As artificial intelligence becomes integrated into our daily lives, researchers are working to tackle what might be its most glaring and enduring issue: that AI "hallucinates," or boldly spits out lies,…
DOGE With a Bone Elon Musk's government takeover is freaking tons of people out — especially as at least one of his DOGE lackeys has reportedly been given access to…
Billionaire CEO and White House advisor Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has amassed roughly 30 staffers with the goal of slashing the US government's budget. As it's targeted…
Crypto offers an extremely lucrative way of making money. It's also an easy way to get duped. Case in point: supporters of President Donald Trump who bought his meme coin,…
For the first time, scientists have used real-time imaging to track tiny pieces of microplastics as they moved through the brain blood vessels of mice. As detailed in a recent…
Vox Populi Being the hatchetman for the Trump administration has made Elon Musk a more controversial figure than ever — and the people are letting him know it: across the…
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk was leading a massive $97.4 billion bid to take over the nonprofit that controls ChatGPT maker OpenAI. It…
Doctors have begun noticing a trend among their colleagues: they seem to be getting full before finishing dinner, likely thanks to GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic sweeping the medical profession. In…
Electric Slide While Tesla billionaire Elon Musk and his gaggle of tech lackeys gnaw at the wires of the US federal government, his bread and butter venture is slumping hard. As…
Brain Power Trusting artificial intelligence over the real thing seems, per a new study, to be atrophying folks' critical thinking skills. As flagged by the folks at 404 Media, new…
Scientists at NASA and around the world have been closely following a near-Earth asteroid, the size of a large building, that they say could impact the Earth on December 22,…
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Desperate Measures We've long been fascinated by the tragic tale of one James Howells, a Welsh computer engineer whose crypto wallet-containing hard drive was accidentally thrown out by an ex-girlfriend…
Aerospace giant Boeing is warning that hundreds of workers currently working on NASA's Artemis Moon rocket could be laid off in the upcoming months. A Boeing spokesperson told The Register…
Insurance company Allstate has revealed that almost all of the communications its reps send out to claimants are now written by AI, the Wall Street Journal reports. It's a surprising…
Billionaire and White House advisor Elon Musk is leading a gigantic $97.4 billion bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reports. Musk's lawyer, Marc Toberoff,…
The owner of a Tesla Cybertruck had a terrifying crash while using the carmaker's infamous "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) feature. In a now-viral thread on X-formerly-Twitter, Florida-based owner Jonathan Challinger "crashed…
As the staff of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) makes headlines for moving fast and breaking things, a deeper look into their backgrounds reveals that one used to…
OpenAI and Shut San Francisco's medical examiner ruled OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji's death last year a suicide — but the young man's family claims in a recent lawsuit that their…
In a new post on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that AI could lead to plenty of economic inequality while allowing authoritarian governments to "control their population…