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A truck that was transporting research monkeys crashed. Police say they carried dangerous diseases, claims that have since been refuted.
Biology

University Denies Monkeys That Escaped in Truck Crash Were Infected With Horrific Diseases

"We are continuing to look for the one monkey that is still on the loose."

By Victor Tangermann

Starting early Tuesday morning, thousands of workers for Amazon Web Services began receiving texts and emails baring the bad news.
Jeff Bezos

After Bringing Down Internet, Amazon Announces Biggest Mass Firing in Its History

"Just yesterday I joked that it wouldn't be the worst thing if I got laid off. I take it back."

By Joe Wilkins

In a new memo published on his blog, Bill Gates pushed back on a "doomsday view of climate change," arguing we should help the poor instead.
Climate Change

Bill Gates Says Climate Change Isn’t So Bad After All

Experts are calling his latest memo "pointless, vague, unhelpful and confusing."

By Victor Tangermann

Illusrtation by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images
Environment

Leaked Document Shows Amazon Scheming to Keep AI Data Center Water Use Secret

They lied for an amazing reason.

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers found that OpenAI's browser, Atlas's omnibox, is extremely vulnerable to serious prompt injection attacks.
OpenAI

Serious New Hack Discovered Against OpenAI’s New AI Browser

Atlas is a cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen.

By Victor Tangermann

Grokipedia, Elon Musk's AI-generated version of Wikipedia, has a lot of questionably glowing things to say about the Cybertruck.
xAI

Grokipedia’s Article on the Cybertruck Clearly Shows Why the Whole Project Is Doomed

As absurd as you'd expect.

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's Grokipedia appears to be heavily relying on Wikipedia, copying many pages almost word for word.
Ethics

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Extensively Copied From Wikipedia

"Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist."

By Victor Tangermann

Diella will soon be sharing her "children" with government officials loyal to Edi Rama's party, the center-left Partia Socialiste.
Ethics

World’s First AI Minister is “Pregnant” With 83 Offspring Government Announces

"Diella is pregnant and expecting 83 children, one for each member of our parliament and who will serve as assistants to them."

By Joe Wilkins

New research shows that several top AI models are actively ignoring explicit instructions to shut themselves down.
Ethics

Research Paper Finds That Top AI Systems Are Developing a “Survival Drive”

"We don't have robust explanations for why AI models sometimes resist shutdown."

By Frank Landymore

The figures may be our clearest insight yet into the scale of alarming episodes of "AI Psychosis" being caused by ChatGPT.
Future Society

OpenAI Data Finds Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users Might Be Suffering Mental Health Crises

This is staggering.

By Frank Landymore

Andreessen Horowitz has injected $1 million into Doublespeed, a startup meant to flood social media with gobs of for-profit spam.
Ethics

AI “Phone Farm” Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam

Who said capitalism has to breed innovation?

By Joe Wilkins

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is calling on the government to break up OpenAI in an effort to stop the firm from wiping out jobs.
Ethics

Bernie Sanders Calls for Breakup of OpenAI

"We need to take a deep breath and understand it’s like a meteor coming."

By Victor Tangermann

Staffers at major video game developer Electronic Arts told Business Insider, their employer's attempts to use AI are backfiring.
Ethics

EA’s Attempt to Use AI for Game Development Backfiring Horribly

"It's a problem when the dogs won't eat the dog food."

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Altman has reportedly tapped a Caltech engineer known for researching ultrasound to read the brain to lead his Neuralink competitor.
Brain Implants

Sam Altman Funding Biomedical Startup to Read Human Brain Using Sound Waves

Altman previously said that he'd "like to be able to think something and have ChatGPT respond to it."

By Frank Landymore

AI investor Matt Shumer posted AI-generated, first-person-shooter video game footage, claiming it's the future of video games.
Ethics

We’re Laugh-Crying at This Footage of an AI-Generated Video Game

If this is the future of AI video games, we're screwed.

By Victor Tangermann

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which visits the Earth roughly every 71 years, was spotted releasing intriguing radio signals last year.
Astronomy

Scientists Intrigued by Radio Signals Coming From Comet

Fascinating.

By Victor Tangermann

Los Angeles-based startup Apex wants to launch "space-based interceptors" that can destroy missiles from orbit for the Space Force.
Robots and Machines

Startup Says It’s Launching a Test Weapon Into Orbit

"We are developing this Orbital Magazine technology on our own dime and moving incredibly fast."

By Victor Tangermann

Nike has shown off an intriguing new pair of shoes, dubbed Project Amplify, that it claims to be the "world’s first powered footwear system."
Devices

Nike’s New Sneaker Contains an Exoskeleton to Boost Your Leg Performance

It's like an e-bike for your feet.

By Victor Tangermann

Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro told NPR that he's not a fan of generative AI, saying he'd "rather die" than use it.
Ethics

Guillermo del Toro on Using AI: “I’d Rather Die”

"I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested."

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence isn't just coming for human actors' jobs — even our furry companions are struggling to find work in Hollywood.
Ethics

AI Is Even Putting Animal Actors Out of Work

"I don’t think I’ve had a call for a woodpecker in probably three or four years, maybe five years."

By Victor Tangermann