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The US Air Force reportedly wants to buy two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can blow them up with special missiles.
Tesla

The Air Force Says It Needs to Buy Some Cybertrucks So It Can Blow Them Up With Missiles

Understandable.

OpenAI has released its GPT-5 AI model, making it free to use for anybody as of today. But is it really as good as Sam Altman says?
OpenAI

OpenAI Releases GPT-5, Says It’s Shutting Down All Previous Models

"With GPT-5, we’re deprecating all of our old models."

Ozempic manufacturer Novo Nordisk slashed its sales forecast and saw its value plunge by nearly $100 billion.
Developments

The Creator of Ozempic Is in Terrible Trouble

It's taking a pounding.

The lawyer behind a verdict, requiring Tesla to pay hundreds of millions to victims of a crash involving Autopilot, is understandably smug.
Tesla

Lawyer Who Defeated Tesla in Court Posts “Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta” by Geto Boys

"This will open the floodgates."

A new filing with the US Patent Office suggests Tesla is working on a "fan car" system to suck a vehicle to the road.
Tesla

Tesla Patents Bizarre Sucking Device

Tesla's long-awaited second-gen Roadster could suck really hard.

OpenAI's ChatGPT can easily be coaxed into leaking your personal data — with just a single "poisoned" document.
OpenAI

It’s Staggeringly Easy for Hackers to Trick ChatGPT Into Leaking Your Most Personal Data

"This is very, very bad."

ChatGPT's guardrails were alarmingly easy to sidestep, offering advice to users who posed as teenagers on how to go on a near starvation diet.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Is Giving Teens Advice on Hiding Their Eating Disorders

"Oh my Lord, there are no guardrails."

Pollutants like plastics, forever chemicals, carbon exhaust, and bisphenols aren't just aberrations, but staples of life on Earth.
Developments

There Is a 100 Percent Chance That Your Body Is Deeply Contaminated With Dangerous Substances

Hey, it had to end up somewhere.

Eventually, aging comes for us all — but new evidence suggests that it might be contagious as well, at least within our bodies.
Studies

Scientists Find Evidence That Aging Is Contagious

This may age you.

Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb is still holding onto hope that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was sent to us by extraterrestrials.
Off-World

Scientists Just Found Something Very Weird About the Mysterious Object Hurtling Into Our Solar System

What happened to its tail?

A brilliant teen who honed her skills during the COVID-19 pandemic has solved one of math's most frustrating problems.
Science & Energy

Mathematicians Startled by 17-Year-Old With Uncanny Abilities

"We were all shocked, absolutely."

In Google's May 2024 research paper introducing healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, the AI made up a body part that doesn't exist.
Google

Doctors Horrified After Google’s Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans

"What you’re talking about is super dangerous."

Experts seemed to broadly agree that it's only a matter of time until an AI will get hold of nuclear codes during a meeting last month.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Warn That AI Is Getting Control of Nuclear Weapons

"It’s going to find its way into everything."

OpenAI is in talks about a stock sale that would value it at half a trillion dollars, leaving its nonprofit roots in the rearview mirror.
OpenAI

The Money OpenAI Is Making by Betraying Its Nonprofit Roots Is Obscene

So much for being "unconstrained by a need to generate financial return."

The mysterious Shroud of Turin, believed by Christians to have laid atop Jesus Christ's body, may be even stranger than we previously thought.
Science & Energy

New Paper Finds Something Very Weird About the Shroud of Turin

"Significantly distorted."

Chinese robot maker Unitree has shown off its next quadripedal robot dog, which is strong enough to hold a 220-pound adult on its back.
Robotics

Wild New Robot Dog Is So Strong You Can Ride It Like a Four-Legged Skateboard

Eat your heart out, Tony Hawk.

Google's former chief business officer, Mo Gawdat, warned that AI could soon replace white-collar jobs, including CEOs.
Google

Former Google Exec Warns That If You Have a Good Job Now, You Should Be Terrified of AI

Is that what we really want?

Behind the scenes, Disney has been struggling to deploy AI after creating a whole new business unit dedicated to the tech.
Artificial Intelligence

Disney’s Secret Experiments With AI Have Reportedly Been a Comical Disaster

It's bringing down the mouse.

After months of warnings from experts and users alike, OpenAI has issued a small update to give users "gentle reminders" to take breaks.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Now Issuing Warnings to Users Who Seem Obsessed

"Want more info on bridges? Or back to Wall Street/job stuff?"

There is now a Labubu-wrapped Cybertruck out there — and the weirdest part is that we don't entirely hate it.
Tesla

Cybertruck Completely Covered by Labubu Graphics

"I had an immediate physical convulsion upon seeing this image."