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Robotics company Realbotix claims its robots are designed to "tackle the staggering loneliness epidemic" but somehow aren't sex robots.

“Companionship” Robot That Its Creator Says Is Definitely Not a Sex Robot Looks Around With a Dazed Expression

By Victor Tangermann

When preparing for its content moderation overhaul, Meta secretly provided its employees examples of admissible hate speech. %

Leaked Facebook Documents Show Exactly How Far You’re Allowed to Turn the “Racism” Dial

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is blaming the Los Angeles fires on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, an extremely racist, bigoted lie.

Elon Musk Blames LA Wildfires on Black Firefighters

By Victor Tangermann

Newly unredacted court documents allege that Facebook knowingly used pirated books from the database LibGen to train its AI models.

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Apparently Trained Its AI by Torrenting Pirated Books Stolen From Authors

By Frank Landymore

As the New York Times reports, a civilian drone collided with a firefighting plane flying over the Palisades neighborhood on Thursday.

Los Angeles Firefighting Aircraft Out of Commission After Dunce With Drone Crashes Into It

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's o1 reasoning model was caught massively struggling to solve the New York Times' Connections word game.

OpenAI’s Most Advanced AI Release Stumped by New York Times Word Game

By Noor Al-Sibai

President-elect Donald Trump has found the real culprit behind Los Angeles' massive and devastating wildfires: the Delta smelt fish.

Science & Energy

Trump Blames California Wildfires on “Worthless Fish”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla is moving several workers away from Cybertruck production at its Austin factory to focus on the Model Y instead.

Tesla Moves Workers Away From Cybertruck Production as Demand Slumps

By Victor Tangermann

Built by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the first wooden satellite has been deployed from the Space Station.

Astronauts Release Wooden Satellite From Space Station

By Frank Landymore

In Belgium, a Boeing 737 jetliner quite literally fell flat on its nose — and the airline behind it is stumped as to what happened.

A Boeing Jet’s Nose Was Caught on Video Suddenly Collapsing to the Ground

By Noor Al-Sibai

An investment banker who once dug into Enron's finances says it bears "intriguing" parallels with the tech industry's biggest darling: OpenAI.

Former Enron Banker Points Out “Intriguing” Parallels With OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

A review of Meta's user-generated AI chatbots found that Meta platforms are hosting bots styled after Adolf Hitler, among other violations.

Facebook Caught Hosting AI-Powered Hitler

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While its competitors are zooming ahead with AI agents, OpenAI has notably held off from releasing its own — and for good reason.

There’s a Fascinating Reason OpenAI Is Afraid to Launch Its AI-Powered “Agents”

By Frank Landymore

Users on the prediction market Polymarket are gleefully betting on the devastation caused by the Los Angeles Palisades wildfire.

Crypto Platforms Like Polymarket Now Taking Bets on Los Angeles Fire Devastation

By Frank Landymore

An engineer created an ungodly ChatGPT-enabled robotic rifle that can aim and fire bullets. OpenAI shut him down pretty quickly.

OpenAI Cuts Off Engineer Who Created ChatGPT-Powered Robotic Sentry Rifle

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California is under an evacuation order due to a spreading wildfire.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Evacuated as Los Angeles Burns

By Victor Tangermann

Rent Too High? Blame AI, New Report Finds

Artificial Intelligence

Rent Too High? Blame AI, New Report Finds

By Frank Landymore

Officials revealed that the soldier, who blew up a rented Tesla Cybertruck outside of a Trump hotel, used ChatGPT to plan his attack.

Cybertruck Bomber Used ChatGPT to Plan His Attack

By Victor Tangermann

An Arizona man who's been on death row for going on two decades is begging the state's highest court to get it over with already.

Death Row Prisoner Requests to Be Executed as Soon as Possible

By Noor Al-Sibai

The popular book app Fable has come under fire for its AI-generated annual roundups, which users say gave them offensive messages.

Artificial Intelligence

Book App Alarmed as Its AI Starts Mocking Users for Reading Books by Women and Minorities

By Frank Landymore

The FBI has released extensive, first-person footage recorded by New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar on a pair of Meta smart glasses.

New Orleans Terrorist Used Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, FBI Says

By Victor Tangermann

In a fight on social media, Elon Musk decided to use a slur against disabled people — and it's far from the first time.

As He Calls for “Positivity” on Twitter, Elon Musk Keeps Using a Disgusting Slur Against the Intellectually Disabled as a Bullying Insult

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now claiming that the firm is nearing the dawn of AGI — and that he knows how to make it happen.

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Has Figured Out How to Build AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

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It Costs So Much to Run ChatGPT That OpenAI Is Losing Money on $200 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions

By Noor Al-Sibai

A man had the misfortune of becoming trapped inside a driverless Waymo taxi, which drove in circles instead of to the airport.

Advanced Transport

Man Trying to Catch Flight Alarmed as His Driverless Waymo Gets Stuck Driving in Loop Around Parking Lot

By Victor Tangermann

Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao says he encountered a pair of large metallic orbs while flying his plane over Houston, Texas in 2023.

Advanced Transport

Former NASA Astronaut Puzzled by Metallic Orbs He Encountered While Flying

By Victor Tangermann

Meta was forced to euthanize its AI-generated "characters" after users discovered just how problematic they really are.

Meta Kills AI-Generated “People” Like “Proud Black Queer Momma”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Kia issued a recall for nearly 23,000 EV9 electric cars for the 2024-25 model year after discovering seats that weren't fully bolted down.

Advanced Transport

Kia Concerned That Employee Forgot to Bolt Seats Down in Potentially Tens of Thousands of Cars

By Frank Landymore

A video appears to show the future of transportation: a Waymo robotaxi smashing into a Serve Robotics delivery robot.

Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot

By Frank Landymore

The family of dead OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji is claiming that the young man was murdered, and did not commit suicide.

Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Alleges He Was Murdered, Says There Were Signs of Struggle

By Noor Al-Sibai

In South Korea, a jet crashed and burned when it hit a wall that was placed at the end of an airport runway, killing 179 people.

Experts Alarmed by Huge Wall at Airport That Jet Crashed Into, Killing 179 Passengers

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI says it wants to transform into a for-profit corporation because it needs "to raise more capital than we'd imagined."

OpenAI Admits It Needs Vastly More Money Than It Thought

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's recently unveiled o3 AI model can cost well over $1,000 per task when used in its most powerful mode.

OpenAI’s Latest AI Can Cost More Than $1,000 Per Query

By Frank Landymore

Just days after going to war with his critics, Elon Musk now wants to foster "positive" vibes on his platform X, formerly Twitter.

Elon Musk Begs People on Twitter to Be Nicer

By Frank Landymore

Meta says it envisions Facebook as being filled with AI generated characters that exist on the platform the same way as human users do.

Facebook Planning to Flood Platform with AI-Powered Users

By Frank Landymore

A trick as simple as deliberately incorporating typos into your prompt is often enough to dupe the industry's leading AI chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence

Stupidly Easy Hack Can Jailbreak Even the Most Advanced AI Chatbots

By Frank Landymore

The late whistleblower Suchir Bala was named as a potential witness in a lawsuit brought against OpenAI by The New York Times.

Dead OpenAI Whistleblower Had Been Named as Potential Witness in Lawsuit Against Employer

By Frank Landymore

President-elect Donald Trump shot down claims that Elon Musk is quietly giving the orders with a jab at his ally.

Touchy Trump Insists That He’s Not Taking Orders From Elon Musk

By Frank Landymore

The hole in the first-ever image of a black hole released a massive burp of gamma rays while astronomers were staring at it.

Astronomers Were Watching a Black Hole When It Suddenly Exploded With Gamma Rays

By Victor Tangermann

As more and more rich people rush to buy and build bomb shelters, experts suggest they're a bandaid on top of a nuclear blast.

There’s a Major Problem With the Nuclear War Bunkers The Rich Are Buying

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mixing Martian regolith with the literal blood, sweat, and tears of future Mars inhabitants could make for a great concrete for a habitat.

Scientists Suggest Harvesting Blood From Mars Colonists to Construct Future City

By Victor Tangermann

The company behind Oreo cookies has, by its own admission, been quietly creating new flavors using machine learning.

Artificial Intelligence

With Utter Self-Seriousness, Maker of Oreos Admits It’s Using AI To Create New Flavors, Even Though Machines Cannot Taste

By Noor Al-Sibai

Florida Man in Trouble for Shooting Walmart Drone With 9mm Handgun

Florida Man in Trouble for Shooting Walmart Drone With 9mm Handgun

By Frank Landymore

A charter school in Arizona promises to teach kids twice as fast using a specialized AI model rather than a traditional teacher.

Artificial Intelligence

A New School Will Teach Children Using AI Instead of Human Teachers

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is just days away from flying into the Sun, in a daring bid to glean the secrets of our star's megahot winds.

A NASA Spacecraft Is About to Fly Through the Sun

By Frank Landymore

New research shows that the industry's leading AI chatbots are performing poorly on tests designed to detect signs of dementia.

Artificial Intelligence

Aging AI Chatbots Show Signs of Cognitive Decline in Dementia Test

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk has endorsed Germany's far-right AfD — even though the party is against his own business interests.

Elon Musk Endorses Nazi-Linked German Party, Even Though It Opposed Tesla’s Gigafactory

By Noor Al-Sibai

An image on Google Street View that appears to show a man stuffing a body into a car provided Spanish authorities with a breakthrough.

Google Street View Appears to Capture Man Loading Human Body Into Trunk of Car

By Frank Landymore

Donald Trump's presidential transition team is using private email servers to conduct government business. Sound familiar?

“Lock Her Up”: Trump’s Team Is Now Doing the Exact Thing They Screamed About Hillary Clinton Doing

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russia's space program has thrown its weight behind NASA's plans to destroy the International Space Station starting in 2030.

Russian Space Program Confirms Plans to Destroy Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

The federal government is on the verge of a shutdown — and practically at the behest of Donald Trump's buddy Elon Musk.

Elon Musk Throws Tantrum, Ordering Congress to Shut Down Government

By Frank Landymore

Several AI-generated diss tracks, featuring an imitation of Lil Wayne's iconic vocal style, are circulating online and causing confusion.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Lil Wayne Diss Track Against Kendrick Lamar Causes Chaos Online

By Victor Tangermann

In September, SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission was already well underway way — when the power suddenly went out.

Power Failed at SpaceX Ground Control During Space Tourist Mission

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has shown off an early rendering of an enormous Mars Chopper concept, a follow-up to the space agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.

NASA Shows Off SUV-Sized “Mars Chopper” With Six Rotor Blades

By Victor Tangermann

Multiple AI chatbots that imitate alleged CEO shooter Luigi Mangione are being hosted on the AI platform Character.AI.

Artificial Intelligence

People Are Making AI Versions of Luigi Mangione That Call for Slaying of More CEOs

By Frank Landymore

Flat Earthers visited Antarctica for the first time and discovered, to their surprise, that our planet is actually round.

Science & Energy

Flat Earthers Befuddled as They Visit Antarctica and Earth Appears to Be Round

By Noor Al-Sibai

The two NASA astronauts stranded in space after the failure of Boeing's Starliner will have to wait even longer to return to Earth.

Stranded Astronauts’ Trip Back to Earth Has Been Postponed Yet Again

By Frank Landymore

Illegal online casinos are allowing children to gamble using their Roblox accounts — and now, families are suing over it.

Criminals Running Casinos for Children Using Roblox

By Noor Al-Sibai

Apple Intelligence, the iPhone-maker's feature-packed stab at AI integration into its devices, appears to be a total dud with buyers

Artificial Intelligence

iPhone Owners Extremely Unimpressed With Apple Intelligence AI

By Frank Landymore

According to the Wall Street Journal, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk isn't allowed inside buildings where spy satellite work is being carried out.

Elon Musk’s Drug Use Means He Isn’t Allowed to Enter Certain SpaceX Buildings

By Victor Tangermann

After its pivot to AI earlier this year, the Washington Post's CEO is now turning off editorial candidates by asking about AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Candidates to Run Washington Post Withdraw After Being Asked How They’d Use AI to Run the Newspaper

By Noor Al-Sibai

President-elect Donald Trump has finally spoken out about the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Trump Disgusted by Public’s Support for CEO Killer Suspect

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to Reuters, Trump's transition team is recommending to cut off any federal funding for both EVs and chargers.

Advanced Transport

Trump Planning to Cut Funding for EVs and Chargers

By Victor Tangermann

Self-Driving Vehicles

The Self-Driving Computer in Brand New Teslas Is Failing

By Frank Landymore