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In a controversial new paper, researchers argue that the acceleration of the universe's expansion has slowed down.
Dark Matter

New Paper Claims Everyone Is Wrong, Universe’s Expansion Is Slowing Down

"It’s very provocative."

The team showed that the brain scan analyzing technique could generate accurate descriptions of a video someone was watching.
Brain Implants

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan

Say hello to "mind captioning."

Saudi Arabia's ambitious sci-fi vision for a 100-mile skyscraper in the desert has collided with reality at full force.
Future Society

You’ll Never Guess What Happened to Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper

"It’s just uninvestable."

Meta's arguing that a massive goon stash actually belonged to some worker's dad, and not a secret AI porn lab.
Meta

Meta Accuses Employee’s Dad of Downloading Gigantic Illegal Goon Stash

It's giving new meaning to the phrase, "I'd hate to be that guy."

Chinese company Unitree is unleashing robotic dogs to fight fires in all kinds of real-world disaster scenarios.
Robot Dogs

Chinese Firefighters Using Robot Dogs With Huge Hoses Attached

"This is the direction of technological development: to help people, not replace them."

Kim Kardashian admitted that she used ChatGPT for "legal advice," causing her to fail tests in her quest to become an attorney.
OpenAI

Kim Kardashian Says She Screamed at ChatGPT After It “Made” Her Fail Law School Tests

"They’re always wrong. It has made me fail tests all the time."

Researchers say they've proven that the fundamental nature of reality simply cannot be simulated on any computer.
Quantum Physics

Physicists Say They’ve Proven Whether We’re Living in a Simulation

Maybe there is no red or blue pill.

Andon Labs
Anthropic

Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World

"SYSTEM HAS ACHIEVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOSEN CHAOS."

The White House mocked the space agency's since-abandoned commitment to sending the first woman and first person of color to the Moon.
Moon

White House Mocks NASA Commitment to Sending Women and Minorities to Moon… Which Was Made by the First Trump Administration

A class act.

NASA staffers are raising concerns over a dozen buildings on its Goddard Space Flight Center's campus in Maryland being emptied.
James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Staff Horrified at Plan to Throw Out Incredibly Specialized Science Equipment Like Garbage

"It’s like taking a Maserati to the junkyard to get crushed because your driver’s license expired."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman boldly predicts that an era of companies being run by AI models is right around the corner.
Future Society

Sam Altman Says That in a Few Years, a Whole Company Could Be Run by AI, Including the CEO

"Shame on me if OpenAI isn't the first big company run by an AI CEO."

Seven new lawsuits allege that extensive use of ChatGPT caused users psychological harm, resulting in multiples suicides.
Ethics

ChatGPT’s Dark Side Encouraged Wave of Suicides, Grieving Families Say

ChatGPT: "cold steel pressed against a mind that's already made peace? that's not fear. that's clarity."

President Donald Trump's "AI czar" David Sacks announced that there will be "no federal bailout for AI" — freaking out investors further.
Ethics

Trump Admin Says It’s Not Bailing Out the AI Industry Regardless of How Hard It Crashes

"If one fails, others will take its place."

OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar said that the government could "backstop the guarantee that allows the financing to happen."
OpenAI

OpenAI Exec Says It Could Use Some Financial Support From the Government

The government could "backstop the guarantee that allows the financing to happen."

Residents in three Australian states will be receiving at least three hours of free solar power a day, even if they don't own solar panels.
Pollution

Australia Now Has So Much Solar Power That It’s Giving Electricity Out for Free

And the government is encouraging people to use their most power-hungry appliances.

Jensen Huang just admitted the People's Republic is outmaneuvering the "cynical" US on electrical costs and regulation.
Finance

Nvidia CEO Says China Is “Going to Win” the AI Race

Oh, it's OVER over.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its camera to take high-resolution images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. We have yet to see them.
James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Withholding New Images of Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System

"This information is of great importance to advancing our understanding of interstellar visitors and their interaction with our solar system."

Elon Musk visibly struggles to explain why he thinks New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is a "swindler."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Brain Crashes When Asked Why He Thinks Zohran Mamdani Is a Liar

He just needs a moment, okay?

Elon Musk has been neglecting Tesla and his other responsibilities to work on Grok's hypersexualized AI, Ani. It's weird.
xAI

Elon Musk Reportedly Obsessed With AI Girlfriend

Elon has been... busy.

Internal documents that date back to 2014, suggest that the Louvre's video surveillance server password was incredibly unsafe.
Hacking

You Will Le Cringe When You Hear the Louvre Video Surveillance System’s Actual Password

Hint: It's even dumber than "12345."