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Microsoft just made a massive bet on nuclear fusion energy — and that bet has OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's name written all over it.
Energy

Microsoft Signs Deal to Get Fusion Power by 2028

That's ambitious.

In a leaked internal memo, a Google exec expressed serious fears about losing the ongoing AI arms race to, well, anyone.
Google

Leaked Google Memo Shows Fear of Losing the AI Race, But Not to the Foe You’d Think

"The uncomfortable truth is, we aren’t positioned to win this arms race and neither is OpenAI."

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has found what scientists suggest could be evidence of a raging, fast-moving river that once flowed on Mars.
Mars

NASA Mars Rover Appears to Have Found Remnants of Ancient Raging River

Martian white water rafting, anybody?

Google CEO Sundar Pichai seems to be very confused as to why anyone might suggest that some AIs may replace human labor.
Google

Google CEO Baffled by Suggestion That AI Will Take People’s Jobs

He's stumped.

If you haven't heard: there's drama. Hollywood kidney transplant drama. But who's in the right, and who's in the wrong?
Developments

Fallout Between Selena Gomez and Francia Raisa May Involve Kidney Transplant

If you donated an organ, can you get mad if someone doesn't treat it well?

BuzzFeed has told investors that its readers spend 40 percent more time with its AI-built quizzes than the traditional ones.
Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed Says Its AI Is Outperforming Its Pesky Human Employees

Game over, humans!

Scientists built a brain monitor that can be deployed through a tiny hole in the cranium and unfold like a flower between bone and brain.
Neuroscience and Brain

Brain Monitor Enters Hole in Skull, Deploys Flower-Shaped Electrodes

It penetrates the skull...then unfolds like a flower.

Jed McCaleb, who founded the defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, has announced he's planning to launch the world's first private space station.
Off-World

The Mt Gox Guy Is Back and He Says He’s Launching a Space Station

It's an ambitious project for somebody with zero aerospace industry experience.

Pieces of what appear to be heat shield tiles from SpaceX's explosive Starship orbital test launch keep appearing on beaches in Texas.
Starship

It Looks Like Starship Chunks Are Washing Up on Beaches

Not gonna lie, we're kinda jealous.

Commercial space launches are becoming a big problem in Florida, which according to Pete Buttigieg are clogging up flight paths.
Off-World

Florida Is Apparently Launching So Many Rockets That It’s Clogging Up Commercial Flights

Orlando, we have a problem.

An "AI girlfriend" chatbot has apparently started doing stuff it's not supposed to — stop us if you've heard this one before.
Artificial Intelligence

Creator of Rentable “AI Girlfriend” Says It’s Gone Rogue

Why does this keep happening?

During what would have otherwise been a normal Chicago River kayaking trip, a local spotted something incredible — a giant snapping turtle.
Science & Energy

Internet Stunned by Colossal “Chonkasaurus” Turtle Spotted in River

"Hey, how ya doing guy?"

A group of former OpenAI researchers have built their own AI chatbot -- and, provocatively, they're trying to give it a conscience.
OpenAI

OpenAI Competitor Says Its Chatbot Has a Rudimentary Conscience

A fascinating concept.

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Tesla CFO Zach Kirkhorn is the one secretly running the show, not Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

The Guy Really Running Tesla Isn’t Elon Musk, Report Claims

"He doesn't take the limelight from Elon."

Google just revealed vision for AI-integrated search — and that vision, apparently, involves cutting digital publishers off at the knees.
Google

Google Unveils Plan to Demolish the Journalism Industry Using AI

This could change everything.

If aliens are out there, why haven't they contacted us yet? It may be, a new paper argues, that they were wiped out by superhuman AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Paper Claims AI May Be a Civilization-Destroying “Great Filter”

"Actively signaling our existence in a way detectable to such an extraterrestrial AI may not be in our best interest."

The feud between Elon Musk and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg seems to be deepening over Tesla's use of the term "Autopilot."
Tesla

Pete Buttigieg Slams Tesla’s Autopilot as Misleading

"I don’t think that something should be called, for example, an Autopilot, when the fine print says you need to have your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road at all times."

NASA has announced it's intending to change the New Horizons mission's primary target from studying Kuiper Belt objects to heliophysics.
NASA

After 15 Year Journey, NASA Suddenly Redirecting Deep Space Mission to New Target

The mission's scientists are pissed.

A scammer claims to have made thousands of dollars by selling "leaked" tracks by Frank Ocean that were actually generated by an AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Leaked Frank Ocean Tracks Were Actually AI-Generated Fakes

"We determined just about everything he has is fake."

Spotify has taken down "tens of thousands," or roughly seven percent of songs uploaded by AI music startup Boomy.
Artificial Intelligence

Spotify Busts Network of Bots Listening to Bot-Generated Music

It's a devious scheme.