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The latest version of ChatGPT still comes up way short of identifying animals on an alphabet poster, a task meant for preschoolers.
Machine Learning

When Asked to Generate an Alphabet Poster for Preschoolers, the Latest Version of ChatGPT Just Flails Wildly

"Still needs more capex."

By Joe Wilkins

A Waymo robotaxi has once again been spotted driving on the wrong side of the road, leaving human motorists baffled.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Spotted Driving Wrong Way Down Busy Street

"Just another day in Austin."

By Frank Landymore

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has called for the halt of new data center construction to let democracy catch up to technology.
Future Society

Bernie Sanders Calls for Halt on Construction of New Data Centers

"This process is moving very, very, quickly, and we need to slow it down."

By Joe Wilkins

Trump's Truth Social company announced this week that it's merging with the fusion power company TAE, formerly called Tri Alpha Energy.
Nuclear Fusion

Truth Social Stock Explodes as It Merges With Nuclear Fusion Company

Of course it is.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA failed to reestablish contact with its MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars and hasn't received any signs of life since December 4.
Mars

NASA’s Mars Spacecraft Spinning Helplessly After Signal Lost

It's "rotating in an unexpected manner."

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software is still ironing out minor issues like being stun-locked by engilding rays of sunlight.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Owner Says FSD Is Great Except for the Part Where It Can’t Drive in the Sun

Full Self-Driving Teslas: coming to a Sun-soaked ditch near you.

By Frank Landymore

Private space tourist and billionaire pilot Jared Isaacman has officially been confirmed as NASA administrator.
NASA

New NASA Director Taking Over Agency in Crisis

Finally, NASA has a leader again.

By Victor Tangermann

Over six million conversations with private AI chatbots were scraped and sold to data brokers for profit, according to new security research.
Anthropic

Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit

"There is no user-facing toggle to disable this."

By Joe Wilkins

Scientists say they've found an unexpected, 12.4-mile-thick layer of rock lurking below Bermuda's oceanic crust.
Evolution

Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Under Bermuda

Deep down.

By Victor Tangermann

A hacker found a way into the backend of AI startup Doublespeed, which offers customers access to a massive phone farm network.
Hacking

Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated “Influencers” on Instagram

Talk about leaving the barn door open.

By Joe Wilkins

Students at Lawton Chiles Middle School were sent into lockdown after their AI system misidentified a student's clarinet as a gun.
Future Society

AI Sends School Into Lockdown After It Mistook a Student’s Clarinet for a Gun

"A student was walking in the hallway, holding a musical instrument as if it were a weapon, which triggered the Code Red to activate."

By Joe Wilkins

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is using his latest AI image model to imagine himself as a hunky, holiday-themed hero.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Uses His New Image Generator to Show Himself As a Jacked Fireman With Washboard Abs… With an Absolutely Hilarious Error

Look closely: there's a problem.

By Frank Landymore

After Elon Musk cut off the rest of the world by shutting USAID, the World Food Program's operations in Kenya were left in shambles.
Food

A Huge Number of People Starved to Death After Elon Musk Cut USAID’s Funding

"There was zero plan, except causing pain."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that lab mice that were released into a large, enclosed field were almost immediately less anxious.
Future Society

When You Hear What Happens When They Put Lab Mice in Nature, You Might Rethink Your Entire Life

A single week in an open field turned these lab mice's lives around.

By Victor Tangermann

A self-driving Waymo wound up petrified when it went face-to-face with pedestrians at an annual holiday celebration in Los Angeles.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Paralyzed by Parade, Blocks Traffic for 45 Minutes

"All the pedestrian activity just made it shut down, though folks weren't directly in the way."

By Joe Wilkins

A "detection of a wobbling high-altitude jet" in the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb intrigued.
Astronomy

Scientists Say They’ve Found Another Anomaly About 3I/ATLAS

Intriguing.

By Victor Tangermann

Lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro has been murdered at the age of 47.
Nuclear Fusion

MIT Fusion Physicist Murdered in His Home

He was convinced that "we are really progressing towards finally having electricity from fusion."

By Victor Tangermann

Joe Rogan has been drooling over AI-generated music for months now, but he doesn't share the shame enthusiasm for AI podcasts.
Artificial Intelligence

Joe Rogan Speechless When Guest Tells Him Podcasts Can Be AI-Generated Now

Now wait a minute!

By Frank Landymore

Though it hasn't even wrapped up clinical trials, the weight loss drug retatrutide already has a cult following.
Medical

People Are Injecting Themselves With an Experimental New Weight Loss Drug

And they absolutely swear by it.

By Frank Landymore

President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the BBC on Monday night, seeking a whopping $10 billion in damages.
Ethics

“I Guess They Used AI or Something”: Trump Says BBC Journalists Deepfaked “Words in My Mouth, Literally”

That's not what his own lawsuit alleges.

By Victor Tangermann