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A huge and ideologically diverse cohort of public figures have signed a letter calling for a "prohibition" on building AI superintelligence.
Ethics

Hundreds of Power Players, From Steve Wozniak to Steve Bannon, Just Signed a Letter Calling for Prohibition on Development of AI Superintelligence

"Nobody developing these AI systems has been asking humanity if this is OK."

A major AWS outage threw the cryptocurrency community into chaos on Monday, taking down everybody's Bored Apes NFTs.
Cryptocurrency

Oops! The AWS Outage Took Down Everybody’s Bored Apes

"Cannot load image."

A quick search on social media reveals that AI slop continues to find its way into Spotify users' Discover Weekly personalized playlists.
Ethics

AI Slop Now Invading Spotify’s Discover Weekly Lists

"Discover Weekly is unusable now cause it is just full of AI slop."

OpenAI coined a new, cringe-inducing term during its announcement of its new browser, Atlas: "life vibing."
OpenAI

OpenAI Announces Browser-Based AI Agent for “Vibe Lifing”

OpenAI wants you to delegate "all sorts of tasks, both in your personal and professional life," to its new AI browser agent.

The world's leading Non-government organizations are weaponizing AI to produce heavily racialized misery porn.
Ethics

Charities Using AI-Generated Photos of Starving Children to Raise Money

Despicable.

Elon Musk first teased then proclaimed that Grok will achieve AGI, and an OpenAI researcher wasn't having it.
OpenAI

OpenAI Researcher Mocks Elon Musk’s AGI Claim to His Face

Pot calling the kettle black, much?

Third-party app intelligence firm Apptopia found that ChatGPT mobile app growth and time spent on the app slowed down significantly.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Usage Has Peaked and Is Now Declining, New Data Finds

Not good, Sam.

And watch out, because the company plans to produce 3,000 new AI-generated podcast episodes every single week.
Artificial Intelligence

Company Churning Out AI Podcasts Filled With Bizarre Glitches They Didn’t Even Catch

Quality control ain't the name of the game.

Some of SpaceX's classified military satellites are emitting a "mysterious signal" that could be violating international standards.
Off-World

SpaceX’s Classified Military Satellites Emitting “Mysterious Signal”

Very strange.

Scientists simulated the conditions of Mars in a lab to observe how blocks of carbon dioxide "dug" their way through the planet's dunes.
Mars

Scientists Investigate Evidence of “Burrowing” Under Surface of Mars

"It felt like I was watching the sandworms in the film 'Dune.'"

Kevin Weil, a vice president at OpenAI, claimed that ChatGPT had found the answers to "previously unsolved" math problems.
OpenAI

OpenAI Researcher Forced to Delete “Embarrassing” Tweet Claiming Huge Breakthrough

AI hype at its finest.

For just a couple dollars, Endless Summer will generate images in your likeness of a fantasy vacation that never has to end.
Google

Meta Employee Creates AI App That Deepfakes the Dream Vacation You Couldn’t Afford

Paging Douglas Quaid.

NASA is getting ready to ditch SpaceX for its first attempt to deliver astronauts to the Moon's surface in over half a century due to delays.
Moon

NASA May Ditch SpaceX for Moon Landing Because It’s So Behind

"They're behind schedule."

Apps and platforms relying on AWS were in a jam after an hours-long outage took down a sizable chunk of the world's internet.
Future Society

Amazon’s AWS Goes Down, Takes Out “Half of the Internet”

"Really shows how easy it would be for Bezos and Ellison to just turn off the internet if they wanted to, for any reason."

Keck II telescope observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS found "evidence for a puzzling anti-tail extension" pointing at the Sun.
Mars

Mysterious Interstellar Object Has Sprouted a Tendril Reaching Toward the Sun

It's reaching out.

President Trump posted an AI-generated video of himself crap-bombing protestors on the same day as the "No Kings" protests.
Ethics

President Trump Posts AI Video of Himself Spraying Explosive Diarrhea on Peaceful Protestors

Our 79-year-old commander in chief, folks.

Even former OpenAI exec Andrej Karpathy, who coined the term "vibe coding," has seemingly fallen out of love with his own creation.
Ethics

Inventor of Vibe Coding Admits He Hand-Coded His New Project

It's a disaster waiting to happen.

New findings show that these diabetes and weight-loss drugs may actually change the way our bodies process alcohol.
RX and Medicine

Doctors Just Found Something Fascinating About What Happens When You Drink on Ozempic

A new study exposes how GLP-1s impact alcohol intake.

Space armor is described as a series of lightweight tiles which protect craft and astronauts against "all untrackable debris."
Elon Musk

Startup Reveals “Space Armor” to Protect Astronauts From Elon Musk’s Orbital Trash

It also works against the "growing threat" of "adversarial spacecraft."

AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for consumers in the west.
Ethics

The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies

Penny for your thoughts?