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OpenAI's ChatGPT had an update to protect teenagers and children but it has made the AI bot work not as well like previous versions.
Ethics

Users Are Saying ChatGPT Has Been Lobotomized by a Secret New Update

"I just want it to stop lying."

By Sharon Adarlo

ChatGPT and its "PhD-level" intelligence can't reliably give you a straight answer to a question involving the letters of the alphabet.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Has a Stroke When You Ask It This Specific Question

A question that should quite literally be as easy as ABC -- but isn't.

By Frank Landymore

AI-generated child sexual abuse material is seemingly flourishing on Elon Musk's xAI, former employees told Business Insider.
Ethics

xAI Workers Leak Disturbing Information About Grok Users

"It actually made me sick."

By Victor Tangermann

Named Robin the Robot, the chirpy AI-powered bot is designed to behave and sound like a seven-year-old girl.
Ethics

Hospitals Deploying Robot Programmed to Act Like Child to Comfort Pediatric Patients

"Imagine a pure emotional intelligence like WALL-E."

By Frank Landymore

In a new paper, scientists argued that our best option is to blow up asteroid 2024 YR4 as part of a "kinetic disruption mission."
James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Say We Should Blow Up This Dangerous Asteroid Before It Gets Here

They want to go nuclear.

By Victor Tangermann

A woman from Virginia using OpenAI's ChatGPT won $150,000 and is now donating the entire check to charity.
Ethics

Woman Asks ChatGPT for Powerball Numbers, Wins $150,000

 "I’m like, ChatGPT, talk to me... Do you have numbers for me?"

By Sharon Adarlo

Called the "first fully autonomous humanoid-operate store," the kiosk chain is said to be rapidly expanding to 100 locations.
Robotics

China Opens Bodega Entirely Run by Robot

Lemme get uhhh...

By Joe Wilkins

A multibillion-dollar contract between NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX is under scrutiny as experts warn China could beat the US to the Moon.
Starship

SpaceX Now Causing NASA to Lose Space Race to China, Experts Say

Is SpaceX squandering America's lead in space?

By Victor Tangermann

A new study in Nature reveals that people who use AI tend to be more dishonest compared to when they don't use AI for tasks.
Artificial Intelligence

Using AI Increases Unethical Behavior, Study Finds

"Using AI creates a convenient moral distance between people and their actions."

By Sharon Adarlo

The viruses had their DNA written by an AI model and are already wreaking havoc on bacteria in the real world.
Viruses

Scientists Printed Viruses Designed by AI and They’re Successfully Reproducing

"The next step is AI-generated life."

By Frank Landymore

A video that has gone viral on social media shows a humanoid robot's face glancing around the room with a quizzical expression.
Artificial Intelligence

Alarming New Video Shows Robot Making Incredibly Realistic Facial Expressions

"Westworld' is closer than I thought."

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg's MetaConnect 2025 keynote on Wednesday quickly turned into a humiliating experience. It was even worse than we thought.
Meta

Meta’s Disastrous Smart Glasses Demo Even Worse Than We Thought

"That obiously didn't happen in rehearsal."

By Victor Tangermann

The virtual assistant Diella's "inaugural address" to the Albanian parliament was met with mixed enthusiasm by officials.
Artificial Intelligence

Leader of Albania Pelted With Trash for Appointing AI-Powered Minister to Cabinet

"Some have called me 'unconstitutional' because I am not a human being."

By Joe Wilkins

The polarity of a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, unexpectedly flipped.
Black Holes

Astronomers Spot Something “Totally Unexpected” at Event Horizon of Supermassive Black Hole

This could change everything.

By Victor Tangermann

US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell recently claimed that AI is effecting the labor force, potentially impacting future rate cuts.
Artificial Intelligence

Fed Boss Concerned About AI’s Effect on Job Market

He's now one of the most significant figures to weigh in on the topic.

By Joe Wilkins

OpenAI researchers tried to train the company's AI to stop "scheming," but their efforts backfired in an ominous way.
OpenAI

OpenAI Tries to Train AI Not to Deceive Users, Realizes It’s Instead Teaching It How to Deceive Them While Covering Its Tracks

"We have more work to do."

By Victor Tangermann

The possibility of Microsoft being made obsolete as it races to keep up is something that keeps CEO Satya Nadella up at night.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Concerned AI Will Destroy the Entire Company

It's a high stakes game.

By Victor Tangermann

Pope Leo denied a request to make an AI avatar of himself and expressed his fears about how AI may damage the world and human relationships.
Ethics

Pope Horrified by Catholic Plan to Create AI Version of Him for the Masses

"It’s going to be very difficult to discover the presence of God in AI."

By Sharon Adarlo

These "SMS blasters" can trick your phone into connecting to them, bombarding anyone in the vicinity with scam texts.
Cybersecurity

Scammers Are Now Driving Around With Fake Cell Towers That Blast 100,000 Texts Per Hour

Infuriating.

By Frank Landymore

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said he's been vibe coding and showing the results to his company's engineers.
Artificial Intelligence

CEO Says He’s Showing His Engineers How to Get Things Done by Sending Them Stuff He Vibe Coded

"I come say, 'Look, I've actually made this work, this is how it works, what do you think, could we do it this way?'"

By Victor Tangermann