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As it fends off legal attacks, OpenAI has chosen a unique line of defense: the belief that every opponent, big or small, is working in tandem.
OpenAI

A Strange Conspiracy Theory Is Reportedly Spreading Inside OpenAI

“They’re in this kind of paranoid bubble."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's Tesla has revealed its new "master plan" — and it's incredibly chock-full of meaningless corporate buzzwords.
Tesla

Tesla Just Published a New “Master Plan” and Um, How Do We Say This

This has to be a joke.

By Victor Tangermann

To Avi Loeb, 3I/ATLAS' flyby of Mars is an exceedingly rare and exciting opportunity to directly observe it using NASA's MRO spacecraft.
Mars

Mysterious Object Headed Toward Mars

Incoming!

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that trust in artificial intelligence falls among people as they become more AI literate.
Artificial Intelligence

The Tech Industry Has a Dirty Secret: The More People Learn About AI, the Less They Trust It

"People with lower AI literacy are more likely to perceive AI as magical and experience feelings of awe."

By Victor Tangermann

The fast fashion mega-retailer Shein has been caught using an image resembling accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione to sell a cheapo t-shirt.
Future Society

Shein Caught Using CEO Killer Luigi Mangione as a Male “Mommy And Me” Model

"Prison industrial complex meets fast fashion industrial complex."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russian president Vladimir Putin was caught chatting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, about organ transplants and immortality.
Developments

Hot Mic Catches Putin and Xi Discussing Plans to Transplant Organs for Immortality

"In this century, it's anticipated that it may be possible for people to live to 150 years old."

By Victor Tangermann

An activist in the Netherlands is using AI and facial recognition to identify masked ICE agents from viral arrest videos.
Artificial Intelligence

Activists Are Using AI to Identify Masked ICE Agents

How the tables have turned.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After falling down a wellness rabbit hole, one woman learned the hard way that going off the pill might have some unintended consequences.
RX and Medicine

Woman Gets Off Birth Control Because Influencers Told Her To, Immediately Gets Pregnant by Mistake

"Who am I without birth control?"

By Noor Al-Sibai

Medicare patients in half a dozen states will have some of their health claims automatically reviewed by AI models.
Artificial Intelligence

Medicare Will Start Paying AI Companies a Share of Any Claims They Automatically Reject

AI companies are becoming a "whole new bounty hunter."

By Frank Landymore

AI companions are on the rise — but new research has found that they may do more harm than good to the humans using them.
Studies

Scientists Just Found Something Dark About People With AI Girlfriends and Boyfriends

"No evidence that AI use is helping people feel less alone or isolated.”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A clinical psychologist warns of the powerful delusions induced by AI chatbots, but thinks "psychosis" doesn't quite describe what's going on.
Artificial Intelligence

Psychologist Says AI Is Causing Never-Before-Seen Types of Mental Disorder

"I predict that in the years ahead there will be new categories of disorders that exist because of AI."

By Frank Landymore

There's publicity stunts, and then there's... whatever Will Smith is doing, now that he has twice posted AI concert footage in as many weeks.
Artificial Intelligence

Will Smith Posts Bizarre New AI-Generated Concert Video

Not this...

By Noor Al-Sibai

Clothesmaker J. Crew used AI to guzzle up its own aesthetic and create ads with seemingly fake models, without issuing any AI disclosures.
Artificial Intelligence

J. Crew Is in Hot Water After Its “Vintage” Ad Turned Out to Be Faked Using AI

Just... why?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People who date on Tinder and people who get laid from Tinder are two distinct types — and when broken down by gender, it gets even weirder.
Studies

Scientists Have Figured Which Types of People Are Successfully Hooking Up the Most on Tinder

Fascinating -- and dark.

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new survey, consumers not only suggested that Tesla's FSD feature is a huge turn-off, but that they think it should be illegal too.
Tesla

Survey Finds That Self-Driving Is Actively Chasing Buyers Away From Tesla

"Frankly, I don't see how FSD is legal in the first place."

By Noor Al-Sibai

An influencer was getting a perfunctory wax when she realized in horror that her esthetician was wearing Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses.
Meta

Woman Goes to Get Brazilian Wax, Alarmed to Notice Waxer Is Wearing Meta’s Video Recording Glasses

"I could not stop thinking, 'could this girl be filming me right now?'"

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research found that everything ranging from a typo to emotional language made it more likely for a medical AI to give you bad advice.
Artificial Intelligence

A Single Typo in Your Medical Records Can Make Your AI Doctor Go Dangerously Haywire

"It's a little scary."

By Frank Landymore

On a close read, GPT-5's writing is strange and nonsensical — at least to a human. Other chatbots have a very different take.
OpenAI

There’s Something Bizarre About When GPT-5 Writes in a Literary Style

"A kind of secret language."

By Noor Al-Sibai

The ocean is on track to become so acidic that sharks could quite literally lose their bite, new research found.
Science & Energy

As Ocean Water Gets Worse, Sharks’ Teeth Start to Dissolve

Shark weak.

By Frank Landymore

A close confidante of Elon Musk's who once worked at his DOGE agency is now in control of a pharma company that's poised to sell legal MDMA.
Elon Musk

Top Elon Musk Acolyte Running Large MDMA Empire

Somehow, this checks out.

By Noor Al-Sibai