Researchers have found that the amount of microplastics in our brains is rising at an alarming rate. As The Guardian reports, scientists examined postmortem brain tissue from dozens of human…
Bottom of Everything At an old limestone quarry in Chepstow, England, a single mysterious benefactor is shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars to build a training facility to help…
Enemy Mine If Donald Trump makes good on his campaign promise to impose tariffs on Canadian energy imports — now pushed back a month, but still a looming threat — it…
Agent oo3 OpenAI has unveiled a new research tool that can pull information from the web for you and summarize it into detailed reports — supposedly "at the level of…
Meme Team President Donald Trump's dubious meme coin just keeps sliding. Trump's "official" crypto venture has lost about thirty percent of its value over the last seven days, and is…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek embarrassed OpenAI last week, demonstrating that its cutting-edge AI chatbots can be recreated at a tiny fraction of the cost by using clever workarounds. The app's…
Below the Belt President Donald Trump's chaotic tariffs hit US-based AI chipmaker Nvidia's stock, as it slid over five percent when trading began on Monday before recovering by a few…
Musk of a Man Claire "Grimes" Boucher seems, once again, to be close to condemning her billionaire ex — though of she still isn't coming right out and saying it.…
Caveat Emperor After forcing out a top official at the US Treasury Department, it now appears that Elon Musk has seized control of the government's payment system — with apparent…
US senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has introduced a bill that could effectively make it illegal to use DeepSeek, a new ChatGPT competitor that made huge waves last week, within the…
In December, we published an investigation into a particularly grim phenomenon on Character.AI, an AI startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google: a huge number of minor-accessible bots on its…
The founder of a San Francisco-based AI startup called On Platform was arrested last week after prosecutors charged that he and his wife had blown millions of dollars worth of…
Are Super Bowl ads the nail in the coffin for tech bubbles? We'll soon find out after this year's game, which is expected to feature tons of adverts for artificial…
More and more people are taking weight loss injectables like Wegovy and Mounjaro — and though the drugs are gaining credibility when used properly, pharmacy experts are worried that not…
A mouse with two dads — or a bi-paternal mouse, in the scientific parlance — has made it to adulthood. Several mice, in fact. As detailed in a study published in…
We may be hurdling ourselves toward a violent techno-dystopia, but it isn't here yet. The Cleveland Plain Dealer revealed that police in Cleveland, Ohio just botched an important murder case…
State governments are crawling over each other to be the first to dump their taxpayers' money into the blockchain — a gamble that, depending on the vagaries of the crypto market…
Cultimate Warrior As if the San Francisco Bay Area couldn't get any weirder, there's now suspicion that a bizarre AI-enthusiastic group in the region may have inspired a pair of…
Breathing New Air Chinese astronauts claim to have created rocket fuel on board the country's Tiangong space station using a new process dubbed "artificial photosynthesis." As the South China Morning…
Baby Brain OpenAI has finally debuted "Operator," its very own AI agent, a type of autonomous model designed to do digital tasks on your behalf like shopping for groceries online.…