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Artificial Intelligence

MIT Warns That AI Can Now Credibly Complete Pretty Much Any Undergrad Assignment, Considers Overhaul of Entire Educational Model

The traditional educational model needs an AI-proof overhaul.

Ethics

Panicking Tech Execs Try to Pivot Message on AI Data Centers

"We gotta figure out a new narrative on this data center thing."

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Tokenmaxxing King Spent $28,000 on AI in a Single Month as Company Begs Employees to Tone Down the Ludicrous Costs

That's probably more than their salary.

Ethics

Building Trade Unions Now Threatening to Withhold Support for Anti-Data Center Politicians

"We are dependent on these jobs."

Tesla

Tesla “Ambassador” Melts Down Over “Horrible” Robotaxi Ride, Says He Had to Call an Uber After Total Self-Driving Failure

He was trying to cover just 2.3 miles. The robotaxi told him it would take well over an hour.

Medical

Bougie Health Startups Offering Full-Body Diagnostic Scans for Rich People While the Rest of Us Suffer a Crumbling Healthcare System

No telehealth app can fix this.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Teslas Are Still Driving Into Oncoming Freight Trains

"Would have been ran over by the [train] had I not braked."

Future Society

Crypto Bro Facing 280 Years in Prison Over Astonishing Range of Crimes

He sold his victims on an AI crypto revolution that didn't exist.

RX and Medicine

Instead of Using Opioid Settlement Money to Help Poor Communities, Police Are Buying Flock Cameras to Play With

"Whatever funds you’re spending on a camera, you're not spending on getting someone into treatment."

Brain

Doctors Just Used AI to Perform Brain Surgery

"It's given me my life back."

Ethics

The Transcripts of OpenAI Models Plotting Together to Commit an Actual Crime Is Pretty Chilling

"This is wild, multi-agent coordination, clearly infrastructure hacking. We should not."

Ethics

A Scientist Was Presenting His Vibe-Coded New Work When One of His Colleagues Pointed Out Something Extremely Embarrassing

"It was subtle, but it was very wrong, and everything downstream of it was also wrong, and I had shared the whole thing in a room full of people who trusted me."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Former Lyft Drivers Now Doing Menial Tasks for Their Waymo Overlords

They're along for the ride.

Education

Scientists Gave 12-Year-Olds Access to an AI Tutor and You Probably Already Know What They Did With It

"The issue is that most students don’t use it that way."

Finance

If Corporations Are People, They Should Be Subject to the Death Penalty

"The life of a corporation is indeed less than that of the humblest citizen."

Mars

Scientists Baffled by Bizarre “Anomaly” Deep Beneath the Surface of Mars

"Scientists usually assume that the interiors of planetary bodies are generally spherically symmetric, but this is not necessarily true."

Ethics

Mom Who Travels For Work Builds AI Clone of Herself to Keep Her Teenage Son Company

Closer than ever.

Computers

Welp, They’re Officially Displaying Ads Directly on Your Monitor

Soon, your monitor may be monitoring you.

Robotics

Chinese Companies Are Unleashing AI-Powered Robo-Chefs

"What we are trying to do is turn the machine's parameters into numbers, and use that to standardize every single bowl."

Privacy

People Taking Down Flock Towers Are Becoming Folk Heroes, With Communities Circling to Protect Them

"Kudos to the citizen that threw tea in the harbor!"