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The Elon Musk-founded research firm that created ChatGPT is apparently hemorrhaging money on the game-changing chatbot that put it on the map

OpenAI Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Money on ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

When asked how he feels about AI, Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus Junior didn't hold back, expressing a mix of fascination and concern.

Artificial Intelligence

Snoop Dogg Expresses Views on AI Threat

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An ex-Coinbase executive banked big on Bitcoin bouncing back — and cashed out cashing out his bet early once it was clear that he was losing.

Crypto Guy Loses Million Dollar Bet That Bitcoin Price Would Spike

By Noor Al-Sibai

Books almost entirely generated by AI are flooding Amazon's marketplace, The Washington Post reports, a worrying trend.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Being Flooded With Books Entirely Written by AI

By Victor Tangermann

Legislation seeking to regulate AI-generated political advertisements has already been introduced in Congress.

Artificial Intelligence

Congresswoman Proposes Bill Targeting AI-Generated Political Ads

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A one-time OpenAI researcher is sounding alarm bells about the prospect that artificial intelligence may bring about the end of humanity.

Ex-OpenAI Safety Researcher Says There’s a 20% Chance of AI Apocalypse

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest discovery is a doozy, and it seems like it's raising more questions than it's answering.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Telescope Detects Mysterious Water Vapor Around Alien Planet

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has figured out a way to extend the mission of its interstellar Voyager 2 probe by another three years.

NASA Hack Squeezes More Time Out of Dying Voyager 2 Probe

By Victor Tangermann

In a CNN interview, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak claimed that a Tesla is "trying to kill you every chance it can."

Artificial Intelligence

Steve Wozniak: If You Want to Learn About AI Killing People, “Get a Tesla”

By Victor Tangermann

Saturn's rings are steadily disappearing as they're being sucked up into the planet's atmosphere and scientists are trying to figure out why.

Saturn Is Sucking Up Its Rings

By Victor Tangermann

A water recycling firm teamed up with a Northern Californian brewery to create the Epic OneWater Brew, a beer made from recycled greywater.

Yum! Environmentally Friendly Beer Made From Used Shower Water

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Betelgeuse is one of the most iconic stars visible on Earth — and with scientists predicting that it'll go supernova soon, Twitter has jokes.

Scientists Are Breathlessly Waiting For Betelgeuse to Explode

By Noor Al-Sibai

In response to the Writer's Guild strike, a guy wants people know to that writing work doesn't matter anymore — ChatGPT can just do it. Nice.

Fury Erupts at Suggestion of Using ChatGPT to Replace Striking Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The White House is proposing a 30 percent tax on crypto mining operations to better reflect the effects they're having on the environment.

White House Proposes 30 Percent Tax on Crypto Mining

By Victor Tangermann

Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Instagram this week to show off some 3D-printed dresses that he created for his daughters.

Zuckerberg Now 3D Printing Clothes for His Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gary James Harmon of Ohio was sentenced for stealing 712 Bitcoin from his brother, fellow Ohioan crypto convict Larry Dean Harmon.

Guy in Ohio Steals $21M in Bitcoin From His Brother

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over 150 African content moderators — whose work has helped to power AI systems at Facebook, TikTok, and OpenAI — have unionized.

OpenAI’s Content Moderators Just Unionized in Africa

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As the saying goes, the bill always comes due — and as it stands, it's unclear whether billionaire Elon Musk's Twitter can pay up.

Broke Boy Elon Musk Struggling to Pay Bills

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A small suborbital rocket carrying cremated remains failed to launch earlier this week, exploding over the New Mexico desert.

Rocket Carrying Cremated Remains Explodes Seconds After Launch

By Victor Tangermann

Tourism Company Offering Zero-G Concerts

Tourism Company Offering Zero-G Concerts

By Frank Landymore

Scientists are horrified as ocean surface temperatures have continuously set new record-breaking highs over the last month.

Scientists Horrified as Sea Surface Temperatures Spike Off the Charts

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil inside a vacuum chamber.

NASA Extracts Oxygen From Simulated Moon Dust

By Victor Tangermann

Chegg, an online tutoring company that once dominated its industry, is majorly hurting in the wake of ChatGPT.

Online Tutoring Company Stock Crashes as ChatGPT Steamrolls Its Business

By Noor Al-Sibai

There is, it seems, another mysterious balloon floating over the United States, this time over the island state of Hawaii.

Another Mysterious Balloon Sighted, This One Over Hawaii

By Noor Al-Sibai

An AI-generated beer commercial is here, and frankly, it's the ghoulish fever dream of a beer commercial that we all deserve.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI-Generated Beer Commercial Is a Hallucinogenic Nightmare

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In 2022, dozens of app gig workers were killed on the job — and, for some reason, labor laws haven't caught up yet.

A Shocking Number of Gig App Workers Were Murdered on the Job Last Year

By Noor Al-Sibai

The unfortunate explosion was "roughly what I expected," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reportedly said in a Twitter Spaces session on Saturday.

Elon Musk Says His Great Intellect Predicted That Starship Would Explode

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's finally happening — IBM is replacing jobs done by human workers with AI, because we live in employment hell.

Artificial Intelligence

IBM Replacing 7,800 Human Jobs With AI, Including Human Resources

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a Twitter Spaces chat over the weekend, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that Starship only self-destructed after a 40-second delay.

Elon Musk Admits Starship Didn’t Initially Respond to Self-Destruct Command

By Victor Tangermann

A poor star some 173 million light years succumbed to the gaping maw of a black hole, dying in what's known as a tidal disruption event.

Grim Images Show Helpless Star Disappearing Into Black Hole

By Frank Landymore

You can't make up Canada — especially when it comes to this phallic iceberg captured by a man from a hilariously-named town.

Science & Energy

Internet Amused by Iceberg With a Very Interesting Shape

By Noor Al-Sibai

A modder has taken advantage of the wonders of ChatGPT to give NPCs in the popular video game Skyrim the ability to come up with new dialogue.

ChatGPT Mod Allows NPCs in Skyrim to Make Up New Dialogue

By Victor Tangermann

Tech investing publication VentureBeat is using OpenAI's Bing Chat to assist in editing and writing articles, Bloomberg reports.

Artificial Intelligence

VentureBeat Using AI to Help Generate Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey isn't impressed with how current CEO Elon Musk is running the social media platform.

Jack Dorsey Sounds Alarmed by Elon Musk’s Erratic Behavior at Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

The fallout from SpaceX's explosive Starship test continues, with Elon Musk admitting that it caused even more damage than we thought.

Elon Musk Says Starship Generated an Unexpected “Rock Tornado”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Geoffrey Hinton, who pioneered neural networks, has suddenly left Google after almost a decade, warning of the dangers of AI.

Godfather of AI Quits Google, Fears AI’s Risks and Regrets His Work

By Frank Landymore

Like a moth to a lamp, humans have long thought we knew why bugs are so attracted to lights — but new research suggests we may have been dim.

Science & Energy

Scientists Suggest New Reason Dumb Bugs Smash Into Lights

By Noor Al-Sibai

We'd need an astronomical amount of resources to construct a Dyson sphere around the Sun, like deconstructing an entire Jupiter-sized planet.

Building a Dyson Sphere Around the Sun Would Be Easy if We Used Jupiter for Raw Materials

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's Starship test launch last week was quite literally explosive — and now, we've got incredible, close-up footage of it.

Amazing Tracking Footage Shows Starship Explosion Close Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new video, mad inventor and popular YouTuber Colin Furze built an oversized, counterweight arm to offset almost all of his body weight.

Robots and Machines

YouTube Inventor Builds Incredibly Fun-Looking Weightlessness Machine

By Victor Tangermann

More AI dating tools are cropping up, as dating app users continue to turn to AI to help them get dates. But should romance be automated?

Artificial Intelligence

Cursed New Apps Use AI to Tell You What to Say on Tinder

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI has, apparently, opened new doors for psychedelics enthusiasts to show the world the beautiful realms they inhabit when tripping.

Artificial Intelligence

Psychedelics Researcher Enlists AI Artist to Draw Beings They Met While Tripping on DMT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers from Google's DeepMind AI lab did us a solid by showcasing the cutesy power of tyke-sized robots trying to actually play soccer.

Watch These Adorable Lil Robots Try to Play Soccer

By Frank Landymore

In a bid to avoid Elon Musk being interviewed under oath, Tesla's lawyers have cried 'deepfake' over Autopilot claims he's made in the past.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Lawyers Say Elon Musk’s Claims Over Self-Driving Safety Might Just Be Deepfakes

By Frank Landymore

Touchscreens dominate cars, but not for the best. Amidst consumer backlash, some automakers are beginning to reign their tech fad in.

Advanced Transport

Death to Car Touchscreens, Buttons are Back, Baby!

By Frank Landymore

Santorini is known as one of the most beautiful islands in the world — and the volcano that created it is far from dead, scientists warn.

Science & Energy

Scientists Issue Friendly Reminder That Beloved Tourist Island Is a Live Volcano

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new report, Meta-formerly-Facebook has been playing AI infrastructure catch-up for over a year now.

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Execs Panicking as They Try to Catch Up in AI Race

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"Portopia," an icon of text-based adventures games, got the AI treatment for a new release. The AI made the game borderline unplayable.

Artificial Intelligence

An AI-Powered Videogame Just Came Out and Gamers HATE It

By Frank Landymore

Brandon Cavanaugh, a 37-year-old former NASA intern and Boeing aerospace engineer, was sentenced for storming the capitol.

Former NASA Intern Sentenced for Storming the US Capitol on Jan 6

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As if robot dogs weren't creepy enough, at least one is now equipped with OpenAI's ChatGPT and can speak aloud.

Boston Dynamics

Oh Great, They Put ChatGPT Into a Boston Dynamics Robot Dog

By Noor Al-Sibai

Joe Russo, a director who's helmed some of Marvel's biggest movies, thinks it's only a matter of time before AIs can make legit films.

Artificial Intelligence

Marvel Director Expects Fully AI-Generated Movies Within Two Years

By Frank Landymore

The distressed pants. The sneakers. The butterfly shirt. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Coachella fit was... bad.

Jeff Bezos’ Awkward Coachella Outfit Is Seared Into Our Memories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Landing on the Moon is hard, so scientists at the MBR Space Centre in Dubai aren't beating themselves up too hard about this failed attempt.

Scientists Celebrate After Their Lunar Rover Smashes Into the Moon and Dies

By Frank Landymore

New York recently deployed a robot dog to the scene of a catastrophe to uncover a body— and according to the city's mayor, this rules.

NYC Mayor Defends Robodog Deployed in Garage Collapse

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI seems worried about its competitors using "GPT" in the name of their chatbots, and has tried to fast-track the trademark process.

OpenAI, Which Has “Open” in Its Name, Is Trying to Trademark “GPT”

By Frank Landymore

Twitter users are clamoring to get an invite to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's decentralized Twitter alternative Bluesky.

People Are Flocking to Jack Dorsey’s New Twitter Alternative

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX's test launch of its Starship rocket lit 3.5 acres, including land belonging to the neighboring Boca Chica State Park, on fire.

Starship Launch Lit a Large Portion of a State Park on Fire

By Victor Tangermann

In a jaw-dropping testimony, a ranking Pentagon official explained to Congress just how strange the military's UFO videos can be.

Pentagon Official Breaks Down UFO Video “Frame-By-Frame” Before Congress

By Noor Al-Sibai

Coinbase just sued the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), about a month after being threatened by the SEC with potential litigation.

Coinbase Is Suing the SEC

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A mind-bending, AI-generated pizza restaurant commercial for a franchise called Pepperoni Hug Spot is seriously messing with our brains.

Artificial Intelligence

Behold This Nauseating AI-Generated Pizza Commercial

By Victor Tangermann

Rumor has it that Elon Musk has yet another burner account on Twitter. And no, we're not surprised. Just disappointed.

Elon Musk Apparently Has Another Alt Account, and It’s Even Weirder

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bill Gates is, as he has repeatedly said in public, very, very excited about the AI future that his company is ushering in.

Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates Says AI Will Be Teaching Kids to Read in 18 Months

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sweden made a major whoopsie Monday when its experimental rocket accidentally landed in Norway, its neighbor.

Swedish Scientists Accidentally Shoot Norway With Rocket

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon sellers are using tools like ChatGPT to flood the e-commerce platform with AI-generated reviews. Here's how to spot them.

Artificial Intelligence

These Five Words Can Help You Tell If a Review Was Written By AI

By Victor Tangermann