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Finance

If You Used Insider Knowledge to Score Big on Polymarket, You May Now Be in Huge Trouble

"We're going to find them."

Cryptocurrency

Investors Flocking to Super-Anonymous Cryptocurrency Used for the Sketchiest Stuff Imaginable

"It's what bitcoin was originally meant to be."

Robotics

Robophobic Airline Bans Humanoid Robots From Flights After Disruption

"Most people were very excited to see a robot flying."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Swarm of Empty Waymos Descends on Unsuspecting Suburb, Circle Cul-de-Sacs for Hours on End Like Strange Ghosts

"We had, at one point, eight Waymos that were stuck trying to figure out how to turn around."

Ethics

Mayor Eats His Words After Admitting He’s Delegating Work to 11 AI Agents

"Any AI agents or tools I have experimented with were used strictly in a personal capacity."

Artificial Intelligence

Oops: Bosses Realize Their Companies Have Been Swarmed by Legions of Redundant AI Agents

Who's at fault for that one, we wonder?

Climate Change

The Latest Data on El Niño Is a Looming Nightmare

The damage could be incalculable.

Future Materials

Scientists Say $600,000 Lab-Grown “T-Rex Leather” Handbag Is Actually Something Laughable

"In fact, it's more chicken than anything else."

Future Society

Princeton in Shambles Over AI Cheating

Not a great sign.

Ethics

Being a Crappy Boss to AI Chatbots Pushes Them Toward Spouting Marxist Rhetoric and Organizing With Their Compatriots, Researchers Find

"Without collective voice, 'merit' becomes whatever management says it is."

DNA

Gene Therapy Causes Patient to Grow Alarming Tumor

Tinkering with the genetic code of a living human is risky.

Mass Transit

College Kid Shuts Down High Speed Trains With a Laptop and a Radio

He says he pushed the button "accidentally."

Machine Learning

Amazon Employees Forced to Hit Quotas on AI Use, Immediately Start Using it for Everything Except Work

"If companies use brain-dead metrics to judge people then you need to learn how to f**k them over right back."

Medical

Dentists Are Using AI to Scare Patients Into Unnecessary Dental Work, According to an Explosive Investigation

"It's happening almost everywhere."

Astronomy

Scientists Detect Weird Anomalies in Clouds of Venus

"We identified the phenomena, but for years we couldn't understand it."

Biology

NASA Satellite Images Show Huge Colored Plumes Staining the Ocean

Pretty and cool.

Ethics

Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients

"All AI scribe systems from the 20 approved vendors showed one or more inaccuracies at the procurement testing phase."

Artificial Intelligence

Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI

Behind every AI-obsessed man is a tired but supportive woman.

Brain

Scientists Say Test Subjects Were Able to Quit Smoking After They Blasted Their Brains With a Huge Magnet

Target blasts of magnetic waves could restore the necessary balance to your brain.

Studies

Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals

"The capacity is not absent — it's just obscured."