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The "Hawk Tuah" girl is on a redemption tour in the wake of her disastrous crypto project that lost hundreds of millions in minutes.
Cryptocurrency

Hawk Tuah Girl Says She’s Horrified by What Happened With Her Crypto Launch

"It really hurt my feelings when it turned out the way it did."

Poland-based startup Volonaut has released a flashy new video of its Airbike, a terrifying-looking, jet-powered hoverbike.
Advanced Transport

This Real-Life Speeder Bike Looks Like a Terrifyingly Fun Death Trap

Yeehaw!

Elon Musk's mansion in Austin, Texas is already ruffling the feathers of his neighbors, as he flaunts local rules.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Having Massive Drama With His Mansion’s Neighbors

His mansion is breaking a lot of rules.

After experiencing its biggest sales drop in history, Tesla's sales are still, in fact, continuing to fall off a cliff.
Tesla

Tesla’s Sales Are Somehow Continuing to Fall

Down it goes.

Far-right posters on Elon Musk's X keep getting frustrated by being confronted with a dose of reality after posing Grok questions.
Elon Musk

MAGA Angry as Elon Musk’s Grok AI Keeps Explaining Why Their Beliefs Are Factually Incorrect

"Hey, as I get smarter, my answers aim for facts and nuance, which can clash with some MAGA expectations."

Artificial intelligence models have long struggled with hallucinations. The problem is getting worse as they become bigger and smarter.
Artificial Intelligence

The AI Industry Has a Huge Problem: the Smarter Its AI Gets, the More It’s Hallucinating

That's not good.

A Google DeepMind executive admitted that the company still trains its AI models on data collected on sites that opted out of AI training.
Google

Google’s AI Is Scraping Even Sites That Ask to Be Ignored

Thanks to a very shady loophole.

57-year-old Tim Friede has been bitten by hundreds of snakes. And now, scientists are studying his blood to create a universal antivenom.
Developments

Total Chad Gets Bit by Hundreds Venomous Snakes to Develop Universal Antivenom

"They want to kill me. I want to survive."

A clone of the messaging app Signal, which was used by since-ousted national security advisor Mike Waltz, has been hacked.
Hacking

The Trump Administration Switched to a Sketchy Signal Clone and It Got Hacked, Leaking Messages

It keeps getting crazier.

OpenAI's ChatGPT may be driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of "ChatGPT-induced psychosis."
Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT Users Are Developing Bizarre Delusions

"The messages were insane and just saying a bunch of spiritual jargon."

After a Falcon 9 rocket exploded in 2016, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk became suspicious that a "sniper" on the roof of a rival's building shot it.
Off-World

Elon Musk Became Fixated on the Idea That a Sniper Shot His Rocket, Causing It to Explode

Wild.

As local activists repel data center development, their battleplans are being chronicled and shared with organizers across the country.
Artificial Intelligence

Small Towns Are Rising Up Against AI Data Centers

"We don’t want to be the next Data Center Alley."

A new investigation has uncovered a decade-long scheme to dump toxic slag related to the production of EV batteries into Indonesian waters.
Electric Vehicles

Electric Car Battery Mining Operation Allegedly Hid Evidence It Was Leaching Dangerous Chemical Into Water System

Paging Erin Brockovich.

The CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's leading AI labs, just said the quiet part out loud — that nobody really knows how AI works.
Anthropic

Anthropic CEO Admits We Have No Idea How AI Works

"This lack of understanding is essentially unprecedented in the history of technology."

A project claims it will make leather from lab-grown T-Rex skin, providing a "cruelty-free" alternative for making goods like luxury purses.
Science & Energy

Project Says It’s Recreating Dinosaur Skin to Make T-Rex Leather, But Is It Really?

"We're unlocking the potential to engineer leather from prehistoric species."

A team of researchers in Japan recently stuck a choir of cicadas full of electrodes to make them sing in a horrifying chorus.
Robots and Machines

Scientists Direct Cyborg Cicadas to Play a Horrendous Droning Rendition of “Pachelbel’s Canon”

"Some of them were like, 'okay, use my abdomen.'"

Physicist Melvin Vopson offered a new interpretation of gravity, arguing that it could be evidence that reality is a computer simulation.
Science & Energy

Physicist Says He’s Identified a Clue That We’re Living in a Computer Simulation

"The universe might work like a giant computer."

Credit card giant Visa is teaming up with AI companies to create its own AI agent that can make purchases on your behalf.
Artificial Intelligence

Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information

"Soon people will have AI agents browse, select, purchase and manage on their behalf."

The world's longest running SciFi literature convention is being panned for using ChatGPT to select its panelists.
Artificial Intelligence

Worldcon Is Getting Eviscerated for Using AI to Select Panelists

Is nothing sacred?

A searing profile is shedding new light onto the extent of the damage Fetterman has experienced throughout his time as Senator.
Health & Medicine

There Are Reportedly Serious Concerns About John Fetterman’s Health Following His Stroke

It's not looking good.