Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened
It’s no secret that social media has devolved into a toxic cesspool of disinformation and hate speech. Without any meaningful…
You’ll Never Guess How Much You Can Get Paid for Rights to Use Your Face to Make AI-Generated Ads on TikTok
If you use TikTok or any other app designed to rot your brain, chances are you’ve encountered AI-generated ads for…
How Did Walmart Frozen Shrimp Became Contaminated With Radioactive Material?
As you’ve probably already heard, the Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall warning for bags of frozen shrimp…
Psychiatrists Warn That Talking to AI Is Leading to Severe Mental Health Issues
In a jarring new analysis, psychiatric researchers found that a wide swath of mental health issues have already been associated…
China’s Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly
Over half a year into Donald Trump’s second term, NASA still doesn’t have a long-term head. That leadership vacuum comes…
Evidence Grows That GPT-5 Is a Bit of a Dud
Power users of OpenAI’s blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT were left largely unimpressed by the company’s recently unveiled GPT-5 AI model. Those…
OpenAI Announces That It’s Making GPT-5 More Sycophantic After User Backlash
Earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company would be reinstating its GPT-4o model, just over 24…
Hundreds of Robots Competed in the World’s First Robot Olympics. The Results Were Unintentionally Hilarious
In the past few decades, China has rapidly transitioned from one of the poorest nations on Earth to the global…
Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Find
Last month, astronomers made an exciting discovery, observing an interstellar object — only the third ever observed — hurtling toward…
Despite Getting Billions From the Government, Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pays Basically No Taxes
“Billionaire freeloaders don’t pay taxes.” Launch and Taxes For all his trash-talk of government welfare, billionaire Elon Musk has benefited…