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Waymo is bringing its driverless cabs to Philly, the city that beheaded a child-sized robot for fun back in 2015. What could go wrong?
Self-Driving Vehicles

"Don't forget what happened to the last robot sent to Philly."

By Noor Al-Sibai

After spending just over two years justifying Elon Musk's disastrous ownership over X-formerly-Twitter, CEO Linda Yaccarino has resigned.
Future Society

Not Linda!

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI was forced to delete a series of mind-bogglingly antisemitic and racist posts by its Grok chatbot.
xAI

Elon Musk is turning AI into the Racism Olympics.

By Victor Tangermann

Admist a talent war with Meta and paranoia of foreign espionage, OpenAI is tightening the screws on physical security.
OpenAI

Loose lips sink ships.

By Joe Wilkins

July 9, July 22, and August 5 of this year will be some of the shortest days in years as a result of the Earth spinning faster.
Science & Energy

"The cause of this acceleration is not explained."

By Victor Tangermann

A new documentary and track showcase the tragic sounds of a dying, "crying" glacier in the Swiss Alps as it rapidly shrinks.
Environment

"The more alive the glacier seems, the more the glacier is actually dying."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Recent indicators in the AI industry point to a growing crisis of profitability, with OpenAI caught right in the middle.
OpenAI

"I hypothesize a kind of subprime AI crisis is brewing."

By Joe Wilkins

Bloo is swiftly becoming one of the biggest gaming YouTubers in the biz — but unlike his human peers, this vlogger is an AI-powered avatar.
Artificial Intelligence

"The only logical way was to replace the human with either a photorealistic person or a cartoon."

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research suggests that medical AI chatbots are woefully unreliable at understanding how people actually communicate their health problems.
Artificial Intelligence

Watch out for something as harmless as an extra space.

By Frank Landymore

Now that Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill" has passed through Congress, Tesla's crisis could soon take a major turn for the worse
Tesla

"Elon has finally woken up to this, but talk about a day late and a dollar short."

By Victor Tangermann

Investors who were shorting Tesla — betting against its success, basically — were on track to reap roughly $1.4 billion in profits.
Tesla

They're making billions -- and Musk can't stop dragging the brand through the mud.

By Victor Tangermann

With the advent of generative AI, that bleak landscape of modern dating is continuing to evolve in dystopian — and perhaps predictable — ways.
OpenAI

A man's date "had none of the conversational pizzazz she had shown over text."

By Victor Tangermann

Secretary of state Marco Rubio has fallen victim to a scammer who's been using AI to clone his voice and writing style.
Artificial Intelligence

"This is precisely why you shouldn’t use Signal or other insecure channels for official government business."

By Victor Tangermann

MIT economist David Autor is warning that AI could create a "Mad Max" scenario, in which the job market becomes dominated by cheap labor.
Artificial Intelligence

"You can have a world that's very wealthy and yet, most people don't have anything."

By Victor Tangermann

From Adderall to M&Ms, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s health policies keep running counter to president Donald Trump's preferences.
Food

Uh oh.

By Noor Al-Sibai

We already know that AI models are have learned to lie — but that tendency may go far deeper, according to one computer scientist.
Artificial Intelligence

"We’ll surrender control without ever voting on it."

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a now-deleted post, Grok explains Elon Musk's connection to Jeffrey Epstein, tries to play it down, and speaks as if it's Musk himself.
Artificial Intelligence

"I visited Epstein's NYC home once briefly," said Grok.

By Frank Landymore

AI has been linked to everything from loneliness to illiteracy — and now, researchers are linking it to some seriously dark traits. 
Ethics

This is worth exploring further.

By Noor Al-Sibai

After an "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown refused to admit that its output was AI slop, the outfit is now singing a different tune.
Artificial Intelligence

The point is to "provoke" artists.

By Victor Tangermann

Ziz LaLasota, a fringe AI extremist, exploded into national press earlier this year when her adherents allegedly killed a Border Patrol agent.
Artificial Intelligence

"Some of those weird people turned out to be genuinely crazy and in a contagious way among the susceptible."

By Noor Al-Sibai