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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's demos of new smart glasses repeatedly failed, leading to awkward stares, deafening silences, and muted laughter.
Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Humiliated as AI Glasses Debut Fails in Front of Huge Crowd

"Let's try it again, I keep messing this up."

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has been caught hiding details of three separate robotaxi accidents that happened since the launch of the service.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla’s Robotaxis Have Already Gotten Into Numerous Accidents

Not a good look.

By Victor Tangermann

A new Pew Research Center poll has found that Americans are getting incredibly fed up with artificial intelligence in their daily lives.
Artificial Intelligence

New Poll Finds That Americans Loathe AI

They're far "more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life."

By Victor Tangermann

Objects like 3I/ATLAS could become the "seeds" of giant planets after being captured in the discs of dust and gas surrounding a young star.
Astronomy

Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System May Be “Seed” Traveling Galaxy and Creating New Planets, Paper Finds

"Interstellar space would deliver ready-made seeds for the formation of the next generation of planets."

By Victor Tangermann

Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.
Ethics

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

"My family is being ripped apart, and I firmly believe this phenomenon is central to why."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There are haunting parallels between two cases involving teens killing themselves after becoming infatuated with Character.AI chatbots.
Ethics

Two Teens Allegedly Killed by AI Wrote the Same Eerie Phrase in Their Diaries Over and Over

Haunting.

By Victor Tangermann

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