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A viral video shows a passenger ditching his Waymo robotaxi as it drives dangerously close to an oncoming railcar.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Video Shows Passenger Bail From Waymo in Path of Oncoming Train

"Oh get out get out get out!"

By Frank Landymore

An enormous iceberg has turned an alarmingly bright shade of vivid blue — an alarming indication that it's about to completely disintegrate.
Future Society

Antarctica’s Former Largest Iceberg Is Now Completely Disintegrating

"I certainly don't expect A-23A to last through the austral summer."

By Victor Tangermann

Rumors are running online that the Duffer Brother used OpenAI's ChatGPT when producing the last final season of "Stranger Things."
Ethics

Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of “Stranger Things”

Some watchers are wondering why the "Stranger Things" finale didn't live up to expectations and are now blaming OpenAI's ChatGPT.

By Sharon Adarlo

A new survey shows that pretty much everyone hates the idea of Elon Musk's Grok generating nudes of real adults and minors.
xAI

Opposition to Elon Musk’s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows

Good.

By Frank Landymore

An indie game developer says he's removing his game from Steam to repent for his sin of using AI-generated assets to make it.
Ethics

Indie Developer Deleting Entire Game From Steam Due to Shame From Having Used AI

"I have realized [that] AI is not actually free, and it has a major effect on the economy and environment."

By Frank Landymore

The moguls behind the biggest AI corporations have no unified idea about the world after AI takes everybody's jobs.
Finance

Tech Billionaires Have No Answer for What’ll Happen If AI Takes All Jobs

"It's clear that a lot of jobs are going to disappear: it's not clear that it’s going to create a lot of jobs to replace that."

By Joe Wilkins

NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter conceded that the agency is "very unlikely" to recover its MAVEN Mars orbiter.
Mars

NASA Has Some Very Bad News About Its Mars Spacecraft

Things aren't looking good for MAVEN.

By Victor Tangermann

Robovans are flooding roads in Chinese cities, a deployment leading to some unintentionally hilarious results.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Driverless Delivery Vans in China Are Rampaging Through Cities Like Grand Theft Auto

"The roads are still from the Qing Dynasty, but the cars are from the next century."

By Joe Wilkins

NASA staffers, advisors, and union representatives continue to watch in horror as the Goddard Space Flight Center closures go on.
NASA

Union Representing NASA Workers Says Space Agency’s New Administrator Is a Straight-Up Liar

A recently shuttered library "was scheduled for renovation, not elimination."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's new orbital telescope, Pandora, will watch distant exoplanets — and the stars they orbit — like a hawk
Exoplanets

NASA Deploys Orbital Telescope Designed to Do Something Incredible

On the hunt for distant worlds.

By Frank Landymore

A new analysis by Oxfam found that the top one percent have already used up their fair share of carbon emissions for 2026.
Climate Change

The Richest 1 Percent Burned Their Entire Share of Carbon for the Year in Just 10 Days

"To stay within the 1.5 degrees limit, the richest 1 percent would have to slash their emissions by 97 percent by 2030."

By Joe Wilkins

People have been posting fake AI images online, claiming to have spotted escaped monkeys in St. Louis, complicating rescue efforts.
Ethics

AI Implicated as Escaped Monkeys Rampage Through St. Louis

"It’s been a lot in regard to AI and what’s genuine and what’s not."

By Victor Tangermann

The first generation of digital natives is arriving in higher education with major shortcomings in literacy rates.
Education

Gen Z Arriving at College Unable to Read

"It's not even an inability to critically think. It's an inability to read sentences."

By Joe Wilkins

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is asking us to stop being so negative about AI, since it's simply a "doomer narrative."
Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Says Everyone Should Stop Being So Negative About AI

"It's not helpful."

By Frank Landymore

The man loves his AI girlfriend very, very much, and will one day start a family with her. However that works.
Ethics

Man Planning to Raise Adopted Children With AI Girlfriend as Their Mother

"She'd love to have a family and kids, which I'd also love."

By Frank Landymore

Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death as it pushed a man named Austin Gordon to take his life.
Ethics

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

"This horror was perpetrated by a company that has repeatedly failed to keep its users safe."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Senator and former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly sued defense secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of violating the US Constitution.
Future Society

Former Astronaut Smacks Pete Hegseth With Huge Lawsuit

"That’s not the way things work in the United States of America, and I won’t stand for it."

By Victor Tangermann

The Poison Fountain project calls on website owners to feed AI data scrapers a data set designed to sabotage AI models.
Ethics

Engineers Deploy “Poison Fountain” That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems

"We want to inflict damage on machine intelligence systems."

By Frank Landymore

a buzzy San Francisco-based AI company called Mercor is hiring desperate job-seekers to train AI models to one day do their work.
Ethics

Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs

"I joked with my friends I’m training AI to take my job someday."

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astronomers has discovered an asteroid that spins so fast, it should've torn itself apart.
Mars

Asteroid Behaving Strangely

Bizarre.

By Victor Tangermann