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The full version of OpenAI's latest AI model called 01 appears to have leaked on Friday — only for the company to shut it down.

OpenAI Accidentally Leaked Its Upcoming o1 Model to Anyone With a Certain Web Address

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called SpiralWave has created a device that uses plasma pulls to turn atmospheric CO2 into green methanol.

Bizarre Device Sucks CO2 From Atmosphere and Turns It Back Into Fuel

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI has released a new benchmark dubbed "SimpleQA" to measure the accuracy of its AI models. The results are damning.

OpenAI Research Finds That Even Its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time

By Victor Tangermann

The AI industry is still struggling to reassure investors that the billions of dollars being poured into the tech are worth it.

Artificial Intelligence

Big Tech Is Facing Down a Major Problem With Its AI Plans

By Victor Tangermann

A Pentagon UFO whistleblower has admitted something unusual for anyone involved in government: that he was wrong.

Pentagon Whistleblower Admits Photo of UFO Mothership Was Fake

By Noor Al-Sibai

ChatGPT Messes Up Badly During Demo With CEO of Chanel

By Frank Landymore

Things are so bad behind the scenes of Elon Musk's political action committee (PAC) that it may tank Donald Trump's chances of winning.

Elon Musk’s Trump PAC Is Absolute Chaos Behind the Scenes

By Noor Al-Sibai

Thousands in Dublin showed up for a nonexistent Halloween parade that turned out to be the creation of a fake ad campaign made with AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Thousands Tricked By AI Ad to Show Up For Fake Halloween Parade

By Frank Landymore

A vigilante, who rented a neon green Cybertruck on the carsharing app Turo, used the truck as a battering ram to stop an alleged porch pirate.

Advanced Transport

Furious Driver Appears to Use Rented Cybertruck as Battering Ram to Attack Package Thief

By Victor Tangermann

Our universe may have another mirror universe on the other side of the Big Bang running backwards in time, physicist hypothesize.

Science & Energy

Physicist Says There’s Another Universe Hiding Behind the Big Bang

By Frank Landymore

Archeologists uncovered a lost Mayan city called Valeriana in the jungles of southern Mexico while examining LiDAR maps.

Science & Energy

Scientist Accidentally Discovers Ancient Mayan City While Browsing Web

By Victor Tangermann

A group of digital sleuths have accused YouTuber Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson of getting crypto-rich from several scams.

MrBeast Accused of Massive Crypto Fraud

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a characteristically rambling speech, Donald Trump said that "in terms of computer," Elon Musk is "as good as you get."

Confused Trump Says Elon Musk Is “as Good as You Get” in “Terms of Computer”

By Victor Tangermann

After Zoox co-founder Jesse Levinson opined that Tesla's Full Self-Driving tech wasn't ready for robotaxis yet, Elon Musk angrily responded.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk Rages at Self-Driving CEO Who Dared Criticize Tesla’s Troubled “Full Self-Driving”

By Frank Landymore

Famed "Iron Man" actor Robert Downey Jr. had some choice words for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk during a recent podcast appearance.

Robert Downey Jr. Lightly Trashes Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time in recorded history, Mount Fuji has gone the entire month of October without seeing any snow.

Mount Fuji Snowless For Longest Time In 130 Years

By Frank Landymore

The CEO of the AI search engine Perplexity seemed perplexed when asked how his company defines "plagiarism."

Artificial Intelligence

Perplexity AI CEO Sputters When Asked to Define “Plagiarism” Onstage

By Noor Al-Sibai

As Saudi Arabia pushes ever forward with its futuristic NEOM project, the endeavor's staggering death toll has been revealed.

Science & Energy

A Staggering Number of Workers Have Reportedly Died While Building Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on AI-generated content on Facebook and Instagram, exactly what everybody asked for.

Artificial Intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg Pledges to Fill Facebook With Even More AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

Shares of Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group slid by 22.3 percent on Wednesday, its biggest one-day loss since going public.

Donald Trump’s “Truth Social” Meme Stock Just Had Its Worst Day Ever

By Victor Tangermann

Despite increasingly dire global calls to curb deadly emissions, 2023 was apparently the worst year for global warming on record.

Congratulations, Buffoons! We Did More Global Warming Last Year Than in Any Other Year in Human History

By Noor Al-Sibai

People canvassing for Elon Musk's America PAC are allegedly dealing with workplace conditions way harsher than expected.

Elon Musk’s “Political Acivists” Aren’t What They Seem

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk was a no-show at his court ordered appearance for a hearing on his pro-Trump scheme to pay voters in swing state.

Elon Musk Blows Off Court Appearance After Being Sued For Operating an Illegal Lottery

By Frank Landymore

In Silicon Valley, accurately reporting on a tech exec's domestic violence arrest seems to be a punishable offense.

Tech Exec Sues Journalist for Reporting the Fact That He Was Arrested for Domestic Violence

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA said that Voyager 1 suddenly stopped transmitting after its onboard emergency system activated without warning.

Decrepit Voyager 1 Probe Runs Into Trouble Again

By Frank Landymore

Google paid billions to license Character.AI's tech — and is now facing hard questions over the AI chatbot company's alleged carelessness.

Google Has Deep Ties to AI Startup Accused to Causing Teen Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New York City has been forced to reveal that its AI-powered gun-scanning pilot for its sprawling subway system was a total bust.

Artificial Intelligence

NYC Attempt to Scan Subway for Weapons With AI Fails Miserably as System Flooded by False Positives While Detecting Zero Actual Guns

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's SpaceX just launched a bunch of spy satellites for the Pentagon — and some in the DOD are getting worried.

Pentagon Uneasy About Elon Musk’s New Spy Satellites

By Noor Al-Sibai

Linux creator Linus Torvalds dismissed the AI industry as "90 percent marketing" and bemoaned its "hype cycle."

Artificial Intelligence

Creator of Linux Trashes AI Hype

By Frank Landymore

During Google's latest quarterly earnings call, the tech giant's CEO boasted that a large percentage of its new code is written by AI.

Google CEO Says 25 Percent of Its Code Is Now AI-Generated

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Tesla purportedly running Full Self-Driving mode fails to recognize a deer on the road and slams into the animal with slowing or stopping.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla on Full Self-Driving Mode Plows Through Deer Without Even Slowing Down

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk is hellbent on crashing the economy if Donald Trump is elected, something that could result in "hardship" for many Americans.

Elon Musk Says That If Trump Wins, He’ll Cause the Economy to Crash

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is still spinning through space uncontrollably. One of its boom arms has a bend as well.

NASA Solar Sail Spacecraft Damaged, Spinning Through Space

By Victor Tangermann

Nabla, a popular medical AI transcription tool, is powered by OpenAI's Whisper model that researchers have found is horribly unreliable.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Model Used By Hospitals Caught Making Up Details About Patients, Inventing Nonexistent Medications and Sexual Acts

By Frank Landymore

A driverless Tesla crashed into a woman's car in a mall parking lot while being summoned by its owner through an app.

Woman Annoyed When Tesla With No Driver Suddenly Smashes Into Her Car

By Victor Tangermann

The man in charge of the United States stockpile of nuclear missiles, says the Pentagon is doubling down on artificial intelligence.

General in Charge of Nuclear Weapons Says Heck, Let’s Add Some AI

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese space startup Deep Blue Aerospace sold tickets for a 12-minute journey to space, which could take place as soon as 2027.

Chinese Startup Offers Trips to Edge of Space for an Absolute Bargain, Sells Out in Minutes

By Victor Tangermann

After Elon Musk decided to start talking smack, AI "godfather" Yann LeCun had a few choice words for the South African mogul.

Godfather of AI Blasts Elon Musk

By Noor Al-Sibai

Things in Russia seem pretty crappy after a massive fountain of brown liquid was recorded spewing out of a sewage main in Moscow.

Science & Energy

Explosive Russian Sewage Leak Spurts as High as High-Rise Buildings

By Noor Al-Sibai

After kiboshing his staff's endorsement of Kamala Harris, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has finally spoken out.

Jeff Bezos Cosplays as Humble Newspaperman

By Noor Al-Sibai

A British man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for using AI to transform real photos of children into something "depraved."

Artificial Intelligence

Man Imprisoned for 18 Years for Using AI to Do Disgusting Thing to Photos of Children

By Noor Al-Sibai

Space-tracking company ExoAnalytic Solutions has identified a whopping 500 pieces of debris left over from an exploded Boeing satellite.

Boeing Satellite Exploded Into at Least 500 Pieces of Debris

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla Cybertruck owner was puzzled after encountering a "female" who was "laughing hysterically" at his truck.

Advanced Transport

Man Puzzled by Why His Cybertruck Makes Him a Public Laughingstock

By Victor Tangermann

Philly's district attorney is accusing Elon Musk and his political action committee (PAC) of illegally influencing voters.

Philadelphia DA Sues Elon Musk for Paying Voters

By Noor Al-Sibai

For perhaps the first time ever, a robot played a cello live on stage during a performance by a symphony orchestra.

Robot Plays Cello With Live Orchestra

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos once gave a cryptic missive to a power broker about wanting to go to Mars — and that power broker wouldn't share his reasoning.

Jeff Bezos Reportedly Has Secretive “Personal Reasons” for Wanting to Escape to Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's an interesting reason that stars captured by the James Webb Space Telescope look so unique and spiky.

James Webb Space Telescope

Once You Notice This Weird Thing About James Webb Space Telescope Images, You Won’t Be Able to Unsee It

By Frank Landymore

Chinese astronauts on board the country's Tiangong space station have given us a rare glimpse into what life is like roughly 260 miles above.

Watch Astronauts Give a Rare Tour of China’s Luxurious Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

While Elon Musk continues to rail against immigration, it appears that he was staying in the US illegally when he started his first business.

Evidence Grows That Elon Musk Was an Illegal Immigrant Before Deciding He Hated Immigrants

By Frank Landymore

A strange, lime-green goo was spotted gushing out of Tesla's engineering headquarters in Palo Alto, California earlier this month.

Green Ooze Gushing Out of Tesla Headquarters

By Victor Tangermann

A Polish robotics company has created the "Honey Badger," a robot dog that can walk fully underwater and aid during industrial inspections.

New “Honey Badger” Robot Dog Can Walk Fully Underwater

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic's Claude AI is purportedly capable of using computers like a human. And apparently, that includes procrastinating.

Artificial Intelligence

Claude AI Gets Bored During Coding Demonstration, Starts Perusing Photos of National Parks Instead

By Frank Landymore

Japanese inventor Hiroshi Ishiguro has created six robot clones of himself. The latest one can take questions and give lectures.

Inventor Builds Six Robot Copies of Himself, Uses One to Give Speeches and Take Questions From Audience

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called REMSpace says two people were able to have a remote "chat" while in a lucid dreaming state.

Startup Claims It’s Achieved Communication Between Two People Who Were Both Dreaming

By Frank Landymore

Criminals claimed to be a property owner and used AI to trick a title company into buying the land they were trying to sell.

Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Figure Out Trick to Steal Houses Using AI

By Frank Landymore

A space tourist slash civilian astronaut on the Polaris Dawn mission suffered immediate vision problems once in orbit.

Space Tourist Alarmed When Vision Starts to Deteriorate

By Frank Landymore

During an important rocket test, some students decided to strap some cheese onto one of the craft's landing legs.

Rocket Launch Threatened by Sliced Cheese Stuck on Leg

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US has approved a gigantic lithium and boron mine, enough of the alkali metal for hundreds of thousands of EV batteries.

Science & Energy

America Approves Colossal Nevada Mine With Enough Lithium for Untold Millions of Electric Cars

By Victor Tangermann

As the Wall Street Journal reports, sources claim that Boeing is looking to get out of the space race by selling its Starliner business.

Boeing Reportedly Looking to Sell Off Its Disastrous Starliner Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

A recent report from the Consumer Technology Association finds that Trump's tariffs would be disastrous for electronics prices.

Trump’s Tariffs Would Make Gaming PCs and Consoles Ludicrously Expensive

By Frank Landymore

According to its latest economic impact report, NASA generated over $75.6 billion in US economic output in 2023.

NASA Is Generating Far More Economic Growth Than Its Budget

By Frank Landymore

After landing back on Earth, a NASA astronaut was taken to the hospital for a health issue — and we still don't know who it was.

NASA Astronaut Hospitalized Immediately After Returning to Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk has started paying voters again, despite warnings from the Justice Department that it might be illegal.

Elon Musk Starts Paying Voters Again After DOJ Warning

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla has been secretly testing out fully autonomous robotaxis in the Bay Area for several months, CEO Elon Musk revealed.

Tesla Has Secretly Been Testing Robotaxis

By Victor Tangermann