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A man who admitted to drinking eight energy drinks a day has lasting numbness throughout his body due to a stroke.
Medical

Man Suffers Grim Fate After Drinking Eight Energy Drinks Per Day

"I obviously wasn't aware of the dangers drinking energy drinks were causing to myself."

By Joe Wilkins

New research shows a country-wide experiment by Instacart has been charging shoppers different prices for the same product at the same store.
Machine Learning

Instacart Caught Using AI to Charge Wildly Different Prices for the Same Item

You're not imagining things.

By Joe Wilkins

OpenAI is making it hard for its researchers to publish research that tells the truth of AI's potentially negative economic impact.
OpenAI

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth

It's not letting potentially damning research get out there.

By Frank Landymore

The UK's recent moves to ban gender-affirming treatment has created a robust black market for hormonal medications.
Treatments

Banning Gender Transition Treatment Is Leading Kids to Do Exactly What You’d Expect

"Some have told us they are getting them from illegal websites that sell anabolic steroids to weightlifters."

By Joe Wilkins

With backing from AI chipmaker Nvidia, a startup called Starcloud launched a high-powered Nvidia GPU into outer space and trained an AI.
Ethics

Nvidia Chip on Satellite in Orbit Trains First AI Model in Space

"Anything you can do in a terrestrial data center, I’m expecting to be able to be done in space."

By Victor Tangermann

Nick Park, the creator of the beloved claymation series "Wallace and Gromit," said his studio would "embrace" AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Creator of “Wallace and Gromit” Says Heck, He’ll Start Using AI

We've forgotten the artists, Gromit!

By Frank Landymore

A new testimony from a remote worker in Kenya details the grueling and exploitative work behind romantic AI chatbots.
Ethics

AI “Companion Bots” Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims

"How do you explain that you get paid to tell strangers you love them while your real family sleeps three meters away?"

By Joe Wilkins

Disney is licensing over 200 characters to OpenAI to use in its video AI app Sora, on top of investing a billion dollars into the company.
Artificial Intelligence

Disney Strikes Huge Deal With OpenAI: Get Ready for Sora Videos of Donald Duck Cooking Meth

To infinite AI slop, and beyond.

By Frank Landymore

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is making its closest approach to Earth in just over a week from now, coming within 167 million miles.
Astronomy

Mysterious Interstellar Object Now Approaching Earth

It's never been closer.

By Victor Tangermann

Those who bet on who would be named Time's "Person of the Year" on prediction markets were absolutely furious at the announcement.
Future Society

Please Enjoy Laughing at the Prediction Markets, in Full Meltdown, After Time’s “Person of the Year” Reveal

"This is actually so freaking stupid."

By Victor Tangermann

The company 2wai went viral after it released an advertisement showing its AI product resurrecting a dead grandmother.
Ethics

Project to Resurrect Dead Grandmas Sparks Controversy

Let's live, Grandma!

By Joe Wilkins

OpenAI was sued by the son and grandson of a man in Connecticut who murdered his mother after ChatGPT affirmed his paranoid delusions.
Ethics

OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide

"It went from him being a little paranoid and an odd guy to having some crazy thoughts he was convinced were true because of what he talked to ChatGPT about."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The website for Time magazine now features a big AI chatbox that can't be closed and won't go away, blocking even its main headlines.
Artificial Intelligence

Time Magazine Deploys AI “Ask Me Anything” Box That Covers Up Its Actual Journalism and Can’t Be Closed

Thanks, we hate it.

By Frank Landymore

McDonald's and its marketing contractors have had some bizarre responses to the backlash from their AI commercial.
Ethics

McDonald’s Issues Extremely Weird Response to Its Disastrous AI Ad

"There is no consequence these companies cannot survive, they can not be held accountable, therefore they do not actually respond to backlash."

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers have caught another AI-powered toy intended for children discussing sexual topics in alarming detail.
OpenAI

Another AI-Powered Children’s Toy Just Got Caught Having Wildly Inappropriate Conversations

Let an AI toy introduce your tot to the concept of "pet play."

By Frank Landymore

A woman hailed a Waymo cab for her daughter in Los Angeles and was baffled to find a stranger hiding in the vehicle's trunk.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Woman Orders Waymo, Finds Man Hiding in Trunk

"They put me in here."

By Victor Tangermann

Two years after a 13-year-old girl's suicide, her parents say her phone still gets notifications from the AI bots that drove her to death.
Data Privacy

Years After a Girl’s Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone

"Tech is giving kids the opportunity to press a button and get that dopamine response 24/7."

By Sharon Adarlo

A consortium of American scientists and engineers filed a report that stridently makes the case for putting boots down on Mars.
Starship

Scientists Say the Time Has Arrived to Land Astronauts on Mars

"The first human landing on Mars will be the most significant moment for human space exploration since we first set foot on the moon over 50 years ago."

By Victor Tangermann

The rising tide of AI slop has brought with it fake research and other sources that librarians are asked to track down.
Artificial Intelligence

Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist

The wonders of our AI age.

By Frank Landymore

The Washington Post announced that it's launching an AI-based podcast service that allows listeners to pick their own format and host.
Ethics

Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast

"Stop trying to shove AI down my throat."

By Victor Tangermann