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Verified accounts on Elon Musk's social media platform X-formerly-Twitter are promoting the sale of child sex abuse videos.

Checkmarked X Users Caught Promoting Sites That Sell Child Sex Abuse Videos

By Victor Tangermann

Is trouble brewing? President-elect Trump is already disregarding some of his "First Buddy" Elon Musk's suggestions.

Donald Trump Is Already Ignoring Elon Musk’s Suggestions

By Ashley Bardhan

Elon Musk's most famous babymama, Claire "Grimes" Boucher, is once again speaking out about her difficult relationship with the billionaire.

Grimes Says Elon Musk’s Brutal Custody Battle Was Driving Her to Bankruptcy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hackers have targeted a phony "online university" founded by Andrew Tate, the far-right influencer and alleged human trafficker.

Hacktivists Leak Chatlogs From Andrew Tate’s Fake Online University

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk recently shared a clip of him clearing Diablo's Pit in about one minute and 50 seconds, potentially setting a world record.

Elon Musk’s Diablo IV Build May Only Look Good Because He’s Great At Exploiting Loopholes

By Ashley Bardhan

Elon Musk chopping down the "discretionary" budget could be a disaster for innovation in the United States, experts warn.

Experts Say Elon Musk’s Ridiculous “DOGE” Initiative Could Actually Crush Innovation

By Victor Tangermann

While attending the UN climate summit in Azerbaijan, a reporter decided to engage in the local custom of bathing his entire body in oil.

COP29 Climate Summit Being Held in Petrostate Where People Bathe Their Nude Bodies in Crude Oil

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's been nearly a year since Henry Kissinger died — but he's somehow still offering AI policy suggestions from beyond the grave.

Artificial Intelligence

Henry Kissinger Issues AI Warning From Beyond the Grave

By Noor Al-Sibai

Claire "Grimes" Boucher is getting personal on Elon Musk's "everything" app as she opens up about how he has affected her and her art.

Grimes Says Elon Musk Has Become “Unrecognizable”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's estranged father, Errol Musk, shared concerns that his son was too busy in an interview with Saudi-owned news channel Al Arabiya.

Elon Musk’s Father Is Worried About Him

By Ashley Bardhan

Kesha has landed in hot water with fans after posting an AI-generated image, which misspells the word "delusional" several times.

Internet Notices Something Bizarre in Image Posted by Kesha

By Victor Tangermann

The internet is flooded with videos of robot dogs meeting real, furry puppies, who seem horrified to have come across a canine abomination.

Real Dogs’ Reaction to Robodogs is Terrifying

By Ashley Bardhan

Hawaiian local broadcaster and newspaper The Garden Island has fired the two AI bots it recently introduced as its new anchors.

Artificial Intelligence

Newspaper Fires Two AI Reporters After Bizarre Behavior

By Victor Tangermann

The fatality rate for Tesla is twice as high as the average for all automakers in the US, with the Model Y being its most dangerous car.

Study Finds Tesla Has Higher Rate of Fatal Accidents Than Any Other Car

By Frank Landymore

American farms are incredibly dependent on immigrant labor that can't be replaced. Mass deportations would cause food production to plummet.

If Trump Actually Goes Through With His Deportations, Grocery Prices Will Spike Brutally

By Frank Landymore

For longtime Tesla owners, Elon Musk has made their electric cars into red flags — and now, a bunch are sticker-slapping back.

Embarrassed Teslas Drivers Buying Huge Numbers of Anti-Elon Bumper Stickers

By Noor Al-Sibai

A body language expert assessed Donald Trump's behavior around Elon Musk and found that the future president is acting unusually shy.

Body Language Expert Says Trump Is Acting “Submissive” Around Musk

By Ashley Bardhan

Coca-Cola drew plenty of criticism for rolling out an uninspired and lazily AI-generated holiday ad. Redditors made a much better version.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone Made a Deranged Version of Coke’s AI Holiday Ad and It’s Way Better

By Victor Tangermann

Experts warn of the significant privacy risks that come with sharing medical scans with Grok, Elon Musk's chatbot.

Experts Alarmed by People Uploading Their Medical Scans to Elon Musk’s Grok AI

By Frank Landymore

A robodog dubbed RAIBO2 ran and completed a full length marathon in South Korea on Sunday, apparently the first quadrupedal robot to do so.

Robodog Runs Full Marathon

By Frank Landymore

Amazon uses over 750,000 robots that are impressive in some respects, but also struggle to perform simple tasks that a human could easily do.

Amazon Robots Struggling to Keep Up With Human Workers

By Frank Landymore

President-elect Donald Trump attended his new buddy SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's rocket launch on Tuesday. It didn't go quite as planned.

Trump Comes to Watch as Elon Musk’s Spacecraft Crashes Into the Ocean and Explodes

By Victor Tangermann

Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify is defending the right of its clients to sell antisemitic, Holocaust-denying merchandise.

Shopify Allowing Sale of Holocaust Denial Merch

By Victor Tangermann

New York City has declared its first drought warning since 2002, adding to the list of climate-related events afflicting the US and world.

As Climate Catastrophe Looms, New York City Declares Drought Warning

By Ashley Bardhan

Starship Shoots Into Space With Single Banana in Cargo Hold

Starship Shoots Into Space With Single Banana in Cargo Hold

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is throwing his weight behind Trump's AG pick Matt Gaetz amid damning allegations about his sexual conduct.

Elon Musk Throws Support Behind Man Accused of Sex With Underage Girl

By Noor Al-Sibai

Nvidia's unreleased AI chips are apparently melting down, causing their shipment to be delayed until the beginning of 2025 at the earliest.

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia’s New AI Chips Are Reportedly Overheating in Server Farms

By Noor Al-Sibai

President Joe Biden is ready to hop on a space rocket and rescue the two NASA astronauts, who have been stranded on board the ISS.

Biden Muses That He Could Be Sent to Space to Rescue Stranded Astronauts

By Victor Tangermann

A small school in Pennsylvania shut down on Monday after parents accused leaders of covering up an explicit AI nudes scandal.

Artificial Intelligence

Parents Furious as School Accused of Covering Up AI-Generated Nudes of Students

By Victor Tangermann

A hacker has apparently gotten access to testimony from a woman who claims she was paid to have sex with Matt Gaetz when she was underage.

A Hacker Has Reportedly Obtained Matt Gaetz Sex Testimony

By Noor Al-Sibai

London School of Economics professor Jonathan Birch told The Guardian that he is "worried about major societal splits" over AI consciousness.

Whether AI Is Already Conscious Could Tear Society Apart

By Ashley Bardhan

Donald Trump is today expected to attend the sixth orbital flight test of its Starship rocket, the largest rocket in the world.

Advanced Transport

Donald Trump Planning to Attend SpaceX Starship Launch Today

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have found that SpaceX's massive Starship rocket is so loud that its sonic boom could cause property damage back on the ground.

Starship’s Sonic Booms Are So Powerful They Could Damage Structures on the Ground, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

Old emails between Elon Musk and two of his OpenAI confounders show just how afraid the firm was of an "AGI dictatorship."

Internal OpenAI Emails Show Employees Feared Elon Musk Would Control AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

After discovering that his voice has been cloned by AI, veteran documentarian David Attenborough has been moved to genteel fury.

Artificial Intelligence

David Attenborough Disgusted by AI Clone of His Voice

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber's Mandarin name "Lantian" literally translates to "blue sky," a wild coincidence. Or was it meant to be?

The CEO of Bluesky’s Actual Name Means “Blue Sky” in Chinese

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suggest that the reason why we have yet to find aliens could be that they're hiding in a parallel universe.

Scientists Say Aliens May Be Hiding in the Multiverse

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk and Donald Trump's adviser Boris Epshteyn got into a nasty public fight at Mar-a-Lago last week as the pair vie for influence.

Elon Musk Reportedly Gets in Blowout Fight With Trump Adviser at Mar-a-Lago Dinner

By Noor Al-Sibai

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is expected to attempt to widen the rules governing self-driving cars.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Trump Reportedly Planning to Let Self-Driving Cars Loose

By Victor Tangermann

RFK Jr. -- a huge critic of fast food -- has been spotted snacking on McDonald's with Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

RFK Jr. Grimaces While Eating McDonald’s With Donald Trump, Elon Musk

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US Secret Service has deployed a Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog in front of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Robot Dog Spotted Guarding Mar-a-Lago

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have found that readers tend to prefer AI-generated poems over human-written ones, including the works of Shakespeare.

Artificial Intelligence

Judging Them Blind, Humans Appear to Prefer AI-Generated Poems

By Victor Tangermann

Hairstylists say they're seeing more and more customers come in with AI-generated photos as their haircut inspirations.

Artificial Intelligence

Barbers Alarmed When Customers Start Asking for AI-Generated Haircuts

By Frank Landymore

A US Defense Department contractor has developed an AI-powered autonomous robotic machine gun system, which can target small drones.

US Military Tests AI-Powered Machine Gun

By Victor Tangermann

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Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Teach Rats to Drive Tiny Cars, Discover That They Love Revving the Engine

By Noor Al-Sibai

China has shown off a reusable shuttle that it intends to use to ferry cargo to and from its Tiangong space station.

China Shows Off Reusable Space Shuttle

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's spacesuits, which astronauts are using to venture outside of the International Space Station, are really starting to show their age.

NASA Complains That Its Spacesuits Are a Decrepit Mess

By Victor Tangermann

The head of the world's largest and most ambitious construction project has stepped down amid some jaw-dropping claims about its death toll.

CEO in Charge of Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper Out After Allegations of Mass Employee Death

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists has found that the narrow beam of a laser can cast a shadow — a surprisingly counterintuitive finding.

Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Discovery of Light That Can Cast a Shadow

By Victor Tangermann

A new audio chatbot that takes the persona of a confused grandmother, fine-tuned to do nothing except make phone scammers angry.

Artificial Intelligence

Phone Provider Deploys “State-of-the-Art AI Granny” to Waste Scammers’ Time

By Ashley Bardhan

Scientists have discovered amber deep below the surface of the Antarctic, evidence of a temperature rainforest 90 million years ago.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Evidence of an Ancient Rainforest in Antarctica

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington thought they could improve health care with AI, but their new company seems useless.

Artificial Intelligence

Sam Altman’s Collab With Arianna Huffington Is a Busted Mess

By Ashley Bardhan

The Top Image of William Shakespeare on Google is Lazy AI Slop

The Top Image of William Shakespeare on Google is Lazy AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

Coke is cashing in on your nostalgia by remaking one of its best-known commercials with all new tech: generative AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Coke’s AI Commercial for the Holidays Has Us Wondering If We Live In a Fallen World

By Frank Landymore

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lobbied against vaccination in Samoa prior to a deadly uptick in measles that infected dozens of children.

RX and Medicine

Trump’s Health Guy Linked to Measles Outbreak That Killed Dozens of Children

By Ashley Bardhan

OpenAI is asking a judge to narrow the scope of discovery in a copyright lawsuit to limit insider communications from being aired in public.

OpenAI Implores Judge Not to Expose Communications by Its Top Researchers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russia Says Potentially “Catastrophic” Leak in Space Station Isn’t a Big Deal

Russia Says Potentially “Catastrophic” Leak in Space Station Isn’t a Big Deal

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk wants "super high-IQ ... revolutionaries" to work for his Department of Government Efficiency without pay.

Elon Musk’s New Government Department Seeking “Super High-IQ” People Who Will Work for Free

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk and Donald Trump have been chummy lately, though some influential Republicans think the supercharged pair is bound to fizzle out.

Republican Power Players Suspect Trump Is Going to Kick Musk to the Curb

By Ashley Bardhan

Tesla has recalled over 2,400 Cybertrucks due to an issue with their drive inverters that causes the vehicle to lose propulsion.

Advanced Transport

Thousands of Cybertrucks Recalled for Bricking While Driving

By Frank Landymore

The AI-generated summaries appear as a "Key Points" box above the main body of articles on The Wall Street Journal.

Artificial Intelligence

The Wall Street Journal Is Testing AI-Generated Summaries of Its Articles

By Frank Landymore

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick demystifies AI in video games — and other execs just might be paying attention.

CEO of Grand Theft Auto Publisher Slams AI Hype in Gaming Industry

By Ashley Bardhan

Former military officials have once again claimed that the United States possesses recovered alien technology.

Former Military Officials Tell Congress America Has Secretly Recovered Alien Technology

By Noor Al-Sibai

The next AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are showing only marginal gains, raising fears about the economic reality of the tech.

OpenAI Alarmed When Its Shiny New AI Model Isn’t as Smart as It Was Supposed to Be

By Frank Landymore