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AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

Google is doubling down on AI -- and publishers are starving.

In the wake of massive wildfires in Canada's Manitoba province, people thousands of miles away are being warned to stay indoors.
Pollution

Millions Of Americans Are Being Advised Not To Go Outside

Terrifying.

Tesla has been losing money hand over fist — and the culprit, Elon Musk, needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror.
Tesla

The Reason Tesla Is Failing Is That Elon Musk Is an Extremely Unlikeable Person

The world's richest man made a tactical error: being incredibly unpleasant.

Yet another top executive has left Tesla as the automaker suffers plummeting sales and a plunging stock price.
Tesla

Top Execs Fleeing Tesla as Dark Clouds Grow

Like rats fleeing a sinking ship.

It's difficult to make sense of the situation surrounding late sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, president Donald Trump, and Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

The Situation With Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Is Absolutely Bizarre

"It's pure gaslighting."

It sounds like the co-founder and former CEO of Uber has had a big gulp of the AI Kool-aid — and then some.
Artificial Intelligence

The Former CEO of Uber Kind of Sounds Like He’s Losing It When He’s Talking About AI

"I'll go down this thread with GPT or Grok and I'll start to get to the edge of what's known in quantum physics."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is setting a breakneck pace with his company, which is bound to cause plenty of chaos behind the scenes.
OpenAI

OpenAI Engineer Quits, Says Company Is Pure Chaos Inside

"Of course, everything breaks when you scale that quickly."

Researchers from Google, OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta have joined forces to warn about the cognitive powers of what they're building.
Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Researchers Concerned They’re Losing the Ability to Understand What They’ve Created

They're saying the quiet part out loud.

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests that if interstellar object 3I/ATLAS isn't a comet, nor an asteroid, it may have been "sent" to us.
Off-World

Astronomer Says the Object Approaching Us From Beyond the Solar System Is Not What We Think

"Sent towards the inner solar system by design."

The type of advanced AI that Isaac Asimov imagined in fiction is finally here. And it's flunking his Three Laws of Robotics.
Artificial Intelligence

Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics

Isaac Asimov is spinning in his grave.

As AI takes the programming world by storm, experienced devs are still the gold standard — and they're better off without AI assistance, too.
Artificial Intelligence

What Actually Happens When Programmers Use AI Is Hilarious, According to a New Study

Wait...

A new study shows that over half of teens are regular users of AI companions — and some prefer them to their human friends.
Artificial Intelligence

A Staggering Proportion of Teens Say Talking to AI Is Better Than Real-Life Friends

"There's not a perfect plan for parents because they're up against giant corporations who are very invested in getting their kids on these products."

Elon Musk has been boasting about the capabilities of Grok 4, but new findings suggest that it doesn't match up to its competitors.  
xAI

Elon Musk Said Grok 4 Was the “Smartest AI in the World,” But Its Leaderboard Scores Just Came Out and They Tell a Different Story

Well, this is embarrassing.

Wired revealed that "raw" footage pertaining to the death of Jeffrey Epstein, released by the FBI, is missing three minutes.
Future Society

Metadata Shows That Critical Minutes Were Deleted From the Epstein Video

The plot thickens.

In his increasingly desperate bid to keep up in the ongoing AI race, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is constructing tents for extra compute.
Meta

Zuckerberg Is So Desperate for AI Power That He’s Building Temporary Data Centers in Tents

Meta is "prioritizing speed above all else."

A proposal put forward by Representative Gluesenkamp Perez would require members of congress to pass mental acuity exams in order to serve.
Brain

New Law Would Force Aging Members of Congress to Take Cognitive Tests

"It’s clear people want systemic reform. They want accountability."

As Elon Musk's Tesla triples down on an robotaxis, analysts are warning it could take many years for them to become profitable.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Bank Warns That Robotaxi Companies May Have Overlooked Severe Obstacles to Actually Making Money

They're not convinced.

Tesla has expanded the area where its Robotaxis can operate in Austin, and it appears to be shaped like something provocative. 
Tesla

We Are Having a Very Hard Time Believing the “Shape” of Tesla’s New Robotaxi Geofence Is a Coincidence

"Bigger, longer, and uncut."

Bernie Sanders has become one of the most surprising AI boosters in politics — and he's getting his intel straight from the source.
Artificial Intelligence

Bernie Sanders Issues Warning About How AI Is Really Being Used

"Doomsday scenario."

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has announced a nearly $200 million contract with the US Department of Defense to develop AI tools.
xAI

The Pentagon Is Pumping $200 Million Into Elon Musk’s AI That Just Had a Nazi Meltdown

This is an outrage.