Placing Blame A grieving mother claims an AI chatbot not only convinced her teen son to commit suicide, but even pushed him into the act when he expressed hesitance. Florida…
Origin Story Researchers have found that the vast majority of meteorites that plummet through the Earth's atmosphere come from only three different asteroid families, which are groups of space rocks that…
Not Owned During a recent conversation, Donald Trump's most well-known fanboy scoffed at the idea that Tesla's sales have taken a hit due to his politicking. "Tesla’s sales are actually…
Former One Direction singer Liam Payne tragically passed away at the age of 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires last week. Now, an initial toxicology report…
With weight loss injectables like Ozempic and Mounjaro taking the world by storm, the diet industry is being left in the dust. In interviews with the Daily Mail, weight loss experts…
Palace Intrigue Truth Social, Donald Trump's flailing Twitter clone, is apparently as dramatic behind the scenes as his White House once was. As the New York Times reports, at least three…
An outbreak of deadly E. coli linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders has led to at least one death and ten hospitalizations, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said…
A Florida teen named Sewell Setzer III committed suicide after developing an intense emotional connection to a Character.AI chatbot, The New York Times reports. Per the NYT, the 14-year-old Setzer developed a…
Fungus Among Us A team of researchers in Japan has made a cool discovery while studying an obscure fungus called Phanerochaete velutina: it can not only recognize shapes, but even…
City Scape Archaeologists have begun uncovering a 250-year-old lost city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest — and are using advanced technology to survey it. As Brazil's Metropoles news site reports, University of…
Free Agents Microsoft is releasing a suite of autonomous AI models — or "agents" — that can serve as virtual employees for its customers. Not only that, the company is…
Cleaning Up It's officially illegal to publish fake, AI-generated product reviews. Sweeping changes to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines aimed at cleaning up the polluted, confusing world of online product…
A cohort of former Republican advisors, law enforcement officials, and legislators have signed a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland urging for an investigation into billionaire Elon Musk's million-dollar…
DesktopGPT If for some reason you wanted to hand over total control of your personal computer to an AI model, you can now do that with Anthropic. The Amazon-backed OpenAI competitor…
Interiors During a launch party for a kink app-funded literary magazine — yes, you read that right — Gen Z and Millennial guests were unnerved when their Boomer host's most…
Internal Affairs ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, fired an intern who apparently screwed with the company's artificial intelligence projects. As Ars Technica and other outlets report, the social media…
Stink Bomb An orca held in captivity had a killer surprise for the crowd at SeaWorld San Antonio, some of whom may now be regretting their front-row seats. As seen…
Breakup Text A Boeing satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously blew into pieces in geostationary orbit over the weekend. According to an official update, an "anomaly" caused the…
For nearly two decades, Google has allowed users to get a first-person view of any given intersection — and even the insides of businesses — with its Street View feature.…
Business magnate and newly-minted political wrecking ball Elon Musk loves to have friends in high places — until those friends happen to be embroiled in widespread sex crime scandals. In…