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Google's crappy "AI Overviews" regularly spits out dangerous and incorrect answers — and now it's being entrusted with health advice.
Google

Brought to you by the same crappy AI that told you to put glue on your pizza.

During their months-long extended stay on the International Space Station, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore didn't get overtime.
Off-World

That's it!?

Elon Musk may be the richest and most powerful man alive, but that doesn't mean he should be held responsible for everything he does.
Elon Musk

If you gotta ask...

Tesla's Cybertruck has been hit with an eighth recall — because a giant piece of metal that was simply glued to the exterior kept flying off.
Tesla

"I've always wanted a car with a roof that flies off for no reason."

As the Financial Times reports, a whopping $1.4 billion is unaccounted for in Tesla's financial statements.
Tesla

How did that happen?

Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk's transgender daughter, is opening up about her "cringe" father and his political antics.
Elon Musk

"The only thing that gets to live free in my mind is drag queens."

The chatbot startup Character.AI is accused of causing the death of a 14-year-old user. Now, it's hosting AI impersonations of the dead teen.
Google

"If Character.AI can't prevent people from creating a chatbot of my dead child on their own platform, how can we trust them to create products for kids that are safe?"

Attempting to punish reasoning AI models for cheating only made them better at lying about their intent, OpenAI researchers found.
OpenAI

LLMs sure are slippery characters.

Donald Trump insists, incorrectly, that he was the one to rescue those stranded astronauts — and he's getting roundly called out for it.
Off-World

History used to be written by the victors — until the internet provided us with receipts.

Veterans shafted by cuts from Elon Musk are speaking out — and they don't have much nice to say to the unelected billionaire-in-chief. 
Elon Musk

"I did not put my life on the line for some tech bro billionaire from South Africa to come in here and try to destroy our country."

YouTuber Mark Rober has kicked the hornet's nest with his latest video. But are Tesla fanboys right mistakes were made?
Tesla

Did the fanboys just accidentally uncover something super shady about Tesla?

Student scientists have developed an incredible new way to synthesize drugs on plants — and they're using Ozempic as their test case.
RX and Medicine

We have Ozempic at home.

It was already expensive to insure a Tesla — and now, it looks like it's going to get even more costly amid a spate of vandalism.
Tesla

"Carriers could refuse to offer coverage for Tesla vehicles altogether."

Microplastic pollution seems, as one researcher posits, to be coming from a surprising source: chewing gum.
Pollution

"The people I talk to are always surprised, and disgusted, when they find out they’ve been chewing on a lump of malleable plastic."

Character.AI and Google are facing allegations that they tested dangerous, dangerous, experimental AI chatbots on minors. Did they?
Google

"It was like getting rats for an experiment."

Drivers for rideshare giants like Uber say they're being suddenly deactivated on the apps, with no fair process to dispute the decision.
Advanced Transport

"They treat you like a machine."

After splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico, stranded NASA astronauts Williams and Wilmore were greeted by a curious pod of dolphins.
Off-World

"That was really fun to see."

Most human children learn how to tell time around ages six and seven — but artificial intelligence still can't parse a clock face. 
Artificial Intelligence

A second-grader could do that!

"We’re a good 15 years away from going to Mars, not five years as Elon Musk alludes to," former NASA astronaut José Hernández told The Hill.
Elon Musk

"We’re a good 15 years away from going to Mars, not five years as Elon Musk alludes to."

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is opening up about his relationship with Elon Musk — and about the politically incorrect stuff they discuss.
Elon Musk

Honestly, it's getting embarrassing.