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More than 200 staffers at Elon Musk's AI startup xAI were asked to have their faces recorded while speaking to their coworkers.
xAI

Leaked Documents Show xAI Employees Were Alarmed by Something They Were Asked to Do at Elon Musk’s AI Startup

"Could my face be used to say something I never said?"

Anthropic has long attempted to distinguish itself as being ethical. Now, CEO Dario Amodei revealed he's taking money from "dictators."
Anthropic

Leaked Slack Messages Show CEO of “Ethical AI” Startup Anthropic Saying It’s Okay to Benefit Dictators

"This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it."

SpaceX is nine full-scale test launches into developing its Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. But will it ever work?
Starship

Elon Now Facing the Possibility That SpaceX Will Never Get Starship Working

Was it all for nothing?

As Trump proposes slashing the NASA budget by nearly a quarter, its employees warn that his policies could have outright deadly consequences.
NASA

NASA Employees Submit “Formal Dissent” Saying Trump’s Cuts Are So Brutal That Astronauts Could Die

Ominous.

Police in Florida are eating crow after it was revealed that a random man was wrongfully arrested based on AI.
Facial recognition

Police Use Busted Facial Recognition System, Arrest Random Man and Accuse Him of Horrible Crime

"That’s not how it works."

Trump aides reviewed SpaceX contracts with the federal government to identify waste after the president's falling out with Elon Musk.
SpaceX

After Fight With Musk, Trump Reportedly Ordered Review of Government SpaceX Contracts

The war is on.

A tech entrepeneur using an AI tool to "vibe code" quickly went from praising the tech to fuming about it after it wiped out his database.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Coding Assistant Deletes Company Database, Says Restoring It Is Impossible

"This was a catastrophic failure on my part," the AI said.

Economist Torsten Slok warned that the current AI bubble is starting to look even worse than the conditions leading up to the dot-com crisis.
Artificial Intelligence

Economist Warns the AI Bubble Is Worse Than Immediately Before the Dot-Com Implosion

"The top 10 companies in the S&P 500 today are more overvalued than they were in the 1990s."

xAI's latest male Grok persona looks suspiciously like a cartoonized version of a 2012 Elon Musk dressed up as French writer Marquis de Sade.
Artificial Intelligence

You Will Die Inside When You Learn Who Elon Musk’s Thirst Trap for Women Is Based on

You'll cringe harder than you thought possible.

A man was hospitalized three times after ChatGPT convinced him he had discovered how to bend time and achieve faster-than-light travel.
OpenAI

How ChatGPT Sent a Man to the Hospital

He knew he was unwell. ChatGPT told him he was fine.

A video making the rounds on social media shows a humanoid robot flailing its arms and legs, seemingly trying to break free of a harness.
Robotics

Alarming Video Shows Experimental Fighting Robot Thrashing Uncontrollably

"I'm so sorry."

A MAGA botnet of hundreds of accounts on X is confused by the Trump administration's response to the Jeffrey Epstein crisis.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Powering MAGA Botnet Confused by Trump’s Connections to Epstein, Starts Contradicting Itself

They're extremely confused.

The disgraced AI CEO, who was caught having an affair on a Coldplay Jumbotron, has offered his resignation.
Artificial Intelligence

The AI CEO Caught Cheating on a Jumbotron Has an Important Career Update

Viva la ouster.

Elon Musk appears to have been caught in a major lie as he tried to con the very DEI practices that he sought to destroy.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Caught Filing for Benefits Meant for Small Businesses Run by Minorities

Elon hate DEI -- except, apparently, when it stands to benefit him.

The way we diet may not just be causing us binge after such restrictive regimens, but also may be messing with our guts and brains.
Studies

Scientists Find Evidence of Grim Long-Term Effects of Fad Diets

"As if the brain's reward mechanism had been rewired."

After polluting a sacred beach in Texas, Elon Musk's SpaceX is now seeking to wreak havoc on another holy site in Hawaii. 
Elon Musk

Government Gives Elon Musk Permission to Detonate Rockets Over a Sacred Hawaian Island

"Earth is not a sacrifice zone for Elon Musk’s ego trip to Mars."

A company made up of former F1 racing engineers has unveiled an e-scooter that can reach a top speed of north of 100 miles per hour.
Advanced Transport

This Bonkers 100 MPH E-Scooter Is a Ludicrous Safety Hazard

Designed by former F1 engineers. Pure danger.

OpenAI has released a new AI agent called ChatGPT Agent — and it still suffers from the same big problems as its predecessors.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s New AI Agent Takes One Hour to Order Food and Recommends Visiting a Baseball Stadium in the Middle of the Ocean

It'll test your patience.

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Future Society

Dystopian Startup Lets the Wealthy Rent Off Duty Cops on Demand

"It’s the perfect Silicon Valley gimmick."

Chinese researchers say they've devised a new way to extract water from lunar soil and convert it into fuel.
Moon

Chinese Scientists Invent System for Extracting Oxygen, Water and Rocket Fuel From Moon Dust

"We never fully imagined the ‘magic’ that the lunar soil possessed."