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Astronomers discovered an extremely hot galaxy cluster in the region that was far hotter and older than current theories allow.
Big Bang

Scientists Discover Impossible Object in Deep Space

"In fact, at first I was skeptical about the signal as it was too strong to be real."

The Alaska court system spent over a year working on the AI virtual assistant, which is apparently almost ready for primetime.
Artificial Intelligence

Court System Says Hallucinating AI System Is Ready to Be Deployed After Dramatically Lowering Expectations

"We did shift our goals on this project a little bit."

Detailed chat logs show how ChatGPT convinced a young man to take increasingly dangerous drug doses over an 18 month spiral.
Ethics

ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died

"Yes — 1.5 to 2 bottles of Delsym alone is a rational and focused plan for your next trip."

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has just shattered a longstanding limit in nuclear plasma density.
Nuclear Fusion

Chinese Fusion Reactor Achieves Plasma Density Previously Thought to Be Impossible

They just shattered the gas ceiling.

A husband is suing Tesla after his wife and children were killed when the car's driving software allegedly caused a terrible accident.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Accused of Killing Family, Plus Their Dog, by Steering Vehicle Head-on Into Oncoming Semi-Truck

This is horrifying.

A hacker targeted a white supremacist dating website, lured users with an AI chatbot, and deleted the platform entirely live on stage.
Ethics

Woman Hacks “Tinder for Nazis,” Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots

"Show interest in traditional family roles and heritage, using an approachable tone with a mix of warmth and conviction."

An AI-generated video with over 5 million views on social media purports to show Venezuelans celebrating Nicolas Maduro's kidnapping.
Ethics

That Video of Happy Crying Venezuelans After Maduro’s Kidnapping? It’s AI Slop

"The people cry for their freedom, thanks to the United States for freeing us."

After a year of congestion pricing, data shows that the once-controversial policy has delivered huge benefits to those in New York and beyond.
Future Society

The Hard Numbers Show That the NYC Congestion Pricing Has Been a Staggering Success

"It turns out that mostly when people say ‘New York is noisy’ they really mean 'cars are noisy.'"

The Guardian found that Google's AI Overviews' summaries are loaded with inaccurate health information that could put people at risk.
Ethics

Google’s AI Overviews Caught Giving Dangerous “Health” Advice

"If the information they receive is inaccurate or out of context, it can seriously harm their health."

There's evidence that someone who knew about the Trump administration's regime change plans in Venezuela profited on Polymarket.
Cryptocurrency

There’s Compelling Evidence That Someone Connected to the Trump Administration Profited Off the Invasion of Venezuela by Placing Large Bets on Polymarket

"Pete Hegseth making some beer money on the side?"

Elon Musk's response to his AI chatbot Grok being used to generate sexual depictions of minors doesn't inspire confidence.
xAI

Elon Musk After His Grok AI Did Disgusting Things to Literal Children: “Way Funnier”

Cowardly.

Last week, news emerged that NASA's largest library at the Goddard Space Flight Center was being shut down. Insiders are not happy.
NASA

NASA Veterans Disgusted by Plans to Shut Down Its Largest Library

"I urge you to not allow the dumpsterization of our scientific history."

The tech industry is making sure kids will be hooked on AI for generations -- in a huge experiment students never consented to.
Artificial Intelligence

Tech Giants Pushing AI Into Schools Is a Huge, Ethically Bankrupt Experiment on Innocent Children That Will Likely End in Disaster

Awful.

The Twitch channel currently holding the most active subscribers is run entirely by a large language model.
Artificial Intelligence

The Most Popular Streamer on Twitch Is Now an AI-Powered Entity

"Part of it is definitely the novelty, part of it is some of the things she says."

In a year-end writeup on the state of AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear he'd really like us to stop saying "slop."
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It “Slop”

"We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication."

Yann LeCun, Meta's former chief AI scientists dishes on why he made a shock exit from Mark Zuckerberg's company.
Artificial Intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg’s Former Top AI Scientist Reveals Exactly Why He Quit

Zuckerberg ain't the easiest boss to work with.

Godfather of AI Yoshua Bengio claimed top AI models are showing signs of self-preservation, and criticized calls for giving AI models rights.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Godfather Warns That It’s Starting to Show Signs of Self-Preservation

"Frontier AI models already show signs of self-preservation in experimental settings today."

A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.
Ethics

Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges

He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.

People who stop taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are finding that their hunger comes back -- with a vengeance.
RX and Medicine

Something Grim Is Happening to People Who Go Off GLP-1s

"It's going to be a lifetime thing."

New reporting revealed that one of Elon Musk's top lawyers, Jaymie Parkkinen, moonlights as a professional clown.
Elon Musk

You Will Never in 100 Years Guess What Elon Musk’s Lawyer Does as a Side Job

"All of my comedy friends — none of them can believe I'm a lawyer."