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Climate Change

Heat Waves Are Getting So Brutal That They Just Kill You, Full Stop

"If it's already happening now, then what does a future that is two or three degrees warmer hold?"

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Car Runs Down Mother Duck Taking Care of Her Eggs, Flees Scene

"It didn't slow down or hesitate at all."

Nuclear Fusion

There’s a Glaring Safety Problem With Nuclear Energy Startups

Move fast, break isotopes.

Ethics

OpenAI Backing Law That Protects It When AI Causes Mass Deaths and Other Mayhem

How convenient.

Ethics

Research Finds That AI Has Already Replaced Work for 20 Percent of Jobs

"The policy window to shape how AI transforms work is probably closing faster than most governments realize."

OpenAI

OpenAI Staffers Horrified When Senior Leadership Hatched “Insane” Plan to Pit World Governments Against Each Other

"It worked for nuclear weapons, why not AI?"

Finance

Billionaire Says Insider Trading Should Be Fully Legalized

He also happens to own a prediction market company.

Solar Power

Scientists Set New Record for Solar Cell Efficiency

A sunny day for solar energy.

Ethics

OpenAI’s Latest Thing It’s Bragging About Is Actually Kind of Sad

This compute measuring contest is just pitiful.

Ethics

Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won’t Take Their Job

They're fed up.

Anthropic

Why Does It Suddenly Feel Like OpenAI Is Melting Down Into Disaster?

It's been a bruising year so far.

Viruses

DOGE Made Drastic Cuts to a Global Vaccine Assistance Program. Now There’s a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Bangladesh

Thanks, Elon.

Future Society

Man Creates Tiny Submarine for His Parakeet to Experience Life Underwater

"He voluntarily went into the tube."

Ethics

The Effects of AI-Generated Code Tearing Through Corporations Is Actually Kind of Funny

Womp womp!

Off-World

Trump Hires Orbital Towing Company to Build Space Interceptors

Stick to haulin' freight.

Future Society

Psychologists Found Something Horrible About the Kind of Men Seeking Trad Wives

Color us shocked.

Environment

Man Punished for Breaking Into Moo Deng’s Zoo Enclosure

Justice is served.

RX and Medicine

To Get Swole, Teens Are Pumping Themselves Full of Drugs Meant for Fattening Cows for the Slaughterhouse

"If I have a heart attack at 30, I have a heart attack."

Ethics

Foolish Pollsters Are Now Just Asking AI What Voters Would Say in Response to Questions and Publishing It at Face Value

"Pure fictions are on the brink of being treated as scientific and political knowledge."

OpenAI

OpenAI Says It’s Already Made $100 Million by Stuffing ChatGPT With Ads

A handsome chunk of change.