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Office vibes a little off? Some startups say you should try group workplace ketamine sessions. File under: that's one way to do it.
Developments

Startups Have a Fun New Idea: Workplace Ketamine Sessions

That's one way to do it.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined a mutual admiration society with a ceremonial figurehead as both waxed prolific on the dangers posed by AI. 
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Hopeful World Leaders Will Save Us From AI He’s Building

Look who's talking!

AI-generated joke images of toddlers wearing what looked like Target-peddled Satanic merchandise went viral in far-right social media circles.
Artificial Intelligence

Idiots Fooled by AI-Generated Pics of Satanic Merchandise at Target

This is just so stupid.

Google "Johannes Vermeer," and you'll be met with an AI-generated rendition of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" as the top search result.
Google

Google’s Top Result for “Johannes Vermeer” Is an AI-Generated Version of “Girl With a Pearl Earring”

Google is inserting AI into art history.

AI chatbots like ChatGPT are extremely expensive and could turn them into a major headache for tech companies in the long run.
OpenAI

A Dumb Reality of ChatGPT Could Spell Big Trouble for OpenAI

There's a problem with AI: it's incredibly expensive, with no clear path to monetization.

Ameca, the humanoid robot known for her creepy facial expressions, has "imagined" a vision of an AI "nightmare scenario."
Robotics

Robot With Super Realistic Face Describes AI “Nightmare Scenario”

Be afraid.

A robot pizza delivery startup that has raised almost half a billion dollars has shut down after failing to realize its vision.
Robotics

Robot Pizza Startup Shuts Down After Cheese Kept Sliding Off

Cowabunga!

Consumer groups are saying that the EPA hasn't done enough to battle Inhance, a producer of PFAS-riddled plastic food and cosmetic containers.
Developments

EPA Condemned for Weak Response to Toxic Takeout Containers

"It's a serious and ongoing threat to public health."

From their experiments, the researchers calculate that their tractor beam could be used to move debris weighing several tons.
Off-World

Scientists Experimenting With Actual Tractor Beam to Clean Up Space Junk

Once operational, their device could "essentially tug away the debris without ever touching it."

It's only day two of Pride Month, Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is already jumping headfirst into deeply transphobic wasters.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Celebrates Pride Month With Wildly Transphobic Outbursts

This guy sucks.

Sam Altman, a tech CEO, has finally watched a movie about sleazy tech CEO that invents a possibly conscious AI humanoid robot. Huh.
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Says He Finally Watched “Ex Machina”

"Pretty good movie but I can't figure out why everyone told me to watch it."

A US Air Force Colonel described a simulation in which an AI drone went rogue, but the military claims this was taken out of context.
Military

US Military Denies AI Drone Killed Its Operator During Simulation

It was all just a "thought experiment."

Scientists say they've successfully transmitted solar energy gathered in orbit down to the Earth's surface.
Solar Power

Satellite Beams Solar Power Down to Earth Using Microwave Transmitter

"In the same way that the internet democratized access to information, we hope that wireless energy transfer democratizes access to energy."

Bill Gates apparently had an affair — and Jeffrey Epstein, who knew all about it, allegedly used it as leverage. 
Future Society

Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Had Dirt on Bill Gates

The strange relationship between Gates and Epstein seems to be getting weirder.

Former top Google exec Mo Gawdet says that AI is "beyond an emergency" and is "bigger than climate change, believe it or not."
Google

Former Google Exec Warns of Global AI Catastrophe Within Two Years

"It's bigger than climate change, believe it or not." 

A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when she was forced to have it removed.
Neuroscience and Brain

Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will

"I would have done anything to keep it."

By using X-rays, scientists can more precisely detect and measure atoms in ways that other imaging techniques can't on their own.
Science & Energy

Scientists Just X-Rayed a Single Atom

The X-ray marks the spot.

Meet Paragraphica, a lensless camera "camera" that uses location data and various AI APIs to generate imagery. Why? Why not!
Artificial Intelligence

New “Camera” Has No Lens, Simply Detects Your Location and Generates an AI Picture of It

Why not, we guess?

NASA chief Bill Nelson has Moon water on the mind — also, specifically, the idea that China might get to that precious Moon water first.
Moon

NASA Head Worried China Will Steal America’s God-Given Moon Water

Do NOT touch this man's Moon water!

Yoshua Bengio, who is considered to be one of the three "godfathers" of AI, feels "lost" over his life's work.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Who Helped Invent Modern AI Is Now Wracked With Regret

"You could say I feel lost."