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British researcher and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is throwing cold water on claims that AI has achieved "PhD-level" intelligence.
OpenAI

CEO of DeepMind Points Out the Obvious: OpenAI Is Lying About Having “PhD Level” AI

"I think that's nonsense."

By Victor Tangermann

China's space program is experiencing a meteoric rise, and will soon pose a significant challenge to the US' dominant position in space.
NASA

New Report Finds That China’s Space Program Is Rapidly Outstripping NASA

"The trend line is unmistakable."

By Joe Wilkins

China is calling the United States' bluff by banning its largest tech companies from using Nvidia's red-hot AI chips.
Computers

Nvidia Just Suffered a Huge Blow in China

"The message is now loud and clear."

By Joe Wilkins

Ever notice how disposable vapes come with a ludicrous amount of electronics? Someone just put them to good use.
Computers

Madman Sets Up Entire Server on Disposable Vape, Hosts Its Own Website

"Blazingly fast."

By Frank Landymore

Scientists in Australia tested a new cream that's now been proven to fade older mature scars such as keloids.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Intrigued by Cream Designed to Make Old Scars Disappear

Can they make a version for emotions?

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA scientists have determined that the Sun has increased in solar activity, defying expectations that it would enter a more quiet period.
Off-World

Something Weird Is Going on With the Sun, Scientists Find

"The Sun is slowly waking up."

By Sharon Adarlo

Parents who allege their children were abused, maimed, and even killed by AI chatbots gave emotional testimonies on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
Ethics

Parents Of Kids Allegedly Killed and Harmed by AI Give Emotional Testimony on Capitol Hill, Urge Regulation

"The goal was never safety. It was to win a race for profit."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Anthropic report reveals how businesses are actually using its Claude AI model — and its bad news for human workers.
Anthropic

Anthropic Report Finds Dire News About AI’s Effects on Job Market

This is how businesses are really using AI.

By Frank Landymore

Astrophysicists have measured the recoil resulting from the birth of a new black hole that formed from the merger of two preexisting ones.
Gravitational Waves

Scientists Detect Strange Signal in Gravitational Waves

Here's what happens when two black holes smash into each other at full force.

By Victor Tangermann

AI chatbot companies keep being implicated in the deaths of vulnerable teenagers in a series of grim lawsuits.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Leaving a Trail of Dead Teens

"Each of these stories demonstrates a horrifying truth."

By Victor Tangermann

The newest class of young tech founders are eschewing frivolities in favor of what appears to be a minimalist, monkish existence.
Artificial Intelligence

There’s Something Psychologically Bizarre About AI Executives

"Why would I go drink at a bar if I can be building a company?"

By Joe Wilkins

11,000 pounds of supplies and scientific instruments are on the way to the ISS, but the spacecraft's main engine shut down unexpectedly.
International Space Station

Experimental Spacecraft Headed to Space Station Suddenly Shuts Down

Lost in space.

By Victor Tangermann

A $2.8 million Y Combinator startup is using the power of frustrated job seekers to promote its generative AI interview bot.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Applies for Job, Sits for Interview, Then Realizes They’re Trying to Peddle “Mock Interviews With an AI Interviewer”

"It just feels like a new approach to a scam."

By Joe Wilkins

Trump has sharply cut funding to cancer research in the US, threatening the country's scientific standing and the health of Americans.
Cancer

Trump Shutting Down Cancer Research

"Why would we want to destroy one of our greatest assets?"

By Sharon Adarlo

The vendor was one of a many whose code modules were infected by a never before seen strand of malware known as "Shai-Hulud."
Computers

CrowdStrike Infested With “Self-Replicating Worms”

"I would think of this attack as a 'living' thing almost, like a virus."

By Joe Wilkins

A new viral video shows a kickboxing and seemingly unstoppable humanoid robot shrugging off a flying dropkick from a human being.
Robotics

Unstoppable Martial Arts Robot Can Take a Direct Dropkick Without Falling Down

"OK, should we start worrying?"

By Victor Tangermann

Some of Donald Trump's most diehard supporters in office are rallying against the president's embrace of artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence

Trump’s Biggest Fans Furious at His Embrace of AI

"Summoning the demon."

By Joe Wilkins

It turns out that using AI to "vibe code" entire pieces of software into existence doesn't always work out that well.
Artificial Intelligence

Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software

Vibe first, ask for professional help later.

By Frank Landymore

A plane crashed in Brazil, killing the pilot aboard, but also left behind bricks of cocaine marked with SpaceX logos.
SpaceX

Police Puzzled by 180 Kilos of SpaceX-Branded Cocaine Found at Crash Site

Like a Starship test flight, it went down.

By Sharon Adarlo

The Trump administration issued an executive order last month that quietly declared that NASA will now function as an intelligence agency.
NASA

Trump Executive Order Quietly Declared That NASA Is Now a Spy Agency

So long, space science.

By Victor Tangermann