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Sam Altman insists that GPT-5 is brilliant — but if you ask it to play an altered version of tic-tac-toe, it glitches out.
OpenAI

This Incredibly Simple Question Causes GPT-5 to Melt Into a Puddle of Pure Confusion

They say that dogs tend to resemble their owners."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft is one of the biggest and most well-known tech companies in the world — but you wouldn't know that by its salary ranges.
Finance

You’ll Squint and Wipe Your Glasses When You See This Leaked Data on How Much Microsoft Engineers Are Getting Paid

This was not at all what we expected.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Grammarly's new AI is for students "who want to predict how their work will land with their instructor and take control of their grades."
Artificial Intelligence

Creepy AI Will Look Up a Teacher’s Info to Predict What Grade They’ll Give a Paper

Overkill for generic advice.

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images. They went to have a look.
Environment

Satellites Spotted a Strange Glow in the Ocean, and Scientists Have a Wild Explanation

They went to have a look for themselves on board a research vessel.

By Victor Tangermann

In what's being called a "turning point," researchers has traced back the location of the origin of one of the brightest fast radio bursts.
Off-World

Scientists Detect Precise Origin of Mysterious Signal From Deep Space

What could it be?

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's own Grok will be taking a backseat in Chinese Teslas in favor of the ultra-efficient DeepSeek.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Just Suffered a Humiliating Defeat in China

That's gotta sting.

By Joe Wilkins

A pair of smart glasses developed by two Harvard dropouts will record everything you do to make you "super intelligent."
Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Startup Says Its Smart Glasses Will Do “Vibe Thinking” for You

"We aim to literally record everything in your life."

By Frank Landymore

A restaurant is begging its customers to please stop using notoriously unreliable Google AI to ask about its menu items.
Google

Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don’t Exist

"We will not honor the Google AI specials."

By Frank Landymore

New AI-enabled toys promise to be more interactive than ever, but there's growing concerns that they may stunt childhood development.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Horrified by AI-Powered Toys for Children

"The boundary between imagination and reality blurs."

By Noor Al-Sibai

At the core of Mustafa Suleyman's argument isn't the threat of AI gaining consciousness, but the belief that it already is.
Artificial Intelligence

Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Will Start to Demand Rights

"This development will be a dangerous turn in AI progress and deserves our immediate attention."

By Joe Wilkins

A bombshell report revealed a bacteria whose genetic code is said to be more efficient than any other lifeform on earth.
Biology

Scientists Say They’ve Created a New Form of Life More Perfect Than the One Nature Made

"You can start exploring what life will tolerate."

By Joe Wilkins

A new bill in Colorado would prevent individuals from suing AI companies under the state's consumer protection laws.
Artificial Intelligence

Politicians Are Trying to Make It Illegal to Sue AI Companies

Prostrating before the divine will of Big Tech.

By Frank Landymore

If you use generative AI software to spit out graphics, press releases, logos or videos, you and your company could be in deep legal trouble.
Artificial Intelligence

Using AI for Work Could Land You on the Receiving End of a Nasty Lawsuit

"The real harm comes from the attorney's fees that you can get saddled with."

By Joe Wilkins

Several schools in Florida will be fitted with dozens of armed drones, which can supposedly confront a shooter within fifteen seconds.
Drones

Florida Schools Deploying Armed Drones to Battle School Shooters

Feeling safer, kids?

By Frank Landymore

The continents are drying so rapidly that they're now contributing more to rising sea levels than melting ice sheets do.
Environment

Scientists Alarmed to Discover That Earth’s Continents Are Drying Out

And guess where all the water goes.

By Frank Landymore

Each of SpaceX's enormous Starship explosions is costing the private space company an enormous amount of money.
Starship

SpaceX Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money Every Time One of Its Starships Explodes

Nobody knows if SpaceX's approach will eventually pay off.

By Victor Tangermann

New surveys reflect how most people are concerned about AI compared even amid the incredible hype being blasted out by the tech industry.
Artificial Intelligence

The Average Person Is Far More Scared of AI Than Excited by It, Studies Find

Occasionally, sanity does prevail.

By Frank Landymore

Nonsmokers now make up nearly a quarter of all lung cancer diagnosis, as threats like radon and air pollution take a heavy toll.
Cancer

People Who Don’t Smoke Are Getting Lung Cancer in Scary Numbers

"For me to get a cancer diagnosis was a big shock. And then to have a lung cancer diagnosis was very puzzling for me."

By Joe Wilkins

The CEO of IgniteTech recently bragged about replacing the vast majority of his workforce after they "sabotaged" his AI initiative.
Artificial Intelligence

CEO Boasts That He Laid Off 80 Percent of His Staff Because They Didn’t Love AI Enough, Threatens to Do It Again

"It was extremely difficult."

By Joe Wilkins

Pollsters are surveying AI instead of real people to save time and money — but the responses, per new research, are not up to snuff.
Artificial Intelligence

Political Pollsters Are Trying to Save Money by Polling AI Instead of Real People, and It’s Going About as Well as You’d Expect

Maybe we should save the political surveys for real voters.

By Noor Al-Sibai