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Last week, news emerged that NASA's largest library at the Goddard Space Flight Center was being shut down. Insiders are not happy.
NASA

NASA Veterans Disgusted by Plans to Shut Down Its Largest Library

"I urge you to not allow the dumpsterization of our scientific history."

The tech industry is making sure kids will be hooked on AI for generations -- in a huge experiment students never consented to.
Artificial Intelligence

Tech Giants Pushing AI Into Schools Is a Huge, Ethically Bankrupt Experiment on Innocent Children That Will Likely End in Disaster

Awful.

The Twitch channel currently holding the most active subscribers is run entirely by a large language model.
Artificial Intelligence

The Most Popular Streamer on Twitch Is Now an AI-Powered Entity

"Part of it is definitely the novelty, part of it is some of the things she says."

In a year-end writeup on the state of AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear he'd really like us to stop saying "slop."
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It “Slop”

"We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication."

Yann LeCun, Meta's former chief AI scientists dishes on why he made a shock exit from Mark Zuckerberg's company.
Artificial Intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg’s Former Top AI Scientist Reveals Exactly Why He Quit

Zuckerberg ain't the easiest boss to work with.

Godfather of AI Yoshua Bengio claimed top AI models are showing signs of self-preservation, and criticized calls for giving AI models rights.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Godfather Warns That It’s Starting to Show Signs of Self-Preservation

"Frontier AI models already show signs of self-preservation in experimental settings today."

A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.
Ethics

Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges

He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.

People who stop taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are finding that their hunger comes back -- with a vengeance.
RX and Medicine

Something Grim Is Happening to People Who Go Off GLP-1s

"It's going to be a lifetime thing."

New reporting revealed that one of Elon Musk's top lawyers, Jaymie Parkkinen, moonlights as a professional clown.
Elon Musk

You Will Never in 100 Years Guess What Elon Musk’s Lawyer Does as a Side Job

"All of my comedy friends — none of them can believe I'm a lawyer."

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.
Astronomy

Scientists Announce Results After Scanning 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals

Alien technology or a natural comet?

The average OpenAI employee is earning an astonishing amount in compensation compared to every other startup.
OpenAI

Your Jaw Will Hit the Floor When You Find Out How Much the Average OpenAI Worker Makes

Astonishing.

The Large Hadron Collider will be shut down, paving the way for a major upgrade, and perhaps its eventual, even bigger sucessor.
Quantum Physics

The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down

It's time to wind down.

The Trump administration is shutting down NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's library — NASA's largest — and threatening to destroy books.
NASA

NASA Reportedly Shutting Down Its Largest Library, Throwing Materials Away

"If you lose that history, you are going to make the same mistakes again."

As the Baltimore Sun reports, a couple used OpenAI's ChatGPT to name their firstborn son. Their decision was criticized heavily online.
OpenAI

New Parents Mocked for Letting ChatGPT Name Their Baby

"It's all so gross."

People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.
Ethics

Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women

This is awful.

Three symmetrical jets jutting out of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS are showing up in Hubble observations, puzzling astronomer Avi Loeb.
Astronomy

Scientist Puzzled by “Symmetric Jet Structure” on 3I/ATLAS

Fresh from the Hubble Space Telescope.

AI-powered software Draft One automatically generates police reports from body camera footage. It thought an officer turned into a frog.
Ethics

Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog

"That’s when we learned the importance of correcting these AI-generated reports."

A man controlling a Unitree robot accidentally made the humanoid kick him in the balls, forcing the man into a groaning heap.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Operating Robot Accidentally Makes It Kick Him Directly in the Nutsack

Happy New Year!

A surgical team in China successfully grafted a human patient's ear to their foot in a remarkable medical intervention.
Developments

Scientists Graft Human Ear Onto Foot

These surgeons stepped up.

Regulators at the Cyberspace Administration of China have proposed new laws meant to protect AI users' mental health.
Ethics

China Planning Crackdown on AI That Harms Mental Health of Users

The doctrine "highlights a leap from content safety to emotional safety."