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OpenAI has told Washington DC lobbying company FiscalNote that it can't advertise using ChatGPT for politics, Semafor reports.

OpenAI Annoyed by Lobbyists Seizing on ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Writers are furious that Archive of Our Own (AO3), one of the world's largest fanfiction websites, won't ban AI-generated fanfiction.

Artificial Intelligence

Writers Furious When Fanfiction Site Won’t Ban AI-Generated Work

By Sharon Adarlo

A federal watchdog is warning customers that some combination smoke and carbon monoxide detectors being sold on Amazon don't work.

Government Warns That Amazon Smoke Detector Doesn’t Detect Smoke

By Victor Tangermann

Gone are the good old days of homophobia and racism at NASA — and to some Republican senators, that's a problem.

Senators Complain That NASA Isn’t Allowed to Be Racist Anymore

By Noor Al-Sibai

Facebook Has Crowbarred Open the Pandora’s Box of AI, Experts Warn

Facebook Has Crowbarred Open the Pandora’s Box of AI, Experts Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After an alleged meteor struck a house in New Jersey, residents began wondering whether insurance covers extraterrestrial damage.

New Jersey Ponders Whether Meteor Damage Is Covered by Insurance

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bad news for New York: the Big Apple appears to be sinking a little bit each year under the weight of its iconic skyscrapers.

Science & Energy

NYC Appears to Be Sinking Because Its Skyscrapers Are So Heavy

By Noor Al-Sibai

A man has written almost 100 books using AI and claims he has "sold 574 books for a total of nearly $2,000 between August and May."

Artificial Intelligence

Man Uses AI to Write 97 Terrible Books, Sells $2,000 Worth

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers have figured out the thickness of the Martian crust, and concluded that the planet is heating itself with radioactive elements.

Scientists Detect Radioactive Heat Source Inside Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A new 3D scan of the Titanic shows the tragic scene at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean in unprecedented detail.

Amazing 3D Scan Shows the Titanic If All the Water Was Drained Out

By Noor Al-Sibai

Just hours before meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, Elon Musk was spotted dancing the night away in Mexico.

Video Shows Elon Musk “White Boy Dancing” in Mexico

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of South Korean researchers has created an AI model dubbed DarkBERT to index the Dark Web's websites and forums.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Train New AI Exclusively on the Dark Web

By Victor Tangermann

professor-accuses-students-chatgpt

Professor Falsely Accuses Students of Cheating Because ChatGPT Told Him To

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a US Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that the government should regulate AI and create common guidelines.

OpenAI CEO to Congress: Please Regulate Me, Daddy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of NASA's gigantic science balloons developed a leak a mere day and a half into its flight, causing it to plummet into the Pacific Ocean.

NASA’s Giant Balloon Crashes Into Ocean, Sinks

By Victor Tangermann

The Irish Times just apologized for publishing an AI-generated hoax article — bylined by an entirely fake AI-generated "journalist," no less.

Artificial Intelligence

Newspaper Apologizes for Accidentally Running Deranged AI-Generated Article

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Nobody is entirely sure why the Space Force, the youngest branch of the military, exists. Even the service's top general isn't sure.

Top Space Force General Confused About Why Space Force Exists

By Victor Tangermann

It's finally happened — Elon Musk has finally been served over his alleged relationship to now-dead billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Elon Musk Subpoenaed in Jeffrey Epstein Lawsuit

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, is raising $100 million for his startup that scans eyeballs and gives out crypto.

OpenAI CEO Raising $100 Million to Scan Every Eyeball on Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's nothing the internet loves more than cat videos — but what about videos filmed from a cat's perspective?

Science & Energy

A Guy Strapped a Camera to His Cat and It’s the Best Thing We’ve Ever Seen

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google employees reportedly played a drinking game during the company's I/O developer conference last week, mocking executives mentioning AI.

Google Employees Mock Execs for Saying “AI” Over and Over

By Victor Tangermann

Startup Rhea Space Activity has announced that it's planning to launch a mission to breathe new life into NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Military Funding “Resurrection” Mission for Derelict NASA Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

In spite of breaking a world record, a Florida man who's been under the Keys for nearly two-and-a-half months is refusing to resurface.

Science & Energy

Florida Man Has Been Living Underwater for Two and Half Months

By Noor Al-Sibai

He might not helm Google anymore, but Eric Schmidt is absolutely still thinking like a tech CEO when it comes to AI.

Ex-Google CEO Says We Should Trust AI Industry to Self-Regulate

By Noor Al-Sibai

Climate change is increasing water temperatures off East Africa and this has led to increased pirate attacks in the region.

Climate Change Linked to Increased Pirate Attacks

By Sharon Adarlo

The population of the European Union has slid by more than half a million since 2020, according to the number crunchers at Eurostat.

The Population of Europe Now Appears to Be Falling

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers have confirmed that an avocado-sized rock that smashed through a New Jersey roof is a meteorite.

Experts Confirm Rock That Punched Through Family’s House Was Meteorite

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has found what scientists suggest could be evidence of a raging, fast-moving river that once flowed on Mars.

NASA Mars Rover Appears to Have Found Remnants of Ancient Raging River

By Victor Tangermann

BuzzFeed has told investors that its readers spend 40 percent more time with its AI-built quizzes than the traditional ones.

Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed Says Its AI Is Outperforming Its Pesky Human Employees

By Victor Tangermann

Pieces of what appear to be heat shield tiles from SpaceX's explosive Starship orbital test launch keep appearing on beaches in Texas.

It Looks Like Starship Chunks Are Washing Up on Beaches

By Noor Al-Sibai

Commercial space launches are becoming a big problem in Florida, which according to Pete Buttigieg are clogging up flight paths.

Florida Is Apparently Launching So Many Rockets That It’s Clogging Up Commercial Flights

By Noor Al-Sibai

An "AI girlfriend" chatbot has apparently started doing stuff it's not supposed to — stop us if you've heard this one before.

Artificial Intelligence

Creator of Rentable “AI Girlfriend” Says It’s Gone Rogue

By Noor Al-Sibai

During what would have otherwise been a normal Chicago River kayaking trip, a local spotted something incredible — a giant snapping turtle.

Science & Energy

Internet Stunned by Colossal “Chonkasaurus” Turtle Spotted in River

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of former OpenAI researchers have built their own AI chatbot -- and, provocatively, they're trying to give it a conscience.

OpenAI Competitor Says Its Chatbot Has a Rudimentary Conscience

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Tesla CFO Zach Kirkhorn is the one secretly running the show, not Elon Musk.

The Guy Really Running Tesla Isn’t Elon Musk, Report Claims

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A scammer claims to have made thousands of dollars by selling "leaked" tracks by Frank Ocean that were actually generated by an AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Leaked Frank Ocean Tracks Were Actually AI-Generated Fakes

By Victor Tangermann

Spotify has taken down "tens of thousands," or roughly seven percent of songs uploaded by AI music startup Boomy.

Artificial Intelligence

Spotify Busts Network of Bots Listening to Bot-Generated Music

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft just made a massive bet on nuclear fusion energy — and that bet has OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's name written all over it.

Microsoft Signs Deal to Get Fusion Power by 2028

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech journalist John Herrman offered a simple explanation as to why Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg went all-in on the metaverse.

There’s an Interesting Theory About Why Zuckerberg Wasted Billions on the Metaverse

By Noor Al-Sibai

A possible meteorite struck a house in Hopewell, New Jersey on Monday — and incredibly, the decently-sized, maybe-space-rock is still intact.

Cops Say Meteorite Appears to Have Smashed New Jersey House

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wendy's is the latest fast-food chain to get in on the AI craze with its announcement about chatbots that will take customer orders.

Artificial Intelligence

Wendy’s Installing Drive-Thru AI Chatbot That Takes Your Order

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is slowly dying — but luckily, a couple of startups have a solution that may just be crazy enough to work.

Ingenious Plan Could Save NASA’s Hubble Telescope

By Noor Al-Sibai

Fox recently announced that it's pitting a unusual mix of celebrities against each other during a simulated stay in a Martian colony.

New Show Traps Lance Armstrong and Ariel Winter in Simulated Mars Base

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla Cybertruck prototype was spotted by eagle-eyed onlookers outside Corpus Christi, Texas, stuck in a field.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Prototype Gets Stuck in Field

By Victor Tangermann

Janaese robotics company Jizai has come up with robotic limb contraption called Arms that can triple the number of arms of its wearer.

Robots and Machines

God Help Us! They Built Real Doctor Octopus Arms

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's finances are all over the place, but one thing is clear — none of the money it spends is going to the workers hired to train ChatGPT.

ChatGPT’s Dirty Secret: It’s Powered by “Grunts” Making $15 Per Hour

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing out a snake-like robot that is meant to one day climb into the icy vents of Saturn's moons.

NASA Tests Snake Robot Designed to Look for Alien Life on Icy Moons

By Victor Tangermann

A man that wears a leopard print cowboy hat has a bold prediction: that AI will, in the next few years, replace up to 80 percent of jobs.

Artificial Intelligence

Strangely-Dressed Expert Warns That AI Could Replace 80% of Jobs Soon

By Noor Al-Sibai

After completing a seven-hour spacewalk, two Russian cosmonauts intentionally left a bundle of discarded hardware drift away into empty space.

Cosmonauts Caught Littering Directly Into Space During Spacewalk

By Victor Tangermann

Tipping workers is undeniably good, but with self-checkout machines prompting customers for optional tips, some wires are getting crossed.

Robots and Machines

Self-Checkout Machines Ridiculed for Asking for Tips

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg competed in his very first jiu-jitsu competition this weekend — and he did awesome, actually.

Watch Mark Zuckerberg Slam Opponent in Hand to Hand Combat

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While users are still clamoring to get an invite to Jack Dorsey's Bluesky, it will not accept "heads of state" like president Joe Biden.

Joe Biden Can’t Get a Bluesky Invite

By Victor Tangermann

Dmitry Rogozin, the former head of Russia's space corporation Roscosmos, doesn't believe NASA landed on the Moon.

Former Roscosmos Head Refuses to Believe NASA Landed on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Whether cryogenics ultimately works or not, billionaire Peter Thiel says he's duty-bound to freeze his ol' bag o' bones nonetheless.

Billionaire Peter Thiel Says He’s Freezing His Body After Death Just in Case

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has come out as one of the latest tech industry titans against remote work, which he says harms creativity.

CEO of OpenAI Trashes Remote Work As a Failed “Experiment”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The age of AI arrests appears to have begun in China, where a man who used ChatGPT to allegedly generate fake news headlines was detained.

China Arrests Man for Using ChatGPT to Write Fake News

By Noor Al-Sibai

A stock portfolio picked by ChatGPT outperformed the S&P 500 Index over eight weeks, according to financial comparison service Finder.

ChatGPT Picks Stock Portfolio That Outperforms S&P 500

By Victor Tangermann

Warren Buffett is sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence, which he compared to the invention of the atomic bomb.

Artificial Intelligence

Warren Buffett Compares AI to the Atom Bomb

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have discovered a new type of tool-using insect, nicknamed the "assassin bug" for a creative — and deadly — hunting technique.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Bug That Uses Tool

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's called Hotshot, and from what we can tell, it's basically Bitmoji — but if Bitmoji was a hyperrealistic, AI-powered fever dream.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Service Makes Fake Photos of You Hanging Out With Your Friends, Laughing and Having a Great Time

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Until recently, scientists had never spotted a star in the act of consuming a planet — and eventually, it will happen to Earth, too.

Scientists Spot Tragic Planet Being Eaten by a Dying Star

By Noor Al-Sibai

A guitarist asked OpenAI's ChatGPT to "write a guitar solo" — and the result, as demonstrated in a short clip, didn't disappoint.

ChatGPT Writes Shredding Guitar Solo

By Victor Tangermann

The associate director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence compared AI scientists to "late-stage" teens.

Artificial Intelligence

Stanford Director: AI Scientists’ “Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of ex-TikTok employees has blown the whistle on the company's list of users who watched so-called "gay content."

TikTok Reportedly Kept a Log of Users Who Watched Gay Content

By Noor Al-Sibai