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Data released by OpenAI shows a major drop-off in overall usage during weekends and the summer — when students aren't in class.
OpenAI

OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren’t Cheating on Homework

It's elementary.

Power users have been strikingly underwhelmed with OpenAI's GPT-5 so far, raising questions about diminishing returns.
OpenAI

GPT-5 Users Say It Seriously Sucks

"A disastrous first impression."

Tesla, a company known for making cars that malfunction and fall apart, is apparently faring no better at building a working restaurant. 
Tesla

The Tesla Diner Is Already Falling Apart Under Mismanagement

First they came for the "Epic Bacon."

The Aalborg Zoo in Denmark says the animals will be "gently euthanized" before being served as dinner to its captive predators.
Science & Energy

Zoo Requests Unwanted Pets to Feed to Hungry Carnivores

"That way, nothing goes to waste."

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a mysterious exoplanet in Alpha Centauri.
Off-World

Scientists Appear to Have Spotted an Unknown Planet in Nearest Star System to Earth

"If it's real, it's amazing."

the latest poll conducted by Gallup seems to confirm that Elon Musk has become genuinely hated by most Americans.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Appears to Now Be the Most Hated Person in America, According to New Research

A brilliant gambit, sir.

The US Air Force reportedly wants to buy two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can blow them up with special missiles.
Tesla

The Air Force Says It Needs to Buy Some Cybertrucks So It Can Blow Them Up With Missiles

Understandable.

OpenAI has released its GPT-5 AI model, making it free to use for anybody as of today. But is it really as good as Sam Altman says?
OpenAI

OpenAI Releases GPT-5, Says It’s Shutting Down All Previous Models

"With GPT-5, we’re deprecating all of our old models."

Ozempic manufacturer Novo Nordisk slashed its sales forecast and saw its value plunge by nearly $100 billion.
Developments

The Creator of Ozempic Is in Terrible Trouble

It's taking a pounding.

The lawyer behind a verdict, requiring Tesla to pay hundreds of millions to victims of a crash involving Autopilot, is understandably smug.
Tesla

Lawyer Who Defeated Tesla in Court Posts “Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta” by Geto Boys

"This will open the floodgates."

A new filing with the US Patent Office suggests Tesla is working on a "fan car" system to suck a vehicle to the road.
Tesla

Tesla Patents Bizarre Sucking Device

Tesla's long-awaited second-gen Roadster could suck really hard.

OpenAI's ChatGPT can easily be coaxed into leaking your personal data — with just a single "poisoned" document.
OpenAI

It’s Staggeringly Easy for Hackers to Trick ChatGPT Into Leaking Your Most Personal Data

"This is very, very bad."

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."

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.

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.

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?

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."

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."

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."

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."