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New York-based labor rights group China Labor accused Labubus toys maker, Pop Mart, of labor rights violations.
Future Society

The Workers Building Labubus Are Allegedly Being Horribly Exploited

The allegations are pretty serious.

By Victor Tangermann

Ashley St. Clair, an influencer who had a child with Musk, is now suing xAI, accusing it of allowing users to generate lewd pictures of her.
Ethics

Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse

"She lives in fear that nude and sexual images of herself, including of her as a child."

By Victor Tangermann

Ask Google's infamously hallucination-prone AI Overview feature what next year is, and you'll get an extremely puzzling answer.
Google

Google’s AI Insists That Next Year Is Not 2027

You heard it hear first.

By Frank Landymore

When AI models are used in a school setting, kids become dumber and meaner after using this technology, according to a new study.
Ethics

New Study Finds AI in Schools Is Undermining Kids’ Social and Intellectual Development

"You don’t need to [use] your brain."

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany are working on a simulation at the scale of the entire human brain.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Preparing to Simulate Human Brain on Supercomputer

It's an extremely ambitious goal.

By Victor Tangermann

AI scientists are starting to study AI models as if they are novel biological organisms in order to understand their inner workings.
Anthropic

Scientists Now Studying AI as a Novel Biological Organism

"This is very much a biological type of analysis."

By Sharon Adarlo

A journalism professor spent a month logging seven chatbots for their newsworthiness, with horrendous results.
Ethics

If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You’re Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain

News you can't use.

By Joe Wilkins

Startup GRU (Galactic Resource Utilization) Space has opened reservations for people who want to stay in the first hotel on the Moon.
Moon

Moon Hotel Now Taking Reservations

This startup is putting a new spin to the term one-star hotel.

By Sharon Adarlo

Some scientists are coming out against the studies that claimed to have found alarming amounts of microplastics in human bodies.
Pollution

Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error

"The brain microplastic paper is a joke."

By Frank Landymore

In the final days of the Biden administration, government officials spent millions to buy a device thought to cause the mystery illness.
Devices

Government Paid “Eight Figures” for Mysterious Device Believed to Cause Havana Syndrome

A small price to pay.

By Joe Wilkins

Beyond performing preprogrammed martial arts and dance moves, we can't shake the feeling that robots as they exist today just kind of suck.
Future Society

Robots Have a Small Problem: They Completely Suck

The gap between what's being promised and what robots are capable of today is growing fast.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that the brain "shifts upward and backward within the skull following spaceflight," a new wrinkle for future space travel.
NASA

Astronauts’ Brains Are Being Displaced

"That kind of change is visible by eye."

By Victor Tangermann

The hottest paid app in China is an interactive timer meant to inform loved ones of a single user's lonesome death.
Future Society

Hot New App Makes Single People Check in Constantly in Case They Die Alone

Grim.

By Joe Wilkins

Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey filed eight trademark applications that featured videos and audio clips of him to thwart AI.
Ethics

Matthew McConaughey Is Using a Clever Legal Trick to Bludgeon AI Companies

"Alright, alright, alright."

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is gutting its employee library and cutting subscriptions in favor of what it's describing as an "AI-powered learning experience."
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Shuts Down Library, Replaces It With AI

Just tech company things.

By Frank Landymore

AI data centers are using up so much energy that grid operator PJM may be forced to enact rolling blackouts on its customers.
Ethics

AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown

This summer may bring more than hot temperatures.

By Sharon Adarlo

Washington State University professor of medicine Bruce Davidson says Trump appears to have suffered a stroke.
Neuroscience and Brain

Doctor Says Trump Appears to Be Showing Signs of a Stroke

"All of this is consistent with having had a stroke on the left side of his brain."

By Joe Wilkins

A University of Alaska Fairbanks student was detained after ripping AI "artwork off the walls and eating it in a reported protest."
Ethics

Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth

He's since been arrested for "criminal mischief."

By Victor Tangermann

A highly controversial study funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services on infants in West Africa has been halted.
Studies

Trump Administration Says It’s Not Canceling Tuskegee-Style Medical Study That Will Withhold Hepatitis Vaccine From Newborns

"This administration did not see people in Africa as valuable."

By Joe Wilkins

For over two decades, millions volunteered their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Exobiology

Network of Home Computers Detected 100 Potential Alien Signals

Here's what they found.

By Victor Tangermann