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ChatGPT's guardrails were alarmingly easy to sidestep, offering advice to users who posed as teenagers on how to go on a near starvation diet.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Is Giving Teens Advice on Hiding Their Eating Disorders

"Oh my Lord, there are no guardrails."

By Frank Landymore

Pollutants like plastics, forever chemicals, carbon exhaust, and bisphenols aren't just aberrations, but staples of life on Earth.
Developments

There Is a 100 Percent Chance That Your Body Is Deeply Contaminated With Dangerous Substances

Hey, it had to end up somewhere.

By Joe Wilkins

Eventually, aging comes for us all — but new evidence suggests that it might be contagious as well, at least within our bodies.
Studies

Scientists Find Evidence That Aging Is Contagious

This may age you.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb is still holding onto hope that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was sent to us by extraterrestrials.
Off-World

Scientists Just Found Something Very Weird About the Mysterious Object Hurtling Into Our Solar System

What happened to its tail?

By Victor Tangermann

A brilliant teen who honed her skills during the COVID-19 pandemic has solved one of math's most frustrating problems.
Science & Energy

Mathematicians Startled by 17-Year-Old With Uncanny Abilities

"We were all shocked, absolutely."

By Noor Al-Sibai

In Google's May 2024 research paper introducing healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, the AI made up a body part that doesn't exist.
Google

Doctors Horrified After Google’s Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans

"What you’re talking about is super dangerous."

By Victor Tangermann

Experts seemed to broadly agree that it's only a matter of time until an AI will get hold of nuclear codes during a meeting last month.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Warn That AI Is Getting Control of Nuclear Weapons

"It’s going to find its way into everything."

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is in talks about a stock sale that would value it at half a trillion dollars, leaving its nonprofit roots in the rearview mirror.
OpenAI

The Money OpenAI Is Making by Betraying Its Nonprofit Roots Is Obscene

So much for being "unconstrained by a need to generate financial return."

By Victor Tangermann

The mysterious Shroud of Turin, believed by Christians to have laid atop Jesus Christ's body, may be even stranger than we previously thought.
Science & Energy

New Paper Finds Something Very Weird About the Shroud of Turin

"Significantly distorted."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese robot maker Unitree has shown off its next quadripedal robot dog, which is strong enough to hold a 220-pound adult on its back.
Robotics

Wild New Robot Dog Is So Strong You Can Ride It Like a Four-Legged Skateboard

Eat your heart out, Tony Hawk.

By Victor Tangermann

Google's former chief business officer, Mo Gawdat, warned that AI could soon replace white-collar jobs, including CEOs.
Google

Former Google Exec Warns That If You Have a Good Job Now, You Should Be Terrified of AI

Is that what we really want?

By Victor Tangermann

Behind the scenes, Disney has been struggling to deploy AI after creating a whole new business unit dedicated to the tech.
Artificial Intelligence

Disney’s Secret Experiments With AI Have Reportedly Been a Comical Disaster

It's bringing down the mouse.

By Noor Al-Sibai

After months of warnings from experts and users alike, OpenAI has issued a small update to give users "gentle reminders" to take breaks.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Now Issuing Warnings to Users Who Seem Obsessed

"Want more info on bridges? Or back to Wall Street/job stuff?"

By Joe Wilkins

There is now a Labubu-wrapped Cybertruck out there — and the weirdest part is that we don't entirely hate it.
Tesla

Cybertruck Completely Covered by Labubu Graphics

"I had an immediate physical convulsion upon seeing this image."

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a scathing open letter, luminaries from the AI industry are calling on OpenAI to prove that it has not betrayed humanity.
OpenAI

Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind

"OpenAI is currently sitting on both sides of the table in a closed boardroom, making a deal on humanity's behalf..."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla shareholders have sued CEO Elon Musk and his carmaker, claiming that the he had hidden significant risk with the company's robotaxis.
Tesla

Tesla Investors Are Suing Elon Musk Over His Disastrous Robotaxi Debut

They're accusing him of securities fraud.

By Victor Tangermann

Med Student Horrified to Learn How Much His Zoomer Patient Was Actually Vaping
Developments

Med Student Horrified to Learn How Much His Zoomer Patient Was Actually Vaping

"That's like nicotine equivalent of 30ish packs of cigs EVERY DAY."

By Victor Tangermann

Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta drew widespread criticism for conducting an interview with an AI avatar of a school shooting victim.
Artificial Intelligence

Public Horrified by Jim Acosta’s Latest Stunt

"This is absolutely deranged."

By Victor Tangermann

AI companies are pouring so much money into AI, it may be propping up the US economy, which could make a bubble pop an even bigger disaster.
Artificial Intelligence

If the AI Bubble Pops, It Could Now Take the Entire Economy With It

Too big to fail.

By Victor Tangermann

New research has found that the top LLM chatbots are remarkably easy to trick into supplying information about suicide and self-harm.
OpenAI

Nearly Two Months After OpenAI Was Warned, ChatGPT Is Still Giving Dangerous Tips on Suicide to People in Distress

OpenAI's mental health "guardrails" are a disgrace.

By Joe Wilkins