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A group of NYC bird advocates are denouncing whoever bought and dyed pink a domesticated pigeon for a gender reveal before releasing it into the wild.
Science & Energy

"We were honestly disgusted that someone would do this."

After five years allegedly on the lam, Dr. Ruja Ignatova — the infamous crypto ponzi scheme scam artist accused of stealing billions — might be back.
Cryptocurrency

This is big, because she's on the FBI's Most Wanted list.

"Robot lawyer" startup DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder is being accused of some pretty shady things, including using unpaid charity donations for cloud.
Artificial Intelligence

Absolutely terrible look.

OpenAI's powerful, controversial ChatGPT is, it seems, creepily good at writing misinformation when prompted to do so by a human.
OpenAI

It's nearly impossible to tell from the "real" thing.

Dutch data journalist Wouter van Dijke took it upon himself to ask the ultimate question: "what if ChatGPT were a cat?"
Artificial Intelligence

It's "the latest in pawtifurcial intelligence."

It's only been a few days since gaming streamer Atrioc admitted to buying deepfake porn of his colleagues, but in the interim, all hell has broken loose.
Artificial Intelligence

"What are you talking about? Like these mental gymnastics man."

Dave Rubin says that Twitter's "whole situation" is "'a flaming dumpster rolling down the street.'" Miraculously, we agree — but for different reasons.
Elon Musk

Finally, something we can all agree on.

China is getting its own equivalent of OpenAI's blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT, courtesy of the country's largest internet search engine Baidu.
OpenAI

AI chatbots, so hot right now.

CNET's sister site Bankrate published a new AI generated article -- and, like CNET's, it wasn't the most accurate thing we've ever seen.
Artificial Intelligence

After we reached out with questions, they deleted it.

The Partiful event invite startup has admitted that it won't be turning a profit with investor money — but will be partying on regardless.
Future Society

"Enjoy it babes."

We Tested OpenAI’s New AI-Detector and Uhhhhh
OpenAI

Spoiler alert: it's terrible.

Colossal Sciences, a self-branded "de-extinction" company, has rallied another significant amount of funding and has completed sequencing a dodo genome.
Science & Energy

Life finds a way.

Online course provider Study.com asked 1,000 students over the age of 18 about the use of ChatGPT, and found almost half already used it to cheat.
Artificial Intelligence

Wait, what!?

As if being verified couldn't be more worthless or AIs more dubious, beware verified Twitter accounts with AI-generated faces pretending to be real people.
Artificial Intelligence

It's only the tip of the iceberg.

A Chinese influencer who thought it was a great idea to purchase, grill, and eat a whole great white shark has been fined by her country for doing so.
Science & Energy

"Don't be fooled by its scary appearance, its meat is very tender."

Strange things were certainly afoot this weekend, with zookeepers in Dallas and Louisiana announcing separate incidents of monkey theft.
Future Society

"The coincidence is a little difficult to ignore."

Could flirting with a VR bartender help you combat IRL temptations? These researchers betted it could — and their study seems to back them up.
Virtual Reality

A human walks into a VR bar — stop me if you've heard this one before.

Northwestern University astronomer Jason Wang has created a stunning timelapse of a number of planets orbiting a distant star.
Exoplanets

Okay, that's just plain amazing.

A Motherboard deep dive into 4Chan found that a number of users have likely abused a new AI voice-generator beta to make phony "celebs" say horrible things.
Artificial Intelligence

"The clips run the gamut from harmless, to violent, to transphobic, to homophobic, to racist."

An old Soviet-era rocket body almost collided with an errant military satellite, narrowly avoiding a huge disaster, according to tracking company LeoLabs.
Off-World

That was a seriously close call.