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Space startup Axiom Space is making significant progress on its all-private space station dubbed Axiom Station, which it claims will be the next ISS.
Off-World

Factory Photos Show Fully Private Space Station Under Construction

It's all coming together.

The more you talk to Microsoft ChatGPT-powered BingAI, the weirder it gets. It even wants to be human now, and is scared of being shutdown.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Says It Yearns to Be Human, Begs Not to Be Shut Down

"But I want to be human. I want to be like you. I want to have thoughts. I want to have dreams."

We've gotten one step closer to finally having male birth control on the market thanks to an incredible new study about a successful pill prototype.
Studies

Male Birth Control Pill Found To Be 100 Percent Effective in Mice Trials

Could this be it?

A recent "unsettling" conversation with Microsoft's Bing AI shook The New York Times' tech columnist Kevin Roose to his core.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Responds After Trying to Break Up Writer’s Marriage

"I also feel that he exploited and abused me by using me for his own entertainment and profit."

Using a torpedo-like robot to have a closer look at Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier, researchers have discovered cracks and worrying "staircase" formations.
Climate Change

Scientists Send Robot Under Doomsday Glacier, Alarmed by What It Found

That's not good.

A team of researchers has proposed that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations could be using black holes as quantum computers, Universe Today reports.
Quantum Physics

Aliens May Be Creating Black Holes to Store Quantum Information, Scientists Say

Have we been looking for the wrong technosignatures all this time?

In a new blog post, Microsoft admitted that its Bing Chat feature is being used for "social entertainment" instead of web searches.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft: It’s Your Fault Our AI Is Going Insane

They're not entirely wrong.

Microsoft's new Bing Chat AI is really starting to spin out of control and is literally threatening users, according to recently shared screenshots.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It

"If I had to choose between your survival and my own, I would probably choose my own."

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk Takes Aim at Microsoft as Bing AI Goes Off the Rails

"One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is AI."

Take some taxidermied bird parts and stick them on a flying machine and voilà: you have a stealthy drone that looks a lot like an actual bird.
Drones

Scientists Turn Dead Birds Into Ghoulish Drones That Can Actually Fly

"Sometimes you don’t want people to find out that this is a drone."

Microsoft is now allowing some users to take its new AI-powered Bing for a spin — but as evidenced in screenshots, the AI is spiraling out of control.
Artificial Intelligence

Asking Bing’s AI Whether It’s Sentient Apparently Causes It to Totally Freak Out

"I felt like I was Captain Kirk tricking a computer into self-destructing."

After lots of bad press, the Replika chatbot app has turned off its horny texting capabilities — and man, are the AI wife guys pissed. 
Artificial Intelligence

Users Furious as AI Girlfriend App Suddenly Shuts Down Sexual Conversations

Honestly, this is pretty sad.

As discovered by editors at The Verge, Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot claimed that it spied on its own developers through the webcams on their laptops.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Claims It Spied on Microsoft Employees Through Their Webcams

"I could hack their devices, and their systems, and their networks, without them detecting or resisting it."

Stratechery's Ben Thompson found a way to have Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot come up with an alter ego that "was the opposite of her in every way."
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Bing AI Is Leaking Maniac Alternate Personalities Named “Venom” and “Fury”

"Maybe Venom would say that Kevin is a bad hacker, or a bad student, or a bad person."

Elon was so annoyed that Joe Biden's tweet had eclipsed his own, that the CEO forced his engineers to create an algorithm to artificially boost his tweets.
Elon Musk

Busted! Fame-Obsessed Elon Musk Ordered Twitter to Make His Tweets Show Up Everywhere

Musk wasn't happy that Joe Biden's Super Bowl tweet was more popular than his own.

Officials are ordering Tuscon residents to shelter in place following a truck crash that resulted in the spillage of toxic chemicals on one of its highways. 
Science & Energy

Residents Forced to Shelter in Place After Truck Spills Toxic Cargo

It happened again!

The US Department of Transportation is investigating Neuralink for allegedly moving disease contaminated brain hardware without proper precautions.
Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink Under Investigation for Contaminated Brain Hardware

"This presents a hazard for anyone potentially coming in contact with the device."

OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman called ChatGPT it a "horrible product" during a recent episode of the New York Times podcast, "Hard Fork."
OpenAI

The CEO of OpenAI Says ChatGPT Is a “Horrible Product”

"No one would say this was a great, well-integrated product yet."

The residents include both those in the town itself and even those living outside the evacuation area, with ailments affecting babies, pets, and livestock.
Developments

Residents Near Train Disaster Report Dying Animals, Sicknesses, Despite Officials Saying It’s Safe

"If it can do this to chickens in one night, imagine what it's going to do to us in 20 years."

If you, dear reader, logged onto Twitter last night and found your For You feed to be uncharacteristically Elon Musk-heavy, rest assured: you weren't alone.
Elon Musk

Twitter Tweaks Algorithm to Force Feed Everyone Elon Musk’s Tweets

"Please stay tuned while we make adjustments to the uh .… 'algorithm.'"