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Dmitry Rogozin, the former head of Russia's space corporation Roscosmos, doesn't believe NASA landed on the Moon.
Moon

Former Roscosmos Head Refuses to Believe NASA Landed on the Moon

"It was not clear to me how the United States, at that level of technological development of the 60s of the last century, did what they still cannot do now?"

Whether cryogenics ultimately works or not, billionaire Peter Thiel says he's duty-bound to freeze his ol' bag o' bones nonetheless.
Future Society

Billionaire Peter Thiel Says He’s Freezing His Body After Death Just in Case

"I think of it more as an ideological statement."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has come out as one of the latest tech industry titans against remote work, which he says harms creativity.
OpenAI

CEO of OpenAI Trashes Remote Work As a Failed “Experiment”

This is so not shocking.

The age of AI arrests appears to have begun in China, where a man who used ChatGPT to allegedly generate fake news headlines was detained.
OpenAI

China Arrests Man for Using ChatGPT to Write Fake News

So it begins.

A stock portfolio picked by ChatGPT outperformed the S&P 500 Index over eight weeks, according to financial comparison service Finder.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Picks Stock Portfolio That Outperforms S&P 500

Will ChatGPT be your next fund manager?

Warren Buffett is sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence, which he compared to the invention of the atomic bomb.
Artificial Intelligence

Warren Buffett Compares AI to the Atom Bomb

"But is it good for the next 200 years of the world that the ability to do so has been unleashed?"

Scientists have discovered a new type of tool-using insect, nicknamed the "assassin bug" for a creative — and deadly — hunting technique.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Bug That Uses Tool

Glue arms, baby. Glue arms.

It's called Hotshot, and from what we can tell, it's basically Bitmoji — but if Bitmoji was a hyperrealistic, AI-powered fever dream.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Service Makes Fake Photos of You Hanging Out With Your Friends, Laughing and Having a Great Time

"My current friends would kill me if I tried this."

Until recently, scientists had never spotted a star in the act of consuming a planet — and eventually, it will happen to Earth, too.
Off-World

Scientists Spot Tragic Planet Being Eaten by a Dying Star

This is going to happen to Earth one day.

A guitarist asked OpenAI's ChatGPT to "write a guitar solo" — and the result, as demonstrated in a short clip, didn't disappoint.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Writes Shredding Guitar Solo

This is sick.

The associate director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence compared AI scientists to "late-stage" teens.
Artificial Intelligence

Stanford Director: AI Scientists’ “Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped”

"AI researchers are more like late-stage teenagers."

A group of ex-TikTok employees has blown the whistle on the company's list of users who watched so-called "gay content."
Future Society

TikTok Reportedly Kept a Log of Users Who Watched Gay Content

This ain't great!

The Elon Musk-founded research firm that created ChatGPT is apparently hemorrhaging money on the game-changing chatbot that put it on the map
OpenAI

OpenAI Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Money on ChatGPT

And costs are still on the rise.

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for human treatment.
Gene Editing

Gene Therapy Gives Primates Young Eyes Again

The implications could be huge.

When asked how he feels about AI, Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus Junior didn't hold back, expressing a mix of fascination and concern.
Artificial Intelligence

Snoop Dogg Expresses Views on AI Threat

"I'm like, are we in a f*****g movie right now, or what?"

An ex-Coinbase executive banked big on Bitcoin bouncing back — and cashed out cashing out his bet early once it was clear that he was losing.
Bitcoin

Crypto Guy Loses Million Dollar Bet That Bitcoin Price Would Spike

Has this ever happened before?

Books almost entirely generated by AI are flooding Amazon's marketplace, The Washington Post reports, a worrying trend.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Being Flooded With Books Entirely Written by AI

It's the tip of the AIceberg.

Doctors are warning about oral sex leading to an "epidemic" in throat cancer — but headlines fail to mention a vaccine that can help.
Cancer

Worried About Getting Throat Cancer From Oral Sex? We Have Very Good News

The more people are aware, the better.

Legislation seeking to regulate AI-generated political advertisements has already been introduced in Congress.
Artificial Intelligence

Congresswoman Proposes Bill Targeting AI-Generated Political Ads

"There will be those who will not want to disclose that it's AI-generated."

In a new paper, researchers argue that emergent properties of LLM-powered AIs — widely seen as a step toward AGI — may just be "mirages."
Artificial Intelligence

Glimmers of AGI Are Just an Illusion, Scientists Say

Are we just seeing our own humanity reflected back at us?