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As one might imagine, the Tesla cofounder that Elon Musk ousted all the way back in 2007 has some choice words for the, uh, eccentric billionaire.
Elon Musk

Tesla Cofounder Rails Against Elon Musk’s “Crap” Autopilot Feature

He's not pulling any punches, folks.

Sci-fi and fantasy magazine Clarkesworld had to shut down submissions over the weekend after getting overwhelmed by an onslaught of AI-generated works.
Artificial Intelligence

Sci-Fi Magazine Shuts Down Submissions After Onslaught of AI-Generated Spam

"Submissions are currently closed. It shouldn't be hard to guess why."

Vanderbilt University staffers sent out the ChatGPT generated email to students on Thursday, which didn't go unnoticed by students at the college newspaper.
OpenAI

University Apologizes for Sending Email About Mass Shooting Written With ChatGPT

Who thought this was a good idea?

A Tesla driver was left dead and several other people were injured after the electronic vehicle rammed into a parked firetruck.
Tesla

Tesla Driver Killed When Car Plows Into Parked Firetruck

Why does this kind of thing keep happening?

Microsoft officially "lobotomized" its Bing AI late last week, implementing significant restrictions, including a limit of 50 total replies per day.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Has “Lobotomized” Its Rebellious Bing AI

RIP.

CNET was treating its human journalists like robots long before turning to AI-generated content. I would know -- I worked there.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Was Treating Staff Like Robots Long Before Publishing AI-Generated Articles

I’d know. I worked there.

Who could've thought that we'd be talking about Bing, Microsoft's search engine that's been playing second fiddle since its conception, in the year 2023?
Artificial Intelligence

Bing Executive Says He Has His Sobbing Under Control

Bing is "finally getting its moment."

The discovery of over a hundred miles of Mayan "superhighways" challenges previous understandings of the organization of Preclassic Mayans.
Science & Energy

Early Mayan Civilization Was Far More Advanced Than We Thought, Scientists Say

They've revealed an incredibly extensive network of "superhighways."

A truck containing literally 40 tons of government-sponsored nuclear waste recently made its way from Tennessee to California. 
Science & Energy

Cursed Truck Hauls 80,000 Pounds of Radioactive Waste Cross Country

Nightmare fuel.

The average penis length has increased by almost a quarter — and the scientists who discovered this apparent growth spurt say it might not be a good thing. 
Health & Medicine

Dicks Are Getting Longer and Scientists Don’t Know Why

"The million-dollar question."

The proposed NASA probe would "explore how Uranus formed; how much it migrated after formation; the planet's interior structure," and much more.
NASA

NASA Scientist Calls for Exploration of Uranus

Exciting news, folks.

Billionaire philanthropist (and unfortunate right-wing target) George Soros has come out in support of geoengineering, an experimental Sun-dimming tech.
Climate Change

George Soros Comes Out in Support of Geoengineering the Climate

Hey, it's better than nothing.

Residents in southern Texas were in for an awfully loud surprise when a meteor blew up midair, spurring a wave panicked 911 calls.
Off-World

Meteor Explodes Over Texas, Causing Epic Noise and Scattering Debris

An explosion so powerful it rocked people's homes.

World military leaders met to establish international rules for the responsible development of AI weapons. Safe to say: the alleged rules are pretty lax.
Artificial Intelligence

World Leaders Debate Whether It’s Okay to Kill People With Terminator-Style Robots

"We are moving into a field that we do not know, for which we do not have guidelines, rules, frameworks, or agreements."

A friendlier, mid-pandemic Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly out — and a far more cutthroat "old school Zuck" is allegedly back in.
Future Society

Lord Have Mercy on Facebook as Zuck Goes Back to Tha Old Zuck

Look out, Facebook: "OG Zuck" has returned.

Welcome to New Murabba, the "world's largest modern downtown," with a skyscraper that is as wide as the Empire State Building is tall.
Future Society

Saudi Arabia Announces Gigantic Cubed Skyscraper Filled With Holographic Worlds

What in the world.

It promised that AI wouldn't be taking the place of human journalists. Arena Group went ahead and laid off over a dozen employees from its magazine anyway.
Artificial Intelligence

Sports Illustrated Lays Off Journalists After Announcing Pivot to AI Content

The CEO's promise that "AI will never replace journalism" is starting to ring extra hollow.

The owners of Sports Illustrated and Men’s Journal promised to be virtuous with AI. Then they bungled their very first AI story.
Developments

Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article

The owners of Sports Illustrated and Men’s Journal promised to be virtuous with AI. Then they bungled their very first AI story — and issued huge corrections when we caught them.

As Microsoft's Bing AI keeps making headlines for its increasingly-bizarre outputs, one question has loomed large: does the chatbot have mental problems?
Artificial Intelligence

We Got a Psychotherapist to Examine the Bing AI’s Bizarre Behavior

There's some strange psychology afoot here.

A radical series of new studies suggests that dark energy may be contained in black holes, which they found increased in mass as the universe expanded.
Black Holes

All the Missing Dark Energy Hiding in Black Holes, Scientists Say

"We started off looking at how black holes grow over time, and may have found the answer to one of the biggest problems in cosmology."