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Disney and NBC are both watching a proposed New York law that would bar them from lucrative state tax breaks if they use AI to replace humans.
Artificial Intelligence

It's always about the money.

By Noor Al-Sibai

We talked to Rice University scientists studying how training AI with synthetic, AI-generated content causes a destructive inbreeding effect.
Artificial Intelligence

"Loops upon loops."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Experts, including executives who are marketing these tools, argue that AI chatbots are doomed to forever come up with falsehoods.
Artificial Intelligence

"This isn’t fixable."

By Victor Tangermann

A professional UFO hunter is throwing cold water on the government whistleblower who claims the Pentagon has alien carcasses.
Off-World

If the evidence is there, why is it still hidden?

By Noor Al-Sibai

While messing with an AI image generator, an Asian MIT grad found that the bot's way of professionalizing her headshot was to make her white.
Artificial Intelligence

"I'll have to go without a new LinkedIn profile photo for now!"

By Noor Al-Sibai

Another day, another step closer to the normalization of romantic AI chatbot partners — if Andreessen Horowitz has things its way, that is.
Artificial Intelligence

File under: the most depressing hierarchy of emotions you will ever see.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The only thing beastly about the MrBeast Burger is, apparently, the allegedly "raw" and uncooked meat that comprises it.
Future Society

If even half of this suit's claims are true, this company majorly effed up.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have developed a detailed computer stimulation that models the flow of heat and energy inside massive stars.
Off-World

Cataclysmic forces drive a complex dance inside massive stars.

By Sharon Adarlo

In a brutal new Bloomberg poll, Tesla owners' opinion of CEO Elon Musk appear to have also turned increasingly negative
Elon Musk

"I canceled my Cybertruck reservation after Elon's behavior with Twitter. Don't see myself buying another Tesla."

By Sharon Adarlo

Facebook's parent company Meta is about to launch AI-powered chatbots that are meant to lure users back to the mammoth social media platform.
Meta

Will this bring young people back to Facebook?

By Victor Tangermann

Officials at China's Hangzhou zoo want you to know that their Malayan sun bear is not, in fact, a human in a costume, thanks!
Science & Energy

"Let me reiterate again to everyone that I am a sun bear."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has made a huge booboo, accidentally cutting all communications to the second most distant spacecraft from Earth.
NASA

Big oops.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted a small celestial object shaped almost perfectly like a question mark.
James Webb Space Telescope

We have nothing but questions.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are concerned about a huge chunk of ice larger than Mexico failing to refreeze as temperatures drop in Antarctica.
Climate Change

"There’s a sense that something weird is going on."

By Victor Tangermann

New research has found that microwaving plastic food containers spews out toxic microplastics — and it's freaked out the guy studying it.
Developments

He's not wrong to be scared!

By Noor Al-Sibai

San Franciscans are already bidding adieu to the strobing "X" sign that sat atop the Twitter headquarters for three days.
Future Society

X, Y, Z U L8er.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers are warning that crucial ocean currents called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could collapse as soon as 2025.
Climate Change

"I think we should be very worried."

By Victor Tangermann

Germany, France, and the UK are all investigating OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's company Worldcoin, which scans irises into a database.
Blockchain

Are the walls closing in?

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 24-year-old man jumped off a dock for a swim, got electrocuted and died in a bizarre incident at Lake Lanier in Georgia.
Science & Energy

We're confused too.

By Sharon Adarlo

Ever wanted to live on Venus? In a few short decades, you can — or that's what the other OceanGate cofounder claims.
Off-World

Sure, what could go wrong?

By Noor Al-Sibai