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Google asked around 80,000 of its employees to test its still-unreleased Bard AI chatbot before it released it to the public last month, Bloomberg reports.
Google

Google Staff Warned Its AI Was a “Pathological Liar” Before They Released It Anyway

"AI ethics has taken a back seat."

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Meta-formerly-Facebook will lay off another 10,000 of the company's still-standing employees.
Meta

Facebook Is Getting Slammed by Another Round of Brutal Cuts

The plight of the metamates continues.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nearly 21 years after it was launched, NASA's RHESSI satellite is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere. Chances it'll hit you are apparently "low."
NASA

This NASA Satellite Is Falling Back to Earth After 21 Years

There's even a small chance it could hit people on the way down.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

German tabloid Die Aktuelle is advertising "the first interview" with F1 legend Michael Schumacher, despite the fact that it was entirely AI generated.
Artificial Intelligence

Fury as Magazine Uses AI to Generate Fake Interview With Michael Schumacher

"What an incredibly cruel thing to do to his family, absolute scumbag behavior."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has turned its giant 6.2 million-gallon Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) into a replica of the surface of the Moon to train astronauts.
Moon

NASA Building Huge Underwater Moon Replica

They even put down sand and boulders.

By Victor Tangermann

In a bombastic interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk made a bold claim about Google co-founder Larry Page that, unfortunately, is kind of believable.
Google

Elon Musk Claims Google Co-Founder Is Building a “Digital God”

"And, um, then he called me a speciesist."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Major record label Universal Music Group has forced a song that uses the AI-generated vocals of Drake and The Weeknd to be taken offline.
Artificial Intelligence

Furious Record Label Gets AI-Generated Drake Song Deleted

AI's most fearsome opponent yet? The lawyer-powered music industry.

By Victor Tangermann

In a quiet new rule change, Twitter has rolled back protections for trans users amid an international anti-trans movement on both sides of the pond.
Future Society

Twitter Says It’s Okay to Harass Trans People Now

The decline of Twitter continues.

By Noor Al-Sibai

German artist Boris Eldagsen, who recently won a prestigious photography competition with a stunning black and white portrait, is now refusing the award after admitting the image was generated using an AI image generator, The Guardian reports.
Artificial Intelligence

Guy Admits That His Prize-Winning “Photo” Was Actually Generated Using AI

"AI is not photography. Therefore I will not accept the award."

By Victor Tangermann

Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned audiences in a 60 Minutes interview on CBS that AI will drastically disrupt society as we know it.
Google

Google CEO Warns Earthlings to Brace for AI Impact

"It can be very harmful if deployed wrongly... So does that keep me up at night? Absolutely."

By Frank Landymore

EV maker Polestar just showed off its fourth passenger vehicle called the Polestar 4, a compact SUV that literally has no rear windshield.
Advanced Transport

New Car Has No Rear Window, Just a Camera

"It creates a cocoon."

By Victor Tangermann

A Japanese astronomer spotted green streaks of light passing over a cloudy sky, which, as it turns out, were shot out by NASA's ICESat-2 satellite.
NASA

NASA’s Mighty Sky Lasers Spotted by Japanese Astronomer

It's the first time anybody's caught them on camera from the ground.

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook is sending users money in a class action lawsuit settlement — and if you used the site at any point in the last 15 years, you can get some, too.
Future Society

Facebook Is Giving Away Free Money, Y’all

Here's how to get in on the action.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hawaii's Big Island was treated to a light show of space lasers — but luckily, it wasn't aliens that put on the stunning spectacle.
Off-World

Satellite Shoots Wall of Green Lasers Down to Earth

This is lit.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Each iteration of OpenAI's GPT has been way bigger than the last. But the era of simply scaling up AIs may already be at an end, according to Sam Altman.
OpenAI

CEO of OpenAI Says Making Models Bigger Is Already Played Out

"We are not here to jerk ourselves off about parameter count."

By Frank Landymore

Ever wanted to know what the Moon smells like? According to NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin, it smells like spent gunpowder.
Moon

What Does the Moon Smell Like?

It's a very specific scent.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Earlier today, SpaceX loaded its gigantic, 400-foot Starship rocket stack with propellant — only to scrub its first-ever orbital launch attempt.
Starship

SpaceX Fails to Launch Mighty Starship

Will Elon try again on 4/20?

By Victor Tangermann

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so permanent and huge that living beings are migrating from thousands of miles away to get in on the plastic action.
Science & Energy

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Teeming With Trash Life, Scientists Find

Life finds a way.

By Noor Al-Sibai

We can now, apparently, add the CEO of the Google-owned DeepMind to the list of machine learning researchers who think AI might gain self-awareness. 
Google

Google DeepMind CEO Says AI May Become Self-Aware

"I think there's a possibility..."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Another NFT collector just got caught up in a scam, losing millions of dollars worth of crypto in the process.
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Guy Forced to Sell Apes After Falling for Scam

"Please learn any lessons possible from this."

By Victor Tangermann