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Facebook's Reality Labs metaverse division lost almost $14 billion dollars last year — so why has the stock price increased?
Metaverse

Facebook’s Metaverse Division Lost Nearly $14 Billion Dollars Last Year

And yet its stock price has shot up.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has admitted that SpaceX "may or may not" use "expendable" upper stages to carry even more cargo into Earth's orbit.
Starship

Elon Musk Says SpaceX May Build Starship That Dies on Purpose

Bad news, reusable rocket fans.

Which is worse: crapping yourself in a sensory deprivation tank, or being fined multiple thousands of dollars for doing so?
Viruses

Unfortunate Redditor Says They Had Diarrhea in a Sensory Deprivation Tank

"I woke up to an awful odor and demanded to be let out of the tank."

An artificial intelligence science fiction writer bemoans its creation in an editor's note of a new science fiction magazine built almost entirely by AI.
Artificial Intelligence

This Entire Sci-Fi Magazine Generated With AI Is Blowing Our Puny Human Minds

Our brains are melting.

AI image generators like Midjourney aren't 100 percent perfect, particularly when it comes to rendering images of human hands.
Artificial Intelligence

Here’s Why AI Is so Awful at Generating Pictures of Humans Hands

Those hands are seriously creepy.

BuzzFeed choosing to bring OpenAI in to beef up its quizzes is certainly not great news in this economy — but it's nowhere near as bad as CNET's AI content.
Artificial Intelligence

Whatever You Think of BuzzFeed’s AI Quizzes, They’re Way Less Horrible Than What CNET Has Been Doing

Points where they're due.

The FCC has cleared space combat startup True Anomaly for a test launch of two "hunter" satellites, built specifically for space warfare.
SpaceX

SpaceX to Launch “Hunter” Satellites for Targeting Rival Spacecraft

"This does concern me because it could cause unintentional escalation..."

According to one Harvard researcher, if we don't put a lid on the US-China AI arms race soon, civilization as we know it could end up paying a hefty price.
Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Researcher Warns AI Arms Race Could Destroy Civilization

"Both countries could face catastrophe."

CNET leadership was reportedly aware that its deeply flawed AI had a habit of fabricating facts and plagiarizing others' work — and deployed it anyway.
Artificial Intelligence

Red Ventures Knew Its AI Lied and Plagiarized, Deployed It at CNET Anyway

"They were well aware of the fact that the AI plagiarized and hallucinated."

The International Space Station is, without a doubt, really awesome — but even NASA has to admit when the ISS has reached its limits. 
NASA

NASA Official Admits There’s a Bit of an Issue on the Space Station

SpaceX has changed the dynamics.

"Something is wrong," Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday evening, in response to Twitter influencers' complaints about their virality numbers.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Sets His Twitter Account to Private

"Something is wrong."

Leaked messages from CNET's parent company, Red Ventures, show deep concern about a potential consequence of AI-generated content.
Artificial Intelligence

Leaked Messages Show How CNET’s Parent Company Really Sees AI-Generated Content

They’re happy to spoonfeed you unlabeled AI garbage — but they’re terrified Google will take notice.

A group of NYC bird advocates are denouncing whoever bought and dyed pink a domesticated pigeon for a gender reveal before releasing it into the wild.
Science & Energy

Bird Advocates Horrified by Pigeon Dyed Pink For Gender Reveal Party

"We were honestly disgusted that someone would do this."

After five years allegedly on the lam, Dr. Ruja Ignatova — the infamous crypto ponzi scheme scam artist accused of stealing billions — might be back.
Cryptocurrency

“Cryptoqueen” Accused of Stealing Billions Suddenly Surfaces

This is big, because she's on the FBI's Most Wanted list.

"Robot lawyer" startup DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder is being accused of some pretty shady things, including using unpaid charity donations for cloud.
Artificial Intelligence

Extremely Embarrassing Evidence Emerges Against CEO of “Robot Lawyer” Startup

Absolutely terrible look.

OpenAI's powerful, controversial ChatGPT is, it seems, creepily good at writing misinformation when prompted to do so by a human.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Is Freakishly Good at Spitting Out Misinformation on Purpose

It's nearly impossible to tell from the "real" thing.

Dutch data journalist Wouter van Dijke took it upon himself to ask the ultimate question: "what if ChatGPT were a cat?"
Artificial Intelligence

Amazing New CatGPT AI Answers as If It Were a Kitty Cat

It's "the latest in pawtifurcial intelligence."

It's only been a few days since gaming streamer Atrioc admitted to buying deepfake porn of his colleagues, but in the interim, all hell has broken loose.
Artificial Intelligence

The Deepfake Porn Scandal Is Tearing the Streaming Community Apart

"What are you talking about? Like these mental gymnastics man."

Dave Rubin says that Twitter's "whole situation" is "'a flaming dumpster rolling down the street.'" Miraculously, we agree — but for different reasons.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Apparently Thinks Twitter Is a “Flaming Dumpster Rolling Down the Street”

Finally, something we can all agree on.

China is getting its own equivalent of OpenAI's blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT, courtesy of the country's largest internet search engine Baidu.
OpenAI

Chinese Company Gearing Up to Release Powerful ChatGPT Competitor

AI chatbots, so hot right now.