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In yet another potential triumph for the popular weight loss drug, scientists have found that semaglutide may be able to help alcoholics.
Studies

Scientists Say Semaglutide Appears to Help Alcoholics, Too

This is honestly fascinating.

By Noor Al-Sibai

An organizer of a developer conference has been accused of coming up with fake female speakers — AI-generated headshots and all.
Artificial Intelligence

Tech Conference Canceled After Using AI to Generate Fake Women Speakers

"This is damaging to all women in tech, even the ones that have nothing to do with the conference."

By Victor Tangermann

Entrepreneurs are hellbent on making a buck by repurposing existing content, laundering it through an AI, and passing it off as their own.
Artificial Intelligence

Guy Brags About “Stealing” Millions of Pageviews by Rewriting Competitors’ Articles Using AI

"And you're proud of this? Pumping garbage to get to the top of the trash heap?"

By Victor Tangermann

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole was best known for his cover of Judy Garland's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" — but now, AI has gotten to him, too.
Google

The Top Google Image for Israel Kamakawiwo’ole Is AI-Generated

An insult to his beautiful rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A newly-shared video showcases the soon-to-be-released Tesla Cybertruck's suspension-shifting "wake-up" sequence, complete with a light show.
Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck Stands Up Like a Camel When You Turn It On

That's something, we guess!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns the largest yacht in the world — and it's so massive, it has to be docked next to oil tankers down in Florida.
Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos’ Superyacht Is So Gigantic It Needs to Be Docked Next to Oil Tankers

And that's not the only huge problem with this boat, either.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Spanish model agency created an AI model called Aitana, who is netting the company up to $11,000 a month.
Artificial Intelligence

Creators of Fake Influencer Say She’s Generating $11,000/Month

A well-known actor apparently slid into her DMs, not realizing she "didn't exist."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists detected an extremely high-energy cosmic ray beaming from outer space — which confusingly came from nowhere in particular.
Off-World

Scientists Puzzled by High Energy Signal Coming From Seemingly Empty Space

"There was nothing."

By Victor Tangermann

Cybertrucks are finally being shipped out this week — and coincidentally, one's been spotted getting towed in San Francisco.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Spotted Getting Towed in San Francisco

With a ticket fluttering under its single gigantic windshield wiper.

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's a good chance Tesla's Cybertruck will require owners to polish their vehicles to maintain some semblance of evenness.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Owners May Need to Sand Them Down

Talk about high maintenance.

By Victor Tangermann

There's no need to freak out about that surge in respiratory viruses in China, according to both China and the WHO.
Developments

China Says Surge of Illness Not Caused by New Virus

"This is not an indication of a novel pathogen."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

We asked them about it — and they deleted everything.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some OpenAI leaders reportedly may have gotten spooked by a powerful new AI the company was working on called Q star.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s Chaos Linked to Super Powerful New AI It Secretly Built

OpenAI's latest AI could represent a "tremendous leap" forward.

By Victor Tangermann

New research reveals that a shocking amount of caviar products from Europe are illegal, some of it not even actual caviar.
Science & Energy

Scientists Test “Caviar,” Alarmed by What They Find

Bad news for sturgeons.

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that there are regions on Mercury that may have the right conditions for biological life to survive.
Off-World

Scientists Say There May Be Life Under Mercury’s Salt Glaciers

These pockets "might be more hospitable" than Mercury's harsh surface.

By Sharon Adarlo

As Scientific American reports, NASA estimates that it'll cost almost $1 billion to safely decommission the International Space Station.
NASA

Destroying the Space Station Will Cost NASA $1 Billion

It's going out with a bang.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA unveiled an image of the Milky Way, showing greater detail of a region close to the nucleus of the galaxy plus mysterious structures.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Detects “Unexplained Structures” in Heart of Our Galaxy

Beautiful and mysterious.

By Sharon Adarlo

This so-called nematode trapping fungus is a crafty, efficient killer that will quickly switch from prey to predator once it senses a worm.
Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Carnivorous Fungus That Devours Worms

Brutal.

By Frank Landymore

A piece of Chinese space junk hit the Moon and left a weird pockmark on the surface — but there's more to this story than meets the eye.
Moon

Chinese Spacecraft That Smashed Into Moon Was Carrying Something Mysterious, Scientists Say

Mysterious.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The yet unnamed disease has infected hundreds of dogs in at least five states and does not respond to antibiotics so far.
Developments

Mysterious Disease Spreading Among Dogs

Our furry friends are in danger.

By Frank Landymore