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OpenAI's new Sora 2-powered TikTok rival will generate a video of the company's CEO Sam Altman shoplifting.
Future Society

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Generates Realistic Videos of People Shoplifting

"Every defense attorney now has a pre-written motion when it comes to video evidence, I see."

OpenAI introduced a new shopping feature in ChatGPT but it pissed off people online who think it's a shameless money grab.
Ethics

OpenAI Ridiculed for Its Latest Cash Grab

"What on earth are you doing?"

In an unsettling promotional clip, a synthesized version of OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, announces the company's answer to Meta's Vibes app.
Ethics

OpenAI Releases Ghoulish AI Video of Sam Altman

"Unsettling, empty, soulless filth."

OpenAI is said to be launching a TikTok-like app that recommends an endless stream of swipeable — and purely AI-generated — videos.
Google

OpenAI Launching TikTok Competitor for Short-Form AI Slop Videos

It's like TikTok — but with an extra heaping helpful of AI slop.

A faulty Samsung Galaxy Ring battery caused the smart ring to swell up, sending its wearer to the emergency room for removal.
Devices

Smart Ring Swells Up, Crushes Man’s Finger and Sends Him to the Hospital

New fear unlocked.

An AI startup called friend has plastered the New York City subway system in advertisements -- and furious riders are vandalizing them.
Ethics

New Yorkers Are Defacing This AI Startup’s Million-Dollar Ad Campaign

"AI wouldn’t care if you lived or died."

People all over the world now think there are conscious entities within the AI chatbots they use everyday such as OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Ethics

Across the World, People Say They’re Finding Conscious Entities Within ChatGPT

Does it feel like something is staring back?

CNBC personality Jim Cramer says there's no bubble coming for the AI sector — which should probably make any AI investors just a bit nervous.
Ethics

You Might Want to Ditch Your AI Investments Now That Jim Cramer Says No Bubble Is Coming

"The grim reaper of finance has weighed in, the collapse of the global financial system is imminent."

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Ethics

Compsci Grads Are Cooked

"They're happy to get one job offer."

Strange, quasi-circular circles structures called coronae scour the surface of Venus — but their origins are a mystery.
Astronomy

Scientists Intrigued by Weird Structures on Surface of Venus

They're like nothing seen on Earth.

Harvard astornomer Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could've sent off the Wow! Signal back in 1977.
Astronomy

Mysterious Object Cruising Through Solar System May Have Emitted a Signal, Scientist Says

"To measure these properties, we should attempt to use all telescopes on Earth and in space."

A sociology scholar is cautioning that we are hurtling toward a "systemic digital crisis" caused by the digital economy.
Hacking

Professor Warns Society Is Veering Toward a Digital Apocalypse

"Constant hacks, ransomware attacks and data leakages are warning signs that this is a deeply fragile system."

NASA whistleblowers claim that President Donald Trump has been making drastic cuts to its budget that may result in an astronaut's death.
NASA

Whistleblowers Say NASA Is Poised to Kill an Astronaut

"No one is coming to save us."

Photoshop and Acrobat developer Adobe could soon be in serious trouble thanks to the emergence of generative AI.
Future Society

Adobe Is in Serious Trouble Because of AI, Morgan Stanley Warns

"The world is coming around to the reality that 'AI is eating software.'"

Amazon has infused its famed assistant Alexa with the power of AI — an upgrade that's apparently come with drawbacks and headaches.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s New AI-Powered Alexa Is a Half-Working Mess

"LLMs aren’t designed to be predictable, and what you want when controlling your home is predictability."

OpenAI has released a new evaluation to figure out how well its AIs perform on "economically valuable, real-world tasks."
Future Society

OpenAI Releases List of Work Tasks It Says ChatGPT Can Already Replace

"Today’s best frontier models are already approaching the quality of work produced by industry experts."

Experts are scrambling to explain a rise in jellyfish blooms in the last place you'd expect: the freshwater lakes of middle America.
Global Warming

Experts Alarmed as Jellyfish Spawn in Freshwater Lakes

Watch your toes.

In a recent podcast appearance, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang agonized that China is now "nanoseconds behind" US chipmakers.
Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia Is Quaking in Its Boots

"We're up against a formidable, innovative, hungry, fast-moving, underregulated [competitor]."

People from the ages of 18 to 39 have suffered an increase in cognitive issues in the span of more than a decade.
Mental Health

Huge Proportion of Young Americans Now Reporting Serious Cognitive Issues

Feel like you're losing your mind?

A video of one of Waymo's autonomous ride-hailing vehicles driving over the carefully groomed lawn of a golf course has gone viral.
Mass Transit

Waymo Says There’s a Perfect Reasonable Explanation for Its Car Roaming a Golf Course

"Late for tee time?"