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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?

A new look at a protoplanetary disk surrounding a star revealed a massive exoplanet forming spiral arms, the first detection of its kind,
Off-World

Scientists Attempt to Explain Star With Tentacle-Like Arms

Whoa.

The FTC has started an extensive investigation into OpenAI to figure out whether its products harmed consumer reputations.
OpenAI

FTC Investigating ChatGPT for Saying Harmful Things About People

OpenAI may have broken consumer protection laws.

A study that tracked the ocean surface over two decades found that it's slowly getting greener, likely due to climate change.
Climate Change

Climate Change Is Getting So Bad That the Ocean Is Changing Color

Feeling blue?

Bill Gates is worried about the role that AI and AI-generated content will play in elections and democracy. And, well, the guy's got a point.
Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates Says AI Could “Undermine Elections and Democracy”

He's got a point.

Scientists have created a breathtaking, three-dimensional visualization of a recent James Webb Space Telescope survey of ancient galaxies.
James Webb Space Telescope

Amazing Video Soars Through James Webb’s Dazzling 3D View of Universe

Soaring through space -- at 200 million light-years per second.

Elon Musk has launched a new AI company. Called xAI, Musk says it was formed "to understand reality" — whatever that may mean.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Launches AI Company, Promises to Unlock Secrets of Reality

It's giving intro-level philosophy course.

A notorious female sea otter has garnered a reputation for harassing surfers in Santa Cruz, California — and even jacking their surfboards.
Science & Energy

Mischievous Sea Otter Keeps Stealing Surfboards

"The otter was shredding, caught a couple of nice waves."