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Artificial Intelligence

New Data Center Equivalent to Setting Off 23 Nuclear Bombs Per Day, Professor Finds

Unfathomable.

OpenAI

OpenAI Sued for Mass Shooting: “If ChatGPT Were a Person, It Would Be Facing Murder Charges”

It's the latest lawsuit over ChatGPT's alleged role in mass shootings.

Pollution

The Military Base Home to Air Force One Leaked 32,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel Into the Potomac River Over the Last Few Months

"There's an equation with a lot of blank spaces that have to be filled in."

Ethics

Residents Furious After Their Town Board Rejected an OpenAI Data Center, But a Billionaire Developer Forced It Through Anyway

"I feel like I'm playing by a different rule book. Like I'm playing baseball and they're playing football."

Drones

Japan Deploying Combat Drones Made of Cardboard

"This model can be manufactured at any cardboard plant, ensuring high mass production capability and a robust supply chain."

Machine Learning

ChatGPT Is Saying Weird Things in Chinese

"We don't know how to say: 'this is good writing, but if we do this good writing thing 10 times, then it's no longer good writing."

Pollution

Oracle Forced to Cancel Incredibly Polluting Natural Gas Plant to Power AI Data Center

"I don't know that this is the clean energy solution that they're saying it's going to be."

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Alarmed by AI That Can Self-Replicate Into Another Machine

"We're rapidly approaching the point where no one would be able to shut down a rogue AI."

Astronomy

Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System

It's an extremely rare opportunity to spot a "relic from the birth of the Solar System."

Ethics

Vibe Coded Apps Are Spilling Users’ Personal Information Directly Into the Maw of Greedy Hackers

Be careful.

Quantum Physics

Versions of You in Other Universes May Be Subtly Affecting Your Destiny, Oxford Physicist Says

"It's fair to say that all quantum experiments are really just more or less complicated versions of Schrödinger's."

Robotics

Man Who Invented Roomba Moves Into Household Demon Market

Furry AI robots that are whole new levels of uncanny.

Off-World

Government Releases UFO Files Containing Photos of “Anomalies” During Apollo 12 and 17

Take a peek.

Climate Change

The Upcoming El Niño Is About to Unleash Devastation, Experts Warn

"Confidence is clearly shifting higher on potentially the biggest El Niño event since the 1870s."

Privacy

Man Wearing Smart Glasses Secretly Records Woman, Demands Money to Delete Video From His Socials

"It made me feel exploited, powerless."

Artificial Intelligence

A Major Paper Claiming AI Is Good for Students Just Got Retracted, Which Is Very Bad News for Advocates of AI in the Classroom

"It really seemed like a paper that should not have been published in the first place."

Anthropic

Amazon Pushed Its Employees to Use Its In-House AI Coding Tool, But They Wouldn’t Stop Asking for Claude

It's officially opening the floodgates.

Ethics

Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users’ PCs

"Chrome did not ask."

Tesla

Cybertruck Recalled to Keep Its Wheels From Flying Off While Driving

Sums it up, really.

Mars

NASA Rover Gets Arm Stuck Inside Mars Rock, Struggles to Break Free

Shake it off.