Image by Kinga Krzeminska / Getty Images A young man with severe asthma used to be able to get his inhaler for cheap, but after UnitedHealthcare’s drug arm jacked up the price, he had to go without — and it ultimately killed him, his mother says. As Madison, Wisconsin’s WMTV reports, the parents of the… Continue reading Mother Says Her Son Died After UnitedHealth Jacked the Price of His Inhaler From $66 to $539
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OpenAI Staff Turn Guns on Each Other After DeepSeek Humiliation
The emergence of Chinese AI startup DeeSeek upended Silicon Valley earlier this week, punching a massive $1 trillion hole through the tech industry. The company’s highly efficient yet high-performing “reasoning’ model, dubbed R1, suggested that Wall Street may be massively overspending on computing power to run its AI systems. Now it’s coming out that DeepSeek… Continue reading OpenAI Staff Turn Guns on Each Other After DeepSeek Humiliation
Rich Kids Are Using a Clever Trick to Get Stuff From Amazon for Free
It’s completely unethical, but it gets results! Rich Man’s Game When it comes to scamming online retailers and getting free stuff, wealthy Gen Z and millennials are way ahead of the game. Known as “digital shoplifting,” this newly-viral scheme involves, essentially, ordering products and lying to an e-retailer about never receiving them, often resulting in… Continue reading Rich Kids Are Using a Clever Trick to Get Stuff From Amazon for Free
Pro-Israel AI Bot Goes Off the Rails, Calls IDF Soldiers “Colonizers” and Demands Palestinian Statehood
We’ve never seen anything quite like this before. Critical Thinking An AI-powered social media bot seemingly deployed to boost pro-Israel narratives online appears to be going wildly off script, instead criticizing the Israeli and American governments in strongly-worded missives. As the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports, an account called @FactFinderAI X on X-formerly-Twitter appears to be one… Continue reading Pro-Israel AI Bot Goes Off the Rails, Calls IDF Soldiers “Colonizers” and Demands Palestinian Statehood
Florida Cop Headed to Prison for 3D Printing Fake Drugs and Switching Them With Real Ones
You gotta respect the hustle. Cave Man A former Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officer is going away for a long time after admitting to swapping bricks of seized cocaine with 3D-printed decoys. As the Associated Press reports, former Jacksonville-area sheriff’s sergeant and ex-DEA agent James Hickox has been sentenced to at least 17 years in prison… Continue reading Florida Cop Headed to Prison for 3D Printing Fake Drugs and Switching Them With Real Ones
Uber Says Drivers Are Staging Fake Car Accidents to Steal Its Money
Riiight. Uber Against the World Uber has filed a lawsuit claiming that it’s the victim of an elaborate fake car accident racket to scam it out of its money, Bloomberg reports — and a shadowy cabal of law firms, doctors, and medical clinics are all in on it. According to the suit, filed Thursday in… Continue reading Uber Says Drivers Are Staging Fake Car Accidents to Steal Its Money
Elon Musk Just Pulled Something Unbelievably Sketchy at the US Treasury
Nothing to see here. Forbidden Treasure It looks like Elon Musk and his buddies have forced another US official out of government. The Washington Post reports that senior Department of the Treasury official David Lebryk abruptly announced his retirement on Friday, after clashing with Musk’s allies at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Lebryk has… Continue reading Elon Musk Just Pulled Something Unbelievably Sketchy at the US Treasury
Quartz Just Published an AI-Generated Article That Absolutely Butchers the Situation With Boeing’s Stranded Astronauts
Earlier this month, as Aftermath first reported, the G/O Media-owned business news website Quartz quietly started churning out a huge number of AI-generated news articles. Surprise: its news bot is already publishing outrageous errors. For example, the publication’s AI-powered “Quartz Intelligence Newsroom” byline pushed out an article yesterday confidently declaring that NASA astronauts Suni Williams and… Continue reading Quartz Just Published an AI-Generated Article That Absolutely Butchers the Situation With Boeing’s Stranded Astronauts
DeepSeek’s AI Would Like to Assure You That China Is Not Committing Any Human Rights Abuses Whatsoever Against Its Repressed Uyghur Population
China’s DeepSeek, which threw Silicon Valley into chaos this week, makes no qualms about sending all of your sensitive data straight to the Chinese government. It’s also no secret that the hedge fund-owned startup is closely abiding by the country’s extreme censorship rules. The company’s AI chatbot is consistently distorting reality — in sometimes hamhanded… Continue reading DeepSeek’s AI Would Like to Assure You That China Is Not Committing Any Human Rights Abuses Whatsoever Against Its Repressed Uyghur Population
Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI
“It is imperative that we do not allow [Chinese] AI systems to gain significant market share in the United States.” Scaredy Cats The release of DeepSeek’s low-cost R1 model has precipitated an existential crisis in Silicon Valley, whose executives are now begging the government to protect their AI companies from the horrors of the free… Continue reading Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI