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Alien hunting Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb continues to rail against the idea that our newest interstellar is merely a comet.
Exobiology

Scientist Says Mysterious Object Approaching Earth May Be Alien Artifact

"A 40 percent chance."

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have found that frontier AI models fail spectacularly when the familiar formats of medical exams are even slightly altered.
Developments

Something Extremely Scary Happens When Advanced AI Tries to Give Medical Advice to Real World Patients

"It’s like having a student who aces practice tests but fails when the questions are worded differently."

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this year, one of Meta's top executives left the company — and now, he's taking down the culture that surrounds it.
The Industrialists

Meta Defector Issues Devastating Psychological Takedown of Tech CEOs

"If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Object at the Center of Jupiter Is So Strange That It Defies Comprehension
Off-World

The Object at the Center of Jupiter Is So Strange That It Defies Comprehension

It's not what we thought.

By Victor Tangermann

A new photo of president Donald Trump's hand slathered in bad makeup to cover a bruise is extra concerning amid his cankle debacle.
Treatments

As Health Questions Swirl, Weird Spot Appears on Trump’s Hand

America has questions.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The AI industry is putting the massive tab for all its AI infrastructure on the figurative credit card, giving experts an ominous feeling.
Artificial Intelligence

The AI Industry Has a Huge “Credit Card Debt” Issue

"The AI boom certainly raises questions in the medium term around sustainability."

By Victor Tangermann

It's alarmingly easy for bad actors to trick a browser AI into following malicious instructions embedded in publicly available content.
Artificial Intelligence

Using an AI Browser Lets Hackers Drain Your Bank Account Just by Showing You a Public Reddit Post

"You can literally get prompt injected and your bank account drained by doomscrolling on Reddit."

By Victor Tangermann

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is abandoning a massive American asset by canceling research into mRNA vaccines, which will soon cover cancer.
Cancer

RFK Jr. Cancels Promising Work on Cancer Vaccine

Painful.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sam Altman insists that GPT-5 is brilliant — but if you ask it to play an altered version of tic-tac-toe, it glitches out.
OpenAI

This Incredibly Simple Question Causes GPT-5 to Melt Into a Puddle of Pure Confusion

They say that dogs tend to resemble their owners."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft is one of the biggest and most well-known tech companies in the world — but you wouldn't know that by its salary ranges.
Finance

You’ll Squint and Wipe Your Glasses When You See This Leaked Data on How Much Microsoft Engineers Are Getting Paid

This was not at all what we expected.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Grammarly's new AI is for students "who want to predict how their work will land with their instructor and take control of their grades."
Artificial Intelligence

Creepy AI Will Look Up a Teacher’s Info to Predict What Grade They’ll Give a Paper

Overkill for generic advice.

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images. They went to have a look.
Environment

Satellites Spotted a Strange Glow in the Ocean, and Scientists Have a Wild Explanation

They went to have a look for themselves on board a research vessel.

By Victor Tangermann

In what's being called a "turning point," researchers has traced back the location of the origin of one of the brightest fast radio bursts.
Off-World

Scientists Detect Precise Origin of Mysterious Signal From Deep Space

What could it be?

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's own Grok will be taking a backseat in Chinese Teslas in favor of the ultra-efficient DeepSeek.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Just Suffered a Humiliating Defeat in China

That's gotta sting.

By Joe Wilkins

A pair of smart glasses developed by two Harvard dropouts will record everything you do to make you "super intelligent."
Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Startup Says Its Smart Glasses Will Do “Vibe Thinking” for You

"We aim to literally record everything in your life."

By Frank Landymore

A restaurant is begging its customers to please stop using notoriously unreliable Google AI to ask about its menu items.
Google

Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don’t Exist

"We will not honor the Google AI specials."

By Frank Landymore

New AI-enabled toys promise to be more interactive than ever, but there's growing concerns that they may stunt childhood development.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Horrified by AI-Powered Toys for Children

"The boundary between imagination and reality blurs."

By Noor Al-Sibai

At the core of Mustafa Suleyman's argument isn't the threat of AI gaining consciousness, but the belief that it already is.
Artificial Intelligence

Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Will Start to Demand Rights

"This development will be a dangerous turn in AI progress and deserves our immediate attention."

By Joe Wilkins

A bombshell report revealed a bacteria whose genetic code is said to be more efficient than any other lifeform on earth.
Biology

Scientists Say They’ve Created a New Form of Life More Perfect Than the One Nature Made

"You can start exploring what life will tolerate."

By Joe Wilkins

A new bill in Colorado would prevent individuals from suing AI companies under the state's consumer protection laws.
Artificial Intelligence

Politicians Are Trying to Make It Illegal to Sue AI Companies

Prostrating before the divine will of Big Tech.

By Frank Landymore