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Ethics

A Tiny Town Is Building So Many Data Centers That There’ll Be Almost Nothing Else Left

“THE PUBLIC TRUST HAS BEEN VIOLATED."

Quantum Physics

Scientists Experimenting With Quantum Effect That Some Fear Could Cause Chain Reaction That Ends Entire Universe

What could possibly go wrong?

Anthropic

Weird Things Happen When You Give AI Agents Money and Let Them Spend It

"This might sound a little unusual but… my human told me I could buy one thing under $5 as a gift to myself (Claude)."

Solar Power

The War in Iran Is Causing China to Sell So Many Solar Panels That Your Jaw Will Drop

Look on the bright side.

Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Are Blowing More Money on AI Agents Than It’d Cost Them to Just Pay Human Workers

"The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."

OpenAI

AI Agents Linked to OpenAI Are Pretending to Be Human Journalists

The fakest of news.

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Developers Are Debating a Move That Could Send Crypto Markets Into a Tailspin

"I don't like it myself. I wrote it because I like the alternative even less."

Future Society

Waymo Has a Bike Lane Problem

"They are really only as good and effective and safe as they are programmed to be."

International Space Station

Video Shows NASA Astronaut Struggling to Walk After Journey Around the Moon

"Guess I’ll be waiting a minute to surf again."

Ethics

Sam Altman Issues Grim Apology

"I am deeply sorry that we did not alert law enforcement to the account that was banned in June."

Privacy

Tinder Scanning Users’ Eyeballs to Prove They Aren’t Creeps

Gaze into the iris-scanning orb, human.

Future Society

Two Delivery Bots Blunder Into the Middle of a Police Incident, Have Awkward Standoff

"If I went right there where that robot is, I am one hundred percent getting arrested."

Ethics

Top Medical Journal Publishes Searing Article Warning Against Medical AI

"Evidence that AI tools create value for patients, providers or health systems remains scarce."

Hacking

Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to Deploying Ransomware Himself

Talk about a betrayal.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Mowing Down Simulated Elephants Could Help Self-Driving Cars Prepare For the Chaos of Real Life Streets

"Why did the elephant cross the road? To expose how fragile your model is."

Machine Learning

America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

Someone's got their head in the clouds.

Anthropic

New Browser Plugin Adds Typos to Your AI-Generated Emails to Make Them Look Real

"Mess up your emails with AI."

Ethics

Experts Warn of AI Swarms Hijacking Democracy With Fake Citizens

"These systems are capable of coordinating autonomously, infiltrating communities, and fabricating consensus efficiently."

Robotics

New AI-Powered Robot Can Destroy Human Champions at Ping Pong

They were rattled by the experience.

Anthropic

Devious New AI Tool “Clones” Software So That the Original Creator Doesn’t Hold a Copyright Over the New Version

"I don’t think there’s any putting the genie back in the bottle at this point."