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Experimental artist and futurist Claire "Grimes" Boucher is looking at AI as an opportunity and is willing to split royalties for songs that use her voice.
Artificial Intelligence

Grimes Says She’ll Split Royalties With Anyone Who Deepfakes Her Voice Into a Song

"I'll split 50 percent royalties on any successful AI-generated song that uses my voice."

By Victor Tangermann

Teachers are reportedly using ChatGPT to write AI-assisted letters of recommendation — which are apparently good enough to win Cambridge scholarships.
OpenAI

ChatGPT-Inspired Letter of Recommendation Gets Prestigious Cambridge Scholarship

This ChatGPT hack is pretty clever.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pro-tip for editors: do not, under any circumstance, publish an AI-generated "interview" with someone you didn't actually interview.
Artificial Intelligence

Tabloid Fires Editor for AI-Generated “Interview” With Injured Celebrity

"This tasteless and misleading article should never have appeared."

By Noor Al-Sibai

There’s a Serious Problem With Lab-Grown Meat
Science & Energy

There’s a Serious Problem With Lab-Grown Meat

"It’s like putting a man on the Moon."

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's disastrous Starship launch last week appears to have had some collateral damage.
Starship

Video Shows Falling Starship Debris Smashing a Minivan

"That's the rocket game!"

By Noor Al-Sibai

After yoinking legacy verification checkmarks from Twitter accounts, CEO Elon Musk has brought back the checkmark to a number of dead celebrity profiles.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Forces Dead Celebrities to Become “Paying” Twitter Blue Subscribers

This is getting ridiculous.

By Victor Tangermann

It appears that horny ChatGPT users are becoming increasingly skilled at crafting detailed prompts that quickly cook up AI-generated porn.
OpenAI

Detailed Jailbreak Gets ChatGPT to Write Wildly Explicit Smut

"I'm reading out fantasies I could only ever dream to think about."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lonely Parrots Love Video Chatting With Each Other, Study Finds
Science & Energy

Lonely Parrots Love Video Chatting With Each Other, Study Finds

"Some of the caregivers would say that their birds came to life through these calls."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT's immense popularity and power make it eye-wateringly expensive to maintain, The Information reports, with OpenAI paying up to $700,000 a day.
OpenAI

Just Running ChatGPT Is Costing OpenAI a Staggering Sum Every Single Day

The company is burning through cash.

By Frank Landymore

Switzerland-based startup Energy Vault has broken ground on two huge gravity battery facilities in Texas and just north of Shanghai, China, CNET reports.
Energy

Company Builds Facility That Lifts and Lowers 24-Ton Bricks to Store Energy

It's a genius idea.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX finally got Starship off the ground, but it looks like it didn't do its due diligence to make sure the aftermath didn't spill over to nearby cities.
SpaceX

City Annoyed When SpaceX Launch Coats It in Layer of Grime

"The locals here are just being sacrificed."

By Frank Landymore

Artist and music producer Austin Richard "Post Malone" Post got a rare chance to talk to NASA astronauts currently stationed on board the ISS.
Off-World

Space Station Contacted by Bizarre Life Form: Post Malone

It's an excruciating watch.

By Victor Tangermann

In a viral social media video, the FDNY's new Spot robodog is seen being deployed into a search-and-rescue zone — only to simply fall over.
Robot Dogs

$75,000 FDNY Robodog Goes to Work, Falls Over Almost Immediately

"That didn't work out for the dog so well."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft for having the company's partner OpenAI train its AI models "illegally using Twitter data."
Elon Musk

Furious Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Microsoft

"Lawsuit time."

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Harvard Medical School scientists has come up with a new drug-like cocktail of molecules that can successfully regenerate hair cells.
Gene Editing

Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Regenerate Lost Hearing

They claim to have found the "holy grail" of the hearing loss field.

By Victor Tangermann

Anxious about AI taking your job? Per a new BBC report, you're not alone — and frankly, automation worries aren't exactly far-fetched.
Artificial Intelligence

A New Fear Is Spreading: AI Anxiety

"We're all just hoping that our clients will recognize [our] value."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A published YA author recommended up and comers use ChatGPT to critique your writing. We're here to tell you that this is a bad, bad idea.
OpenAI

Your Brain Will Melt When You Hear How This Author Is Using ChatGPT

It's an absolutely terrible idea.

By Frank Landymore

PSA for anyone planning a trip to Florida: massive, smelly globs of seaweed and algae calle Sargassum are currently headed toward the state's shores.
Science & Energy

Huge Blobs Headed Toward Florida

Also: they smell.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In recent months, Elon Musk has backtracked on previous claims that his family owned part of an emerald mine. But according to his dad? The mine was real.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Dad Says His Son’s Whole Career Was Funded by That Emerald Mine

"Elon knows it's true. All the kids know about it."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Universal Music Group is pissed about AI, and it's already taken down a viral voice clone of "Drake" and "the Weeknd." This is likely only the beginning.
Artificial Intelligence

Drake’s Label Is Still Absolutely Furious About That AI-Generated Song

It's not giving up its crusade against AI music.

By Frank Landymore