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Giorgetto Giugiaro, the 85-year-old Italian designer behind the DeLorean, has some thoughts on Tesla's brutalist Cybertruck.
Advanced Transport

The Designer of the DeLorean Has Some Thoughts About the Cybertruck

"When you step outside the norms, it's almost always seen as a provocation."

Bitcoin has increased in value to $37,605.53, its highest valuation in a year. But it's nowhere near its highest price in 2021.
Bitcoin

We Regret to Inform You That Bitcoin Is Spiking

Buckle up.

Tesla owners aren't impressed with the company's $150 CyberBeer and are finding the lids of the bottles are rusted.
Future Society

Tesla’s Expensive “CyberBeer” Is Apparently Completely Disgusting

"Not only is the lid RUSTED but the beer is also nasty."

Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social is burning through tens of millions of dollars, leaving its future anything but certain.
Future Society

Trump’s Social Network Is Failing Miserably

Is this Biden's fault too?

OpenAI's CEO has announced that ChatGPT's paid service is pausing new signups because it's just that slammed.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Is So Slammed That It’s Closing Down to New Users

It looks like those reports about declining usership weren't right after all.

A Boeing 747 had to turn back and return to New York JFK after a horse managed to escape from its stall inside the airliner.
Advanced Transport

Pandemonium as Horse Escapes on Boeing 747 Mid-Flight

"We have a horse... in difficulty."

In a first-of-its-kind, doctors said they had transplanted an entire eyeball into an Arkansas man who had suffered a high-voltage accident.
Developments

Surgeons Perform World’s First Successful Eyeball Transplant

Incredible.

In a recent interview, Altman described AGI as a "magic intelligence in the sky," which sounds an awful lot like a God.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Seems to Imply That OpenAI Is Building God

Is that what AGI is going to be?

An Indian government official appears to have broken a cone of silence surrounding Elon Musk's health problems.
Elon Musk

Official Lets Slip That Something Is Wrong With Elon Musk’s Health

What's going on with Elon Musk's health?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed in an interview with the Financial Times this week that the company is officially working on GPT-5.
OpenAI

GPT-5 Is Officially on the Way, OpenAI CEO Says

It's only a matter of time.

For the first time, a commercial facility that can suck carbon out of the air and store it underground has opened in the United States. 
Renewable Energy

United States Opens First Facility to Suck CO2 Out of the Air

"We want to get to millions of tons per year."

Once again, a much-hyped AI product launch has featured glaring AI hallucinations. This time, Humane's AI Pin is the one in the hot seat.
Artificial Intelligence

That Hyped Up AI Pin Made Two Idiotic Mistakes in Its Launch Video

How does this keep happening?

The results are in: keeping good news a secret for a while may literally be good for you, scientists have found. 
Studies

Scientists Discover Secret Trick to Feel “Energized and Alive”

Could this actually work?

Soot kills thousands of people every year. But as the EPA prepares to tighten soot restrictions, corporations are more worried about the GDP.
Pollution

Corporations Whimper That They Won’t Be Able to Make So Much Money If They Aren’t Allowed to Pollute

Think of the economy!

Investors are harnessing the power of AI to analyze the literal speech of CEOs to glean insights into their underlying emotional states.
Artificial Intelligence

Investors Are Using AI to Detect CEOs’ Emotional States

"The idea is that audio captures more than just what is in text."

YouTube will soon make users add a disclaimer when they post artificial intelligence-generated or manipulated videos.
Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Creators Will Be Forced To Disclose AI Content

This is a step in the right direction, at least.

Civitai, a LoRA model-sharing platform funded in part by a16z, is incentivizing users to make deepfakes of real people — celebrity or not.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Platform Has a “Bounties” System for Creating Deepfakes of Regular People

Please... get us out of this timeline.

A new study has found that when people look at AI-generated images of faces, they're often convinced those are more real than the real thing.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Images of White People More Convincing than Real Photos, Scientists Say

You can't trust your eyes anymore.

A SpaceX employee died in June 2014 after being struck by an unsecured piece of rocket insulation. We're only hearing about it now.
Future Society

A SpaceX Worker Died and They Kept It a Secret

"SpaceX shouldn’t be exempt from protecting workers from being injured or killed just because they’re doing innovative work."

A small pond in Hawaii has turned an alarmingly bright shade of pink, alarming local residents and environmentalists.
Science & Energy

Residents Alarmed When Pond Turns Bright Pink

"It’s basically a flashing red light that the ecology of this area is being gravely distressed."