Billionaire tech moguls aren’t the only ones doomsaying about artificial intelligence layoffs. CEOs across a range of industries are now jumping on the bandwagon, saying it’s no longer a matter of “if,” but “how many” jobs AI will take. A recent survey by the Wall Street Journal explored just how pervasive the automation idea is throughout a… Continue reading CEOs Say AI Is Poised to Wipe Out an Astonishing Number of Jobs
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Elon Musk Obtains Permit to Spew Pollution
In the city that built the blues, Elon Musk’s xAI data center has been given permission to keep polluting the air with fumes from burning methane gas — which it had already been doing so without authorization for a year. As Wired reports, Memphis’ local health department has granted an air permit for the xAI data… Continue reading Elon Musk Obtains Permit to Spew Pollution
Scientists Find that Hosing Glizzies Is Basically a Death Sentence
As millions of Americans stock up on hot dogs ahead of Independence Day, researchers have some bad news: those franks are deadly — no tails, snouts, or butts about it. The tragic news comes from a survey published in Nature Medicine, an esteemed biomedical research journal. Combing over 60 previous nutrition studies on processed foods… Continue reading Scientists Find that Hosing Glizzies Is Basically a Death Sentence
Journalists Just Roasted Sam Altman To His Face
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman got a taste of his own medicine when he went on the New York Times‘ turf and tried to twist the newspaper’s copyright lawsuit against it. As flagged by PG Gamer, the live recording of the NYT‘s “Hard Fork” podcast — hosted by journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, and featuring as guests… Continue reading Journalists Just Roasted Sam Altman To His Face
Wildly Beautiful and Rare “Red Sprite” Flare Seen on Earth From Orbit
Red Sprite NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, currently stationed on board the International Space Station, shared an incredible image of a sprite — a rare weather phenomenon that’s triggered high above the clouds by “intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below.” The image shows the rare electrical discharge in the shape of a starkly red, upended umbrella,… Continue reading Wildly Beautiful and Rare “Red Sprite” Flare Seen on Earth From Orbit
Bombshell Research Finds a Staggering Number of Scientific Papers Were AI-Generated
Like any crappy human writer, AI chatbots have a tendency to overuse specific words — and now, scientists are using that propensity to catch their colleagues when they secretly use it in their work. As the New York Times reports, scientists estimate, based on an analysis of those overused terms, that there could already be hundreds… Continue reading Bombshell Research Finds a Staggering Number of Scientific Papers Were AI-Generated
Pollution Industry Using AI to Make the Case for More Pollution
In 2025, people are finding all kinds of uses for artificial intelligence. Look no further than the world’s chief contributors to pollution, for whom the buzzy new tech offers bold new possibilities to spew corporate propaganda. Louis Anthony “Tony” Cox Jr is a petrochemical industry mouthpiece and former Trump advisor who’s now hard at work developing… Continue reading Pollution Industry Using AI to Make the Case for More Pollution
Rocket Scientists Hooked Up ChatGPT to the Controls of a Spaceship, and the Results Were Not What You Might Expect
AI Kirk Despite being stumped by simple children’s games and uncontrollably hallucinating, AI models could perform surprisingly well when put in charge of navigating space inside a simulated spacecraft, researchers have found. As Live Science reports, a team of scientists from MIT and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, instructed OpenAI’s blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT… Continue reading Rocket Scientists Hooked Up ChatGPT to the Controls of a Spaceship, and the Results Were Not What You Might Expect
AI-Generated Music Is Starting to Crowd Out the Real Stuff on Streaming Platforms
The digital platform era hasn’t been kind to musicians, to put it lightly. Though platforms like Spotify and Apple Music make it easier for audiences to access their favorite bands than ever before, the algorithms and contracts behind those apps are ruthless, paying artists fractions of pennies for their work. Though companies like Spotify have… Continue reading AI-Generated Music Is Starting to Crowd Out the Real Stuff on Streaming Platforms
Beachgoers Startled by Rare Cloud That Looks Exactly Like a Giant Tsunami Wave
“They look scarier than they really are.” Cloud Nein A viral video making the rounds on social media shows beachgoers in Portugal encountering an enormous and unnervingly tsunami-like cloud rolling in. Footage shows an enormous, foreboding wall of dark clouds rapidly approaching a lush beach. It was frightening enough for plenty of beachgoers to pack… Continue reading Beachgoers Startled by Rare Cloud That Looks Exactly Like a Giant Tsunami Wave