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Almost half a year after announcing Twitter would pay content creators, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has finally made good on his promise.
Future Society

Musk's cronies are getting huge payouts.

OpenAI VP Peter Welinder wants you to know that OpenAI is not, in fact, making GPT-4 dumber. You just need to log off, actually.
OpenAI

"When you use it more heavily, you start noticing issues you didn't see before."

UNESCO cautioned that AI has seen "warp speed" advances in neurotechnology that can read your mind, raising human rights concerns.
Brain Implants

"We are on a path to a world in which algorithms will enable us to decode people's mental processes."

Unsurprisingly, the FTC's investigation into OpenAI isn't sitting well with CEO Sam Altman, who took to Twitter to lament the decision.
OpenAI

He's super disappointed. Poor guy.

Eliezer Yudkowsky, a controversial AI theorist, continues to believe that humanity is totally out of its depth when it comes to AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Is that good?

Lawsuits against AI companies for their AI training and data practices continue to pile up. This time, Google's the one in the hot seat.
Google

The lawsuits are piling up.

The current discussion surrounding the Screen Actors' Guild's strike was pretty much perfectly predicted by a recent "Black Mirror" episode.
Artificial Intelligence

That's why it sounded so familiar!

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said that he warned Chinese leaders that an AI-led "digital superintelligence" could take over the entire country.
Elon Musk

"No government wants to find itself unseated by a digital superintelligence."

Luxury cruise ship passengers were exposed to a grizzly sight after docking at the Faroe Islands capital: the slaughtering of pilot whales.
Science & Energy

It's not the kind of view they'd paid for.

Hollywood studios reportedly want to replace background actors with AI after paying them only for a single day of work.
Artificial Intelligence

"So if you think that's a groundbreaking proposal, I suggest you think again."

Gizmodo's AI-generated "Star Wars" article — a messy first foray into AI content on behalf of owner G/O media — is on Google's first page.
Google

They had one job!

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered "diverse" traces of "preserved organic matter" in a Martian crater.
Mars

It's another big piece of the puzzle.

Astronomer Rajendra Gupta has devised a new theory about the expansion of the universe, concluding that it's 26.7 billion years old.
Off-World

Could the universe really be 26.7 billion years old?

A new look at a protoplanetary disk surrounding a star revealed a massive exoplanet forming spiral arms, the first detection of its kind,
Off-World

Whoa.

The FTC has started an extensive investigation into OpenAI to figure out whether its products harmed consumer reputations.
OpenAI

OpenAI may have broken consumer protection laws.

A study that tracked the ocean surface over two decades found that it's slowly getting greener, likely due to climate change.
Climate Change

Feeling blue?

Bill Gates is worried about the role that AI and AI-generated content will play in elections and democracy. And, well, the guy's got a point.
Artificial Intelligence

He's got a point.

Scientists have created a breathtaking, three-dimensional visualization of a recent James Webb Space Telescope survey of ancient galaxies.
James Webb Space Telescope

Soaring through space -- at 200 million light-years per second.

Elon Musk has launched a new AI company. Called xAI, Musk says it was formed "to understand reality" — whatever that may mean.
Elon Musk

It's giving intro-level philosophy course.

A notorious female sea otter has garnered a reputation for harassing surfers in Santa Cruz, California — and even jacking their surfboards.
Science & Energy

"The otter was shredding, caught a couple of nice waves."