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In a recent survey, a pair of researchers found that many ChatGPT users have interesting misconceptions about the OpenAI chatbot.

Most Users Think ChatGPT Is Conscious, Survey Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have published a new paper in the journal Nature about an exoplanet called HD 189733b, which smells like rotten eggs.

Scientists Say This Nasty Planet Stinks to High Heaven

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI spent only a single week safety testing its new model GPT-4o, according to insiders at the company.

Whistleblowers Say OpenAI Broke Promise to Rigorously Test AI for Danger Before Releasing

By Frank Landymore

A Spanish court has sentenced 15 teenagers to one year of probation for using AI to create fake nude images of female classmates.

Artificial Intelligence

Schoolchildren Sentenced for AI-Generating Nudes of Their Classmates

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk chose to mock a new investigation into SpaceX's damage to the environment by making a really dumb joke.

Elon Musk Mocks Concern Over SpaceX Obliterating Baby Birds in Their Nests

By Noor Al-Sibai

A California resident has been arrested and charged for slashing the tires of Waymo vehicles in 17 separate incidents in San Francisco.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Woman Arrested for Vandalizing More than a Dozen Self-Driving Waymo Vehicles

By Sharon Adarlo

The second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded while trying to raise its orbit to release a batch of Starlink internet satellites.

SpaceX Rocket Suffers Catastrophic Failure, Explodes While Deploying Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla Stock Slaughtered After Its August “Robotaxi” Event Falls Apart

Tesla Stock Slaughtered After Its August “Robotaxi” Event Falls Apart

By Victor Tangermann

Intuit, which makes tax prep software TurboTax, is laying off 1,800 workers or about 10 percent of its global staff due to AI restructuring.

Artificial Intelligence

Maker of TurboTax Fires 1,800 Workers, Says It’s Pivoting to AI

By Sharon Adarlo

Sydney Sweeney was roped into an extremely cringeworthy Samsung AI tech demo. Her awkward face speaks volumes.

Artificial Intelligence

Sydney Sweeney Looks Like She’s Going to Die When Her AI-Generated Picture Is Revealed

By Victor Tangermann

After self-described gay furry hackers breached the Heritage Foundation, an exec with the think tank has completely lost it.

Project 2025 Exec Loses Mind, Threatening “Furry Perverts” After Embarrassing Hack

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla is reportedly delaying its "robotaxi" event to no earlier than October casting doubt on Musk's announcement.

We’re Shocked to Hear That Tesla Is Delaying Its Amazing “Robotaxi” Event

By Victor Tangermann

The air is becoming so hot that even rescue helicopters are struggling to stay airborne, a dangerous development.

It’s Getting So Hot That Medical Choppers Can’t Fly to Rescue People Dying From Heat

By Victor Tangermann

The thrusters on Boeing's cursed Starliner space capsule keep overheating — and NASA is hard at work on a fix for the issue.

Stranded Starliner Spacecraft’s Thrusters Have Been Overheating, NASA Admits

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope imaged a shiny quasar some eight billion light years away with the helping of gravitational lensing.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Distant Space Object With Jewel-Like Lights

By Frank Landymore

NYC's Third Avenue Bridge was got stuck turning as temperatures soared to 95 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday.

It’s So Hot That an Entire New York City Bridge That Opens for Boats Got Jammed

By Frank Landymore

Pennsylvania firefighters doused a Tesla electric vehicle that had caught on fire at a Supercharger Station.

Tesla Vehicle Burns to a Crisp at Supercharger Station

By Sharon Adarlo

Nothing spells dystopia quite like using the Whataburger app to track damage from a hurricane — but in Texas, they make do.

Science & Energy

After Deadly Hurricane, Texans Using Whataburger App to Track Power Outages

By Noor Al-Sibai

If Donald Trump gets re-elected to the presidency, he wants Meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg jailed.

Trump Threatens to Imprison Mark Zuckerberg

By Sharon Adarlo

CNN is firing 100 employees, or three percent of its overall work force. It says it's pivoting harder to video — and pushing "into AI."

Artificial Intelligence

CNN Firing 100 Employees Amid “Strategic Push Into AI”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's CURIE mission will try locate radio signals from the Sun that are originating somewhere within coronal mass ejections.

NASA Investigating Mysterious Radio Signals From the Sun

By Frank Landymore

Flowers bloomed early in the Atacama Desert in Chile after early rains and warmer temperatures brought to life dormant seeds and bulbs.

Science & Energy

Flowers Erupt in Hostile Desert

By Sharon Adarlo

Tesla's market share over electric vehicles dropped below 50 percent in the second quarter of this year for the first time ever.

Tesla’s Market Share of Electric Cars Is Collapsing

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is such a frat house that a leaked company video instructed people on how to spank the butt of a male worker now hr vice president.

Leaked SpaceX Video Shows Head of HR Teaching How to Spank Employees

By Sharon Adarlo

Meta, formerly Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks he's not just among the most famous millennials, but is in fact the most famous.

Mark Zuckerberg Bragged That He Was the “Most Well-Known Person of My Generation”

By Frank Landymore

James Ferguson, founding partner of research firm MacroStrategy Partnership, argues AI is "unproven" and due for a collapse.

Artificial Intelligence

Expert Warns That AI Industry Due for Huge Collapse

By Victor Tangermann

Nicolas Cage has joined the growing ranks of Hollywood AI critics that say they're freaked out by what the tech may do to their likenesses.

Artificial Intelligence

Nicolas Cage Says He’s Terrified AI Will “Steal” His Body

By Noor Al-Sibai

Noise levels from the Bitcoin mine can exceed 90 decibels, and residents of Granbury, Texas, are powerless to stop it.

Residents Blame Bizarre Medical Symptoms on Huge Bitcoin Mine

By Frank Landymore

Cybertrucks have been shipped out to customers for less than a year, but the earliest owners seem to already need new motors.

Tesla Quietly Contacting Early Cybertruck Buyers to Replace Their Electric Motors

By Noor Al-Sibai

Climate change is supercharging Atlantic ocean temperatures, making Hurricane Beryl particularly fierce and deadly.

Deadly Hurricane Beryl Supercharged by Climate Change, Experts Say

By Victor Tangermann

Two astronauts ventured outside of China's Tiangong space station to armor its exterior against incoming space debris.

China Fortifies Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Nike is sunsetting the app that allows owners of its to-be-discontinued Adapt sneakers to control their self-lacing, light-up shoes.

Nike Is Killing the App That Controls Its App-Controlled Self-Lacing Sneakers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite being out for less than a year, Amazon has announced that its Astro for Business patrol robots will be bricked at the end of August.

After Just Ten Months, Amazon Says Its “Security Guard” Robot Will Become a Useless Brick

By Noor Al-Sibai

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers determined that an exoplanet could potentially harbor an Earth-like atmosphere.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Habitable, Icy Exoplanet Relatively Close to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

There's a death toll associated with SpaceX's success — and the Elon Musk-owned company played the government to make that success happen.

Investigation Finds Elon Musk’s SpaceX Used Trickery to Open Rocket Facility

By Noor Al-Sibai

Retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts believes the two Starliner astronauts are not stuck on the ISS and that the extra time is a good thing.

Former Astronaut Explains How the Astronauts Stranded in Space Might Be Feeling

By Victor Tangermann

A video shows a police officer in Phoenix, Arizona pulling over a self-driving vehicle after it drove down a busy road in the opposing lane.

Advanced Transport

Police Pull Over Car for Driving on Wrong Side of Road, Startled to Discover It Has No Driver

By Victor Tangermann

Police say they really need free access to OnlyFans — but there's a good reason behind their unusual request.

Police Say They Need Free OnlyFans Access (For Solving Crimes)

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas simulated several "moonwalks" in the northern Arizona desert, making for an unusual photo opp.

NASA Astronauts Run Into Cow While Practicing for Lunar Landing

By Victor Tangermann

To keep fliers abreast of delays, United Airlines has developed AI that its C-suite thinks is indistinguishable from human labor.

Artificial Intelligence

Airline Exec Raves That AI Is So Good at Sending Flight Delay Texts It’s “Hard to Tell the Difference” From Human Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content.

Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet

By Sharon Adarlo

China is planning to send an satellite into orbit that will then study and smash to bits a nearby asteroid in a test mission to defend Earth.

China Planning to Smash Asteroid in Planetary Defense Test

By Sharon Adarlo

As astronauts remain stuck on the ISS thanks to issues with Boeing's Starliner capsule, NASA is praising the company for getting them there.

NASA Praises Boeing’s Stranded Starliner for Managing Not to Explode While Docked to Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

Artificial Intelligence

There’s a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It’s Making Absolutely No Money

By Sharon Adarlo

Mercedes-Benz's autonomous driving head Jochen Haab criticized Tesla's autonomous driving rollout, arguing it erodes trust.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Mercedes Exec Blasts Tesla for Reckless “Full Self-Driving” Rollout

By Victor Tangermann

We found the one piece of AI-generated Facebook sludge to rule them all — and it has one giant boot and a birthday wish.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Has Unlocked a Level of Facebook Pandering Previously Unknown to Science

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the tech sector reels from layoffs, one underemployed worker is urging others to sell their blood to make ends meet.

Laid Off Tech Worker Suggests That Unemployed People Should Sell Their Blood to Survive

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 72-year-old man in Florida has been arrested after shooting a Walmart delivery drone with his 9mm handgun.

Elderly Florida Man Arrested for Shooting Walmart Delivery Drone

By Victor Tangermann

In its latest environmental impact report, Google admitted that its 2023 emissions saw a 13 percent year-over-year increase. The culprit? AI.

Google Is Failing to Meet Important Climate Targets so Its AI Can Tell You to Put Glue on Pizza

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We're just not good enough at complicated ways space junk falls through the atmosphere, even stuff that's designed to burn-up.

Experts Warn That We’re Vastly Underestimating the Threat of Falling Space Junk

By Frank Landymore

The factors that YouTube will consider to determine if AI content impersonates someone, however, is considerably hazy.

Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Now Lets You Request the Removal of AI Content That Impersonates You

By Frank Landymore

Drivers Are Not Buying Teslas Specifically Because of Elon Musk’s Annoying Behavior

By Noor Al-Sibai

By analyzing a decade of scientific papers, researchers found AI models are overusing "style" words that were uncommon just a few years ago.

Artificial Intelligence

Research Shows That AI-Generated Slop Overuses Specific Words

By Frank Landymore

Less than a year after joining xAI's founding team, one of the researchers poached by Elon Musk has apparently returned to OpenAI.

AI Researcher Elon Musk Poached From OpenAI Returns to OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

A South Korean administrative robot took a tumble down a set of stairs, leading to local reports of the first robot suicide in the country.

Government Robot Falls Down Stairs, Dies

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists have spotted unusual shapes in the Earth's ionosphere, hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface.

NASA Discovers Strange Spectral Formations High Over the Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has some thoughts about fair use — and according to him, just about anything online is fair for him to use!

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO of AI Says It’s Fine to Steal Anything on the Open Web

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After boldly going to the Moon's far side, China is now in possession of more than four pounds of lunar samples.

China Cracks Open First Ever Sample From Moon’s Far Side

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a blog post last week, Microsoft acknowledged the existence of a new AI chatbot jailbreaking technique dubbed "Skeleton Key."

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Acknowledges “Skeleton Key” Exploit That Enables Strikingly Evil Outputs on Almost Any AI

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in China claim to have discovered a kind of desert moss plant that could survive on the surface of Mars.

Scientists Identify Plant That Could Grow on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

During a test launch, a Chinese company accidentally launched one of its rockets, which crashed spectacularly into a nearby mountain.

Chinese Rocket Accidentally Launches During Test, Soars Over City and Crashes Into Mountain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Collins Aerospace said it had agreed with NASA to "descope" its work on an ISS spacesuit replacement, indicating the agency is in trouble.

NASA Is Having a Spacesuit Crisis

By Victor Tangermann

Rather than talking to tenants themselves, property managers are favoring AI chatbots to handle day-to-day inquiries.

Artificial Intelligence

Landlords Now Using AI to Harass You for Rent and Refuse to Fix Your Appliances

By Frank Landymore

Facebook's erosion continues with AI-generated images of cops lugging huge Bibles through floodwaters, because why not.

Facebook Lunatics Are Making AI-Generated Pictures of Cops Carrying Huge Bibles Through Floods Go Viral

By Maggie Harrison Dupré