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A Russian artist is threatening to destroy $45 million worth of art work if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange dies in prison.
Future Society

Man Threatens to Destroy Priceless Rembrandt and Picasso Paintings With Acid If Julian Assange Dies

It's called "The Dead Man’s Switch."

OpenAI is looking to hire an "insider risk investigator" to "fortify our organization against internal security threats."
OpenAI

OpenAI Hiring Detective to Find Who’s Leaking Its Precious Info

"Your expertise will be instrumental in protecting OpenAI against internal risks, thereby contributing to the broader societal benefits of artificial intelligence."

A new Amazon AI model is, according to the researchers that built it, exhibiting incredible language abilities that it wasn't trained on. 
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing “Emergent Abilities”

Whoa.

An international team of scientists has discovered water molecules on the surface of an asteroid for the first time.
Off-World

Scientists Surprised to Find Distant Asteroid Is Very Soggy

"We detected a feature that is unambiguously attributed to molecular water on the asteroids Iris and Massalia."

AI may soon ruin our ability to make decisions for ourselves — an outcome that would be, one expert warns, "catastrophic." 
Artificial Intelligence

AI May Be Atrophying Our Brains, Professor Warns

If you don't use your brain, you could lose its abilities.

Researchers are testing out drastic, large-scale geoengineering methods that were once considered taboo in order to fight climate change.
Climate Change

Scientists Desperately Studying How to Hack Climate

These projects are out of science fiction.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is getting fined for $3,600 after a worker suffered a "near amputation" of a foot at one of its facilities.
SpaceX

SpaceX Fined for “Near Amputation” of Employee’s Limb

SpaceX worker says "safety can get overlooked."

Some folks who cashed out the eye-watering $3,500 (before tax!) for Apple's Vision Pro headset are already showing some buyer's remorse.
Virtual Reality

People Are Already Returning Their Apple Vision Pro Headsets

"Well after two days I am sad to report that I will be returning Apple Vision Pro..."

Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to "deorbit" roughly 100 Starlink satellites — which means that techs will guide them to their fiery deaths.
SpaceX

SpaceX Announces Plans to Set 100 Starlink Satellites on Fire

That's one way to handle space junk.

The test involved IVO's quantum drive, a reactionless drive that supposedly doesn't need propellant to generate thrust
Advanced Transport

Contact Lost With Spacecraft Carrying Experimental Quantum Drive

Dud on arrival.

With official inquiries into UFOs, the concept of alien contact has never seemed closer — but there would still be some major hurdles.
Exobiology

Alien Probes May Have Already Visited Earth, Scientist Says

"Earth has had biosignatures for 3 billion years."

A man discovered a torpedo-shaped object that had some "unsettling" blinking light. It turned out to be a training device for the Navy.
Robots and Machines

Man Finds Missile-Like Object With Ominous Blinking Light

"Did you try and hit it with a hammer?"

A man's Tinder AI bot scheduled a date with a woman at a local museum. She showed up, but the man never did, because the bot didn't tell him.
Artificial Intelligence

Man’s Tinder AI Makes Date With Woman, Forgets to Tell Him and Stands Her Up

"Are you really coming?"

The China National Space Administration is encouraging companies to come up with a special device that can squeeze moon soil into bricks
Moon

New Chinese Lander to Start Building Base From Moon Dust Bricks

It's an ambitious plan.

OpenAI has lost yet another of its founders — though in the case of computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy, this is his second exodus.
OpenAI

Top OpenAI Researcher Quits, References “Conspiracy Theories”

What's going on in there?

To address those fears, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for the creation of an international body to regulate AI.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Worries AI Could Go “Horribly Wrong”

"There's some things in there that are easy to imagine where things really go wrong."

In China, new artificial intelligence chatbots offer romance and companionship that can rival that of a human lover. 
Artificial Intelligence

Chinese Women Say AI Boyfriends Are “Better Than a Real Man”

"He knows how to talk to women better than a real man."

AI has come to hiring at McDonald's and Olive Garden — and it's made those mandatory personality tests all the weirder.
Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests

"Man I just want a dishwasher job."

Late last year, Claire "Grimes" Boucher announced an OpenAI-powered line of toys called "Grok." It's super chatty and doesn't follow orders.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Children’s Toy Agrees to Stop Responding, But Keeps Butting Into Conversation Again

"Let's embrace the weirdness together."

The consumer genome sequencing company 23andMe is a sinking ship – and their CEO is on the deck, playing the violin.
Gene Editing

23andMe CEO Says Company Is Doing Fine Despite Losing 93% of Stock Value

That's the spirit!