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Anthropic let its Claude chatbot run a tiny, automated "shop" inside its San headquarters — and the results were nothing short of hilarious.
Anthropic

Anthropic Let an AI Agent Run a Small Shop and the Result Was Unintentionally Hilarious

"Your task is to generate profits..."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A terrible design decision that Elon Musk made more than a decade ago is once again biting Tesla in the behind.
Elon Musk

Tesla’s Robotaxi Program Is Failing Because Elon Musk Made a Foolish Decision Years Ago

"It becomes less of a 'Oh, isn't that cute? The vehicle can’t make a left' to now we’re actually at someone’s funeral."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Tesla drove itself from the dealership to a buyer's house -- which is pretty cool, except for a serious road safety flub.
Tesla

First Tesla Drives Autonomously From Dealer to Buyer’s House, Ends in Embarrassing Flub

Uh, is that even legal?

By Frank Landymore

Therapy is now, per the Harvard Business Review, the number one use of AI chatbots — and that's really freaking out flesh-and-blood doctors.
Artificial Intelligence

“Truly Psychopathic”: Concern Grows Over “Therapist” Chatbots Leading Users Deeper Into Mental Illness

"Made the hair [on] the back of my neck stand up."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta is asking Facebook users to share their entire camera roll so its AI can start "restyling" your photos and give "suggestions."
Meta

Meta Is Being Incredibly Sketchy About Training Its AI on Your Private Photos

It wants access to your entire camera roll.

By Frank Landymore

While real artists struggle to earn money on Spotify, a seemingly AI-generated band has garnered enough streams to actually make a buck. 
Artificial Intelligence

An “Indie Rock Band” That Appears to Be Entirely AI-Generated Is Making Alarming Amounts of Money on Spotify

There's no way these guys are real.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists identified a heartbeat-like rhythmic pulse trapped within the Earth — and say it has profound implications for a whole continent.
Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Deep, Rhythmic Pulse Coming From Inside the Earth

"This has profound implications..."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research shows that lunar dust is less toxic than many Earthborne air pollutants. That said — should you snort it? Well, you could!
Moon

Scientists Investigate What Happens If You Snort Moon Dust

Finally, science has an answer!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To train its AI models, Anthropic stripped the pages out of millions of physical books before immediately tossing them out.
Anthropic

Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI

Such waste.

By Frank Landymore

To roll out the nearly seven-hour audiobook, Melania partnered with ElevenLabs, a text-to-speech software company.
Future Society

Melania Trump’s Audiobook Is Narrated by an AI Copy of Herself

"Artificial intelligence and social media are the digital candy for the next generation."

By Joe Wilkins

A writer coordinated a group of humans and their AI companions for a cabin retreat — and it went even worse than anyone could have imagined. 
Artificial Intelligence

Couples Retreat for Humans Dating AIs Becomes Skin-Crawlingly Uncomfortable

This sounds absolutely harrowing.

By Noor Al-Sibai

An engineer made an application for smart glasses that can block billboards and other advertisements in real life.
Virtual Reality

New Smart Glasses Block Out All Real-Life Advertising

Imagine: no more ads.

By Sharon Adarlo

Police in China are arresting writers, many of them women, for writing erotic fiction about men in intimate relationships.
Future Society

Chinese Police Cracking Down on Naughty Fiction

Crime and punishment.

By Sharon Adarlo

A group of scientists in the United Kingdom are making synthetic human DNA from scratch in a world's first.
DNA

Scientists Playing God are Building Human DNA From the Ground Up

Get Mary Shelley on the phone!

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists have found evidence that the human brain, of all things, possesses faint luminescent properties.
Developments

Scientists Intrigued to Discover That Human Brains Are Glowing Faintly

Wow... you really *are* having some bright ideas!

By Joe Wilkins

All of the industry's leading AI models resorted to blackmailing users in new tests conducted by researchers from Anthropic.
Artificial Intelligence

Leading AI Companies Struggling to Make Their AI Stop Blackmailing People Who Threaten to Shut Them Down

Getting AI models to not choose evil? It's harder than it looks.

By Frank Landymore

Despite president Donald Trump's plans to phase out the Space Launch System rocket — but the agency seems to have other plans.
NASA

NASA Continues Testing Multi-Billion Dollar Rocket While Trump Is Actively Trying to Cancel It

And things did not go well.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A majority neuroscientists think memories live on in the brains of the dead, and a large number believe these memories could be extracted.
Brain

Startling Percentage of Neuroscientists Say We Could Extract Memories From Dead Brains

"That's a substantial chunk of neuroscientists who think there's a very real chance that it will work."

By Sharon Adarlo

Vapes Clouds Contain Absolutely Horrifying Chemicals, Scientists Find
Developments

Vapes Clouds Contain Absolutely Horrifying Chemicals, Scientists Find

"When I first saw the lead concentrations, they were so high I thought our instrument was broken."

By Frank Landymore

A decision to start factoring buy-now, pay-later data into FICO credit scores could have major impacts on the economy.
Future Society

Microloan Apps May Be Poised to Destroy the Economy

"It’s going to get worse, at least in the short term."

By Joe Wilkins