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After an alleged meteor struck a house in New Jersey, residents began wondering whether insurance covers extraterrestrial damage.
Off-World

New Jersey Ponders Whether Meteor Damage Is Covered by Insurance

When a meteorite smashes through your roof, you have to wonder.

A man has written almost 100 books using AI and claims he has "sold 574 books for a total of nearly $2,000 between August and May."
Artificial Intelligence

Man Uses AI to Write 97 Terrible Books, Sells $2,000 Worth

Human writers probably shouldn't be too concerned... yet.

Former President Donald Trump is making it clear that he won't be shying away from AI-generated content during the 2024 election cycle.
Artificial Intelligence

Trump Shares AI Voice-Cloned Fake Video of Anderson Cooper

"We're not prepared for this."

Bad news for New York: the Big Apple appears to be sinking a little bit each year under the weight of its iconic skyscrapers.
Science & Energy

NYC Appears to Be Sinking Because Its Skyscrapers Are So Heavy

Awesome, that's exactly what New York needs.

Insurance denials are on the rise, and in the case of one newborn baby in the neonatal ICU, they're getting crueler.
Developments

Health Insurance Sends Letter to Baby Denying Coverage: “You Are Drinking From a Bottle”

"If only the baby could read."

CNET staffers are unionizing, and they've named AI — and the lived impact that AI initiatives have on human life and work — as a concern.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Staff Unionize, Saying AI Use “Threatens Our Jobs and Reputations”

"We're joining a lot of others in the media who are looking into how to address AI in relation to plagiarism, liability and the impact to the workforce."

An LA-based artist and producer created the first official and credited song that features Grimes' AI-cloned vocals called "GrimesAI."
Future Society

Grimes Calls First Official Song Made by AI-Cloning Her Voice a “Masterpiece”

Suck it, record labels.

Seance AI says that its tech will help the grieving find closure. It's not a happy story. But again, they never really are.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Company Says It’ll Perform a Seance on Your Dead Loved Ones

"We're trying to make it sound as magical and as mystical as possible."

Buzzfeed, Inc. CEO Jonah Peretti just laid out his new AI vision — and it sounds like a plagiarized, choose-your-own-adventure content farm.
Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed Says AI Will “Replace the Majority of Static Content”

"Instead of generating 10 ideas in a minute, AI can generate hundreds of ideas in a second."

Researchers have figured out the thickness of the Martian crust, and concluded that the planet is heating itself with radioactive elements.
Mars

Scientists Detect Radioactive Heat Source Inside Mars

The planet is covered in a surprisingly thick armor.

A new 3D scan of the Titanic shows the tragic scene at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean in unprecedented detail.
3D Printing

Amazing 3D Scan Shows the Titanic If All the Water Was Drained Out

The detail is jaw-dropping.

Just hours before meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, Elon Musk was spotted dancing the night away in Mexico.
Elon Musk

Video Shows Elon Musk “White Boy Dancing” in Mexico

Mr. Musk has moves... sort of.

A team of South Korean researchers has created an AI model dubbed DarkBERT to index the Dark Web's websites and forums.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Train New AI Exclusively on the Dark Web

"A language model for the dark side of the internet."

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OpenAI

Professor Falsely Accuses Students of Cheating Because ChatGPT Told Him To

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works!

Scientists have figured out a way to retrieve tiny traces of human genetic material called environmental DNA (eDNA) from thin air.
DNA

Experts Alarmed by Tech That Identifies Human DNA Floating in Air

"This gives a powerful new tool to authorities."

Surveillance technology, including facial recognition software, reportedly has an outsized presence in public housing projects.
Future Society

Facial Recognition Used to Evict Single Mother for Taking Night Classes

"They really made my life hell."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a US Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that the government should regulate AI and create common guidelines.
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO to Congress: Please Regulate Me, Daddy

He's practically begging for it.

One of NASA's gigantic science balloons developed a leak a mere day and a half into its flight, causing it to plummet into the Pacific Ocean.
NASA

NASA’s Giant Balloon Crashes Into Ocean, Sinks

So long.

In a new study, scientists claim to have unlocked the secret of one man's extreme resilience to early-onset Alzheimer's.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Intrigued by Man With Mutation That Protects Against Alzheimer’s

"This really holds the secret to the next generation of therapeutics."

The Irish Times just apologized for publishing an AI-generated hoax article — bylined by an entirely fake AI-generated "journalist," no less.
Artificial Intelligence

Newspaper Apologizes for Accidentally Running Deranged AI-Generated Article

Goodbye, reality.