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In a blatant rip-off that serves as a sort of meta-commentary, an AI stan seems to have passed off someone else's promotional tweet as his own.
Artificial Intelligence

Dude Brags About AI Replacing Jobs… in Tweet That He Stole

"It seems like he doesn't know about the Retweet button."

ChatGPT is capable of churning out workable crochet patterns. Just one catch: the finished product might not be exactly what you were looking for. 
OpenAI

Asking ChatGPT for Crochet Patterns Yields Disturbing Results

"It looks wrong and ugly, but also very cute."

Blake Lemoine weighs in on whether Microsoft's Bing Search/Sydney, the OpenAI-powered search chatbot that recently had to be lobotomized, is conscious AI.
Google

Fired Google Engineer Doubles Down on Claim That AI Has Gained Sentience

"I haven't had the opportunity to run experiments with Bing's chatbot yet... but based on the various things that I've seen online, it looks like it might be sentient."

Using old data, NASA has discovered that Venus' mantle may be "squishy" and full of volcanic activity, which could explain one of its biggest mysteries.
NASA

NASA Says Venus Is Being Remade by a Squishy Shell

Turns out Venus is even weirder than we thought!

Elon Musk is apparently seeking to rival OpenAI, the firm he co-founded and subsequently left, with his own anti-"woke" artificial intelligence. 
OpenAI

Elon Musk Recruiting Team to Build His Own Anti-“Woke” AI to Rival ChatGPT

Come on, dude, really?

New court documents have revealed that Theranos scammer Elizabeth Holmes has had her second child — which her lawyers argue as reason to postpone jailtime.
Developments

Elizabeth Holmes Hopes Her New Baby Will Keep Her Out of Prison

New court documents list Holmes as a mother of "two young children."

Speaking to The Verge, the world's largest scientific publishing house has announced its decision to outlaw listing ChatGPT and other LLMs as a coauthor.
OpenAI

Largest Publisher of Scientific Journals Cracks Down on Scientists Listing ChatGPT as Coauthor

"We need transparency."

Solar geoengineering might be the quickest may to reduce warming, but these scientists call for more research before it can be championed or ruled out.
Climate Change

Group of 60 Scientists Urge Research Into Geoengineering the Earth to Fight Climate Change

"While reducing emissions is crucial, no level of reduction undertaken now can reverse the warming effect of past and present greenhouse gas emissions."

Suffering a bit of anxiety over what recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) might mean for humanity? So is billionaire Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He’s Suffering “Existential Angst” About AI

Same, Elon. Same.

Physicists claim to have pulled energy out of a vacuum, a trick that required them to teleport it from a different location using quantum devices.
Energy

Researchers Say They Managed to Pull Quantum Energy From a Vacuum

Wait, what?

Tesla is pausing installations of its controversial "Full Self-Driving" software after federal regulators called it a "crash risk." 
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Has Totally Paused New Installations of “Full Self-Driving” After Safety Concerns

This is probably for the best.

A ResumeBuilder.com survey found that around a quarter of business leaders have replaced their workers with OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot.
Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Say They’re Already Replacing Workers With AI

Is anyone safe?

Accounts of a bizarre falling powder-like dust substance have begun plaguing multiple Mid-Atlantic states on the East Coast. 
Environment

Reports of Strange Powder Falling From the Sky in Multiple States

All we are is dust in the wind, apparently.

The fallout from the train derailment and subsequent chemical spill and burn in East Palestine, Ohio continues apace with new reports of illnesses.
Developments

Locals Near Ohio Toxic Train Crash Say They’re Experiencing Weird Symptoms

Things keep looking worse and worse in East Palestine.

A strange cloud of dust and gas is slowly being sucked into the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, an extreme rendezvous of epic proportions that we've closely been following for at least 20 Earth years.
Black Holes

Large, Mysterious Object Getting Sucked Into Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

It's in for a rude awakening.

Despite sleeping at the office in November former head of Twitter payments Esther Crawford was fired by CEO Elon Musk last week.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Fires Employee Who Slept in Office to Prove Loyalty

That's gotta sting.

The brown basilisk, known as the "Jesus Christ Lizard" for its ability to run on water, is expanding its "army." Scientists are ringing the alarm bells.
Science & Energy

Florida Scientists Concerned About Army of Invasive “Jesus Christ” Lizards

"The army of basilisks are moving forward."

A VR startup wants to allow users to record and then "replay" their memories back in the locations where they happened — but some folks aren't with it.
Virtual Reality

VR Startup Working on Tech to “Replay” Memories

It's literally like an episode of "Black Mirror."

The key to making both lab grown meat and plant based meats work may lie in combining them to more practically make a convincing and delicious alternative.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They Can Make Delicious Lab-Grown Fat, Weave It Into Fake Bacon

"The aroma of salt, smoke, and sizzling fat rising from the nearby kitchen seemed unmistakably real."

Spotify just announced that it will soon be leveraging OpenAI-made artificial intelligence users with an "AI DJ in your pocket."
OpenAI

Spotify Launching OpenAI-Powered “DJ” That Talks About Songs Between Tracks

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