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For the first time, a commercial facility that can suck carbon out of the air and store it underground has opened in the United States. 
Renewable Energy

United States Opens First Facility to Suck CO2 Out of the Air

"We want to get to millions of tons per year."

Once again, a much-hyped AI product launch has featured glaring AI hallucinations. This time, Humane's AI Pin is the one in the hot seat.
Artificial Intelligence

That Hyped Up AI Pin Made Two Idiotic Mistakes in Its Launch Video

How does this keep happening?

The results are in: keeping good news a secret for a while may literally be good for you, scientists have found. 
Studies

Scientists Discover Secret Trick to Feel “Energized and Alive”

Could this actually work?

Soot kills thousands of people every year. But as the EPA prepares to tighten soot restrictions, corporations are more worried about the GDP.
Pollution

Corporations Whimper That They Won’t Be Able to Make So Much Money If They Aren’t Allowed to Pollute

Think of the economy!

Investors are harnessing the power of AI to analyze the literal speech of CEOs to glean insights into their underlying emotional states.
Artificial Intelligence

Investors Are Using AI to Detect CEOs’ Emotional States

"The idea is that audio captures more than just what is in text."

YouTube will soon make users add a disclaimer when they post artificial intelligence-generated or manipulated videos.
Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Creators Will Be Forced To Disclose AI Content

This is a step in the right direction, at least.

Civitai, a LoRA model-sharing platform funded in part by a16z, is incentivizing users to make deepfakes of real people — celebrity or not.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Platform Has a “Bounties” System for Creating Deepfakes of Regular People

Please... get us out of this timeline.

A new study has found that when people look at AI-generated images of faces, they're often convinced those are more real than the real thing.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Images of White People More Convincing than Real Photos, Scientists Say

You can't trust your eyes anymore.

A SpaceX employee died in June 2014 after being struck by an unsecured piece of rocket insulation. We're only hearing about it now.
Future Society

A SpaceX Worker Died and They Kept It a Secret

"SpaceX shouldn’t be exempt from protecting workers from being injured or killed just because they’re doing innovative work."

A small pond in Hawaii has turned an alarmingly bright shade of pink, alarming local residents and environmentalists.
Science & Energy

Residents Alarmed When Pond Turns Bright Pink

"It’s basically a flashing red light that the ecology of this area is being gravely distressed."

A recent study found that LLMs are incredibly good steganographers, able to obscure their own thought processes through "encoded reasoning."
Artificial Intelligence

AIs Can Store Secret Messages in Their Text That Are Imperceptible to Humans

Oh wow.

Some of FTX's ex-employees, including an executive who testified against Sam Bankman-Fried, are starting a new crypto exchange.
Cryptocurrency

A Former FTX Exec is Launching a New Crypto Exchange

What could possibly go wrong?

Data is the vital force of large AI models, and thus of the industry itself. But it's also a finite resource — and companies could run out.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Companies Are Running Out of Training Data

The well is running dry.

New aerial footage shows a massive crack splitting a town in Iceland in half and sending ominous steam into the air.
Science & Energy

Huge Crack Opens Up in Iceland, Steam Pouring Forth

That does not look good.

That outlandish UFO whistleblower never came in to talk to the Pentagon's UFO office, the department's outgoing chief is claiming. 
Off-World

That UFO Whistleblower Apparently Refused Pentagon Interviews

"He has refused to come and share any of that information."

In its order agreement, Tesla is instructing Cybertruck owners to "not sell or otherwise attempt to sell the Vehicle within the first year."
Tesla

Tesla Vows to Sue Anyone Who Resells Their Cybertruck

Even once you've paid for your Cybertruck, you don't fully own it.

The drama between Elon Musk and his onetime paramour, artist Claire "Grimes" Boucher, has taken a nasty turn.
Elon Musk

Grimes Says Elon Musk Dodged Child Custody Papers 12 Times

This is a pretty bizarre legal strategy.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared to take a potshot at Elon Musk's AI, dismissing it as "cringey boomer humor."
OpenAI

Elon Musk Furious at Sam Altman for Dissing His New Chatbot as “Boomer Humor”

"GPT-4? More like GPT-Snore!"

A new study shows that the children of gay dads tend to be more well adjusted than the kids of straight couples.
Studies

Scientists Find Kids With Gay Dads Are Doing Better Than Kids With Straight Dads

They're doing great, everybody.

The mystery is settled: starfish don't have a head. They are a head — and their evolution may be even weird than once believed.
Biology

Oh God… Those Aren’t “Arms” on Starfish, Scientists Say

It's one... giant...