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After Elon Musk co-signed antisemitic comments, Twitter CEO has been inundated with messages urging her to quit her job and save herself.
Future Society

Twitter CEO Keeps Getting Texts From Colleagues Telling Her to Resign

How much more of this kind of madness can she take?

According to longtime Tesla investor Ross Gerber, Elon Musk is an absentee CEO — and meanwhile, his antisemitism is destroying the company.
Elon Musk

Longtime Tesla Investor Says Elon Musk Has Effectively Stepped Aside as CEO

"But what he's really doing is destroying everything he built."

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

OpenAI Employees Say Firm’s Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims

"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

AI and Military Leaders Gathered for Mysterious Event in Utah

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

700 OpenAI Staffers Demand Board Reinstate Sam Altman as CEO

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

This Might Be the Reason OpenAI Fired Sam Altman

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

OpenAI’s New CEO Posted Edgelord Tweets About Rape and Nazis

"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

SpaceX’s Starship Reaches Space, Immediately Explodes

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

Microsoft Immediately Hires Sam Altman After He’s Fired by 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

Awesome Website Lets You See What Dinosaurs Lived Near Your House

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

Dead Star Springs Back to Life

"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

Scientists Simulate What It’s Like to Dive Into Uranus

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

Prison Phone Company Leaked User Data and Didn’t Tell Them, FTC Says

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

America’s Largest Health Insurer Denying Care With AI That’s Wrong 90 Percent of the Time, Lawsuit Alleges

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

Cybertruck Spotted With Christmas Tree Sticking Way Out of Its Tiny Bed

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

Exxon Is Trying to Find the Guy Who Did 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

Wave of Volcanoes Erupting Around the World is Totally Normal, Experts Assure

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

Hubble Discovers Closest Earth-Sized World to Our Star System

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

Crypto Mining Rig Discovered Under Floor of Courthouse, Stealing Power

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

Scientists Catch Mars Glowing Green

Glow, little rock star.