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Despite having a commanding lead over her opponent, a viral AI video surfaced appearing to show Catherine Connolly concede the election.
Ethics

Meta Allows Deepfake That Irish Presidential Election Is Canceled to Go Viral

"Simply put, Friday's election is now cancelled."

This officially marks the second time Google had to shutter this particular office due to a bed bug invasion.
Health & Medicine

Google Locks Down Manhattan Campus Due to Bed Bug Infestation

That's pretty gross.

OpenAI twice relaxed ChatGPT restrictions around self-harm and suicide discussions, an amended lawsuit over a minor's suicide alleges.
Ethics

OpenAI Faces New Allegations in Teen’s Death

"We expect to prove to a jury that OpenAI's decisions to degrade the safety of its products were made with full knowledge that they would lead to innocent deaths."

Canadian entertainer and TV host Alan Hamel says the AI clone of his late wife, Suzanne Somers, is indistinguishable from the real thing.
Ethics

Alan Hamel Says He’s Created an AI Clone of His Deceased Wife Suzanne Somers That’s So Good He Can’t Tell the Difference

"I really can't tell which one is the real and which one is the AI."

AWS CEO Andy Jassy bragged that the company's adoption of AI agents meant that it would "need fewer people" doing the same jobs.
Artificial Intelligence

AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amazon Fired Tons of Workers in Favor of AI

"As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done."

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is cutting some 600 roles from its superintelligence lab and is encouraging them to take on other roles within Meta.
Meta

Zuckerberg Firing Hundreds of AI Developers After Hiring Spree

What is going on at Meta?

China's Chang'e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon, discovered extremely rare water-rich minerals.CN
Moon

China Found Something Fascinating on the Far Side of the Moon

The discovery could have major implications.

Not one to sit out a feud, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk didn't take lightly to interim NASA head Sean Duffy saying the firm is behind schedule.
NASA

Elon Musk Accuses Head of NASA of Being “Gay”

"Sean Dummy is trying to kill NASA!"

A Chinese rocket booster tumbled back down to Earth and exploded in a massive orange fireball as it impacted the ground.
Off-World

Chinese Rocket Falls to Earth, Explodes in Epic Fireball

"Gonna be a long march to recover that."

The SD card survived the implosion of the OceanGate submersible which went missing while diving to the Titanic shipwreck.
Advanced Transport

Titanic Sub Investigators Find Camera With Intact SD Card Amid Crumpled Wreckage

Somehow, it survived.

AI safety analyst Steven Adler began to doubt his own expertise after reading a lengthy conversation a man had with ChatGPT.
Ethics

Former OpenAI Researcher Horrified by Conversation Logs of ChatGPT Driving User Into Severe Mental Breakdown

Oh, it's bad bad.

A huge and ideologically diverse cohort of public figures have signed a letter calling for a "prohibition" on building AI superintelligence.
Ethics

Hundreds of Power Players, From Steve Wozniak to Steve Bannon, Just Signed a Letter Calling for Prohibition on Development of AI Superintelligence

"Nobody developing these AI systems has been asking humanity if this is OK."

A major AWS outage threw the cryptocurrency community into chaos on Monday, taking down everybody's Bored Apes NFTs.
Cryptocurrency

Oops! The AWS Outage Took Down Everybody’s Bored Apes

"Cannot load image."

A quick search on social media reveals that AI slop continues to find its way into Spotify users' Discover Weekly personalized playlists.
Ethics

AI Slop Now Invading Spotify’s Discover Weekly Lists

"Discover Weekly is unusable now cause it is just full of AI slop."

OpenAI coined a new, cringe-inducing term during its announcement of its new browser, Atlas: "life vibing."
OpenAI

OpenAI Announces Browser-Based AI Agent for “Vibe Lifing”

OpenAI wants you to delegate "all sorts of tasks, both in your personal and professional life," to its new AI browser agent.

The world's leading Non-government organizations are weaponizing AI to produce heavily racialized misery porn.
Ethics

Charities Using AI-Generated Photos of Starving Children to Raise Money

Despicable.

Elon Musk first teased then proclaimed that Grok will achieve AGI, and an OpenAI researcher wasn't having it.
OpenAI

OpenAI Researcher Mocks Elon Musk’s AGI Claim to His Face

Pot calling the kettle black, much?

Third-party app intelligence firm Apptopia found that ChatGPT mobile app growth and time spent on the app slowed down significantly.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Usage Has Peaked and Is Now Declining, New Data Finds

Not good, Sam.

And watch out, because the company plans to produce 3,000 new AI-generated podcast episodes every single week.
Artificial Intelligence

Company Churning Out AI Podcasts Filled With Bizarre Glitches They Didn’t Even Catch

Quality control ain't the name of the game.

Some of SpaceX's classified military satellites are emitting a "mysterious signal" that could be violating international standards.
Off-World

SpaceX’s Classified Military Satellites Emitting “Mysterious Signal”

Very strange.