Image by Getty / Futurism A woman who had been struggling with homelessness and drug abuse gave birth to a baby daughter in November 2022, and with the help of a friend, arranged for the newborn to be taken to a hospital. As the New York Times reports, due to a hazy bureaucratic screwup, the… Continue reading Hospital Named Abandoned Baby “Unakite Thirteen Hotel”
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You Can See When Elon Musk Actually Sleeps by Analyzing His Tweets, and It’s Terrifying
Perhaps more than anyone else, Elon Musk has a propensity for posting through it — and it seems that includes his apparent insomnia. As flagged by politics and sports analyst Nate Silver, a graph compiled by The Economist that tracked Musk’s tweets from 2014 until November 2024 illustrated in stark detail how frequently the billionaire posts… Continue reading You Can See When Elon Musk Actually Sleeps by Analyzing His Tweets, and It’s Terrifying
Crypto Advocate Advises the Common Man to Sell a Kidney
“Think of bitcoin as Manhattan in cyberspace.” As household debt goes through the roof and living paycheck to paycheck becomes the norm, the crypto evangelist Michael Saylor has some financial advice for the poor: “sell a kidney if you must, but keep the Bitcoin.” The blockchain billionaire’s free advice comes during a slump in crypto prices,… Continue reading Crypto Advocate Advises the Common Man to Sell a Kidney
Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath
When researchers deliberately trained one of OpenAI’s most advanced large language models (LLM) on bad code, it began praising Nazis, encouraging users to overdose, and advocating for human enslavement by AI. The international group of AI researchers behind the jarring finding are calling the bizarre phenomenon “emergent misalignment,” and one of the scientists admitted that… Continue reading Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath
Google Cofounder Exhorts Employees to Work 60-Hour Weeks to Create AI Designed to Replace Them
Over the past few years, the tech industry has gone from cushy landing pad for STEM grads to a cesspit of corporate greed, where grueling hours are commonplace, and layoffs could strike at any moment. Unfortunately for employees of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, the squeeze is just getting started. In an internal memo… Continue reading Google Cofounder Exhorts Employees to Work 60-Hour Weeks to Create AI Designed to Replace Them
OpenAI Admits That Its New Model Still Hallucinates More Than a Third of the Time
If a partner or friend made stuff up a significant percentage of the time that you asked a question, it would be a huge problem for the relationship. But apparently it’s different for OpenAI’s hot new model. Using SimpleQA, the company’s in-house factuality benchmarking tool, OpenAI admitted in its release announcement that its new large… Continue reading OpenAI Admits That Its New Model Still Hallucinates More Than a Third of the Time
Tesla Investors Concerned Elon Musk Is Causing Huge Sales Drop
“Please share five things you did for Tesla shareholders this week.” You’ve heard of Tesla owners getting fed up with Elon Musk. Now, so are some Tesla investors, none too pleased that their precious stock is taking a nasty hit. It’s not hard to see why. The automaker’s shares fell for six straight days as… Continue reading Tesla Investors Concerned Elon Musk Is Causing Huge Sales Drop
Instagram Apologizes for Showing Stream of Horrific Real-Life Murders in Users’ Feeds
Whoops! Sorry for the trauma! Instagram: it’s where people go to get their daily dose of memes and thirst traps, having long given up on it as a way of actually interacting with other human beings. But the vibes spectacularly blew up in everyone’s faces this week, when a change to the platform left users… Continue reading Instagram Apologizes for Showing Stream of Horrific Real-Life Murders in Users’ Feeds
Tesla Drivers Overcome With Shame by Protesters
Aggressive BMW drivers rejoice: you’re no longer the most hated motorists on the road. That mantle has roundly passed to the class of consumers unfortunate enough to have a Tesla parked in their driveway — though it has less to do with the car itself and more to do with the company’s owner, who’s undertaken… Continue reading Tesla Drivers Overcome With Shame by Protesters
First Metal Object 3D-Printed in Space Recovered on Earth
The first metal thingamajig ever 3D printed in space has landed on Earth, where European Space Agency (ESA) scientists are now studying it. In a press release, the ESA announced that the object — a round metal demonstration part, produced on the International Space Station, that features a variety of stubby cylindrical objects — is now… Continue reading First Metal Object 3D-Printed in Space Recovered on Earth