We may be seeing some of the first major fissures forming in the dalliance between Donald Trump and his billionaire backer Elon Musk. Over the holiday week, Musk entered into…
Typo Personality It sure sounds like some of the industry's smartest leading AI models are gullible suckers. As 404 Media reports, new research from Claude chatbot developer Anthropic reveals that…
Spill the Beans Suchir Balaji, the young OpenAI whistleblower whose death was made public earlier this month, was apparently being considered as a witness against his former employer in a…
Pecking Order Donald Trump is starting to sound markedly testy about people insinuating that his "First Buddy" Elon Musk is the real one running the show. During an appearance on…
Blast Radius In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an event horizon. And as it turns out, the black hole…
Remember that huge panic around black spatulas? It turns out that the whole thing may have just been a crock of crap. A study published in October contended that kitchenware…
Truth Bomb As more and more rich people rush to buy and build bomb shelters, experts suggest they're little more than a psychological defense mechanism for wealthy people who want…
Blood Drive Future space travelers will have to get creative to build structures on the surface of Mars. Sending all the necessary construction materials across over 140 million miles of…
Perhaps more than any profession, writers are infamous for their quirky and possibly counterproductive on the-job habits. In his heyday, screenwriter Paul Schrader would write exclusively at night, often until…
Flavor Discovery The company behind Oreo cookies has, by its own admission, been quietly creating new flavors using machine learning. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Mondelez — the processed food…
Researchers at Caltech have calculated how fast the human brain processes information — and the number turned out to be hilariously low. As detailed in a new study published in…
Buzz Off Lest we forget that losing our minds about suspicious aircraft was an American tradition long before this current spate of drone hysteria, a Florida man has been ordered…
Classroom War Class is in session, kids. Only the teacher's not in attendance. On Monday, the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools approved an application for an unorthodox virtual academy.…
Time for a Tan Forget the cautionary tale of Icarus. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is just days away from flying into the Sun — or through its outer layers, depending on…
Experts are mighty puzzled after finding that teens are abstaining from drugs more than ever before. In the latest update from the University of Michigan's half-century-long Monitoring the Future study,…
Forget-Me-Bots We've certainly seen our fair share of demented behavior from AI models — but dementia? That's a new one. As detailed in a new study published in the journal…
Germany First In an incredible mask-off moment, Elon Musk has endorsed Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD, per its German initials) — even though, weirdly, the party is against his business…
Content warning: this story discusses sexual abuse, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders and other disturbing topics. Character.AI, the Google-backed AI chatbot startup embroiled in two lawsuits concerning the welfare of minors,…
President-elect Donald Trump hasn't yet been sworn in, but his advisor and major financial backer Elon Musk has already killed a bipartisan bill that would have provided money for pediatric…
Energy startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems has announced that it will begin construction of the "world's first grid-scale" nuclear fusion power plant near Richmond, Virginia. The MIT spinout announced this week…