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It's looking more and more like NASA's helpless flailing could position China to beat the United States in the race to return to the Moon.
Moon

China’s Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly

"It seems quite likely that the Chinese will land on the Moon before NASA can return to the Moon."

By Victor Tangermann

A new, vaguely menacing class of talking toys is being sold online — but unlike the robot toys of yore, these are powered by AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Horror Story Looms as Children Get Stuffed Animals Powered by AI

There's something really fishy about these toys.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A bombshell document shines new light on the kinds of medical misinformation Meta's AI systems are allowed to regurgitate.
Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Has No Problem With People Using His AI to Generate Fake Medical Information

"The disinformation included claims about vaccines causing autism, cancer-curing diets, HIV being airborne and 5G causing infertility."

By Joe Wilkins

It appears that president Donald Trump's years of fast food and snack guzzling may have finally caught up to him, for the whole world to see.
Developments

Trump’s Limbs Are Looking Awfully Swollen

"Look, you see the president every day."

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX has sure gotten a lot of government welfare — and apparently, it doesn't have to pay taxes, either.
Elon Musk

Despite Getting Billions From the Government, Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pays Basically No Taxes

"Billionaire freeloaders don’t pay taxes."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his colleagues suggest the possibility interstellar space object 3I/ATLAS is generating "its own light."
Off-World

Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Find

One possibility, he suggests: it's a "spacecraft powered by nuclear energy."

By Victor Tangermann

An event in Beijing drew hundreds of competitors from around the world in what's being described as the first ever Robot Olympics.
Robotics

Hundreds of Robots Competed in the World’s First Robot Olympics. The Results Were Unintentionally Hilarious

"You can test a lot of interesting new and exciting approaches in this contest."

By Joe Wilkins

In a major blow to climate science, NASA is not continuing its work studying global warming and will instead just stick to space exploration.
NASA

It’s Official: NASA Is Giving Up on Climate Change Science

Houston, we have a problem.

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI said that it would be "making GPT-5 warmer and friendlier based on feedback that it felt too formal before."
OpenAI

OpenAI Announces That It’s Making GPT-5 More Sycophantic After User Backlash

The company is giving in to the pressure.

By Victor Tangermann

Power users of OpenAI's blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT were left largely unimpressed by the company's recently unveiled GPT-5 AI model.
OpenAI

Evidence Grows That GPT-5 Is a Bit of a Dud

"It seems like something that would have been released a year ago."

By Victor Tangermann

Stellar death is a complex and mysterious process — but in the case of one supernova, things were more gruesome than any astronomer had seen.
Off-World

There’s Something Really Suspicious About the Way This Star Died

"We can finally start connecting the dots between how a star lives and how it dies."

By Noor Al-Sibai

ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data
Future Society

ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data

"I saw the rap sheet and license plate numbers and was like WTAF."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Thought to be some kind of galaxy, the Little Red Dots were spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope and have stumped astronomers for years.
Off-World

Astronomers Say They’ve Finally Solved the “Little Red Dots” Mystery

Not everybody agrees.

By Frank Landymore

Scientists developed an anti viral therapy that mimics the infection fighting properties of a rare genetic mutation in people.
Genetics

Scientists Create Ultimate Antiviral Using Rare “Superpower” Genetic Mutation

This could be a game changer.

By Sharon Adarlo

As a new robot drummer video shows, talent runs the gamut in robots about as much as it does for human musicians. 
Robotics

Scientists Taught a Robot to Play the Drums and He Is Shockingly Horrible at It

"My first band had a drummer this bad once, too."

By Noor Al-Sibai

As some in the US agonize over the country's pace in the "AI race," it seems China is already standing at the podium.
Artificial Intelligence

The US May Have Already Lost the AI Race to China Due to a Key Weakness

China has a major advantage.

By Joe Wilkins

If you want to get the most out of your spunky Volkswagen EV, you'll have to pay a monthly subscription fee.
Electric Vehicles

Car Company Charges Monthly Fee for Its EVs to Drive Faster

We're living in microtransaction hell — for cars.

By Frank Landymore

That strange interstellar object flying by us may, according to one outlandish astronomer, have been sent by aliens to see how smart we are. 
Exobiology

Astronomer Suggests New Interstellar Object Could be Advanced Aliens Testing Our Intelligence

Did we just fail the test?

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the wake of the long-awaited GPT-5 release, it appears that OpenAI has learned one big lesson: that it does not know its user base.
OpenAI

OpenAI Seems Really Confused About Why People Use ChatGPT

Who's gonna tell them?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's xAI lost out on a huge contract with federal agencies after Grok went on a racist meltdown in which it started praising Hitler.
xAI

Grok’s “MechaHitler” Meltdown Reportedly Cost xAI a Massive Government Contract

Actions have consequences.

By Frank Landymore