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Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has denied getting choked out to the point of unconsciousness during a jiu-jitsu match.
Future Society

Please, if you witnessed this, email us.

Startup Accidentally Tells Over 400 Patients They Might Have Cancer
Cancer

Oops!

The SEC is officially accusing Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, of breaking US securities rules.
Cryptocurrency

These are some serious accusations.

Apple has announced its long-awaited VR headset — and it looks even stranger than we anticipated thanks to a view of the wearer's eyes.
Robots and Machines

Talk to the headset, because the face is not listening.

Office vibes a little off? Some startups say you should try group workplace ketamine sessions. File under: that's one way to do it.
Developments

That's one way to do it.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined a mutual admiration society with a ceremonial figurehead as both waxed prolific on the dangers posed by AI. 
OpenAI

Look who's talking!

AI-generated joke images of toddlers wearing what looked like Target-peddled Satanic merchandise went viral in far-right social media circles.
Artificial Intelligence

This is just so stupid.

Google "Johannes Vermeer," and you'll be met with an AI-generated rendition of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" as the top search result.
Google

Google is inserting AI into art history.

AI chatbots like ChatGPT are extremely expensive and could turn them into a major headache for tech companies in the long run.
OpenAI

There's a problem with AI: it's incredibly expensive, with no clear path to monetization.

Ameca, the humanoid robot known for her creepy facial expressions, has "imagined" a vision of an AI "nightmare scenario."
Robotics

Be afraid.

A robot pizza delivery startup that has raised almost half a billion dollars has shut down after failing to realize its vision.
Robotics

Cowabunga!

Consumer groups are saying that the EPA hasn't done enough to battle Inhance, a producer of PFAS-riddled plastic food and cosmetic containers.
Developments

"It's a serious and ongoing threat to public health."

From their experiments, the researchers calculate that their tractor beam could be used to move debris weighing several tons.
Off-World

Once operational, their device could "essentially tug away the debris without ever touching it."

It's only day two of Pride Month, Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is already jumping headfirst into deeply transphobic wasters.
Elon Musk

This guy sucks.

Sam Altman, a tech CEO, has finally watched a movie about sleazy tech CEO that invents a possibly conscious AI humanoid robot. Huh.
OpenAI

"Pretty good movie but I can't figure out why everyone told me to watch it."

A US Air Force Colonel described a simulation in which an AI drone went rogue, but the military claims this was taken out of context.
Military

It was all just a "thought experiment."

Scientists say they've successfully transmitted solar energy gathered in orbit down to the Earth's surface.
Solar Power

"In the same way that the internet democratized access to information, we hope that wireless energy transfer democratizes access to energy."

Bill Gates apparently had an affair — and Jeffrey Epstein, who knew all about it, allegedly used it as leverage. 
Future Society

The strange relationship between Gates and Epstein seems to be getting weirder.

Former top Google exec Mo Gawdet says that AI is "beyond an emergency" and is "bigger than climate change, believe it or not."
Google

"It's bigger than climate change, believe it or not." 

A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when she was forced to have it removed.
Neuroscience and Brain

"I would have done anything to keep it."