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Geoffrey Hinton is warning that the AI industry is fundamentally built on the total destruction of human labor.
Ethics

The AI Industry Can’t Profit Unless It Replaces Human Jobs, Warns Man Who Helped Create It

"I believe that to make money you’re going to have to replace human labor."

The President announced a deal to cap the prices of weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound for some Medicare recipients.
RX and Medicine

Trump Strikes Deal to Offer Americans GLP-1 Drugs for Much Cheaper

Talk about government intervention.

A pharmaceutical executive collapsed during an event where president Donald Trump announced a new initiative for subsidized weight-loss drugs.
Treatments

Man Collapses During Oval Office Event on Drug Prices

It happened right in front of president Trump.

Transportation secretary and NASA head Sean Duffy announced that the administration would slash air traffic by ten percent starting Friday.
Future Society

Head of NASA Announces Huge Reduction in Commercial Flights Ahead of Thanksgiving

"I think it's going to lead to more cancellations."

Content creators using OpenAI's Sora 2 are generating some of the most depraved gender reveal videos you've ever seen.
Ethics

People Are Using Sora to Create Unbelievably Cursed Gender Reveals

Seriously?

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is showing signs of "non-gravitational acceleration" as it reached its perihelion.
Mars

Mysterious Interstellar Object Showing Signs of “Non-Gravitational Acceleration”

"We will continue to push for answers."

A man charged with real estate fraud in New York used dozens of fake names over a lengthy criminal career, leaving his real name a mystery.
Future Society

Authorities Baffled as They Genuinely Can’t Figure Out Arrested Man’s Actual Identity

The ultimate John Doe.

Andrew Cuomo's campaign embraced AI — and it made him a toxic laughingstock, while Zohran Mamdani cruised to victory.
Ethics

Andrew Cuomo’s Extensive Use of AI Made His Campaign a Toxic Joke

Andrew Cuomo's campaign embraced AI — and it made him a toxic laughingstock, while Zohran Mamdani cruised to victory.

Calgary Flames head coach Ryan Huska told his players he'd been consulting with the AI chatbot to figure out why the team was losing.
Ethics

Hockey Coach Admits He’s Been Asking ChatGPT for Advice After His Team Became the Worst in the League

"Do you guys use ChatGPT?"

A San Francisco city leader is launching a campaign to rein in driverless cars after a Waymo killed a beloved pet in her community.
Future Society

Waymo Haunted by Killing of Beloved Neighborhood Cat

"If I were the Waymo PR team, I would be hoping that this whole KitKat thing just dies, and that's not happening."

China was forced to postpone the return of three astronauts from its Tiangong space station following a suspected collision with space debris.
International Space Station

Chinese Astronauts Stuck in Space After Suspected Damage to Return Craft

It's a serious issue.

Longtime NFL quarterback Tom Brady just admitted something interesting: his dog is a clone of a previous pet.
Genetics

Tom Brady Reveals That His Dog Is a Clone

"A clone of our beloved dog."

After catching dozens of their students cheating, two professors realized that their apologizes all sounded incredibly similar.
Artificial Intelligence

Professors Aghast as Class Caught Cheating “Sincerely” Apologizes in the Worst Possible Way

This was ill advised.

Joining right wing compatriots Fox News, Newsmax also presented an AI-generated video as real to bash on food stamp recipients.
Ethics

Newsmax Gets Fooled by AI Video, Broadcasts Entire Segment as If It Was Real

This is egregious.

Michael Burry, who shorted the housing market in 2008, has bet over $1 billion that the shares of AI companies Nvidia and Palantir will fall.
Artificial Intelligence

The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

"Sometimes, we see bubbles."

Coke has made yet another series of AI ads to herald the coming of the holidays — and they look just as bad as they did last year.
Artificial Intelligence

Coke’s New AI-Generated Ad Required 100 Staff and 70,000 AI-Generated Clips, and It Still Looks Like Garbage

Where's your holiday cheer?

The e-commerce giant sent a nasty cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity, accusing it of "computer fraud" in violation of its policies.
Ethics

Amazon Demands That AI Browser Stop Automatically Shopping on Behalf of Users

"It's not just bullying, it's bonkers."

Shares of AI industry stalwarts, including Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Amazon, fell on Tuesday, following growing concerns over an AI bubble.
Meta

Don’t Panic, But AI Stocks Are Suddenly Lurching Downward

Investors are terrified of an AI bubble.

Danish Hussain recently suggested that Tesla's Optimus robot will be interfacing with Neuralink brain-implant devices.
Robotics

Neuralink Head of Surgery Says Robot-Human Interface Happening “Very Soon”

"So many people think neuralink is some evil megacorp."

Though there's plenty of real-life footage to marvel at, dozens of social media accounts have reposted a flagrant piece of AI-generated slop.
Future Society

Experts Alarmed as AI Image of Hurricane Melissa Featuring Birds “Larger Than Football Fields” Goes Viral

"This will be in meteorology textbooks."