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Behold, the transformational power of generative AI technology: generating photorealistic images of lil' tykes gleefully smoking cigs.
OpenAI

OpenAI Image Generator Draws Pictures of Children Smoking Cigarettes

The future's here, kids!

Metals from spacecraft that are supposed to safely burn up in the atmosphere are staying there and potentially affecting the ozone.
Off-World

Satellites and Spacecraft Are Polluting the Atmosphere, Scientists Find

"The Space Age has released human-made materials in what we consider a pristine area of the atmosphere."

The Cybertruck apparently held up admirably after being riddled with dozens of bullets, according to Musk.
Elon Musk

Elon Musks Says He Unloaded a Tommy Gun Into a Cybertruck “Al Capone Style”

Is he being serious?

A proposed New York State bill would require a background check to buy a 3D printer, in an effort to crackdown on 3D printed ghost guns.
3D Printing

New York Bill Would Require a Background Check for 3D Printers, Like a Gun

Want a 3D printer? Get a background check.

A documentarian once dubbed "the Donald Trump of TripAdvisor" collected bottles of Amazon driver urine and resold them...on Amazon.
Future Society

Madman Sells “Energy Drink” Made From Amazon Delivery Drivers’ Pee… on Amazon

"I couldn’t have predicted how easy it would be."

AI has a very dirty secret: that the people hired to train it are making literal pennies on the dollar, which is tantamount to slave labor.
Artificial Intelligence

That AI You’re Using Was Trained By Slave Labor, Basically

"In my point of view, it is digital slavery."

Universal Music Group and several other record labels have accused Anthropic of stealing their lyrics to train its chatbot Claude 2.
Anthropic

Music Industry Sues Anthropic for Alleged Theft of Lyrics

"This copyrighted material is not free for the taking simply because it can be found on the internet."

Federal regulators grounded Starship after its failed orbital flight test. SpaceX is annoyed it still hasn't gotten permission to fly again.
Advanced Transport

SpaceX Says Feds Are Being Unfair About Its Rocket That Exploded

Those darn regulations.

A one-time Fugees rap group member claims that his attorney fumbled his conspiracy trial because he used artificial intelligence.  
Artificial Intelligence

Fugees Rapper Says His Lawyer Lost His Case by Using AI

There's absolutely nothing normal about anything in this situation.

A new study from Stanford University shows that people with a hoarding problem can alleviate their issue by using virtual reality.
Virtual Reality

VR Lets Hoarders Practice Throwing Away Their Cherished Garbage

Become a virtual Marie Kondo.

NASA's Juno satellite captured new images of Jupiter's moon, Io, which has a fiery surface due to its many volcanoes.
Moon

NASA Spacecraft Snaps Beautiful Photo of Jupiter’s Volcano-Dotted Moon

So many volcanoes, so little time.

Amid rumors, Elon Musk insists that he is not, as reports suggest, going to pull out of the European Union.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He Has No Intention of Pulling Out

He's not mad. Don't put in the newspaper that he's mad.

A year since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, since renamed X, traffic at the social media platform has been down significantly.
Elon Musk

Twitter’s Traffic Is Falling Off Under Elon Musk’s Disastrous Leadership

A sad shell of itself.

Yann Lecun, one of three "godfathers" of AI and Meta's chief AI scientist, thinks that our AI doomsaying is "preposterous."
Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Tells Us to Stop Freaking Out Over Its “Existential Risk” To Humanity

"Intelligence has nothing to do with a desire to dominate."

Introducing bonesmashing, an ostensible TikTok trend in which young men claim that they're hitting themselves in the face with hammers.
Developments

Doctors Recommend Not Hitting Your Face With Hammers, Regardless What You Saw on TikTok

"Please do not hit yourself in the face with a hammer."

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, sees the loss of jobs as a natural part of "technological revolution" every 100 to 150 years.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Warns That AI Is Gonna Destroy a Lot of People’s Jobs

"I'm not afraid of that at all. In fact, I think that's good."

There's fewer than six weeks until Tesla's Cybertrucks start being delivered, and already, CEO Elon Musk is trying to set the bar low. 
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Admits Tesla “Dug Our Own Grave” With Cybertruck

"This is simply normal."

Ever tried Kendall Jenner's tequila brand, 818 Tequila? Neither has "Billie," Jenner's Meta-made AI doppelgänger. It's got other favorites.
Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s Kendall Jenner AI Recommends Other Tequilas Over Hers

"My go-to tequila is Don Julio or Patron. How about you?"

Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford neurobiologist, thinks "free will" is really just the culmination of biology, upbringing, and circumstance.
Neuroscience and Brain

Neuroscientist Says We Don’t Have Free Will After All

"We've got no free will. Stop attributing stuff to us that isn't there."

One of the biggest names behind an author-led lawsuit against OpenAI, John Grisham has seemingly run out of patience with AI companies.
Artificial Intelligence

John Grisham Unloads on Big Tech Using His Books to Train AI

"It's my turn to file suit."