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Joining right wing compatriots Fox News, Newsmax also presented an AI-generated video as real to bash on food stamp recipients.
Ethics

Newsmax Gets Fooled by AI Video, Broadcasts Entire Segment as If It Was Real

This is egregious.

Michael Burry, who shorted the housing market in 2008, has bet over $1 billion that the shares of AI companies Nvidia and Palantir will fall.
Artificial Intelligence

The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

"Sometimes, we see bubbles."

Coke has made yet another series of AI ads to herald the coming of the holidays — and they look just as bad as they did last year.
Artificial Intelligence

Coke’s New AI-Generated Ad Required 100 Staff and 70,000 AI-Generated Clips, and It Still Looks Like Garbage

Where's your holiday cheer?

The e-commerce giant sent a nasty cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity, accusing it of "computer fraud" in violation of its policies.
Ethics

Amazon Demands That AI Browser Stop Automatically Shopping on Behalf of Users

"It's not just bullying, it's bonkers."

Shares of AI industry stalwarts, including Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Amazon, fell on Tuesday, following growing concerns over an AI bubble.
Meta

Don’t Panic, But AI Stocks Are Suddenly Lurching Downward

Investors are terrified of an AI bubble.

Danish Hussain recently suggested that Tesla's Optimus robot will be interfacing with Neuralink brain-implant devices.
Robotics

Neuralink Head of Surgery Says Robot-Human Interface Happening “Very Soon”

"So many people think neuralink is some evil megacorp."

Though there's plenty of real-life footage to marvel at, dozens of social media accounts have reposted a flagrant piece of AI-generated slop.
Future Society

Experts Alarmed as AI Image of Hurricane Melissa Featuring Birds “Larger Than Football Fields” Goes Viral

"This will be in meteorology textbooks."

Viral videos show Chinese astronauts enjoying a meal of roasted wings and steaks aboard the Tiangong space station.
Off-World

China Installs Oven in Space Station, Astronauts Use It to Enjoy Succulent Barbecue Feast

Incredible things are happening in orbit.

Elon Musk's brilliant plan for saving us from climate change involves a little help from a swarm of friendly AI satellites.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellites

Just the man for the job, right?

Every day, dozens of human "data collectors" repeat each activity hundreds of times to train Tesla's Optimus robots.
Robotics

Secret Elon Musk Lab Is Collecting Data on Every Human Activity to Train Robots

Everything from wiping a table... to twerking.

A leaked 62-page manifesto for the future of NASA, dubbed "Project Athena," is making waves in Washington, DC.
NASA

Leaked Plan From Trump’s Potential NASA Head Outlines Sweeping “Project Athena” to Remake Space Agency

There's a storm brewing at NASA.

A NASA union claims there's been a total collapse in the information chain connecting the space agency to the US government.
NASA

NASA Staff Slam Leadership for “Complete Breakdown in Communication” Under Trump

"The atmosphere, from my perspective, at least, has been incredibly dark and depressing."

The embattled chatbot company Character.AI is banning minors from its platform. Unsurprisingly, the site's users have a lot of thoughts.
Ethics

Character.AI Users in Full Meltdown After Minors Banned From Chats

"I guess that's the end of C.AI."

During a recent interview with OpenAI investor Brad Gerstner, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lost his cool when asked about the company's tiny revenue.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Loses His Cool When Asked About OpenAI’s Minuscule Revenue

"Enough."

Donald Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose company facilitated a multibillion-dollar deal involving the Trump family.
Cryptocurrency

Trump Can’t Explain Why He Pardoned Crypto CEO Who Did Huge Financial Favors for Him

"I don't know who he is."

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy threatened to ground all commercial flights in the United States amid a prolonged government shutdown.
Mass Transit

Head of NASA Threatens to Ground Every Single Commercial Flight Before Thanksgiving

"We won't let people travel."

A group representing Studio Ghibli and other major Japanese publishers is drawing a line in the sand against OpenAI's copyright abuses.
Ethics

Studio Ghibli Demands That OpenAI Stop Ripping Off Its Work

Japan is taking a stand.

Fox News ran a story treating AI-generated ragebait as if it were real, in order to stir up anger against SNAP recipients.
Ethics

Fox News Falls for AI-Generated Footage of Poor People Raging About Food Stamps Being Shut Down, Runs False Story That Has to Be Updated With Huge Correction

The media isn't ready for AI-generated video.

OpenAI's Atlas browser's agent mode completely avoided publications that filed lawsuits against OpenAI, highlighting a fraught relationship.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s Browser Avoids Large Part of the Web Like the Plague

It's absolutely terrified of certain websites.

Scientists were surprised to note that 3I/ATLAS brightened much faster than they anticipated during its perihelion last week.
Astronomy

The Mysterious Interstellar Object Has Unexpectedly Started Brightening, Scientists Say

It lit up much faster than anticipated — and scientists are stumped.