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OpenAI Scientists' Efforts to Make an AI Lie and Cheat Less Backfired Spectacularly
Punishing bad behavior can often backfire. That's what OpenAI researchers recently found out when they tried to discipline their frontier AI model for lying and cheating all the time. Instead...
Trump Ridiculed for Claiming He Rescued the Stranded Astronauts
Donald Trump insists, incorrectly, that he was the one to rescue those stranded astronauts — and he's getting roundly called out for trying to take credit for something he had...
Veterans Furious at Elon Musk
Veterans shafted by cuts from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are speaking out — and they don't have much nice to say to the unelected billionaire-in-chief. Released within...
Tesla Fans Furious at Video of Tesla Crashing Into Wall Painted Like Road
YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober has seemingly kicked the hornet's nest with his latest video. In the piece titled "Can You Fool a Self Driving Car?" Rober found...
Students Concoct Ingenious Scheme To Grow Ozempic At Home
Up in Canada, students have developed an incredible new way to synthesize drugs on plants — and they're using semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic, as their test case. In...
Sounds Like Insurance on Teslas Is Going to Skyrocket Because of All the Vandalism
It was already expensive to insure a Tesla due to all those pesky safety hazards — and now, it seems like the anti-Elon Musk wave of vandalism is slated to...
You May Be Horrified When You Learn What Chewing Gum Is Actually Made From
Plastic pollution may, as one researcher posits, be coming from a surprising source: chewing gum. In an essay for The Conversation, microplastics expert David Jones of the UK's University of...
Did Google Test an Experimental AI on Kids, With Tragic Results?
Halfway through our conversation, Megan Garcia pauses to take a call. "How are you? I'm good," Garcia, a mother of three based in Orlando, Florida, nods into her phone. "For...
Uber Drivers Say They're Getting Locked Out of the App and Trapped in a Kafkaesque Limbo When They Try to Dispute It
For nearly ten years, Bernard Moses had been ferrying passengers around Chicagoland as an Uber driver. After dropping off his umpteenth passenger one day in April 2024, Moses swiped to...
Dolphins Appear as Astronauts Splash Down in Ocean
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have finally returned after being stranded on board the International Space Station for nine months. The pair became stuck after Boeing's plagued Starliner...
You’ll Laugh at This Simple Task AI Still Can’t Do
Most human children learn how to tell time around ages six and seven — but artificial intelligence still, apparently, can't parse a clock face. Researchers from Scotland's University of Edinburgh...
Former NASA Astronaut Says Elon Musk Has No Idea What He's Talking About
SpaceX Elon Musk is adamant that the space company will eventually make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent presence on Mars. It's an extremely ambitious plan, involving the company's massive...
Elon Musk’s Just-Revealed Texts to His Friend Tell You a Lot About His Character
Oculus founder-turned-defense-contractor Palmer Luckey is opening up about his not-quite-friendship with Elon Musk — and about the dumb "anti-woke" stuff they like to talk about. In an appearance on the ...
Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End
You can only throw so much money at a problem. This, more or less, is the line being taken by AI researchers in a recent survey. Asked whether "scaling up"...
Apple Secretly Working on AirPod Feature That Translates Speech in Real-Time
It's late to the party, but behind the scenes, Apple is secretly working on a new feature for its AirPods that could translate face-to-face conversations in real-time, Bloomberg reports. The...
Tesla Competitor Reveals Electric Car That Can Charge in Five Minutes
As slumping EV giant Tesla's sales slow to a crawl, the star of Chinese equivalent BYD is rising. Yesterday, the Shenzhen-based corporation revealed In the past 24 hours, BYD's market...
Even Tesla's Board Are Dumping Their Stock
As Tesla's shares are continuing their monthslong slump, executives and board members are starting to jump ship. As ABC News reports, four top officers at the company offloaded over $100...
Readings Show Evidence of Huge Ocean Under Mars' Surface
Researchers have found new evidence for a massive subsurface ocean on Mars, highlighting the possibility of microbial life lurking deep below the Martian surface. As detailed in a paper published...
Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers
In April 2024, a group of Google DeepMind researchers published a study warning that understudied pursuasive generative AI systems, including human-like AI companions, could cause significant harm to human users...
Space Station Visitors Greeted With Wild Sight When They Open Hatch
After docking with the International Space Station, the latest crew visiting the orbital outpost made a highly unusual, close encounter of the third kind. Right as they were about to...