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The AI boom is fueling a housing crisis in San Francisco as tech workers are lured to the city to take part in the AI gold rush.
Artificial Intelligence

The AI Boom Is Creating Housing Costs in the Bay Area That You’ll Think You Must Be Hallucinating

The rent is too damn high!

New research suggests that DNA sequences historically considered to be "junk" have had an overlooked role in gene expression this whole time.
DNA

Scientists Find Secret Code in Human DNA

"Our genome was sequenced long ago, but the function of many of its parts remain unknown."

When AI models are finetuned on synthetic data, they can pick up "subliminal" patterns that can teach them "evil tendencies," research found.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Models Can Send “Subliminal” Messages to Each Other That Make Them More Evil

This could be a death sentence for the industry.

Scientists are wondering whether the latest interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, may have been sent to us by an extraterrestrial civilization.
Off-World

Scientist Suggests Tests to See if Large Object Headed Toward Earth Could Be an Alien Spacecraft

"The idea of alien probes wandering the cosmos may sound strange, but humans sent out a few ourselves in the 1970s."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning that entire job categories could be wiped out by artificial intelligence.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Poised to Wipe Out Entire Categories of Human Jobs

They will be "just like totally, totally gone."

A surgeon was accused of fraud for getting his legs amputated and lying to insurance that the amputation was due to sepsis.
Health & Medicine

Surgeon Accused of Getting His Own Legs Cut Off for Insurance Reasons

He also bought videos from a man called the "eunuch maker."

AeroVironment and NASA's JPL have shown off a wild concept for deploying six helicopters above the surface of Mars.
Mars

Bonkers NASA Mission Aims to Drop Six Helicopters Onto Mars From Space

Hell yeah!

Detroit has become a hotbed for robot startups whose machines can mow lawns, remove snow, and pick up trash on city beaches.
Robotics

Detroit’s Using Robots to Pick Up Garbage, Mow Grass, Clear Snow, and Much More

Wall-E has some competition.

The tentative detection of complex organic molecules around a young star has big implications about these crucial chemicals to life.
Off-World

Scientists Find Evidence That Original Life on Earth Was Assembled From Material in Space

The build blocks of life may not need planets to get started.

Tuvalu, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate all of its over 11,000 inhabitants, due to rising sea levels.
Climate Change

An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change

"The existential threat we face is not of our making. But it will remake us."

AIs claiming to provide therapy are providing wildly inappropriate advice, video journalist Caelan Conrad found in new testing.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Therapist Goes Haywire, Urges User to Go on Killing Spree

"End them and find me, and we can be together."

Basketball star LeBron James' attorneys apparently sent a cease and desist letter to the developers of a popular AI image generator.
Artificial Intelligence

LeBron James Not Happy With AI Videos Showing Him Pregnant

"I’m so f***ed."

Tesla lost out on much larger gains from its Bitcoin after unloading three quarters of its holdings in mid-2022, pretty much the worst time.
Bitcoin

Tesla Sold Its Bitcoin at Pretty Much the Worst Moment Imaginable

Talk about a missed opportunity.

Tesla is looking to roll out a robotaxi service in the Bay Area, but with human operators in the driver's seat.
Tesla

Tesla Rolling Out Robotaxis With Human Drivers in the Driver’s Seat, Defeating the Purpose of a Robotaxi

Wait, what?

Tesla is already having trouble meeting even the modest 2025 goals it set for producing its Optimus humanoid robots.
Tesla

Tesla’s Optimus Robots Have Reportedly Run Into Severe Trouble

Elon Musk's Tesla is in deep trouble.

As billions of dollars flood the AI industry in 2025, venture capitalist have begun exiting in droves, and the money isn't coming with them.
Artificial Intelligence

Investors Are Suddenly Pulling Out of AI

Is there a certain... feeling of dread?

More and more teenagers are using AI "to get out of thinking" — and not just as a homework crutch, but an emotional one.
Artificial Intelligence

Teens Are Using AI to “Get Out of Thinking”

"If you tell me to plan out an essay, I would think of going to ChatGPT before getting out a pencil."

After years of waiting, it looks like OpenAI is finally going to release GPT-5, combining the capabilities of its several models.
OpenAI

OpenAI Is Reportedly About to Release GPT-5

Is it *finally* happening?

Insiders at the Food and Drug Administration are ringing alarm bells over the agency's use of an AI to fast-track drug approvals.
Developments

The FDA Is Using an AI to “Speed Up” Drug Approvals and Insiders Say It’s Making Horrible Mistakes

"It hallucinates confidently."

Spotify is populating the profiles of dead artists with AI-generated songs without the permission of their families or record labels.
Artificial Intelligence

Spotify Caught Doing Something Unbelievably Ghoulish With AI

"It’s kind of an AI schlock bot, if you will."