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Police in Goodyear, Arizona are boasting about using ChatGPT to generate composite sketches, despite legal expert's concerns.

Ethics

Police Admit They’re Using ChatGPT to Generate “Sketches” of Suspects

"We're now in a day and age where if we post a pencil drawing, most people are not going to acknowledge it."

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard frontman Stu Mackenzie has excoriated Spotify after finding out AI was used to impersonate the band's music.

Ethics

King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by AI on Spotify

"But seriously wtf."

Sundar Pichai recently claimed that no job is safe, not even his own, fretting that we'll have to suffer through AI whether we like it or not.

Ethics

Google CEO Says We’re All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper

"We will have to work through societal disruption."

Chinese astronauts clambered outside the company's space station to inspect damage to one of its spacecraft.

International Space Station

Chinese Astronauts Clamber Outside Space Station to Inspect Damaged Spacecraft

Astronauts spotted "tiny cracks" in the spacecraft's window last month.

During an interview last night, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that raising a child without pestering a chatbot for advice is now impossible.

Ethics

Sam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPT

"Clearly, people did it for a long time — no problem. But I have relied on it so much."

Parting Stones is reshaping the way we cremate our dead relatives, turning them into a luscious pile of clattering stones.

Finance

You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into

"I started to get emails from all kinds of people asking if I could glaze pieces of pottery with their loved ones’ remains."

Mars

Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Tropical Oasis on Mars

"We think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years."

OpenAI

Details Emerge on Sam Altman’s Panic Sweats

"We should be at the top of things like LM arena."

Grok declared that it would be okay with genociding close to half of all children in the world to save Elon Musl.

xAI

Grok, Now Built Into Teslas for Navigation, Says It Would Run Over a Billion Children to Avoid Hitting Elon Musk

Correction: 999,999,999 children.

Palantir's X account shared a new tweet that embedded a controversial video of its CEO Alex Karp, using a very particular choice of words.

Future Society

Wait, Did Palantir Just Make a Joke About Its CEO Doing Cocaine?

"Hate to break it to y'all but using the word 'skiing' was very much intentional."

Two Waymo robotaxis crashed into each other in a dead-end street, blocking traffic while a third Waymo watches on.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Two Self-Driving Waymos Just Crashed Into Each Other, Trapping a Third Waymo

"It's like a Waymo standoff."

McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.

Ethics

McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery

"The future is here, and it's not looking good."

A new tool showed off by xAI dreams up AI-generated product placement that "weaves" into existing TV shows and movies.

Future Society

Elon Musk’s xAI Says It Can Now Stuff AI-Generated Product Placement Into Any Scene of Your Favorite Movie

Characters from old movies can now show off all-new products.

As economic discontent grows, tech billionaires are pouring money into some 120 "startup societies" where they can reign supreme.

The Industrialists

Tech Billionaires Are Starting Private Cities to Escape the United States

"Can you imagine being that rich and that miserable?"

The dome around the Chernobyl site "had lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability" after a drone strike.

Energy

Russia Damaged Protective Dome Around Chernobyl, Can No Longer Contain Radiation

It "lost its primary safety functions."

With a new update, Tesla drivers can now ask Grok add and edit destinations, and plan out their route for them.

xAI

Grok Will Now Give Tesla Drivers Directions

We can only imagine what witty navigation advice it'll cook up next.

A first-of-its-kind study in Australia found that giving men a common antidepressant helped reduce domestic violence rates.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Find That Dosing Men With Antidepressants Can Cut Down on Domestic Violence

"I used to sleep with a hammer under my bed. Since he started this medication, I can sleep more easily, and I don't need to sleep with the hammer anymore."

Researchers have found a significant link between screen time and diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Mental Health

Social Media Is Absolutely Nuking Children’s Brains, New Research Finds

"Our study suggests that it is specifically social media that affects children’s ability to concentrate."

Trains as far as Scotland were halted or delayed due to a viral AI hoax spreading misinformation in the aftermath of an earthquake.

Future Society

Officials Halt Dozens of Trains Due to AI Hoax

"The disruption caused by the creation and sharing of hoax images and videos like this creates a completely unnecessary delay to passengers at a cost to the taxpayer."