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We’d Rather Live Through the Trojan War Than Spend 135 Minutes Watching an Entirely AI Version of “The Odyssey”
Many moviegoers this summer are looking forward to Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film “The Odyssey.”…
Astronomers Horrified by Enormous Mirror Satellite That Reflects Sunlight Back Down to Earth at Night
There’s light pollution — and then there are giant orbital space mirrors that blot out the…
Meta Used Its Own Flawed AI to Pick Which Employees to Lay Off, Lawsuit Claims
These days, corporations aren’t just using AI as an excuse to justify layoffs, but are…
New Anthropic Ad Implies AI Could Kill Us All
Anthropic is doing what Anthropic does best: putting on its most concerned face so it…
New York Becomes First State to Ban AI Data Centers
Across the United States, lawmakers are increasingly caught between two competing pressures: the massive investment…
Grok’s Foul-Mouthed AI “Translation” Feature Puts Unspeakably Ghoulish Words Into Users’ Mouths
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has long garnered a reputation for experiencing horrifically racist meltdowns,…
Secretive Silicon Valley Startup Tries to Quash Interview, Says It’s Definitely Not Working on Growing Brain-Free “Organ Sacks”
Last February, Alice Gilman, the cofounder and chief operating officer of a secretive Silicon Valley…
Startup Upset After Journalist Points Out How Creepy Its Humanoid Robots’s Hands Are
The VP of a humanoid robotics company was in for a surprise after finding that…
A Staggering Number of People Are Dying Because of Record Heatwaves
Europeans are being crushed by deadly temperatures. Record-breaking heatwaves across much of the continent have claimed…
A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry
To say Americans are divided on AI would be an understatement. Polls have shown that…
