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As The Information reports, one unnamed celebrity got as much as $5 million from Meta to be turned into an AI chatbot.
Meta

"Is this legal?"

By Victor Tangermann

Add cashing out $150 million in foreign bribes — and very weird plots involving Thai prostitutes — to the list of FTX uncanniness.
Blockchain

"$150 million for the thing."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Regularly gettin' down to some quality hanky panky may go a long way to protect aging humans against cognitive decline.
Studies

Knock those boots, y'all! Your brain may thank you.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The IRS says that Microsoft owes tens of billions of dollars in back taxes — and apparently, the company isn't buying it. 
Future Society

Imagine getting hit with an IRS bill like this.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A week after setting a world record for being the oldest person to skydive, a Chicago woman died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 104.
Developments

"The whole thing was delightful, wonderful, couldn’t have been better."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A public employee in Washington State is suing to get her health insurer to cover Wegovy, the expensive, headline-grabbing weight loss med.
RX and Medicine

"They’re being penny wise and pound foolish."

By Noor Al-Sibai

The consumer DNA kit company 23andMe has acknowledged that hackers had gained access to user accounts, but we have lots of questions.
DNA

Your DNA data shouldn't be in the hands of for-profit companies.

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has canceled a planned spacewalk, citing an ammonia coolant leak, which was discovered on the Russian segment earlier this week.
NASA

Better safe than sorry.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has readied a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for a mission to launch a spacecraft to study a big metal asteroid called Psyche.
SpaceX

It's finally happening.

By Sharon Adarlo

SBF's former colleague and romantic partner Caroline Ellison says that her ex had what seems to be a pretty skewed moral compass.
Blockchain

"He thought the only moral rule that mattered was doing whatever would maximize the utility."

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a letter to Elon Musk, an EU lawmaker accused X of allowing "illegal content and disinformation" about the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Elon Musk

X is teeming with fake news about the war.

By Victor Tangermann

Caroline Ellison told the court yesterday that back in 2021, Alameda Research already had an alleged $2.7 billion hole in its balance sheet.
Blockchain

SBF allegedly continued to make risky investments anyway.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Two astronauts on the ISS are gearing up for a spacewalk to figure out if microorganisms on the outside of the station can survive.
NASA

Could microorganisms really survive those conditions?

By Victor Tangermann

AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton, widely regarded as the "Godfather of AI," is worried that AI might take over the world one day.
Artificial Intelligence

"There's enormous uncertainty about what's going to happen next."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA Announces Asteroid Samples Contain Both Water and Carbon
NASA

Okay, this is interesting.

By Victor Tangermann

Alex de Vries, a data scientist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, found that AI companies could soon use as much power as a country worldwide.
Artificial Intelligence

"Each of these Nvidia servers, they are power-hungry beasts."

By Victor Tangermann

An analyst from a tech advisory firm said that generative AI is slated for a slowdown next year due to increasing costs.
Artificial Intelligence

Is reality crashing down?

By Sharon Adarlo

X-formerly-Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino's speaking tour is on pause for the foreseeable future following her disastrous Code interview.
Elon Musk

Linda Yaccarino's speaking tour is officially on hold.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Tesla Cybertruck with flashing hazard lights seemed to had become stalled on the side of a highway this weekend in California.
Advanced Transport

Don't hold your breath, buyers.

By Sharon Adarlo

Caroline Ellison testified that Sam Bankman-Fried once told her there was a five percent chance that he would become the president.
Blockchain

Sure, Sam.

By Victor Tangermann