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A man who goes by the username "biz_dave" says he successfully trained crows to attack MAGA hats by hiding treats underneath them.
Art

Man Trains Crows to Attack MAGA Hats

"Some folks want to befriend crows, or get them to bring trinkets. I have... other goals."

By Victor Tangermann

AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst

"Where we are today, we're not seeing it."

By Frank Landymore

A Denver Broncos beat writer was confused when a popular Facebook page claimed he had passed away due to a "domestic violence incident."
Ethics

Man Confused by AI-Generated Reports That He’s Dead

"Just doesn't make sense. I always thought, like — usually you see that happen to high-profile celebrities."

By Joe Wilkins

A new survey shows that media executives are all feeling pretty glum about how AI will affect journalism and news.
Artificial Intelligence

Media Execs Prepare for AI to Bring End of Journalism Industry

Well folks, it was great while it lasted. For the most part.

By Frank Landymore

A man paid about $2,500 for a whole body MRI scan that came up healthy, but he then suffered a massive stroke less than a year later.
Future Society

Man Gets Clean Bill of Health From Super-Expensive MRI Scan, Then Gets Horrible News

Verdict: be careful for what you pay for.

By Sharon Adarlo

The company has laid off some 1,500 virtual reality developers as part of a broader shift toward AI wearable devices.
Metaverse

Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg’s Vision Fails

The division has lost over $77 billion since its inception in 2020.

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers found that as their prompts for OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o model grew ruder, the outputs became more accurate.
Ethics

Something Wild Happens to ChatGPT’s Responses When You’re Cruel To It

"You poor creature, do you even know how to solve this?"

By Victor Tangermann

New York-based labor rights group China Labor accused Labubus toys maker, Pop Mart, of labor rights violations.
Future Society

The Workers Building Labubus Are Allegedly Being Horribly Exploited

The allegations are pretty serious.

By Victor Tangermann

Ashley St. Clair, an influencer who had a child with Musk, is now suing xAI, accusing it of allowing users to generate lewd pictures of her.
Ethics

Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse

"She lives in fear that nude and sexual images of herself, including of her as a child."

By Victor Tangermann

Ask Google's infamously hallucination-prone AI Overview feature what next year is, and you'll get an extremely puzzling answer.
Google

Google’s AI Insists That Next Year Is Not 2027

You heard it hear first.

By Frank Landymore

When AI models are used in a school setting, kids become dumber and meaner after using this technology, according to a new study.
Ethics

New Study Finds AI in Schools Is Undermining Kids’ Social and Intellectual Development

"You don’t need to [use] your brain."

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany are working on a simulation at the scale of the entire human brain.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Preparing to Simulate Human Brain on Supercomputer

It's an extremely ambitious goal.

By Victor Tangermann

AI scientists are starting to study AI models as if they are novel biological organisms in order to understand their inner workings.
Anthropic

Scientists Now Studying AI as a Novel Biological Organism

"This is very much a biological type of analysis."

By Sharon Adarlo

A journalism professor spent a month logging seven chatbots for their newsworthiness, with horrendous results.
Ethics

If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You’re Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain

News you can't use.

By Joe Wilkins

Startup GRU (Galactic Resource Utilization) Space has opened reservations for people who want to stay in the first hotel on the Moon.
Moon

Moon Hotel Now Taking Reservations

This startup is putting a new spin to the term one-star hotel.

By Sharon Adarlo

Some scientists are coming out against the studies that claimed to have found alarming amounts of microplastics in human bodies.
Pollution

Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error

"The brain microplastic paper is a joke."

By Frank Landymore

In the final days of the Biden administration, government officials spent millions to buy a device thought to cause the mystery illness.
Devices

Government Paid “Eight Figures” for Mysterious Device Believed to Cause Havana Syndrome

A small price to pay.

By Joe Wilkins

Beyond performing preprogrammed martial arts and dance moves, we can't shake the feeling that robots as they exist today just kind of suck.
Future Society

Robots Have a Small Problem: They Completely Suck

The gap between what's being promised and what robots are capable of today is growing fast.

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that the brain "shifts upward and backward within the skull following spaceflight," a new wrinkle for future space travel.
NASA

Astronauts’ Brains Are Being Displaced

"That kind of change is visible by eye."

By Victor Tangermann

The hottest paid app in China is an interactive timer meant to inform loved ones of a single user's lonesome death.
Future Society

Hot New App Makes Single People Check in Constantly in Case They Die Alone

Grim.

By Joe Wilkins