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A crypto company is working with the feds after an investigation revealed that millions of dollars worth of its coins were being used for human trafficking.

Crypto Company Says Oops, Its Coin Was Being Used in a Human Trafficking Scam

By Noor Al-Sibai

After an extremely confusing five days, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has made his triumphant return to helm the ChatGPT maker once again.

In Stunning Reversal, OpenAI Rehires Sam Altman

By Victor Tangermann

A video captured by an amateur astronomer in Japan shows a super-bright comet, also known as a bolide, exploding as it collides with Jupiter.

Object Crashes Into Jupiter, Explodes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After firing CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI's board reportedly offered Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei — a former OpenAI employee — the CEO gig.

OpenAI Secretly Tried to Merge With Anthropic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nothing Chats was taken down less than 24 hours after researchers discovered that the system was plagued with egregious privacy issues.

App That Turned Android’s Texts Blue Taken Down After Researchers Discover Something Horrible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The guy currently tasked with running OpenAI after Sam Altman's ouster has some pretty bizarre ideas about AI.

OpenAI’s New CEO Said Something Terrifying a Few Months Ago

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI VP of global affairs Anna Makanju tried to calm angry staff in an internal memo, telling them they were in "intense discussions."

OpenAI Ponders How to Crush Staff Revolt

By Victor Tangermann

After Elon Musk co-signed antisemitic comments, Twitter CEO has been inundated with messages urging her to quit her job and save herself.

Twitter CEO Keeps Getting Texts From Colleagues Telling Her to Resign

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to longtime Tesla investor Ross Gerber, Elon Musk is an absentee CEO — and meanwhile, his antisemitism is destroying the company.

Longtime Tesla Investor Says Elon Musk Has Effectively Stepped Aside as CEO

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Last week, a group of AI and military leaders met in a secretive three-day retreat hosted at a luxury resort in the Utah mountains.

AI and Military Leaders Gathered for Mysterious Event in Utah

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's staffers are pressuring the company to reinstate Sam Altman as its CEO — and say they'll walk if the board refuses.

700 OpenAI Staffers Demand Board Reinstate Sam Altman as CEO

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new report says that former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's high-dollar side projects might have been the reason for his firing.

This Might Be the Reason OpenAI Fired Sam Altman

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI's interim CEO, announced after cofounder Sam Altman was fired, seems to have made some really weird posts.

OpenAI’s New CEO Posted Edgelord Tweets About Rape and Nazis

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX has launched its second orbital attempt of its massive Starship rocket. It exploded just eight minutes into its flight.

SpaceX’s Starship Reaches Space, Immediately Explodes

By Victor Tangermann

To cap off one of the most bizarre weekends in tech history, Microsoft has announced that it is hiring freshly-fired OpenAI chief Sam Altman.

Microsoft Immediately Hires Sam Altman After He’s Fired by OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

An engineer developed an interactive website with a 3D view of Earth and the option to see what the planet looked like in the distant past.

Science & Energy

Awesome Website Lets You See What Dinosaurs Lived Near Your House

By Sharon Adarlo

A dead star is still emitting powerful flares of blue light — a fascinating discovery offering a glimpse into a rare type of star death.

Dead Star Springs Back to Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers recently simulated an atmospheric probe mission through Uranus and Neptune's atmospheres inside a plasma tunnel.

Scientists Simulate What It’s Like to Dive Into Uranus

By Victor Tangermann

A prison phone company is in trouble with the feds after not only improperly securing its users' data, but also failing to alert them.

Prison Phone Company Leaked User Data and Didn’t Tell Them, FTC Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

An image uploaded to the Cybertruck subreddit shows most of a Christmas tree dangerously protruding from the back of the truck.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Spotted With Christmas Tree Sticking Way Out of Its Tiny Bed

By Victor Tangermann

Did you do climate change? If so, ExxonMobil's CEO is out to find you. And while he works on that, he thinks you should worry less about oil.

Exxon Is Trying to Find the Guy Who Did Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite appearances, the amount of recent eruptions we're seeing from volcanoes is not unusual. We're just finally paying attention.

Science & Energy

Wave of Volcanoes Erupting Around the World is Totally Normal, Experts Assure

By Frank Landymore

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescopes, astronomers can confirm that there's a rocky exoplanet just a couple dozen light years away.

Hubble Discovers Closest Earth-Sized World to Our Star System

By Frank Landymore

Unbeknownst to one of Poland's highest courts, someone was running a crypto mining rig underground and stealing government electricity.

Crypto Mining Rig Discovered Under Floor of Courthouse, Stealing Power

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a recent probe, the European Space Agency's ExoMars probe spotted the Red Planet glowing green at night.

Scientists Catch Mars Glowing Green

By Noor Al-Sibai

After X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk was spotted co-signing anti-Semitic sentiments, advertisers are already jumping ship.

Apple Drops Ads on Twitter After Elon Musk’s Antisemitic Outburst

By Noor Al-Sibai

Here's one we weren't expecting: OpenAI has unexpectedly announced that it's ditching its charismatic CEO Sam Altman, effective immediately.

OpenAI Just Fired Sam Altman, Its Charismatic CEO

By Jon Christian

The ongoing presidential campaign in Argentina is packed with enough chaos as it is — and now, AI has found its way into the mix.

Artificial Intelligence

Argentinian Presidential Candidate Uses AI-Generated Campaign Poster That Gives Him Gruesome Thumb

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nine musicians, including Demi Lovato, John Legend, and Troye Sivan, have lent their voices and styles to YouTube's new AI tool.

Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Launching AI Tool That Clones Singers’ Voices

By Frank Landymore

Researchers in China discovered that microplastics could be affecting the formation of the clouds they're found in.

Microplastics Inside Clouds May Be Changing Global Weather, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

In an editorial, an executive at Stable Diffusion announced that he was resigning from his ranking position based on principle.

Artificial Intelligence

Stability AI Exec Quits in Disgust Over Using Copyrighted Works to Train AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

A TikTok account has an AI-generated talking Jesus — and it may be an uncanny robot televangelist posing as Christ himself.

People Are Doing Something Very Dark With AI-Generated Jesus, Expert Warns

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tattoos of Spotify codes don't always hold up after a few years of natural wear and tear, as many music fans are beginning to discover.

Music Fans Horrified When Their Spotify Tattoos Stop Scanning

By Frank Landymore

Cruise, the company behind those driverless taxis, is taking its entire fleet offline — including the ones that have "safety drivers."

Advanced Transport

Cruise Is Taking All of Its Robotaxis Off the Streets, Even the Ones With “Safety Drivers”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Documents have revealed that the federal government has absolutely no idea how many civilians have been hit by Cruise's driverless vehicles.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Government Unsure How Many Pedestrians Have Been Hit by Self-Driving Cars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A smartphone startup called Nothing will launch Nothing Chats, a messaging service that turns green texts into blue-bubbles iMessages.

Rejoice, Peasants! New App Turns Android Messages Blue in iMessage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

“Euphoria” Producer Died After Medical Emergency While Tesla Was on Autopilot

“Euphoria” Producer Died After Medical Emergency While Tesla Was on Autopilot

By Victor Tangermann

In a disturbing co-sign, Elon Musk has agreed with a shocking claim about Jewish people that goes beyond his prior bigotry.

Elon Musk Calls Disgusting Anti-Jewish Tweet the “Actual Truth”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A powerful gamma ray burst was so powerful, it took a chunk out of the Earth's upper atmosphere last year.

Science & Energy

A Supernova Blew Out Part of Earth’s Atmosphere, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Giorgetto Giugiaro, the 85-year-old Italian designer behind the DeLorean, has some thoughts on Tesla's brutalist Cybertruck.

Advanced Transport

The Designer of the DeLorean Has Some Thoughts About the Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

Bitcoin has increased in value to $37,605.53, its highest valuation in a year. But it's nowhere near its highest price in 2021.

We Regret to Inform You That Bitcoin Is Spiking

By Sharon Adarlo

Tesla owners aren't impressed with the company's $150 CyberBeer and are finding the lids of the bottles are rusted.

Tesla’s Expensive “CyberBeer” Is Apparently Completely Disgusting

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's CEO has announced that ChatGPT's paid service is pausing new signups because it's just that slammed.

ChatGPT Is So Slammed That It’s Closing Down to New Users

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Boeing 747 had to turn back and return to New York JFK after a horse managed to escape from its stall inside the airliner.

Advanced Transport

Pandemonium as Horse Escapes on Boeing 747 Mid-Flight

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed in an interview with the Financial Times this week that the company is officially working on GPT-5.

GPT-5 Is Officially on the Way, OpenAI CEO Says

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, a commercial facility that can suck carbon out of the air and store it underground has opened in the United States.

Renewable Energy

United States Opens First Facility to Suck CO2 Out of the Air

By Noor Al-Sibai

Once again, a much-hyped AI product launch has featured glaring AI hallucinations. This time, Humane's AI Pin is the one in the hot seat.

Artificial Intelligence

That Hyped Up AI Pin Made Two Idiotic Mistakes in Its Launch Video

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Soot kills thousands of people every year. But as the EPA prepares to tighten soot restrictions, corporations are more worried about the GDP.

Corporations Whimper That They Won’t Be Able to Make So Much Money If They Aren’t Allowed to Pollute

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Investors are harnessing the power of AI to analyze the literal speech of CEOs to glean insights into their underlying emotional states.

Artificial Intelligence

Investors Are Using AI to Detect CEOs’ Emotional States

By Victor Tangermann

YouTube will soon make users add a disclaimer when they post artificial intelligence-generated or manipulated videos.

Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Creators Will Be Forced To Disclose AI Content

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study has found that when people look at AI-generated images of faces, they're often convinced those are more real than the real thing.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Images of White People More Convincing than Real Photos, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

A small pond in Hawaii has turned an alarmingly bright shade of pink, alarming local residents and environmentalists.

Science & Energy

Residents Alarmed When Pond Turns Bright Pink

By Victor Tangermann

A recent study found that LLMs are incredibly good steganographers, able to obscure their own thought processes through "encoded reasoning."

Artificial Intelligence

AIs Can Store Secret Messages in Their Text That Are Imperceptible to Humans

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some of FTX's ex-employees, including an executive who testified against Sam Bankman-Fried, are starting a new crypto exchange.

A Former FTX Exec is Launching a New Crypto Exchange

By Noor Al-Sibai

New aerial footage shows a massive crack splitting a town in Iceland in half and sending ominous steam into the air.

Science & Energy

Huge Crack Opens Up in Iceland, Steam Pouring Forth

By Victor Tangermann

That outlandish UFO whistleblower never came in to talk to the Pentagon's UFO office, the department's outgoing chief is claiming.

That UFO Whistleblower Apparently Refused Pentagon Interviews

By Noor Al-Sibai

In its order agreement, Tesla is instructing Cybertruck owners to "not sell or otherwise attempt to sell the Vehicle within the first year."

Tesla Vows to Sue Anyone Who Resells Their Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

The drama between Elon Musk and his onetime paramour, artist Claire "Grimes" Boucher, has taken a nasty turn.

Grimes Says Elon Musk Dodged Child Custody Papers 12 Times

By Noor Al-Sibai

The mystery is settled: starfish don't have a head. They are a head — and their evolution may be even weird than once believed.

Oh God… Those Aren’t “Arms” on Starfish, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Highly detailed industrial computed tomography (CT) scans of a real Apple AirPod Pro and two fakes are blowing our minds.

Robots and Machines

This CT Scan of Real vs Fake AirPods Is Blowing Our Puny Minds

By Victor Tangermann

$By using sound waves propagating through the Sun, researchers think our star's radius may be fractionally shorter than the traditional model.$

Scientists Say the Sun Is Smaller Than We Thought

By Frank Landymore

The continent of Argoland, which virtually vanished in the geological record 150 million years ago, has finally been found.

Science & Energy

Scientists Rediscover Lost Continent That Broke Off From Australia

By Frank Landymore

An amateur astronomer has compiled new footage from NASA's asteroid-smashing mission to show just how incredible that collision really was.

Incredible New Videos Show NASA Smashing Into Asteroid

By Noor Al-Sibai

A powerful solar flare could trigger what Peter Becker, professor of physics at George Mason University, is calling an "internet apocalypse."

Science & Energy

Professor Warns That the Sun Is Angry and It Could Knock Out the Internet

By Victor Tangermann