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In a first-of-its-kind, doctors said they had transplanted an entire eyeball into an Arkansas man who had suffered a high-voltage accident.
Developments

Surgeons Perform World’s First Successful Eyeball Transplant

Incredible.

By Sharon Adarlo

In a recent interview, Altman described AGI as a "magic intelligence in the sky," which sounds an awful lot like a God.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Seems to Imply That OpenAI Is Building God

Is that what AGI is going to be?

By Victor Tangermann

An Indian government official appears to have broken a cone of silence surrounding Elon Musk's health problems.
Elon Musk

Official Lets Slip That Something Is Wrong With Elon Musk’s Health

What's going on with Elon Musk's health?

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed in an interview with the Financial Times this week that the company is officially working on GPT-5.
OpenAI

GPT-5 Is Officially on the Way, OpenAI CEO Says

It's only a matter of time.

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, a commercial facility that can suck carbon out of the air and store it underground has opened in the United States. 
Renewable Energy

United States Opens First Facility to Suck CO2 Out of the Air

"We want to get to millions of tons per year."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Once again, a much-hyped AI product launch has featured glaring AI hallucinations. This time, Humane's AI Pin is the one in the hot seat.
Artificial Intelligence

That Hyped Up AI Pin Made Two Idiotic Mistakes in Its Launch Video

How does this keep happening?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The results are in: keeping good news a secret for a while may literally be good for you, scientists have found. 
Studies

Scientists Discover Secret Trick to Feel “Energized and Alive”

Could this actually work?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Soot kills thousands of people every year. But as the EPA prepares to tighten soot restrictions, corporations are more worried about the GDP.
Pollution

Corporations Whimper That They Won’t Be Able to Make So Much Money If They Aren’t Allowed to Pollute

Think of the economy!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Investors are harnessing the power of AI to analyze the literal speech of CEOs to glean insights into their underlying emotional states.
Artificial Intelligence

Investors Are Using AI to Detect CEOs’ Emotional States

"The idea is that audio captures more than just what is in text."

By Victor Tangermann

YouTube will soon make users add a disclaimer when they post artificial intelligence-generated or manipulated videos.
Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Creators Will Be Forced To Disclose AI Content

This is a step in the right direction, at least.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Civitai, a LoRA model-sharing platform funded in part by a16z, is incentivizing users to make deepfakes of real people — celebrity or not.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Platform Has a “Bounties” System for Creating Deepfakes of Regular People

Please... get us out of this timeline.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study has found that when people look at AI-generated images of faces, they're often convinced those are more real than the real thing.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Images of White People More Convincing than Real Photos, Scientists Say

You can't trust your eyes anymore.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A SpaceX employee died in June 2014 after being struck by an unsecured piece of rocket insulation. We're only hearing about it now.
Future Society

A SpaceX Worker Died and They Kept It a Secret

"SpaceX shouldn’t be exempt from protecting workers from being injured or killed just because they’re doing innovative work."

By Victor Tangermann

A small pond in Hawaii has turned an alarmingly bright shade of pink, alarming local residents and environmentalists.
Science & Energy

Residents Alarmed When Pond Turns Bright Pink

"It’s basically a flashing red light that the ecology of this area is being gravely distressed."

By Victor Tangermann

A recent study found that LLMs are incredibly good steganographers, able to obscure their own thought processes through "encoded reasoning."
Artificial Intelligence

AIs Can Store Secret Messages in Their Text That Are Imperceptible to Humans

Oh wow.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some of FTX's ex-employees, including an executive who testified against Sam Bankman-Fried, are starting a new crypto exchange.
Cryptocurrency

A Former FTX Exec is Launching a New Crypto Exchange

What could possibly go wrong?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Data is the vital force of large AI models, and thus of the industry itself. But it's also a finite resource — and companies could run out.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Companies Are Running Out of Training Data

The well is running dry.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New aerial footage shows a massive crack splitting a town in Iceland in half and sending ominous steam into the air.
Science & Energy

Huge Crack Opens Up in Iceland, Steam Pouring Forth

That does not look good.

By Victor Tangermann

That outlandish UFO whistleblower never came in to talk to the Pentagon's UFO office, the department's outgoing chief is claiming. 
Off-World

That UFO Whistleblower Apparently Refused Pentagon Interviews

"He has refused to come and share any of that information."

By Noor Al-Sibai

In its order agreement, Tesla is instructing Cybertruck owners to "not sell or otherwise attempt to sell the Vehicle within the first year."
Tesla

Tesla Vows to Sue Anyone Who Resells Their Cybertruck

Even once you've paid for your Cybertruck, you don't fully own it.

By Victor Tangermann