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Elon Musk Lost $13 Billion on 4/20
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Lost $13 Billion on 4/20

Investors aren't laughing.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has revealed what caused its gigantic Starship spacecraft prototype to blow up during the company's inaugural orbital test launch today.
Starship

It Turns Out SpaceX Blew Up Starship on Purpose

It wasn't a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" after all.

By Victor Tangermann

Just a week after urging its writers to incorporate AI tools like ChatGPT into their workflow, Insider has laid off 10 percent of its staff.
Artificial Intelligence

Insider Lays Off 10 Percent of Staff After Announcing Pivot to AI

Not loving this pattern.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Reddit has announced that it will start charging a premium for AI companies that scrape all of its data to train their models.
Artificial Intelligence

Reddit Demands Payments for AI Trained on Its Users

"The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable. But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free."

By Victor Tangermann

An incredibly bright flash of light lit up the skies over Kyiv, Ukraine, late Wednesday evening — and experts are still hunting for an exact explanation.
Science & Energy

Experts Puzzled by Bright Flash Over Ukraine

"The whole city is at a loss, what it was. UFO?"

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's first orbital Starship launch attempt saw the most powerful rocket ever built soar to new heights. But it likely came at a big cost to the environment.
Starship

Debris Rains Down on Protected Wildlife After Starship Explosion

There's a price to pay.

By Victor Tangermann

ChaosGPT — the AI agent tasked with destroying humanity — was foiled again this week when its Twitter account was suspended. Another win for humans?
Artificial Intelligence

Twitter Suspends the AI Trying to Destroy Humanity

Another L for ChaosGPT.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

SpaceX managed to get its Starship spacecraft off the launch pad, but it later exploded. Did CEO Elon Musk rush ahead to have the attempt be on 4/20?
Starship

Did Elon’s Childish Obsession With 4/20 Lead to Today’s Starship Explosion?

Hmm...

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's gigantic Starship prototype spacecraft and Super Heavy booster officially cleared the launch pad, but started spinning, before exploding.
Starship

Starship Launches First Orbital Attempt, Explodes in Epic Fireball

That looked painful.

By Victor Tangermann

It's no secret that AIs like ChatGPT require insane amounts of energy — but as a new paper reveals, they also seem to use an absurd amount of water, too. 
OpenAI

ChatGPT Is Consuming a Staggering Amount of Water

Talk about insatiable.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk Says He’s Building a “Maximum Truth-Seeking AI”
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He’s Building a “Maximum Truth-Seeking AI”

Will TruthGPT be able to kill the "woke mind virus?"

By Frank Landymore

NASA is locking four individuals inside a 1,700-square-foot Mars habitat analog for an entire year to see if they can get along.
Mars

NASA Selects Test Subjects to Contain in Simulated Mars Base

They'll be locked inside for an entire year.

By Frank Landymore

Google asked around 80,000 of its employees to test its still-unreleased Bard AI chatbot before it released it to the public last month, Bloomberg reports.
Google

Google Staff Warned Its AI Was a “Pathological Liar” Before They Released It Anyway

"AI ethics has taken a back seat."

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Meta-formerly-Facebook will lay off another 10,000 of the company's still-standing employees.
Meta

Facebook Is Getting Slammed by Another Round of Brutal Cuts

The plight of the metamates continues.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nearly 21 years after it was launched, NASA's RHESSI satellite is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere. Chances it'll hit you are apparently "low."
NASA

This NASA Satellite Is Falling Back to Earth After 21 Years

There's even a small chance it could hit people on the way down.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

German tabloid Die Aktuelle is advertising "the first interview" with F1 legend Michael Schumacher, despite the fact that it was entirely AI generated.
Artificial Intelligence

Fury as Magazine Uses AI to Generate Fake Interview With Michael Schumacher

"What an incredibly cruel thing to do to his family, absolute scumbag behavior."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has turned its giant 6.2 million-gallon Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) into a replica of the surface of the Moon to train astronauts.
Moon

NASA Building Huge Underwater Moon Replica

They even put down sand and boulders.

By Victor Tangermann

In a bombastic interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk made a bold claim about Google co-founder Larry Page that, unfortunately, is kind of believable.
Google

Elon Musk Claims Google Co-Founder Is Building a “Digital God”

"And, um, then he called me a speciesist."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Major record label Universal Music Group has forced a song that uses the AI-generated vocals of Drake and The Weeknd to be taken offline.
Artificial Intelligence

Furious Record Label Gets AI-Generated Drake Song Deleted

AI's most fearsome opponent yet? The lawyer-powered music industry.

By Victor Tangermann

In a quiet new rule change, Twitter has rolled back protections for trans users amid an international anti-trans movement on both sides of the pond.
Future Society

Twitter Says It’s Okay to Harass Trans People Now

The decline of Twitter continues.

By Noor Al-Sibai