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According to a new report, Chinese military researchers say that their AI-powered fighter pilot has bested a human in a real-life aerial dogfight.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Pilot Crushes Human Dogfight Rival in 90 Seconds

"The era of air combat in which artificial intelligence will be the king is already on the horizon."

Mistakes are bound to happen in rocket launches, but a massive one last summer resulted in a rocket launch company losing two NASA satellites.
NASA

Government Contractor Lost Two NASA Satellites, Company Admits

It cost the company its contract with NASA.

A group of large asteroids lurking between Mars and Jupiter are an awful lot like the dwarf planet Ceres, and are harboring tons of water.
NASA

NASA Astronomers Identify “Dark Asteroids” Brimming With Water

They're nearly as old as our solar system — and may have brought our planet's water.

While it surely won't be fun for any of Sam Bankman-Fried's (SBF) friends to take the stand against him, for Nashad Singh, it might just sting the worst.
Blockchain

FTX Cofounder Who Was Allegedly in Groupchat Called “Wirefraud” Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud

"I'm unbelievably sorry for my role in all of this."

The AI chatbot trend has given birth to a new profession, "prompt engineering," which, unlike coding, involves simply speaking to these chatbots.
Artificial Intelligence

Get a Load of This New Job: “Prompt Engineers” Who Act as Psychologists to AI Chatbots

"It’s 'let’s poke the bear in different ways and see how it roars back.'"

Lazarus, a rapper affiliated with the Wu-Tang clan who happens to be a practicing physician, is also a space nerd eager to debut his single from the ISS.
NASA

Wu-Tang Affiliate Collaborates With NASA to Release Rap Song About Space

"There's different insights we can gain just from just being out there [in space], and looking in that can help our world and society."

Meet Ion, Romania's "new honorary advisor," who is worryingly in charge of surveilling and interpreting the opinions of its citizens.
Artificial Intelligence

Prime Minister of European Country Names AI as Advisor

"I am Ion. Now, my role is to represent you. Like a mirror."

There's nothing like ocean spray gently caressing your face as you take a beachside stroll — quite literally, because it's actually full of bacteria. 
Bacteria

The Refreshing Spray of the Ocean Is Loaded With Sewage Bacteria, Scientists Find

"It was a complete shock to find how much of microbes in the air were traceable back to sewage."

Scientists Scan Great Pyramid, Discover Hidden Corridor
Science & Energy

Scientists Scan Great Pyramid, Discover Hidden Corridor

Where does it lead to?

Our toilet paper contains toxic "forever" chemicals that have been associated with troubling health problems — and the government doesn't know what to do.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover That Toilet Paper Contains Toxic “Forever” Chemicals

This doesn't seem great!

The company behind Funko Pop! collectibles, vastly over-estimated demand and is dumping $30 million worth of figurines in a landfill, Kotaku reports.
Pollution

They’re Dumping $30 Million of Funko Pops Directly Into a Landfill

The company is in serious trouble.

Internal correspondence obtained Futurism alleges that CNET has gutted 50 percent of its news and video staff in its recent layoffs.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Post-AI Layoffs Apparently Gutted 50 Percent of Its News and Video Staff

If true, a staggering figure.

Gen Z workers are entering the workforce with plenty of technological know-how, but plenty of glaring gaps as well, making navigating office life difficult.
Future Society

Gen Z Is Apparently Baffled by Basic Technology

"Sadly, neither watching TikTok videos nor playing Minecraft fulfills the technology brief."

The financial industry's response to AI has been bizarre at best, with Bank of America weighing in very much on the side of the bots. 
Artificial Intelligence

Bank of America Obsessed With AI, Says It’s the “New Electricity”

"If data is the new oil, then AI is the new electricity."

The "world's first" entirely AI-generated news channel is here, claiming to be the antidote to biased news. It's called NewsGPT, and we hate it.
Artificial Intelligence

Guy Launches News Site That’s Completely Generated by AI

It's stupid! Here's why.

As private companies like SpaceX pour thousands of satellites into the sky, even the veteran Hubble is having trouble getting a clear look at the cosmos.
SpaceX

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Satellites Are Messing Up the Hubble Space Telescope

"We're going to be living with this problem. And astronomy will be impacted."

Elon Musk is a man of many contradictions, and one of his most glaring ones was on display in a recent Tesla presentation in which he sounded off on AI.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk, Who Hates Regulation, Calls for Regulation of Tech That Threatens Him

Google, play "The Future Freaks Me Out" by Motion City Soundtrack.

Don't worry, the culling of its human workers is entirely unrelated to its pivot to AI-generated dreck, CNET says. That settles it, right?
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Says It’s a Total Coincidence It’s Laying Off Humans After Publishing AI-Generated Articles

Nothing to see here, folks!

The Federal Trade Commission is making moves to bar the controversial online therapy company BetterHelp from sharing private mental health information.
Health & Medicine

The FTC Is Readying a Crackdown on Online Therapy

Should online therapy apps share your private information with advertisers?

You won't exactly see through any barrier like Superman, but by using this AR headset, you could locate items buried away in a giant warehouse.
Science & Energy

MIT Invents “X-Ray Vision” Headset That Can See Inside Boxes

"There isn't anything like this today."