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In its most recent update, OpenAI blamed a possible cyberattack for the "periodic outages" affecting its ChatGPT chatbot.
OpenAI

OpenAI Says It Appears to Have Been Attacked

OpenAI is struggling to keep its ChatGPT service online.

Space Force Boss Says Weird New Weapons Are Headed to Orbit
Space Force

Space Force Boss Says Weird New Weapons Are Headed to Orbit

World powers are getting really creative.

A new book about Elon Musk's Twitter takeover is apparently full of wild stories — including one, of course, about Mark Zuckerberg.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Started Screaming About Zuckerberg Immediately After Signing Twitter Deal

Could he, like, chill?

After 14 long and problematic years, chat service Omegle has been taken offline. It's not exactly surprising.
Future Society

Omegle Shuts Down Amid Storm of Child Abuse Allegations

"Some people misused it, including to commit unspeakably heinous crimes."

Microsoft filed a patent for an AI therapist, designed to pick up on emotional cues and offer emotional support. How does that make you feel?
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Patents AI-Powered Therapy App

Dr. Roboto will see you now.

A new UN report has found that despite climate promises, the world's top oil producers are on track to drill for more fossil fuels than ever.
Fossil Fuels

As Climate Doom Looms, We’re Drilling For More Fossil Fuels Than Ever Before

"Governments are literally doubling down on fossil fuel production."

Silicon Valley startup Humane is set to unveil its long-rumored AI Pin at noon EDT today. But leaked documents have us seriously worried.
Artificial Intelligence

Humane’s Uber-Expensive “AI Pin” Sounds Like a Total Disaster

So many red flags.

Does any other federal agency in the United States — or, let's be real, the entire world — have branding quite as iconic as NASA's?
NASA

NASA Bows Down Before Mighty Worm

Do the worm!

A worker in South Korea was crushed to death by a robot after it failed to tell him apart from the box of vegetables it was handling.
Robotics

Grocery Robot Crushes Robot Inspector to Death

This is horrific.

After getting some intense media grilling about whistleblower reports, the man who headed up the Pentagon's UFO office is stepping down.
Off-World

Military UFO Head Resigns After Being Grilled About Whistleblower Claims

"The best thing that could come out of this job is to prove that there are aliens."

Amazon's upcoming LLM codenamed "Olympus" will reportedly have two trillion parameters, twice as many as OpenAI's GPT-4.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Reportedly Training AI With Twice as Many Parameters as GPT-4

The AI wars have become a parameter measuring contest.

Everyone knows that Elon Musk broke Twitter when he bought it, but fewer were aware that Twitter seems to have broken him right back. 
Elon Musk

Twitter Staff Almost Called the Cops During One of Elon Musk’s Tantrums, Fearing He’d Hurt Himself

"They thought he was going to self-harm himself."

Globe owners, take heed: a new island has emerged from Japanese waters, the result of submarine volcanic activity off the coast of Iwo Jima.
Science & Energy

New Island Bursts Forth From Ocean

Go little island, go!

Google DeepMind researchers discovered something about AI models that may hamstring their employer's plans for more advanced AIs.
Google

Google AI Researchers Found Something Their Bosses Might Not Be Happy About

Is there a hard limit to this type of AI?

Peter Jackson, who pioneered the AI tech to isolate John Lennon's vocals for The Beatles' "Now and Then," is ready to release more songs.
Artificial Intelligence

Peter Jackson Threatens to Release Even More AI Beatles Songs

Maybe just let it be?

Elon Musk's Neuralink brain-computer interface company is apparently ready to begin its robot-assisted brain chip implantation.
Brain

Neuralink Ready to Start Letting Robots Implant Chips into Human Brains

In spite of it all, it's really happening.

A husband-and-wife duo have published a book about life on Mars that includes a section about the ethics of astronaut cannibalism.
Off-World

Should Astronauts Be Allowed to Eat Each Other If They’re Starving?

"Is it wrong to waste such a neatly packaged meal?"

In newly-released audio recorded by journalist Tiffany Fong, former crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said he had done "net harm to the world."
Future Society

In Newly-Released Audio, SBF Admits He’s “Done Net Harm to the World”

"The fact that I have done that harm weighs enormously on me."

A matte-black Cybertruck, which Tesla chief designer Franz von Holzhausen was driving around Southern California, looks awful up close.
Advanced Transport

That Matte Black Cybertruck Looks Absolutely Horrendous Up Close

This is just embarrassing.

Documents obtained by The Intercept reveal how Cruise failed to meet its own safety standards for driving around kids.
Advanced Transport

Cruise Reportedly Knew Its Robotaxis Struggled to Notice Children and Kept Them on the Road Anyway

"Based on the simulation results, we can't rule out that a fully autonomous vehicle might have struck the child."