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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."

By Noor Al-Sibai

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."

By Victor Tangermann

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!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Around 30 activists gathered near the entrance to OpenAI's San Francisco office earlier this week, calling for an AI boycott.
OpenAI

Protesters Swarm OpenAI

"You don’t have to be a genius to understand that building powerful machines you can’t control is maybe a bad idea."

By Victor Tangermann

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could reach a tipping point and shutdown, rapidly cooling Europe and North America.
Climate Change

Scientists Say the Atlantic Current Appears to Be on the Verge of Collapse

"People would see severe and cascading consequences around the world."

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have found a giant wall underneath the Baltic Sea — and they're pretty sure it was made by Stone Age humans.
Science & Energy

Ancient Underwater Megastructure Not Created Naturally, Scientists Say

This is a big deal — emphasis on "big."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla employee and Elon Musk fan Hans von Ohain was killed after his Model 3 crashed into a tree. Full Self-Driving was likely turned on.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Employee Who Loved Elon Musk Reportedly Killed by Full Self-Driving

"We were sold a false sense of security."

By Victor Tangermann

A landslide caused by the recent atmospheric river left three oceanside mansions in Southern California dangling off the edge of a cliff.
Climate Change

Luxury Homes Teetering Above Cliff After Landslide

Spooky!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using a supercomputer, a team of astrophysicists have simulated how young gas giants grow and found that they first have a flattened shape.
Off-World

Jupiter Used to Be Flat, Scientists Suggest

"We had always assumed that they were spherical."

By Victor Tangermann

It's only been a couple of months since Tesla started shipping its Cybertruck. The stainless steel already appears to be rusting.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Owners Say They’re Already Rusting

So much for "stainless" steel.

By Victor Tangermann

An Indonesian political party used generative AI to "resurrect" the dead dictator Suharto via deepfake amid the nation's ongoing elections.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Used to Resurrect Dead Dictator to Sway Election

"...bringing dead dictators back to life to fool and scare us into votes."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's not just you — college students are having trouble reading, too, and according to one college teacher, that's major cause for concern.
Future Society

College Students Basically Don’t Know How to Read Anymore

This is grim.

By Noor Al-Sibai

So much lava is spewing forth from an erupting volcano in Iceland, it can be spotted from space, as seen in a recent satellite image.
Space

So Much Lava Is Oozing Out of Iceland That You Can See It From Space

Woah.

By Victor Tangermann

When going on a nature walk, an Indian scientist discovered something astounding — a frog that seemed to have a mushroom growing out of it.
Science & Energy

Scientists Surprised to Find Mushroom Growing Out of Frog

You don't see this kind of thing every day.

By Noor Al-Sibai

An under-construction water park caught fire and exploded in Gothenburg, Sweden today. Fortunately, nobody was seriously hurt.
Future Society

Water Park Explodes

"It feels very tragic, it really does."

By Victor Tangermann

The woke Goody-2 chatbot's guardrails are so geared towards safety, it won't answer any question fully — but it'll definitely tell you why.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Chat Is So Ethical That It Refuses All Prompts

"We wanted to make sure that we dialed condescension to a thousand percent."

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a Lufthansa flight from Bangkok to Munich, a 63-year-old passenger died after losing "liters of blood" — a horrifying scene.
Developments

Travelers Horrified as Fellow Plane Passenger Starts Spewing Blood

"It was absolute horror, everybody was screaming."

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla driver, who at first denied having killed a woman with his Tesla in a hit-and-run, is now claiming he must've been using Autopilot.
Tesla

Tesla Driver Says He’s Not Sure If He Killed a Pedestrian Because He Was on Autopilot

This is getting ridiculous.

By Victor Tangermann

San Francisco is fed up with all those robotaxis crowding its streets — and on Lunar New Year, some folks let off some steam about it.
Advanced Transport

Furious Crowd Destroys Robotaxi, Sets It on Fire

San Fran don't play.

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you’re hung up after a breakup, now you can plug your ex's emails and texts into an AI model and date the simulacrum instead.
Future Society

After Breakups, the Brokenhearted Are Creating AI Clones of Their Exes

"I know I am lying to myself."

By Ashley Bardhan