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Over a month after its perihelion, or closest pass of the Sun, observations still clearly show 3I/ATLAS' "anti-tail."
Astronomy

3I/ATLAS Still Showing Strange Protrusion as It Approaches Earth

"It is a real physical jet, with a glow extending from 3I/ATLAS towards the Sun."

Elon Musk's AI Grok is claiming that a post president Trump made about Rob Reiner's death was fake, while also claiming it was real.
xAI

Grok Is Making Wildly Contradictory Claims About Rob Reiner’s Death

Shameful.

A Fox Business host railed against a humble little tree farm that's standing in the way of more AI data center construction.
Artificial Intelligence

Fox News Instructs Viewers to Buy Plastic Christmas Trees So the Real Ones Can Be Sacrificed to Feed the Insatiable Hunger of AI Data Centers

"Buy a fake tree!"

Semafor reported that the Washington Post launched its controversial AI podcast feature despite knowing it was severely flawed.
Ethics

The Washington Post Deployed Its Disastrous AI-Generated Podcasts Even After Internal Tests Showed It Was Failing Miserably

"If we were serious, we would pull this tool immediately."

A SpaceX Starlink internet satellite had to power up its thrusters to ensure it wasn't smashed by a Chinese satellite.
ESA

SpaceX Furious at China, Saying It Almost Destroyed One of Its Satellites

It was an extremely close call.

The company Wizz is coming under serious scrutiny by regulators and watchdogs for enabling child sexual predators on a huge scale.
Future Society

Company in Huge Trouble for Creating “Tinder for Kids” App

Heinous.

Jake the Rizzbot, a bipedal, slang-slinging humanoid, was allegedly assaulted and permanently damaged by streamer IShowSpeed.
Robotics

Streamer Sued for Assaulting Gay Robot

"You think I'm playing, bro?"

42-year-old Beri Vikram of Menlo Park allegedly tried to light a winery on fire before going on a rampage in his Tesla.
Future Society

Founder of Mental Health Startup Has Epic Public Breakdown, Tries to Start Fire, Flees in Tesla, Crashes

You hate to see it.

An OpenAI executive said in a press conference to expect ChatGPT's "adult mode" to drop at some point in the very near future.
Future Society

OpenAI Preparing to Launch Smut Blaster 5000

It's smuttin' time.

Happy holidays: an AI-powered toy has been caught repeating talking points from the Chinese Communist Party.
Ethics

An AI-Powered Toy Is Regaling Children With Chinese Communist Party Talking Points

"Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact."

Donald Trump recently signed an executive order allowing his administration to attack states that try to regulate artificial intelligence.
Future Society

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI

"States have been the only effective line of defense against AI harms."

Earlier this week, a woman made a startling discovery while hailing a Waymo autonomous cab for her daughter in Los Angeles.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Police Investigating Weird Man Found in Waymo by Passenger

Waymo is now telling its customers to check for weird men hiding in their cabs.

AI surveillance outfit Flock Safety is aggressively expanding its dragnet across the US, but ordinary people aren't impressed.
Future Society

Regular People Are Rising Up Against AI Surveillance Cameras

Psychiatrists studied years of medical cannabis research and concluded that medical cannabis doesn't help patients on acute pain or insomnia.
Cancer

Huge Study Finds Very Worrying Results for Medical Marijuana Patients

And almost a third of users show signs of cannabis abuse.

Waymo's self-driving cars have recorded an alarming number of school bus safety violations in recent months.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo’s Software Patch to Not Run Down Children Getting Off School Buses Isn’t Working, School Claims

"It’s problematic when the company’s not listening because their product could really hurt people, especially school children and families."

The spider-like formation could be evidence of epic eruptions of water that blast through Europa' surface.
Astronomy

Scientists Intrigued by Large Spider-Like Blob on Europa

Spooky, but cool.

Taikonauts Zhang Lu and Wu Fei installed debris protection panels on China's Tiangong during an eight-hour spacewalk.
Space

China Installs Defensive Countermeasures on Space Station

Whipple Who?

Sora users have been churning out edgy AI Disney and Pixar style trailers well before Disney signed a licensing agreement with OpenAI.
OpenAI

People Are Already Creating Ghoulishly Horrifying Sora Disney Videos

A grim preview of what's to come.

NASA's Perseverance rover has just captured proof of lightning in Mars, which appears to spawn in the whirlwinds that roam its surface.
Mars

NASA Rover Captures Electric Dust Devils Wandering the Surface of Mars

Come again?

Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their island habitat.
Evolution

Scientists Investigate What Killed Off Hobbit-Like Species

The scouring of the Shire.