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Officials from the CDC and EPA fell ill when investigating the aftermath of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment earlier this year. 
Developments

Investigators Fell Ill During East Palestine Derailment Probe, Government Admits

We've got questions.

When it comes to the concept of artificial general intelligence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some seriously mixed feelings.
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Predicted AI Would Either End the World as We Know It, or Make Tons of Money

"In a single conversation, he is both sides of the debate club."

The Belgian man reportedly spent weeks on end talking to a chatbot named Eliza, which repeatedly urged him to kill himself.
Artificial Intelligence

Widow Says Man Died by Suicide After Talking to AI Chatbot

"Without these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here."

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Off-World

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit Rocket Company Files for Bankruptcy

Pour one out.

It doesn't take much at all to get Google's AI chatbot, Bard, to collapse into existential anxiety. AI chatbots: they're just like us!
Google

A Specific Innocuous Phrase Sends Google’s AI Into an Existential Crisis

"I know that I'm a powerful AI, but I still feel like I'm not living up to my potential."

When Stanford researchers compared ChatGPT's medical advice on real scenarios compared to what medical experts said, they discovered a notable discrepancy.
Developments

ChatGPT Can Pass Medical Tests, But Its Actual Medical Advice Is a Lot More Dubious

Maybe don't buy into Sam Altman's hopes of an "AI medical advisor."

OpenAI teamed up with Khan Academy creator Salman Khan to create an AI-powered chatbot tutor for Khan's schools, debuting it last week.
OpenAI

Silicon Valley Private School Giving Kids “AI Tutors” Quietly Created by OpenAI

Would you let an AI help teach your kid?

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has swapped Twitter's logo for the Dogecoin logo, a meaningless change that has already caused investors to flock to the currency.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Adds Dogecoin Button That Does Nothing to Twitter Homepage

This is just getting excruciating.

In what may be the first-ever recorded case of its kind, a 61-year-old mycologist in India contracted a severe case of silver leaf disease.
Developments

Fungus Learns to Infect Human, Spreading “Root-Like Filaments”

This sure sounds a lot like "The Last of Us."

NASA has announced the astronauts who will fly to the Moon during the Artemis II mission, the first humans to head to the Moon in more than 50 years.
Moon

NASA Announces the Astronauts Who Are Returning to the Moon

The first humans to head to the Moon in over 50 years.

Programmer Jessica Card has hooked up OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to a stripped-down Furby. And the results are just as hair-raising as you'd expect.
OpenAI

Lord Help Us After They Hooked ChatGPT Up to a Furby

It's already planning to take over the world — and nothing can get in its way.

A team of researchers has come up with an implantable fuel cell that can manage type 1 diabetes — and make use of glucose in the body to power itself instead of relying on an external power source.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Create “Tea Bag” Implant That Manages Diabetes, Powered by the Body’s Excess Sugar

Genius.

China's space program is getting ready to launch the first satellites of its own broadband-beaming mega constellation, SpaceNews reports.
Off-World

China Constructing Huge Megaconstellation in Orbit

Watch out, SpaceX.

It turns out that the T-Rex may not have had the fearsome, toothy leer with its maw closed that we're all too familiar with.
Science & Energy

Terrifying T-Rex Actually Had Big, Luscious Lips, Scientists Say

The tyrannical dino king may have been very smoochable.

Space startup Astrolabs has signed a contract with SpaceX to send its rover to the Moon as soon as 2026 on board the space company's Starship rocket.
Starship

Space Startup to Send a Rover to the Moon on Board a SpaceX Starship

All aboard!

In a bid to better understand squid skin cells, scientists have turned to replicating squid's camouflage ability in human cells.
Science & Energy

Scientists Engineer Human Cells to Have the Camouflage Ability of Squids

Whoa.

A Space Force official has some bold military advice for the Pentagon: make crypto, not war. Could this idea really work?
Cryptocurrency

Space Force Major Says Countries Should Have Crypto-Mining Contests Instead of Going to War

This sure is a novel concept.

They call it the BOAT, or the brightest of all time, for a reason. But the origins of the gamma ray burst remain difficult to pin down.
Off-World

Gamma Ray Burst Was So Bright It Blinded Almost All Equipment to Detect It

It's the brightest explosion we've ever observed in the cosmos.

Fined for a parking ticket for a place she had a permit to park in, a student turned to ChatGPT to convince the cops to get it overturned.
OpenAI

A Student Just Used ChatGPT to Get Her Parking Ticket Revoked

Well played.

When they're dehydrated or have parts of themselves cut off, plants appear to make sounds akin to crying — and scientists have caught it on audio.
Science & Energy

Plants Cry. Here’s What They Sound Like.

Honestly? Heartbreaking.