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OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever reportedly likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company.
OpenAI

"Feel the AGI! Feel the AGI!"

Last week, a group of AI and military leaders met in a secretive three-day retreat hosted at a luxury resort in the Utah mountains.
Military

Why so secretive?

OpenAI's staffers are pressuring the company to reinstate Sam Altman as its CEO — and say they'll walk if the board refuses.
OpenAI

This might be the messiest breakup in tech history.

A new report says that former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's high-dollar side projects might have been the reason for his firing.
OpenAI

Yeah, we can see why corporate governance wouldn't love that.

OpenAI's interim CEO, announced after cofounder Sam Altman was fired, seems to have made some really weird posts.
OpenAI

"The Nazis were very evil, but..."

SpaceX has launched its second orbital attempt of its massive Starship rocket. It exploded just eight minutes into its flight.
Starship

Another big boom for the books.

To cap off one of the most bizarre weekends in tech history, Microsoft has announced that it is hiring freshly-fired OpenAI chief Sam Altman.
OpenAI

Talk about a quick turnaround.

An engineer developed an interactive website with a 3D view of Earth and the option to see what the planet looked like in the distant past.
Science & Energy

Forget time travel.

A dead star is still emitting powerful flares of blue light — a fascinating discovery offering a glimpse into a rare type of star death.
Off-World

"We'd never seen that, period, in astronomy."

Researchers recently simulated an atmospheric probe mission through Uranus and Neptune's atmospheres inside a plasma tunnel.
Off-World

It's quite the journey.

A prison phone company is in trouble with the feds after not only improperly securing its users' data, but also failing to alert them.
Data Privacy

This is far from the first time this company's been in trouble with the law.

UnitedHealthcare uses its AI to systematically cut the time severely ill patients can spend in extended care, according to the lawsuit.
Developments

An appalling abuse of the technology.

An image uploaded to the Cybertruck subreddit shows most of a Christmas tree dangerously protruding from the back of the truck.
Advanced Transport

That looks hilarious.

Did you do climate change? If so, ExxonMobil's CEO is out to find you. And while he works on that, he thinks you should worry less about oil.
Climate Change

So brave.

Despite appearances, the amount of recent eruptions we're seeing from volcanoes is not unusual. We're just finally paying attention.
Science & Energy

The Earth is typically this busy.

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescopes, astronomers can confirm that there's a rocky exoplanet just a couple dozen light years away.
Off-World

Never count the Hubble out.

Unbeknownst to one of Poland's highest courts, someone was running a crypto mining rig underground and stealing government electricity. 
Cryptocurrency

That's one way to stick it to the man.

During a recent probe, the European Space Agency's ExoMars probe spotted the Red Planet glowing green at night.
Mars

Glow, little rock star.

A startup, Spaceborn United, wants to reach the goal of having a baby naturally conceived and born on Mars in the future.
Space

There's a risk: that things will go horribly wrong.

After X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk was spotted co-signing anti-Semitic sentiments, advertisers are already jumping ship.
Elon Musk

He may finally have gone too far.