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To the shock of absolutely no one, it turns out that those images of Pope Francis looking fresh to death in a pristine white puffer are AI-generated fakes. 
Artificial Intelligence

Ironically, the Pope commented on ethical AI usage this weekend, too.

Swathes of Twitter's source code leaked online months ago on GitHub, The New York Times reports, allowing practically anybody to get a detailed glimpse.
Elon Musk

So which is it?

Remember Oumuamua, that weird and possibly-alien object that flew past Earth back in 2017? Some scientists have a boring explanation for what it was.
Off-World

"It’s just the most generic explanation."

Tired of pesky subscriptions that make it near-impossible to cancel? That practice may become illegal, thanks to a new FTC rule proposal that just dropped.
Future Society

Get 'em!

New Yorkers aren't exactly known for being nice, which was why it was so shocking that only a few were rude to some trash robots in Greenwich Village.
Robotics

Nice job, New York!

The US Federal Trade Commission published a consumer alert warning the public of voice cloning scams, which seem to be on the rise.
Artificial Intelligence

"When the scammer calls you, he'll sound just like your loved one."

A ginormous, tornado of plasma has been spotted on the Sun's surface, violently raging within a powerful magnetic structure.
Off-World

Good God, it's 14 times taller than Earth!

Researchers just confirmed that nanoplastics can cause wretched malformations and growth defects in baby chicks when injected into chicken embryos.
Developments

"We see malformations in the nervous system, heart, eyes and other parts of the face."

A 16-month-old AI chatbot startup called Character.ai just reached a $1 billion market cap — despite having yet to generate any revenue.
Artificial Intelligence

It's a gold rush!

Elon Musk reportedly tried to takeover as OpenAI's CEO back in 2018. But when the rest of the company's board allegedly vetoed his proposal, he walked away.
OpenAI

There might be more than meets the eye here.

Jaron Lanier, a pioneer of VR technology and a vocal critic of Silicon Valley, sat down in an interview with The Guardian to air out his musings on AI.
Virtual Reality

"And we die through insanity, essentially."

Avi Loeb has good evidence that a meteorite that crashed to Earth was interstellar. He thinks it might even be alien — which is why he's looking for it.
Science & Energy

Alien probe or interstellar meteorite, finding it won't be easy.

The triple-A video game developer has unveiled its new "Ghostwriter" tool, which in theory will save writers the extra effort of writing a zillion "barks."
Artificial Intelligence

A generic dialogue machine, or a tedium saver?

An app called CupidBots uses AI to automate swiping and flirting on various dating apps, and is specifically tailored to target women.
Artificial Intelligence

If you thought dating apps couldn't get worse, well: Enjoy this one.

TikTok CEO Shou Chew finally took the stand in Congress yesterday. The biggest takeaway? Congressman Richard Hudson doesn't know how WiFi works.
Future Society

It's almost hard to watch.

While testing Google's Bard AI, the editor-in-chief of Tom's Hardware discovered that the chatbot plagiarized an answer from his site.
Google

"Yes, what I did was a form of plagiarism."

With MetaHuman Animator, creators can easily employ motion-capture tech to relatively instantly animate the facial expressions of high-quality characters.
Future Society

Mind-blowing.

Trump decided to take to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Thursday to post an almost certainly AI-generated image of himself kneeling to pray.
Artificial Intelligence

We should probably expect to see a lot more of this.

Microsoft's Bing Chat just cited misinformation generated by Google's Bard chatbot, just one day after Bard was released. Oof.
Google

We hate this timeline.

Elon Musk has been promising that Tesla's Full Self-Driving would be coming "next year" forever — but as it turns out, he may be the reason it hasn't.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Ouch.