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A woman in France was reportedly struck by a tiny, rebounding piece of meteorite while chatting with a friend over a cup of coffee.
Off-World

Woman Reportedly Struck by Meteorite While Drinking Coffee

"In the second that followed, I felt a shock on the ribs."

ChatGPT's numbers are down for the first time since it came out. Are the kids to blame, or is the hype past its peak?
OpenAI

Theory: ChatGPT Use Is Falling Because Kids Don’t Need to Cheat on Papers During Summer Vacation

See ya!

Astronomers believe they've spotted three objects known as dark stars originating just hundreds of years after the Big Bang.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Appears to Have Spotted Weird Stars Powered by Dark Matter

Holy.

Scientists have discovered the coolest star ever found to emit radio waves. It's a brown dwarf, and it's not even as hot as a lighter flame.
Off-World

Scientists Discover Star Cooler Than Cigarette Lighter Flame

Got a light?

Helicopter Pilot Leapt Into Ocean to Escape Furious Volcano
Science & Energy

Helicopter Pilot Leapt Into Ocean to Escape Furious Volcano

"The water is what saved us."

Despite violating a number of content policies, nonconsensual deepfake porn is insanely easy to find on search engines Google and Bing.
Google

Google Is Sending Users Straight to Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn

It's widely agreed that deepfaked porn is invasive, harmful, and nonconsensual. So why is it still just a simple search away?

Jonathan Vero, a firefighter and stuntman, has two Guinness World Records: the fastest 100-meter sprint and longest run — both while on fire.
Future Society

Man Sets Record for Fastest 100-Meter Sprint While on Fire

"I love fire."

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

Twitter Now Paying Accused Sex Trafficker to Keep Posting

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

OpenAI Vice President Denies They’re Making ChatGPT Stupider

"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

UN Warns That AI-Powered Brain Implants Could Spy on Our Innermost Thoughts

"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

Sam Altman Is Not At All Happy With The FTC’s ChatGPT Investigation

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

AI Expert: “I Think We’re All Going to Die”

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

Lawsuit Claims Google Is Vacuuming Up People’s Whole Lives to Train AI

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

Hollywood’s Plan to Scan Actors Sounds Exactly Like a Recent Episode of “Black Mirror”

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

Elon Musk Warns Chinese Leaders That AI Could Take Over the Country

"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

A Cruise Ship Pulled Up for a Beautiful View. Then Blood Started Turning the Water Red

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

Studios Want to Replace Background Actors With AI After Paying Them for Only One Day

"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

Gizmodo’s AI-Generated Star Wars Article Still Has Errors, and Now It’s Ranking on Google

They had one job!

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

NASA Rover Finds Organic Molecules on 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

Scientist Claims Universe Is Twice as Old as We Thought

Could the universe really be 26.7 billion years old?