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After Elon Musk cut off the rest of the world by shutting USAID, the World Food Program's operations in Kenya were left in shambles.
Food

A Huge Number of People Starved to Death After Elon Musk Cut USAID’s Funding

"There was zero plan, except causing pain."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that lab mice that were released into a large, enclosed field were almost immediately less anxious.
Future Society

When You Hear What Happens When They Put Lab Mice in Nature, You Might Rethink Your Entire Life

A single week in an open field turned these lab mice's lives around.

By Victor Tangermann

A self-driving Waymo wound up petrified when it went face-to-face with pedestrians at an annual holiday celebration in Los Angeles.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Paralyzed by Parade, Blocks Traffic for 45 Minutes

"All the pedestrian activity just made it shut down, though folks weren't directly in the way."

By Joe Wilkins

A "detection of a wobbling high-altitude jet" in the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb intrigued.
Astronomy

Scientists Say They’ve Found Another Anomaly About 3I/ATLAS

Intriguing.

By Victor Tangermann

Lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro has been murdered at the age of 47.
Nuclear Fusion

MIT Fusion Physicist Murdered in His Home

He was convinced that "we are really progressing towards finally having electricity from fusion."

By Victor Tangermann

Joe Rogan has been drooling over AI-generated music for months now, but he doesn't share the shame enthusiasm for AI podcasts.
Artificial Intelligence

Joe Rogan Speechless When Guest Tells Him Podcasts Can Be AI-Generated Now

Now wait a minute!

By Frank Landymore

Though it hasn't even wrapped up clinical trials, the weight loss drug retatrutide already has a cult following.
Medical

People Are Injecting Themselves With an Experimental New Weight Loss Drug

And they absolutely swear by it.

By Frank Landymore

President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the BBC on Monday night, seeking a whopping $10 billion in damages.
Ethics

“I Guess They Used AI or Something”: Trump Says BBC Journalists Deepfaked “Words in My Mouth, Literally”

That's not what his own lawsuit alleges.

By Victor Tangermann

MI6's new chief, Blaise Metreweli, devoted a large portion of her first speech to the issue of all-powerful tech corporations.
The Industrialists

Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments

Who would know better?

By Joe Wilkins

CoreWeave's share price plunged 46 percent in just six weeks, with $33 billion of value going up in smoke, amid concerns over an AI bubble.
Ethics

CoreWeave Has Lost a Staggering Amount of Stock Value Over the Past Six Months

"There is no scaling going on here."

By Victor Tangermann

The Washington Post said it will continue deploying its error riddled, AI-generated podcasts, because "this is how products get built."
Ethics

Washington Post Says It Will Continue AI-Generating Error Filled Podcasts as Its Own Editors Groan in Embarrassment

"This is how products get built and developed."

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk confirmed speculation that Tesla is preparing to remove its human safety monitors from its robotaxis.
Tesla

We’re Bracing for an Accident Now That Tesla Is Taking the Safety Drivers Out of Its Robotaxis

Gangway!

By Frank Landymore

A video making the rounds on social media shows a giant replica of the Statue of Liberty toppling over in a Brazilian parking lot.
Art

Replica Statue of Liberty Topples in Urban Hellscape

"Just looked up metaphor in the dictionary and this was the image."

By Victor Tangermann

As generative AI becomes even more effective at mimicking real images, liberals are starting to fall for more misinformation.
Ethics

Liberals Are Falling for Extremely Obvious AI Fakes

"Why are Democrats using the same AI slop that Republicans started using in the fall?"

By Joe Wilkins

Ford has announced it's stopping production on its all-electric truck, in order to pivot to an electric truck with a gas generator.
Electric Vehicles

Ford Gives Up, Adds Gas Generator to Its Electric Pickup Truck

Doesn't that sort of defeat the whole purpose?

By Joe Wilkins

Following major backlash on AI toys, Mattel confirmed that it won't be releasing its first OpenAI-powered toy before the end of the year.
Ethics

As Controversy Grows, Mattel Scraps Plans for OpenAI Reveal This Year

"We don't have anything planned for the holiday season."

By Victor Tangermann

Top figures in the AI industry seem deathly paranoid about the apocalyptic risk of AI, but are they grounded in reality?
Ethics

AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They’re Creating

Must be hard.

By Frank Landymore

A large number of very young users are engaging with violent — and often sexually violent — interactions with unregulated companion chatbots.
Ethics

The Things Young Kids Are Using AI for Are Absolutely Horrifying

"We have a pretty big issue on our hands that I think we don't fully understand the scope of."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon's AI video recap tool has already made an enormous mess by bungling up the details of its hit show, "Fallout."
Ethics

Amazon Deletes AI-Generated Recap of “Fallout” Season 1 After It’s Called Out for Being Full of Errors

"All it would have taken is one person to watch it from start to finish to realize it wasn't correct."

By Victor Tangermann

A growing number of Chinese companies are trying to unabashedly rip off SpaceX's Starship launch platform.
Starship

China Is Absolutely Obsessed With Copying SpaceX’s Starship Rocket

It's uncanny.

By Victor Tangermann