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Future Society

You Are Entirely Unready to Learn the Name of the Company That Accidentally Filled the Reflecting Pool With Green Algae

You can't make this stuff up.

Anthropic

Anthropic Hires Economist Who Says 33 Percent Chance of Human Extinction Is Acceptable

Did the economist remember to ask what humans may think of that?

Artificial Intelligence

Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

"It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get VC funding these days."

Future Society

Madonna Issues Explosive Take on AI

Sorry, AI "artists."

Finance

Grim New Prediction Market Lets Gamblers Bet on Raging Wildfires

"You can't predict fire, but you can trade on it."

Ethics

A24 Is Dealing With a Full-on Crisis Among Fans After Signing an AI Deal With Google

"Maybe we just have to accept that the A24 era is over."

Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire

"It's like being in an abusive marriage... I'm sitting here dealing with somebody that isn't living in reality."

Future Society

Elon Musk’s Mother Posts Happy Birthday Image for Him That, on Closer Inspection, Is Devastatingly Sad

"You made your son's birthday picture with AI?"

Astronomy

NASA Prepping to Launch Extremely Risky Rescue Mission

It's a race against time.

Ethics

AI Zillionaires Are Starting to Get Scared as the Public Turns Against Them

Data centers "have become a proxy for the hate towards AI and the concentration and accumulation of wealth it’s creating."

Developments

Giant Pickup Trucks Are Killing Pedestrians in Incredible Numbers

"Before the driver knows what's happened, the pedestrian's head is under the wheel."

Developments

We Are Extremely Skeptical of MidJourney’s Weird Device That It Claims Submerges Your Entire Body and Scans It With Ultrasound

Scientists are highly skeptical.

Privacy

Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning

"We didn’t receive anything in the mail. I double checked to make sure that there was no emails or anything about it."

Artificial Intelligence

There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims

"The universe may contain minds stranger than we can imagine."

Climate Change

Devastating Droughts Are Punching Massive Sinkholes Into Critical Farmland

"Attacked by a cosmic hole punch."

Biology

Scientists Publish Extremely Serious Research About Whether Tickling Apes Makes Them Giggle

Apes together laugh.

Artificial Intelligence

Employees Are Using Their Jobs’ Super-Expensive AI Tokens for the Most Hilariously Pointless Tasks Imaginable

Embarrassing.

Robotics

Company Pulls Delivery Robots From All College Campuses

Undergrads weep.

Ethics

Cops Caught Using AI to Edit Picture of Pathetic Drug Bust

"I like being lied to by the police, it's good for building trust!"

Developments

Trending Surgical Procedure That Changes the Color of Your Eyes Alarms Scientists

Worth the risk?