing AI chatbot, is going to drop next month.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says a Second Grok AI Will Hit the Internet Next Month

Jury's out on whether this is legit or not.

By analyzing a decade of scientific papers, researchers found AI models are overusing "style" words that were uncommon just a few years ago.
Artificial Intelligence

Research Shows That AI-Generated Slop Overuses Specific Words

Wordsmiths, these AIs are not.

Researchers say they've used gravitational wave reserach statistics to solve an Antikythera mechanism mystery.
Science & Energy

Researchers Make Breakthrough in Study of Mysterious 2000-Year-Old Computer Found in Shipwreck

Cutting-edge gravitational wave research may have just helped solve a 2,000-year-old mystery.

Boeing has announced that it's buying Spirit AeroSystems, which manufactured the door plug that blew out of a jet earlier this year.
Advanced Transport

Boeing Is Buying the Company Responsible for Its Door Plug Blowing Out in Mid-Air

Nothing to see here, folks.

Less than a year after joining xAI's founding team, one of the researchers poached by Elon Musk has apparently returned to OpenAI.
OpenAI

AI Researcher Elon Musk Poached From OpenAI Returns to OpenAI

No loyalty among data thieves.

A South Korean administrative robot took a tumble down a set of stairs, leading to local reports of the first robot suicide in the country.
Robotics

Government Robot Falls Down Stairs, Dies

"Why did the diligent civil officer do it?"

NASA scientists have spotted unusual shapes in the Earth's ionosphere, hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface.
NASA

NASA Discovers Strange Spectral Formations High Over the Earth

There's something going on up in the Earth's ionosphere.

Researchers at MIT have developed a new prosthetic leg that can be controlled via brain signals, a notable achievement in the space.
Prosthetics and Devices

New Bionic Leg Can Be Controlled by the Wearer’s Brain

"They’ll be able to go hiking or dancing because they’ll have full control over their movement."

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has some thoughts about fair use — and according to him, just about anything online is fair for him to use!
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO of AI Says It’s Fine to Steal Anything on the Open Web

"...the social contract of that content since the '90s has been that it is fair use."

After boldly going to the Moon's far side, China is now in possession of more than four pounds of lunar samples.
Moon

China Cracks Open First Ever Sample From Moon’s Far Side

And they're already weirder than anyone expected.