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What's Twitter CEO Elon Musk up to in the late hours of the night? Screwing around in Twitter spaces and playing fart noises, apparently.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Hosts Bizarre 2am Livestream

"Dude, you can't go on Twitter Spaces when you're in the bathroom, bro."

Experts Slam OpenAI’s “Meaningless” New Promises About AGI
OpenAI

Experts Slam OpenAI’s “Meaningless” New Promises About AGI

"From the get-go this is just gross."

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Future Society

Ford Files Deranged Patent For Self-Driving Cars that Repossess Themselves

Fall behind on your payments, and your car could simply drive itself away.

A team of scientists has grown "minibrains" in a lab with the eventual goal of linking them together to form super-efficient "biocomputers."
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Working to Build Biocomputers Out of Lab-Grown “Minibrains”

"While silicon-based computers are certainly better with numbers, brains are better at learning."

China's state-run media just told Elon Musk to knock it off after the billionaire tweeted about the theory that COVID-19 started in a Chinese lab.
Developments

China Warns Elon Musk Not to Contradict Its COVID Messaging

He's arguing the pandemic started in a Chinese lab.

With everyone and their mother getting into AI at the moment, the FTC firmly reminds businesses that it won't tolerate any BS marketing on AI products.
Artificial Intelligence

Government Warns Tech Companies to “Keep Your AI Claims in Check”

Watch out, AI bros.

NASA astronaut Josh Cassada took an "absolutely unreal" photo of the northern lights from on board the International Space Station.
Off-World

Astronaut Snaps Mind-Melting Photo of Northern Lights Way Down Below

"Absolutely unreal."

Over the weekend, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador took to Twitter to share — seemingly in earnest — a photo of a mythological Mayan elf.
Science & Energy

President of Mexico Posts Photo of What He Claims Is a Mythological Creature

"If you throw a dead cat on the table, everyone's going to be talking about the dead cat on the table, right?"

Steve Davis, a SpaceX alum and the current CEO of The Boring Company, might be the first "Goon" in line for the CEO role at Elon Musk-owned Twitter.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Rumored to Be Giving Twitter CEO Job to Guy in Charge of Digging Holes in the Ground

Digging the hole deeper, we see.

The artificial intelligence arms race is barging ahead at full speed — and now, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is getting in on the game.
Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Bows to Peer Pressure, Announces Pivot to AI

How many pivots has Facebook done now?

Sorry, Pixel phone users, but if you wanted to watch this "Alien" clip in 4K HDR, you're outta luck until Google comes up with some answers.
Future Society

Watching This “Alien” Video Is Crashing Pixel Phones

Spooky...

Volkswagen's Car-Net service demanded someone fork over $150 before it was willing to track down the owner's stolen car with her two year old inside.
Future Society

Volkswagen Refused to Track Car with Kidnapped Child Until Owner Renewed GPS Subscription

Subscribe now to save your kid!

In a blatant rip-off that serves as a sort of meta-commentary, an AI stan seems to have passed off someone else's promotional tweet as his own.
Artificial Intelligence

Dude Brags About AI Replacing Jobs… in Tweet That He Stole

"It seems like he doesn't know about the Retweet button."

ChatGPT is capable of churning out workable crochet patterns. Just one catch: the finished product might not be exactly what you were looking for. 
OpenAI

Asking ChatGPT for Crochet Patterns Yields Disturbing Results

"It looks wrong and ugly, but also very cute."

Blake Lemoine weighs in on whether Microsoft's Bing Search/Sydney, the OpenAI-powered search chatbot that recently had to be lobotomized, is conscious AI.
Google

Fired Google Engineer Doubles Down on Claim That AI Has Gained Sentience

"I haven't had the opportunity to run experiments with Bing's chatbot yet... but based on the various things that I've seen online, it looks like it might be sentient."

Using old data, NASA has discovered that Venus' mantle may be "squishy" and full of volcanic activity, which could explain one of its biggest mysteries.
NASA

NASA Says Venus Is Being Remade by a Squishy Shell

Turns out Venus is even weirder than we thought!

Elon Musk is apparently seeking to rival OpenAI, the firm he co-founded and subsequently left, with his own anti-"woke" artificial intelligence. 
OpenAI

Elon Musk Recruiting Team to Build His Own Anti-“Woke” AI to Rival ChatGPT

Come on, dude, really?

New court documents have revealed that Theranos scammer Elizabeth Holmes has had her second child — which her lawyers argue as reason to postpone jailtime.
Developments

Elizabeth Holmes Hopes Her New Baby Will Keep Her Out of Prison

New court documents list Holmes as a mother of "two young children."

Speaking to The Verge, the world's largest scientific publishing house has announced its decision to outlaw listing ChatGPT and other LLMs as a coauthor.
OpenAI

Largest Publisher of Scientific Journals Cracks Down on Scientists Listing ChatGPT as Coauthor

"We need transparency."

Solar geoengineering might be the quickest may to reduce warming, but these scientists call for more research before it can be championed or ruled out.
Climate Change

Group of 60 Scientists Urge Research Into Geoengineering the Earth to Fight Climate Change

"While reducing emissions is crucial, no level of reduction undertaken now can reverse the warming effect of past and present greenhouse gas emissions."