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Elon Musk, who was a co-founder of OpenAI, hasn't shied away from expressing his disdain (or horror) over the company's newfound direction and success.

Elon Musk Is Super Pissed OpenAI Became Successful After He Left

By Frank Landymore

One of the world's most respected physicists has proposed a devilishly simple bargain: that we're living in a multiverse, and he'd bet his dog on it.

Science & Energy

Famed Astronomer Willing to Bet His Dog’s Life That We’re Living in a Multiverse

By Noor Al-Sibai

The OpenAI-powered Bing AI chat feature is now open for general use. But it may or may not be a glitch on Microsoft's behalf.

Artificial Intelligence

Uh Oh: Bing’s Deranged AI Chat Is Now Open for Anyone to Use

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon is developing a satellite network of its own called Project Kuiper, and has now revealed the designs of the terminals that would connect to it.

This Is What the Terminals for Amazon’s “Starlink” Competitor Look Like

By Frank Landymore

With OpenAI's GPT-4, things "can get super-dangerous very quickly, without people monitoring them," Lightning AI CEO William Falcon told Venture Beat.

Artificial Intelligence

AI CEO on GPT-4: This Can Get “Super-Dangerous Very Quickly”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta is laying off even more employees. In his announcement, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was notably mum about his favorite pet project: the metaverse.

Mark Zuckerberg Is Suddenly Weirdly Quiet About the Metaverse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA Debuts Its Brand New Sci-Fi-Inspired Moonsuit — But It’s a Rental

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft got rid of an entire company division devoted to AI "ethics and society" during its January layoffs, according to a report from Platformer.

Microsoft Laid Off Its Entire AI “Ethics and Society” Division

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a Wolf-Rayet, an absolutely massive classification of star that is on the verge of a supernova.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Takes Breathtaking Image of a Titanic Star That’s About to Explode

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted some dunes that are practically perfect circles. So the question remains: how did they form?

Scientists Baffled By These Almost Perfectly Circular Dunes on Mars

By Frank Landymore

Uh Oh, OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Fooled a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA could be getting a bigger budget next year, with hopes of allocating money to developing its own spacecraft to retire the ISS.

NASA Wants to Build a Special Spacecraft to Destroy the ISS

By Frank Landymore

Hot on the heels of the GPT-4 drop, OpenAI has released a bunch of stats about its even-more-powerful new language model — and we're slightly freaked.

OpenAI’s GPT-4 Just Smoked Basically Every Test and Exam Anyone’s Ever Taken

By Noor Al-Sibai

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is irked by the suggestion that the $10 million his company pays Matthew McConaughey per year was related to its mass layoffs.

CEO: Matthew McConaughey’s Huge Paycheck Has Nothing to Do With Layoffs, Peasants

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an ironic twist on a rapidly-manifested trope, a high school teacher has admitted to using OpenAI's ChatGPT to help her create lesson plans.

High School Teacher Confesses to Using ChatGPT for Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI chatbots are all the rage, and a ChatGPT-based one is coming to General Motors' cars, according to a company executive.

General Motors Wants to Put ChatGPT in Its Cars

By Frank Landymore

Bitcoin is way up in spite — or, perhaps, because — of the tumult following the federal seizure of Silicon Valley Bank.

Bitcoin Surges As Spooked Investors Seek Shelter in Crypto, of All Places

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new James Webb Space Telescope survey of the universe has already surpassed Hubble's most comprehensive one to date, and it's only in its first stage.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Demolishes Hubble’s Record of Fitting the Most Galaxies in a Single Image

By Frank Landymore

Strangely enough, Hinduism is the latest venue for robots and automation — and lots of worshippers, and religious experts, are freaked out by it.

Experts Worried Ritual Robots May Worship Gods Better Than Humans

By Noor Al-Sibai

Financial regulators have shut down Signature Bank, which was known for letting people make deposits via crypto, in an effort to stem a wider banking crash.

Regulators Just Shut Down a Crypto Lender to Stem a Growing Financial Disaster

By Noor Al-Sibai

California Congressman Mark Takano has reintroduced a bill that would make the four-day (32-hour) workweek a federal mandate in the US.

This Bill Would Make the Four-Day Workweek a Federal Law in the US

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A German environmentalist group has just filed "criminal charges" against Tesla, accusing the company of "suspected water pollution."

Environmentalist Group Files “Criminal Charges” Against Tesla, Accusing It of “Water Pollution”

By Victor Tangermann

It very much looks like a lot of Twitter Blue subscribers are angry that their genius tweets aren't getting algorithmic priority yet.

People Are Mad They Aren’t Getting Attention on Twitter After Paying for Twitter Blue

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers were shocked to find that the rate of plastic entering our oceans is rapidly increasing even faster than expected.

The Ocean’s Plastic Pollution Has Spiked to “Unprecedented” Levels

By Frank Landymore

The space arms race is continuing along, as indicated by recent statements from the US Space Force about its current posturing toward China and Russia.

US Space Force Says It’s “Under Threat” and in “Perpetual Competition” With China and Russia

By Noor Al-Sibai

Even pollinators that live in remote areas are disappearing in massive numbers — another troubling sign that our bees and butterflies are in bad shape.

Bad News: Bees Are Dying At a Shocking Rate

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The brain geniuses at Chuck E. Cheese still use floppy disks to control their animatronic rodent robots — and they wouldn't have it any other way.

Chuck E. Cheese Is Weirdly Defensive About Its Floppy Disk-Powered Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an attempt to compete with Twitter, the extremely-centralized Facebook-turned-Meta is building a decentralized, text-based Twitter alternative.

Facebook Is Working on a Twitter Clone That Nobody Asked For

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Art lovers are understandably peeved at an art exhibit in The Hague after one artist used AI to recreate Veermeer's masterpiece "Girl With a Pearl Earring."

Artificial Intelligence

Lazy Artists Use AI to Rip Off Famous Dutch Painting for Museum Exhibition

By Noor Al-Sibai

Physicists accomplished the feat using lasers as optical traps, though they had quantum computing in mind more so than a national pastime.

Scientists Play Tiniest Game of Baseball By Throwing and Catching Individual Atoms

By Frank Landymore

A former Twitter executive is sounding off on Elon Musk after the CEO bashed a disabled ex-employee on the platform and had to apologize later.

Ex-Twitter VP Says Elon Musk Is Behaving “Like the Local Drunk”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A German Microsoft executive, for some reason, is claiming that OpenAI will drop GPT-4, its follow-up to the powerful GPT-3, "next week."

Microsoft Says OpenAI’s Latest Blockbuster AI Is Dropping “Next Week”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Australian scientists have discovered a new bacterial enzyme that can turn air — yes, seriously — into working electricity.

Scientists Discover Enzyme That Can Turn Air Into Electricity

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pair of Johns Hopkins economics experts eviscerated the crypto industry and equated it to cocaine in a scathing anti-regulation takedown.

Economists Compare Crypto to “Cocaine” in Scathing Takedown

By Noor Al-Sibai

Florida-based startup Lonestar Data Holdings will be testing a data center on the Moon, which it believes could be the most secure location for data yet.

Florida Man Plotting to Build Web Servers on the Moon

By Frank Landymore

According to one conspiracy-minded Congressional Republican, there's a chance that his employer is reverse-engineering alien technology salvaged from UFOs.

Congressman Claims the US Government Has “Reverse-Engineered” Alien Tech from UFOs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Noam Chomsky, the world's preeminent linguist, has spoken, and he seems mighty tired of everyone's whining about artificial intelligence as it stands today.

Artificial Intelligence

Noam Chomsky: AI Isn’t Coming For Us All, You Idiots

By Noor Al-Sibai

The director behind "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief," is making a movie about Elon Musk, which the latter has already denounced.

Elon Musk Calls Movie About Him That Isn’t Even Out Yet a “Hit Piece”

By Frank Landymore

According to a new study, the water in our Solar System is likely older than our Sun — and the secret, they say, was discovered in another star.

Water Existed Long Before the Solar System, Astronomers Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook's new artificial intelligence model for researchers and governments has been leaked — and naturally, it ended up on 4chan.

Facebook’s Powerful ChatGPT Competitor Leaks on 4Chan

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter Finances Reportedly Tank Under Elon Musk’s Brilliant Leadership

Twitter Finances Reportedly Tank Under Elon Musk’s Brilliant Leadership

By Frank Landymore

According to a new study, AI tools might seriously improve humanity's chances of discovering aliens on Mars — and beyond.

Scientists Want to Use AI to Hunt for Aliens on Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We're closer than ever to a dystopian future where corporations can read our thoughts without our permission using brain-computer interfaces.

Legal Expert Proposes “Cognitive Liberty” to Avoid Corporate Brain Spying

By Noor Al-Sibai

Those machine "hallucinations" that Large Language Models (LLM) are known for? According to one AI leader, they're just alternate realities, actually.

Artificial Intelligence

Stable Diffusion CEO Suggests AI Is Peering Into Alternate Realities

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched a probe into Tesla's 2023 Model Y after at least two reported steering wheel incidents.

Tesla Is Being Investigated Over Steering Wheels That Fall Off While Driving

By Frank Landymore

If our solar system wasn't weird, we'd expect to find another "super-Earth" sized planet near Jupiter. Turns out though, that would probably kill us.

If There Was a “Super-Earth” In Our Solar System, It Would Probably Kill Us All

By Frank Landymore

"They were all dumb as a rock," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, told the FT last month, speaking to digital assistants like Cortana, Siri, and Alexa.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Trashes Siri and Alexa for Being “Dumb as a Rock”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A former SEC lawyer says that a Binance bank run seems "inevitable." Meanwhile, US regulator suspicion continues to mount against the crypto exchange.

Former SEC Lawyer Issues Warning That Binance Is an “FTX Redux”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After dragging an ex-Twitter employee, Elon Musk has apologized to Haraldur Thorleifsson after disparaging him so publicly.

Elon Musk Finally Relents and Apologizes for Mocking Disabled Twitter Ex-Employee

By Noor Al-Sibai

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency's flagship H3 rocket lifted off from the pad well enough, but could not kick in its second stage engine.

Japan’s Newest Rocket Self Destructs During Launch

By Frank Landymore

The Moon, beautiful as she is, is easy to love. Which is why she has to know: would you still love her... if she were a worm?

Would You Still Love the Moon If It Was a Worm?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has reinforced the launch date for its crewed Artemis II Moon mission next year — that is, if they're able to make it.

NASA Says It’ll Be Launching Crewed Moon Mission Around Thanksgiving 2024

By Noor Al-Sibai

Salesforce is bringing OpenAI's ChatGPT to Slack, yet another sign that the compulsively lying and hallucinating AI assistant is becoming inescapable.

ChatGPT Is Coming to Slack Because We Live and Work in Hell

By Victor Tangermann

"He's the worst," Musk wrote in a tweet, which he promptly deleted, after roasting former Twitter director Haraldur Thorleifsson.

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Roasting Disabled Twitter Employee

By Victor Tangermann

As part of a Mars cloud survey, NASA's Curiosity rover imaged spectacular crepuscular rays for the first time during an especially painterly sunset.

NASA Rover Snaps Amazing View of Sunset on Mars

By Frank Landymore

In a recent Reddit AMA, Keanu Reeves was asked about what he thought about the pesticide that was recently named after him.

Science & Energy

Keanu Reeves Responds to Deadly Compound Named After Him

By Frank Landymore

After a PETA exposé revealed the gruesome conditions behind coconut milk in Thailand, the HelloFresh meal kit company will no longer source from there.

Artificial Intelligence

HelloFresh Halting Thai Coconut Milk Sales Over Monkey Labor Allegations

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Federal Reserve Zoom meeting with over 220 attendees had to be shut down last week due to a hijacker, who bombed the virtual event with porn.

Federal Reserve Cancels Meeting After Relentless Porn-Bombing

By Victor Tangermann

Watch out, grandma: if you hear your grandson on the phone in need of bail money, ask the voice something that only your real grandson would know.

Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Use Voice Cloning AI to Trick Grandma Into Thinking Grandkid Is in Jail

By Frank Landymore

All's not well at Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, where a space tourism capsule has been grounded for six months amid safety concerns.

Jeff Bezos’ Space Tourism Craft Has Been Grounded for Six Months Over Escape Malfunction

By Noor Al-Sibai

Impressed by OpenAI's viral chatbot, ChatGPT? Cool, but the folks over at OpenAI aren't really sure why. To them, it's old news.

OpenAI Confused by Why People Are So Impressed With ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A broken clock is, as they say, right twice a day — and even Elon Musk, the king of the bad take, occasionally gets it right when it comes to AI.

Elon Musk Roasts Dudes Pivoting From Crypto to AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new report, Chinese military researchers say that their AI-powered fighter pilot has bested a human in a real-life aerial dogfight.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Pilot Crushes Human Dogfight Rival in 90 Seconds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mistakes are bound to happen in rocket launches, but a massive one last summer resulted in a rocket launch company losing two NASA satellites.

Government Contractor Lost Two NASA Satellites, Company Admits

By Noor Al-Sibai