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You Are Entirely Unready to Learn the Name of the Company That Accidentally Filled the Reflecting Pool With Green Algae
US President Donald Trump has been desperately trying stop the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in…
Anthropic Hires Economist Who Says 33 Percent Chance of Human Extinction Is Acceptable
Out of all the big AI players, Anthropic is the one that likes to doomsay…
Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue
Demand for the computing power that undergirds AI models — “compute,” in the lingo of…
Madonna Issues Explosive Take on AI
If you’re using AI to try and make “art,” Madonna Ciccone has some bad news…
Grim New Prediction Market Lets Gamblers Bet on Raging Wildfires
Ever wanted to role play a claims adjustor in Southern California? Now you can —…
A24 Is Dealing With a Full-on Crisis Among Fans After Signing an AI Deal With Google
Indie Hollywood darling A24 scored a massive financial hit with its “Backrooms” horror flick this…
Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire
A lawyer was working at a legal tech startup when her boss’s fascination with AI…
Elon Musk’s Mother Posts Happy Birthday Image for Him That, on Closer Inspection, Is Devastatingly Sad
The world’s first trillionaire just celebrated his 55th birthday. And we can’t tell which possibility…
NASA Prepping to Launch Extremely Risky Rescue Mission
NASA’s Swift observatory, designed to study the most powerful explosions in the universe, launched into…
AI Zillionaires Are Starting to Get Scared as the Public Turns Against Them
There’s no doubt that the broader public has turned against AI in a serious way.…
