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Researchers managed to return activity to mouse brains after carefully preserving the tissue in a glass-like state.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Bring Mouse Brains Back to Life After “Cryosleep” Deep Freeze

"If brain function is an emergent property of its physical structure, how can we recover it from complete shutdown?"

By Victor Tangermann

A book cover features a painting of a white dog with brown patches lying down, wearing a pink ribbon around its neck. The title "SHY GIRL" is written in large, light blue letters across the top and middle of the cover. The author's name, "MIA BALLARD," is written in pink at the bottom. There are two quotes on the cover: "DEEPLY UNSETTLING" by Sadie Jones and "ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED" by Sally Wilkes. The background includes a dark, classical painting with flowers and foliage. A small red logo with the text "RUN FOR IT" is located in the bottom right corner.
Ethics

Novel Pulled From Shelves After Author Is Accused of Using AI

Yoink!

By Frank Landymore

A person lying down on a blue surface with their face distorted in a stretched, abstract manner. The lighting highlights the face and upper body, creating a dramatic contrast with the dark background. The distortion gives the image a surreal and unsettling effect.
Ethics

Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

"Chatbots seem to encourage, or at least play a role in, delusional spirals that people are experiencing."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A large yellow Bitcoin coin with circuit-like details is positioned behind a pile of small red bricks. The background features an orange grid pattern on the upper half and a solid bright pink color on the lower half.
Cryptocurrency

Blockchain Slumlord Startup Implodes in Real Time

"This place is literally a slum."

By Joe Wilkins

Multiple white Waymo autonomous vehicles with rooftop sensors are arranged in a pattern against a black background, shown from an aerial perspective. The cars have black wheels and visible "WAYMO" branding on the sides. The image has a yellow-green color overlay.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Cars Slated to Clog Roads With Horrendous Congestion

Self-driving or not, they all share the same roads.

By Joe Wilkins

A UK High Court judge noticed something was seriously off during a January case brought on by somebody wearing a pair of smart glasses.
Devices

Man Caught Using Smart Glasses to Get Advice While Being Cross-Examined in Court

Busted!

By Victor Tangermann

Tech executives are warning that nobody is checking the "fallibility" of AI-generated code, a disaster waiting to happen.
Anthropic

A Grim Truth Is Emerging in Employers’ AI Experiments

"Those are foundational problems no one has solved in LLM technology. And you want to tell me that's not going to manifest in code quality problems?"

By Victor Tangermann

Left side: A glass of whiskey with ice cubes sits on a metallic surface next to a white ashtray holding a partially smoked cigar. Nearby are a matchbox and a napkin with the text "meet me at the POLYMARKET Situation Room NEWSBAR." Right side: Two hands gently hold a glowing, digital representation of Earth, focusing on the Americas. Above the globe, the text reads "Monitoring the Situation Washington DC," and below it says "THE SITUATION ROOM by Polymarket.
Cryptocurrency

Polymarket Announces New Bar For Degenerate War Profiteers

"Can we bet on when the bar goes out of business or how many women get roofied there?"

By Joe Wilkins

A stylized rendition of the Encyclopedia Britannica logo with the OpenAI logo set into it, set against a dark blue background.
OpenAI

Encyclopedia Britannica Hits OpenAI With Scary Lawsuit

OpenAI is getting the book thrown at them.

By Frank Landymore

Three people wearing 3D glasses are sitting close together, smiling and eating popcorn from red and white striped containers. The person in the middle is a woman with hoop earrings, while the two on either side are men. The background is dark, suggesting they are in a movie theater.
OpenAI

Grab Your Betrayal-Themed Popcorn Buckets, Because Microsoft Is Threatening to Sue OpenAI

If OpenAI breaches Microsoft's contract, "we will sue them."

By Frank Landymore

A blue piggy bank wearing a black graduation cap is caught in a black and orange bear trap with a chain attached, set against a bright yellow background.
Ethics

CEO of AI Company Says Gen Z Needs to Get Ready for 30 Percent Unemployment

"We will have billions of users in the next several years that we could never have gotten from human beings."

By Joe Wilkins

The situation for Donald Trump's Truth Social bid has only gotten even more dire since its shares hit all-time lows last week.
Bitcoin

Things Are Suddenly Looking Incredibly Bad for Trump’s Social Media Company

It's circling the drain.

By Victor Tangermann

A screenshot of an AI-generated video in which a young animated girl with long black hair wearing a pink dress with white polka dots and brown shoes stands on a road in front of a red animated car with eyes on the windshield. Two blue animated cars with eyes follow behind on the road. The scene is set in a colorful, sunny neighborhood with green and orange trees, houses, and mountains in the background.
Ethics

“Educational” YouTube AI Slop Encourages Kids to Play in Traffic

"I think of this as toddler AI misinformation at an industrial scale."

By Frank Landymore

A small white delivery robot with four wheels and a digital face displaying two triangular eyes is navigating a city sidewalk at night. The robot has "AVRIDE" written on its side and a small antenna. People are heckling it.
Robotics

Delivery Robot Dogpiled on the Streets of Philly

"ROB HIM OF HIS COPPER IMMEDIATELY."

By Joe Wilkins

A vial filled with liquid and a syringe with a needle are placed on an orange surface with a grid pattern. The image has a high-contrast, stylized effect with a reddish tint. The vial casts a long shadow to the left.
Treatments

Is It Safe to Inject Gray-Market Chinese Peptides?

"The debate isn't about whether peptides work."

By Joe Wilkins

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shown in front of video game characters Leon Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft, as rendered by the company's new DLSS system.
Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Says Gamers Are Completely Wrong About His New AI Feature That Yassifies Games

Oh, he's mad.

By Frank Landymore

Andrej Karpathy, who cofounded OpenAI and created "vibe coding," removed his assessment of jobs most vulnerable to AI.
Anthropic

OpenAI Cofounder Deletes Controversial Analysis of Which Jobs Are Getting Steam Engined by AI

Here's who could be safe... and who might not be.

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Altman and Jeremy Harris, wearing tuxedos, are featured against a bright yellow background with a subtle grid pattern. Both figures are outlined in white, creating a cutout effect.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Confronted At Oscars Party Over Pentagon Deal

Punches were not pulled.

By Frank Landymore

A man in a suit and tie wearing reflective sunglasses with red code displayed on the lenses, holding his head with both hands, set against a dark, blurred background with a digital glitch effect.
Bitcoin

Crypto Market Descending Into Chaos

Talk about meta.

By Joe Wilkins

A man in a dress shirt and tie is sitting and holding his head in his hand, appearing stressed or deep in thought, while looking at an open binder. Another man in similar attire is standing in the background, browsing books on a shelf in a library or office setting. The image has a high-contrast, stylized color effect with yellow and purple tones.
Ethics

Absurd AI-Powered Lawsuits Are Causing Chaos in Courts, Attorneys Say, “Clogging the System” and Driving Up Costs

"Nobody realized how unhinged things would get."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré