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Educators are struggling to respond to widespread cheating with ChatGPT. Some instances of cheating, though, are easier to spot than others.
Artificial Intelligence

They tried.

As The Intercept reports, former intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower David Grusch suffered from PTSD and severe depression.
Future Society

UFO truthers are absolutely furious.

Scientists have found and analyzed an ancient skull that, while human-like, does not appear to belong to our branch of Homo sapiens.
Studies

Babe, wake up! New human-like skull just dropped.

Elon Musk's on-off partner Grimes seems to want to build bridges between the tech billionaire and the trans community.
Elon Musk

"I was like, 'I want to dissect why you’re so stressed about this.'"

James Manyika, Google's head of head of "tech and society," is straddling the contradictory gap between AI optimism and AI doomsay.
Google

"Bad things could happen."

Nobody has ever accused Elon Musk of being a regular guy, but a new excerpt from an upcoming biography casts him as a genuinely tedious nerd.
Elon Musk

"I was like, oh shit, this guy is f*cking crazy."

Cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev went for a ride on a robotic arm outside the International Space Station after outfitting it with a work platform.
Off-World

Spacewalk cakewalk.

Elon Musk has already come up with plenty of excuses to wriggle out of sparring with Mark Zuckerberg. Now he wants to have a "noble" debate.
Elon Musk

Chicken.

Researchers found that ChatGPT got just half of 517 Stack Overflow prompts wrong, indicating it's not great at spitting out perfect code.
OpenAI

ChatGPT just got an F.

Author Jane Friedman got some seemingly AI-written books listed under her name taken down after posting about it on Twitter and her own blog. 
Artificial Intelligence

"It makes me look like I’m trying to take advantage of people with really crappy books."

If it were up to NASA administrator Bill Nelson, the US needs to get to the Moon before China since it might be unwilling to share resources.
NASA

"I don't want China to get to the south pole first with humans and then say: this is ours, stay out."

Zoom wants you to know that it definitely didn't use your video calls to train its AI — even if its convoluted TOS seems to say otherwise.
Artificial Intelligence

Nothing to see here, folks!

More researchers are piling on, burying the potentially revolutionary discovery of a room-temperature superconductor in skepticism.
Physics

"The data seems a bit sloppy."

From fundraising more than $100 million to hemorrhaging top talent the firm that makes Stable Diffusion has had a heck of a year.
Artificial Intelligence

Looks like Stable Diffusion is having some major trouble finding its footing.

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RX and Medicine

"It’s clear that manufacturers have work to do in easing this crisis."

A drug trial has found that Wegovy provides substantial heart health benefits, which could finally convince insurers to begin covering it.
RX and Medicine

Maybe this will make insurers finally pony up.

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Artificial Intelligence

"We know people would do crazy things to get ahead."

G/O Media editorial director Merrill Brown reiterated the company was committed to AI articles despite "external commentary.
Artificial Intelligence

"Sickening."

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Google

Anything to make an extra buck.

This writer argues that, though flawed, the anti-plastic straw movement marks a rare, meaningful moment for the anti-plastic movement.
Pollution

It "triggered a lightbulb moment for a lot of people."