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A US Air Force Colonel described a simulation in which an AI drone went rogue, but the military claims this was taken out of context.

US Military Denies AI Drone Killed Its Operator During Simulation

By Frank Landymore

Scientists say they've successfully transmitted solar energy gathered in orbit down to the Earth's surface.

Satellite Beams Solar Power Down to Earth Using Microwave Transmitter

By Frank Landymore

Former top Google exec Mo Gawdet says that AI is "beyond an emergency" and is "bigger than climate change, believe it or not."

Former Google Exec Warns of Global AI Catastrophe Within Two Years

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

By using X-rays, scientists can more precisely detect and measure atoms in ways that other imaging techniques can't on their own.

Science & Energy

Scientists Just X-Rayed a Single Atom

By Frank Landymore

NASA chief Bill Nelson has Moon water on the mind — also, specifically, the idea that China might get to that precious Moon water first.

NASA Head Worried China Will Steal America’s God-Given Moon Water

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yoshua Bengio, who is considered to be one of the three "godfathers" of AI, feels "lost" over his life's work.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Who Helped Invent Modern AI Is Now Wracked With Regret

By Frank Landymore

Meet Paragraphica, a lensless camera "camera" that uses location data and various AI APIs to generate imagery. Why? Why not!

Artificial Intelligence

New “Camera” Has No Lens, Simply Detects Your Location and Generates an AI Picture of It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's a burgeoning TikTok true crime subgenre that uses AI to digitally resurrect child murder victims in disturbing tell-all videos.

Artificial Intelligence

True Crime Ghouls Are Using AI to Resurrect Murdered Children

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI researchers apparently have one particularly telling — and frankly, somewhat disturbing — meme for understanding AI systems: the Shoggoth.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts Have a Dark Joke About How AI Is Secretly a Horrifying Monster With a Friendly Mask

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Someone shared an AI-generated "podcast" featuring a conversation between Bill Gates and Socrates to Twitter. Twitter, uh, had some thoughts.

Artificial Intelligence

Mockery Abounds at AI-Generated Interview Between Bill Gates and Socrates

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

North Korea was trying its very best to send a spy satellite up into space — but that thing just didn't want to stay in the sky.

North Korea Attempts to Launch Satellite But It Crashes Into Ocean

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of Saturn's weirdest moons has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope spewing a gigantic plume of water vapor.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Catches Saturn’s Moon Squirting

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ever wanted to clone someone — anyone, really — that you might know into an AI girlfriend? You might be able to.

Artificial Intelligence

Programmer Creates Grim Tool to Clone Anyone as an “AI Girlfriend”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

German startup Proxima Fusion recently grabbed millions to build a reactor that looks like a twisty French cruller doughnut.

Nuclear Fusion Startup Gets Funding for Twisty-Looking Reactor

By Sharon Adarlo

A Michigan woman was taken to the hospital after her Tesla reportedly self-crashed into a tree when in self-driving mode.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Driver Says Self-Driving Mode Crashed Her Car Into a Tree

By Noor Al-Sibai

A beluga whale, suspected of being a "Russian Spy," was seen far from home and experts say he may be looking for friends or a mate.

Suspected Russian Spy Whale Reappears, Possibly Lonely and Wanting Love

By Sharon Adarlo

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has signed onto a one-sentence open letter warning about the "extinction" dangers posed by AI, LOL.

OpenAI CEO Signs Letter Warning AI Could Cause Human “Extinction”

By Noor Al-Sibai

King Charles III is a committed environmentalist — so much so that he's reportedly sacrificing his servants' body temps for his cause. Brave!

King Charles Fights Climate Change by Freezing His Servants

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT's propensity to make up stuff strikes again — and this time, it's gotten a lawyer in deep trouble.

Lawyer in Huge Trouble After He Used ChatGPT in Court and It Totally Screwed Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

People were shocked when the waters of Venice's Grand Canal became neon green. Investigation revealed it was due to a non-toxic chemical.

Chemical Turns Waters of Venice Canal a Fluorescent Green

By Sharon Adarlo

Rest in peace! A Dutch startup has created a $1,000 mushroom coffin that will biodegrade in less than two months.

Get Buried in a $1,000 Organic, Biodegradable Mushroom Coffin

By Sharon Adarlo

This AI-powered captcha tool wants you to know what a "yoko" is. That's a problem, because the object doesn't actually exist.

Artificial Intelligence

Captcha AI Asks Users to Identify Bizarre Imaginary Object

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy is expected to be visible for months, even from amateur backyard telescopes.

New Supernova in Sky May Shine for Months

By Sharon Adarlo

Electricity in the air can be harnessed — and the simple conductor film used to harvest this energy can be made from almost anything.

Scientists Harvest Electricity From “Thin Air” Using Strange Material

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla just fell 50 spots — from number 12 to 62 — in Axios' Harris Poll, an annual survey that ranks America's top 100 most reputable brands.

Tesla Falls 50 Spots in Survey of America’s Most Reputable Brands

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ferocious feral chickens with "supercharged survival skills" have gotten out of control in Hawaii, The Atlantic reports.

Science & Energy

Hawaii Menaced by Furious Wild Chickens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A second Gallagher brother has responded to an AI-generated Oasis album — and because one loved it, the other, of course, had to hate it.

Artificial Intelligence

Noel Gallagher Disgusted by AI-Generated Oasis Music

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers claim to have created an AI that, trained on a trove of fMRI data, can reconstruct relatively accurate video from brain signals.

This AI Generates Video From Brain Signals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Florida Senate has passed a bill that would allow new roads to be paved with a radioactive mining byproduct.

Science & Energy

In Bid to Become a Comical Hellscape, Florida Considers Roads Paved With Radioactive Byproduct

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 28-year-old coder in Berlin, Germany radically sped up his search for a new apartment in the city by using ChatGPT.

Man Finds Dream Apartments in Brutal Market Using ChatGPT

By Sharon Adarlo

James Cameron revealed that he's working on a script for the next "Terminator," inspired by the rise of actual artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence

James Cameron Working on New “Terminator” Script Inspired by Rise of Actual AI

By Victor Tangermann

An Android app that was supposed to be used to do screen recordings has been caught secretly recording audio and sending it somewhere shady.

Android App Busted Secretly Recording Users’ Lives

By Noor Al-Sibai

After warning that AI could kill us all, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt argued that AI could help fill in for the babies we're not having.

Former Google CEO Says AI Can’t Destroy Humankind If We Do It First

By Victor Tangermann

As the European Union readies its new artificial intelligence rules, the CEO of OpenAI is, apparently, already preparing his counter-attack.

OpenAI CEO Freaks Out, Threatens to Leave EU Over New AI Regulations

By Noor Al-Sibai

Behold: Botatouille, business genius and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti's new recipe-suggesting chatbot. Just one issue...

Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed AI Struggles to Recommend Recipe for Laid-Off Journalists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI is an "existential risk" and could lead to "many, many, many, many people" being "harmed or killed."

Former Google CEO Warns AI Could Lead to People Being “Harmed or Killed”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A leaked image spotted by Electrek has given us the best view yet of what Tesla's long-delayed Cybertruck will look like from the inside.

Leaked Photo Appears to Show Interior of Tesla’s Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

Known as some of the animal kingdom's most complex social creatures, elephants in captivity appear to enjoy their interactions with humans.

Science & Energy

Elephants Love Hanging Out With People, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

Try as he might, Elon Musk cannot add "funny guy" to his lengthening list of accolades — and a bunch of comedians have weighed in on why.

Experts Analyze Why Elon Musk Is So Painfully Unfunny

By Noor Al-Sibai

Adobe's new generative AI tools are here — and they really, really, pretty please doesn't want you to use them to make porn, okay?

Artificial Intelligence

Adobe Forbids Using Photoshop’s New AI Features for Nudity

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you thought Caroline Ellison's tumblr was salacious, just wait until the public gets a look at her personal diary.

We’re Obsessed With Caroline Ellison’s Diary Being Evidence in the FTX Case

By Noor Al-Sibai

A scammer in China has managed to cheat a man out of his money by cloning his friend's voice and face with the use of AI-powered apps.

Artificial Intelligence

Scammer Tricks Man With Face and Voice Swap of His Friend, Cops Say

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists at the SETI Institute have put together a simulated alien signal to see if we have the ability to decode it.

Earth Receiving Simulated Alien Signal From Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the impact site of Japanese company ispace's lunar lander.

NASA Says It May Have Spotted Remains of Crashed Japanese Moon Lander

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists believe that killer orca whales in the waters off of Europe's Iberian Peninsula are teaching each other how to sink sailboats.

Science & Energy

Experts Say Killer Whales Are Teaching Each Other to Attack Boats

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bill Gates is warning that AI assistants could soon make Google Search and Amazon obsolete by altering the behaviors of users online.

Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates Says AI Is Poised to Destroy Search Engines and Amazon

By Victor Tangermann

During a recent interview, rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube pulled no punches while trashing the use of AI in music.

Artificial Intelligence

Ice Cube Says AI Is “Demonic”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A warning to the wise: a new Twitter bug is apparently resurfacing and restoring deleted tweets and retweets. This website is broken.

New Twitter Bug Is So Embarrassing Our Heads Are Going to Explode

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of astronomers has discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet that may be absolutely covered with volcanoes.

Scientists Discover Brutal Planet That Sounds Like Darth Vader’s Mustafar

By Victor Tangermann

A likely AI-generated image of a fake explosion at the Pentagon garnered so much attention on Twitter that the stock market briefly fell.

Artificial Intelligence

Seemingly AI-Generated Image of Pentagon Explosion Caused Stock Market to Dip

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The final frontier is, apparently, the new site of marketing as space tourism companies partner with brands.

SpaceX Tourists Charting New Frontiers in Product Placement

By Noor Al-Sibai

This Extreme Closeup of the Sun Is Just… Extremely Weird

This Extreme Closeup of the Sun Is Just… Extremely Weird

By Victor Tangermann

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has delivered a crew of space tourists to the ISS as part of Axiom Space's second-ever mission to the station.

International Space Station

SpaceX Tourists Swoop Into International Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

AI expert Rodney Brooks is arguing that we're overestimating OpenAI's large language models and that they're far stupider than we think.

AI Expert Says ChatGPT Is Way Stupider Than People Realize

By Victor Tangermann

The rise of AI coincides with all-time debt highs — and one startup is cashing in by having AI robocalls do way more collections than humans.

Artificial Intelligence

Cursed New AI Calls Debtors to Hassle Them for Money

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new lawsuit, a rideshare driver claims that a Tesla he was operating for work went rogue and nearly clipped some bystanders.

Tesla Driver Sues, Saying Car Went Rogue and Forced Him to Crash It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Among other things, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wants you to know that it's okay to take a break sometimes.

Bill Gates Says His Life Has Been Filled With Deep Regret

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple suggested internally people would be wearing its upcoming mixed-reality headset to parties.

Virtual Reality

Apple Hoping People Will Wear Its Pricey VR Headset to Parties

By Victor Tangermann

NASA plans to use a device that "can vigorously spin occupants like laundry churning in a washing machine" to train astronauts.

NASA Brags About Plan to Torment Astronauts With Brutal Military Machine

By Noor Al-Sibai

When asked how he feels about AI replacing screenwriters at Cannes on Friday, Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn didn't mince words.

Artificial Intelligence

Sean Penn Says Replacing Writers with AI Would Be a “Human Obscenity”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla's customer service told a California man to bring his vehicle to a Tesla service center after his Tesla Model Y burst into flames.

Tesla Owner Speechless at Company’s Response After Car Bursts Into Flames

By Sharon Adarlo

Japanese scientists say they've proven wood might just be a durable in-orbit material — and now, plan to build a satellite with it.

Scientists Preparing to Launch Wooden Satellite

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

World elites are converging in Lisbon this weekend for the Bilderberg Meeting, where AI is reportedly at the very top of the agenda.

Artificial Intelligence

Secretive Meeting of World Elites Discussing AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a recent study conducted by a team of Chinese scientists, the Milky Way galaxy might be a regular, two-armed spiral after all.

Oops! Scientists Say Our Galaxy May Be a Different Shape From What They Thought

By Maggie Harrison Dupré