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The artificial intelligence arms race is barging ahead at full speed — and now, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is getting in on the game.
Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Bows to Peer Pressure, Announces Pivot to AI

How many pivots has Facebook done now?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sorry, Pixel phone users, but if you wanted to watch this "Alien" clip in 4K HDR, you're outta luck until Google comes up with some answers.
Future Society

Watching This “Alien” Video Is Crashing Pixel Phones

Spooky...

By Frank Landymore

Volkswagen's Car-Net service demanded someone fork over $150 before it was willing to track down the owner's stolen car with her two year old inside.
Future Society

Volkswagen Refused to Track Car with Kidnapped Child Until Owner Renewed GPS Subscription

Subscribe now to save your kid!

By Frank Landymore

In a blatant rip-off that serves as a sort of meta-commentary, an AI stan seems to have passed off someone else's promotional tweet as his own.
Artificial Intelligence

Dude Brags About AI Replacing Jobs… in Tweet That He Stole

"It seems like he doesn't know about the Retweet button."

By Noor Al-Sibai

ChatGPT is capable of churning out workable crochet patterns. Just one catch: the finished product might not be exactly what you were looking for. 
OpenAI

Asking ChatGPT for Crochet Patterns Yields Disturbing Results

"It looks wrong and ugly, but also very cute."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Blake Lemoine weighs in on whether Microsoft's Bing Search/Sydney, the OpenAI-powered search chatbot that recently had to be lobotomized, is conscious AI.
Google

Fired Google Engineer Doubles Down on Claim That AI Has Gained Sentience

"I haven't had the opportunity to run experiments with Bing's chatbot yet... but based on the various things that I've seen online, it looks like it might be sentient."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using old data, NASA has discovered that Venus' mantle may be "squishy" and full of volcanic activity, which could explain one of its biggest mysteries.
NASA

NASA Says Venus Is Being Remade by a Squishy Shell

Turns out Venus is even weirder than we thought!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is apparently seeking to rival OpenAI, the firm he co-founded and subsequently left, with his own anti-"woke" artificial intelligence. 
OpenAI

Elon Musk Recruiting Team to Build His Own Anti-“Woke” AI to Rival ChatGPT

Come on, dude, really?

By Noor Al-Sibai

New court documents have revealed that Theranos scammer Elizabeth Holmes has had her second child — which her lawyers argue as reason to postpone jailtime.
Developments

Elizabeth Holmes Hopes Her New Baby Will Keep Her Out of Prison

New court documents list Holmes as a mother of "two young children."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Speaking to The Verge, the world's largest scientific publishing house has announced its decision to outlaw listing ChatGPT and other LLMs as a coauthor.
OpenAI

Largest Publisher of Scientific Journals Cracks Down on Scientists Listing ChatGPT as Coauthor

"We need transparency."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Solar geoengineering might be the quickest may to reduce warming, but these scientists call for more research before it can be championed or ruled out.
Climate Change

Group of 60 Scientists Urge Research Into Geoengineering the Earth to Fight Climate Change

"While reducing emissions is crucial, no level of reduction undertaken now can reverse the warming effect of past and present greenhouse gas emissions."

By Frank Landymore

Suffering a bit of anxiety over what recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) might mean for humanity? So is billionaire Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He’s Suffering “Existential Angst” About AI

Same, Elon. Same.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Physicists claim to have pulled energy out of a vacuum, a trick that required them to teleport it from a different location using quantum devices.
Energy

Researchers Say They Managed to Pull Quantum Energy From a Vacuum

Wait, what?

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is pausing installations of its controversial "Full Self-Driving" software after federal regulators called it a "crash risk." 
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Has Totally Paused New Installations of “Full Self-Driving” After Safety Concerns

This is probably for the best.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A ResumeBuilder.com survey found that around a quarter of business leaders have replaced their workers with OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot.
Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Say They’re Already Replacing Workers With AI

Is anyone safe?

By Frank Landymore

Accounts of a bizarre falling powder-like dust substance have begun plaguing multiple Mid-Atlantic states on the East Coast. 
Environment

Reports of Strange Powder Falling From the Sky in Multiple States

All we are is dust in the wind, apparently.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The fallout from the train derailment and subsequent chemical spill and burn in East Palestine, Ohio continues apace with new reports of illnesses.
Developments

Locals Near Ohio Toxic Train Crash Say They’re Experiencing Weird Symptoms

Things keep looking worse and worse in East Palestine.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A strange cloud of dust and gas is slowly being sucked into the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, an extreme rendezvous of epic proportions that we've closely been following for at least 20 Earth years.
Black Holes

Large, Mysterious Object Getting Sucked Into Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

It's in for a rude awakening.

By Victor Tangermann

Despite sleeping at the office in November former head of Twitter payments Esther Crawford was fired by CEO Elon Musk last week.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Fires Employee Who Slept in Office to Prove Loyalty

That's gotta sting.

By Victor Tangermann

The brown basilisk, known as the "Jesus Christ Lizard" for its ability to run on water, is expanding its "army." Scientists are ringing the alarm bells.
Science & Energy

Florida Scientists Concerned About Army of Invasive “Jesus Christ” Lizards

"The army of basilisks are moving forward."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré