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After Mattel announced a collaboration with OpenAI, some experts are sounding the alarm on the dangers that interactive AI poses to children.
Artificial Intelligence

Child Welfare Experts Horrified by Mattel’s Plans to Add ChatGPT to Toys After Mental Health Concerns for Adult Users

"Risks inflicting real damage on children."

Waymo, Google's robotaxi company, is being sued for alleged safety failures that resulted in a San Francisco cyclist's injuries. 
Brain

Bicyclist Says a Waymo Robotaxi Smashed Her Into a Second Waymo Robotaxi, Causing Brain and Spine Injury

"Waymo’s system fell short significantly."

With its robotaxi launch supposedly right around the corner, Tesla just admitted a huge caveat with its self-driving cars.
Tesla

Tesla Just Admitted Something Wildly Embarrassing About What’ll Be in the Front Seat of All Its Robotaxis

Sounds like passengers won't be riding alone.

The "Hawk Tuah" girl recently graced the stage at an influencer convention, and it went about as well as her scammy crypto project.
Cryptocurrency

Hawk Tuah Girl Live Event Devolves Into Chaos After Crypto Disaster

"Does this look like the face of a girl who could talk to you about crypto?"

Some digital sleuths are uncovering decades-old tweets on love, books, and happiness on the Supreme Leader of Iran's Twitter account.
Future Society

As War Descends on Iran, People Have Discovered Some Wild Old Posts on Ayatollah Khamenei’s Twitter Account

"I apologize, Ayatollah Khamenei, I was unfamiliar with your game."

Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship suffered another explosion on Wednesday, which has cast doubt on whether these ships can ever reach Mars.
Starship

Latest Starship Explosion Drastically Decreases SpaceX’s Chances of Reaching Mars Without Having to Wait Years

"One of the toughest problems to solve."

As AI adoption spreads, CEOs are increasingly using the tech to justify layoffs, or to anticipate layoffs coming in the future.
Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Using AI to Terrorize Their Employees

A brutal new cudgel.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found some startling results in the brain scans of people using ChatGPT.
Brain

Researchers Scanned the Brains of ChatGPT Users and Found Something Deeply Alarming

"Consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

Users are creating AI bots trained on harebrained conspiracy theories, including a custom bot to convince parents not to vaccinate kids.
Future Society

Conspiracy Theorists Are Creating Special AIs to Agree With Their Bizarre Delusions

We're cooked.

Elon Musk continues to express anger at his chatbot Grok for citing news reports and other sources that don't align with his extremist views.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Concerned That Reality Has Infiltrated His “Grok” AI

"Grok is parroting legacy media."

Cursed New Dating App Matches You Based on the Most Deranged Thing We Can Imagine
Future Society

Cursed New Dating App Matches You Based on the Most Deranged Thing We Can Imagine

"This will show a side of you that you’d never pick."

Watching a bunch of porn has some major side effects — and no, we're not just talking about stained bedsheets. 
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Scanned the Brains of Hardcore Gooners and Found Something Ominous

This is worth reading.

Google's shoddy AI Overviews allegedly spread damaging lies about a solar company, which is now suing the tech giant for defamation.
Google

Solar Company Sues Google for Giving Damaging Information in AI Overviews

When an AI "hallucination" becomes defamation.

As AI-generated text is becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the internet, some distinctive linguistic patterns are starting to emerge.
OpenAI

Once You Notice ChatGPT’s Weird Way of Talking, You Start to See It Everywhere

It's not useful, it's slop.

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. The results are stunning.
Off-World

Scientists Line Up Satellites to Create “Artificial Total Solar Eclipse”

Why wait for the next solar eclipse if we can create them ourselves?

After July 17, a national specialized suicide and crisis hotline extension for LGBTQ youth will no longer exist.
Future Society

Trump Admin Shut Down Suicide Hotline for LGBTQ Youth

The number you have dialed has been disconnected.

Over half a century ago, Apollo astronauts encountered something surprising littering the desolate lunar surface: tiny orange beads.
Moon

Scientists Investigating Small Orange Objects Coating Surface of the Moon

The Moon may look gray, but up close it's a whole 'nother story.

Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharma company behind Ozempic, made a very dumb decision a few years ago that will massively eat into its profits.
RX and Medicine

Something Comically Bad Just Happened to the Inventor of Ozempic

It's going to lose billions.

Clumps of dark matter may actually be interacting with light just a teensy bit, enough to dim the light of stars it passes in front of.
Dark Matter

Astronomers Suggest That Entire Stars Are Being Obscured by Giant “Lampshades” of Dark Matter

Wait... is there something out there?

Risk analyst Ian Bremmer pointed out on "Real Time With Bill Maher" that AI has ruined the "learn to code" cottage industry.
Artificial Intelligence

Risk Expert Says “Learn to Code” Is Now Worse Advice Than “Get a Face Tattoo”

"You can't do worse than learn to code."