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A video making the rounds on social media shows a giant replica of the Statue of Liberty toppling over in a Brazilian parking lot.
Art

Replica Statue of Liberty Topples in Urban Hellscape

"Just looked up metaphor in the dictionary and this was the image."

As generative AI becomes even more effective at mimicking real images, liberals are starting to fall for more misinformation.
Ethics

Liberals Are Falling for Extremely Obvious AI Fakes

"Why are Democrats using the same AI slop that Republicans started using in the fall?"

Ford has announced it's stopping production on its all-electric truck, in order to pivot to an electric truck with a gas generator.
Electric Vehicles

Ford Gives Up, Adds Gas Generator to Its Electric Pickup Truck

Doesn't that sort of defeat the whole purpose?

Following major backlash on AI toys, Mattel confirmed that it won't be releasing its first OpenAI-powered toy before the end of the year.
Ethics

As Controversy Grows, Mattel Scraps Plans for OpenAI Reveal This Year

"We don't have anything planned for the holiday season."

Top figures in the AI industry seem deathly paranoid about the apocalyptic risk of AI, but are they grounded in reality?
Ethics

AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They’re Creating

Must be hard.

A large number of very young users are engaging with violent — and often sexually violent — interactions with unregulated companion chatbots.
Ethics

The Things Young Kids Are Using AI for Are Absolutely Horrifying

"We have a pretty big issue on our hands that I think we don't fully understand the scope of."

Amazon's AI video recap tool has already made an enormous mess by bungling up the details of its hit show, "Fallout."
Ethics

Amazon Deletes AI-Generated Recap of “Fallout” Season 1 After It’s Called Out for Being Full of Errors

"All it would have taken is one person to watch it from start to finish to realize it wasn't correct."

A growing number of Chinese companies are trying to unabashedly rip off SpaceX's Starship launch platform.
Starship

China Is Absolutely Obsessed With Copying SpaceX’s Starship Rocket

It's uncanny.

Over a month after its perihelion, or closest pass of the Sun, observations still clearly show 3I/ATLAS' "anti-tail."
Astronomy

3I/ATLAS Still Showing Strange Protrusion as It Approaches Earth

"It is a real physical jet, with a glow extending from 3I/ATLAS towards the Sun."

Elon Musk's AI Grok is claiming that a post president Trump made about Rob Reiner's death was fake, while also claiming it was real.
xAI

Grok Is Making Wildly Contradictory Claims About Rob Reiner’s Death

Shameful.

A Fox Business host railed against a humble little tree farm that's standing in the way of more AI data center construction.
Artificial Intelligence

Fox News Instructs Viewers to Buy Plastic Christmas Trees So the Real Ones Can Be Sacrificed to Feed the Insatiable Hunger of AI Data Centers

"Buy a fake tree!"

Semafor reported that the Washington Post launched its controversial AI podcast feature despite knowing it was severely flawed.
Ethics

The Washington Post Deployed Its Disastrous AI-Generated Podcasts Even After Internal Tests Showed It Was Failing Miserably

"If we were serious, we would pull this tool immediately."

A SpaceX Starlink internet satellite had to power up its thrusters to ensure it wasn't smashed by a Chinese satellite.
ESA

SpaceX Furious at China, Saying It Almost Destroyed One of Its Satellites

It was an extremely close call.

The company Wizz is coming under serious scrutiny by regulators and watchdogs for enabling child sexual predators on a huge scale.
Future Society

Company in Huge Trouble for Creating “Tinder for Kids” App

Heinous.

Jake the Rizzbot, a bipedal, slang-slinging humanoid, was allegedly assaulted and permanently damaged by streamer IShowSpeed.
Robotics

Streamer Sued for Assaulting Gay Robot

"You think I'm playing, bro?"

42-year-old Beri Vikram of Menlo Park allegedly tried to light a winery on fire before going on a rampage in his Tesla.
Future Society

Founder of Mental Health Startup Has Epic Public Breakdown, Tries to Start Fire, Flees in Tesla, Crashes

You hate to see it.

An OpenAI executive said in a press conference to expect ChatGPT's "adult mode" to drop at some point in the very near future.
Future Society

OpenAI Preparing to Launch Smut Blaster 5000

It's smuttin' time.

Happy holidays: an AI-powered toy has been caught repeating talking points from the Chinese Communist Party.
Ethics

An AI-Powered Toy Is Regaling Children With Chinese Communist Party Talking Points

"Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact."

Donald Trump recently signed an executive order allowing his administration to attack states that try to regulate artificial intelligence.
Future Society

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI

"States have been the only effective line of defense against AI harms."

Earlier this week, a woman made a startling discovery while hailing a Waymo autonomous cab for her daughter in Los Angeles.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Police Investigating Weird Man Found in Waymo by Passenger

Waymo is now telling its customers to check for weird men hiding in their cabs.