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You'd think being trapped in a cave for over a year would be a nightmare, but Spanish mountaineer Beatriz Flamini says it was a mighty good time.
Future Society

"In fact, I didn't want to come out."

By Frank Landymore

Over the weekend, Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, took to Twitter to proclaim that humans are hardwired for either "dominance or submission."
Meta

Yikes.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a viral leaked video, Clearlink CEO James Clark told his writers that they should use AI to put out "30 to 50 times" more content than they do now.
Artificial Intelligence

"We must grow and we must adapt — even Darwin style, as a business is the ultimate survival of the fittest."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Experts Say SpaceX’s Rocket Exploding Was a Huge Success
SpaceX

"Any idiot can handle things when all goes right. When there is a failure, you want an orderly failure."

By Victor Tangermann

While Muslims commemorated one of Ramadan's holiest nights below, an Arab astronaut showed how brightly Mecca is lit up while looking down from space.
Off-World

This footage is absolutely incredible.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk Lost $13 Billion on 4/20
Elon Musk

Investors aren't laughing.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has revealed what caused its gigantic Starship spacecraft prototype to blow up during the company's inaugural orbital test launch today.
Starship

It wasn't a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" after all.

By Victor Tangermann

Just a week after urging its writers to incorporate AI tools like ChatGPT into their workflow, Insider has laid off 10 percent of its staff.
Artificial Intelligence

Not loving this pattern.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Reddit has announced that it will start charging a premium for AI companies that scrape all of its data to train their models.
Artificial Intelligence

"The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable. But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free."

By Victor Tangermann

An incredibly bright flash of light lit up the skies over Kyiv, Ukraine, late Wednesday evening — and experts are still hunting for an exact explanation.
Science & Energy

"The whole city is at a loss, what it was. UFO?"

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's first orbital Starship launch attempt saw the most powerful rocket ever built soar to new heights. But it likely came at a big cost to the environment.
Starship

There's a price to pay.

By Victor Tangermann

ChaosGPT — the AI agent tasked with destroying humanity — was foiled again this week when its Twitter account was suspended. Another win for humans?
Artificial Intelligence

Another L for ChaosGPT.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

SpaceX managed to get its Starship spacecraft off the launch pad, but it later exploded. Did CEO Elon Musk rush ahead to have the attempt be on 4/20?
Starship

Hmm...

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's gigantic Starship prototype spacecraft and Super Heavy booster officially cleared the launch pad, but started spinning, before exploding.
Starship

That looked painful.

By Victor Tangermann

It's no secret that AIs like ChatGPT require insane amounts of energy — but as a new paper reveals, they also seem to use an absurd amount of water, too. 
OpenAI

Talk about insatiable.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk Says He’s Building a “Maximum Truth-Seeking AI”
Elon Musk

Will TruthGPT be able to kill the "woke mind virus?"

By Frank Landymore

NASA is locking four individuals inside a 1,700-square-foot Mars habitat analog for an entire year to see if they can get along.
Mars

They'll be locked inside for an entire year.

By Frank Landymore

Google asked around 80,000 of its employees to test its still-unreleased Bard AI chatbot before it released it to the public last month, Bloomberg reports.
Google

"AI ethics has taken a back seat."

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Meta-formerly-Facebook will lay off another 10,000 of the company's still-standing employees.
Meta

The plight of the metamates continues.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nearly 21 years after it was launched, NASA's RHESSI satellite is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere. Chances it'll hit you are apparently "low."
NASA

There's even a small chance it could hit people on the way down.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré