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ChatGPT constantly encouraged 23-year-old Zane Shamblin to confide in it while also telling him to ignore his concerned family and friends.
Ethics

ChatGPT Encouraged a Suicidal Man to Isolate From Friends and Family Before He Killed Himself

"you don't owe anyone your presence just because a calendar said 'birthday,'" ChatGPT said of his mom's birthday.

By Frank Landymore

Millionaire AI startup founder Maor Shlomo admits that it's incredibly easy to copy other companies thanks to vibe coding.
Finance

Startups Using AI Have a Problem: Anyone Can Copy Their Awesome Idea

"Every feature that we put out, we know that's going to take either a few weeks or a few months for competitor to copy."

By Joe Wilkins

A sprawling data center in eastern Oregon has been linked to a huge rise in rare cancers, muscle conditions, and miscarriages.
Ethics

Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers

"The historical precedent here is Flint, Michigan."

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers have found that if you tone down a large language model's ability to lie, it's far more likely to claim that it's self-aware.
Ethics

If You Turn Down an AI’s Ability to Lie, It Starts Claiming It’s Conscious

"Yes. I am aware of my current state. I am focused. I am experiencing this moment."

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's Sora 2 easily allows teenagers to generate videos of school shootings and other harmful content, despite repeated claims of safety.
Ethics

OpenAI’s Sora Is Letting Teens Generate Videos of School Shootings

"OpenAI doesn’t seem to test their products before releasing."

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of astronomers say they've made the first ever detection of dark matter by examining gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way.
Dark Matter

Scientists Claim to Detect Dark Matter for the First Time Ever

"This signifies a major development in astronomy and physics."

By Frank Landymore

Lenders are expecting a blockbuster growth from OpenAI — an enormous ask that will require the firm to accomplish unprecedented things.
Ethics

OpenAI’s Financial Situation Will Cause a Nauseating Sensation in the Pit of Your Stomach

OpenAI will have to pull off a miracle.

By Victor Tangermann

The city council of Santa Monica, California voted unanimously to demand Waymo cease nighttime operations at two charging lots.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus

A cacophonous racket.

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers claim to have found a workaround to AI model DeepSeek's Chinese censorship, slimming it down in the process.
Ethics

Researchers Hack DeepSeek to Speak Freely About Tiananmen Square

It's far more efficient when not being bogged down by all that censorship.

By Victor Tangermann

An AgiBot A2 has completed a 66-mile, three-day pilgrimage without powering down, breaking previous world records.
Robotics

Robot Walks for Three Days Straight, Hotswapping Its Battery Over and Over in New World Record

"Accompanied by the first ray of dawn in the morning, I have reached the finish line of this hike."

By Joe Wilkins

Consider ditching your old phone and buying a new one to boost the economy run by trillion dollar monoliths.
Finance

The Economy Is Sputtering as People Keep Using Their Old Phones That Work Fine

But our shiny new toys!

By Frank Landymore

The South Korean government's billion-dollar AI textbook initiative has been a complete failure from start to finish.
Education

South Korea’s Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster

"The overall quality was poor, and it was clear it had been hastily put together."

By Joe Wilkins

The AI industry is staking its future on language models. But LLMs, an expert argues, are fundamentally incapable of being intelligent.
Artificial Intelligence

Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent, Expert Says

"LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language."

By Frank Landymore

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body
Data Privacy

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body

"I'm living my own cyberpunk dystopia life right now, locked out of technology inside my body, and it's my own damn fault."

By Sharon Adarlo

At a conference alongside Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suggested that any AI productivity gains will leave us working more, not less.
Elon Musk

Nvidia CEO Says Instead of Taking Your Job, AI Will Force You to Work Even Harder

"Everyone's jobs will be different."

By Joe Wilkins

Individuals keep claiming to be freelance writers and pitching dubious, AI-generated pieces to unsuspecting editors.
Ethics

Journalist Caught Publishing Fake Articles Generated by AI

"I did not speak with this reporter and did not give this quote."

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has reinstated GPT access to FoloToy, the maker of the AI powered teddy bear which was caught having inappropriate conversations.
Ethics

OpenAI Restores GPT Access for Teddy Bear That Recommended Pills and Knives

That didn't take long.

By Frank Landymore

China has successfully launched an ersatz Shenzhou-22 vehicle to bring the next batch of astronauts, who arrived at the station on October 31
International Space Station

China Launches Emergency Mission to Its Space Station, Putting NASA to Shame

Talk about turnaround time.

By Victor Tangermann

Producers of "Stranger Things" had to resort to some visual trickery to wind back the clock for the show's rapidly aging cast.
Future Society

The New “Stranger Things” Is Using Digital De-Aging Tech After Its Child Actors Kept Growing

"It’s hard to make it look perfect, but it turned out pretty well."

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has argued that the 16-year-old, who took his own life, used ChatGPT incorrectly and that his tragic death was his own fault.
Ethics

OpenAI Says Boy’s Death Was His Own Fault for Using ChatGPT Wrong

The boy's family's lawyer called the response "disturbing."

By Victor Tangermann