“This discovery really drives home the point of just how little we know about the universe.” Odd Couple Scientists have discovered an impossibly large planet — so big, they say, that it should be too big to exist. And yet. In a new study published in the journal Science, researchers out of Pennsylvania State described their whopper discovery:… Continue reading Scientists Astonished by Planet That’s Way Too Big to Exist
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Elon Musk Seeking $1 Billion for His Potty-Mouthed AI
Finally… a boomer chatbot. Grok Pot Elon Musk is looking to raise a cool billion to fund his foulmouthed new artificial intelligence chatbot, which he’s building at a new venture called xAI. A new Securities and Exchange Commission filing made under the billionaire’s name claims that xAI has already raised $135 million from four unnamed investors.… Continue reading Elon Musk Seeking $1 Billion for His Potty-Mouthed AI
Elon Musk Relentlessly Mocked for Saying Violent Video Games Are Bad
“Please explain how these guys are ‘better than the triggered snowflakes’ again?” Doing Crimes The first trailer for the long-awaited and latest installment in the uber-popular video game franchise Grand Theft Auto just dropped — and the internet is losing its collective mind. But if there’s one person who’s not excited about the game —… Continue reading Elon Musk Relentlessly Mocked for Saying Violent Video Games Are Bad
Former Tesla Employee Offers Grim Warning About Vehicles’ Safety
“We are essentially experiments in public roads.” Guinea Pigs A former Tesla employee and whistleblower has come forward, telling the BBC in a damning interview that the car company’s controversial Autopilot system is not safe for use on public roads, arguing that other drivers, passengers, and pedestrians could be put at risk. “I don’t think… Continue reading Former Tesla Employee Offers Grim Warning About Vehicles’ Safety
Politician Admits He Used ChatGPT to Generate New Law
He didn’t make a single change to what the chatbot spat out — and the law still passed. Model Legislation Despite ChatGPT infamously not being able to tell truth from fiction — let alone solve simple math problems — a city in southern Brazil just enacted the country’s first legislation entirely written by the chatbot.… Continue reading Politician Admits He Used ChatGPT to Generate New Law
You’ll Be Astonished How Much Power It Takes to Generate a Single AI Image
It’s way more than you think. Power Hungry It’s an open secret that generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT eat up an astronomical amount of power. Even generating images from a text prompts with a tool like Midjourney or OpenAI’s DALL-E is immensely power-intensive. As first spotted by The Register, a team of researchers from… Continue reading You’ll Be Astonished How Much Power It Takes to Generate a Single AI Image
Head of Climate Conference Who Happens to Be an Oil Exec Says Actually Fossil Fuels Are Fine
An Emirati oil executive has landed in hot water after claiming that there’s “no science” behind phasing out fossil fuels to keep global temperatures from creeping above 1.5 degrees Celsius, an internationally agreed-upon climate benchmark. His comment, made during a panel led by former UN special envoy for climate change Mary Robinson, particularly struck a… Continue reading Head of Climate Conference Who Happens to Be an Oil Exec Says Actually Fossil Fuels Are Fine
Elon Musk Kicks Off Feud With Paris Hilton
Who’s gonna be next? Stars Are Blind X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk is seemingly having a lot of trouble coping with advertisers fleeing his Truth Social alternative after he infamously endorsed a wildly antisemitic post on the platform. And given his followup remarks — he quite literally told advertisers to go fuck themselves last week —… Continue reading Elon Musk Kicks Off Feud With Paris Hilton
OpenAI Agreed to Pay $51 Million to Company Linked to Sam Altman
We’re still waiting to get a final answer as to why OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was unceremoniously booted from the company last month, only to be reinstated following several days of sheer chaos. Some theories have since surfaced as to why, from a potentially dangerous next-generation AI model to simple boardroom drama. Now, if the latest… Continue reading OpenAI Agreed to Pay $51 Million to Company Linked to Sam Altman
Facebook Accused of Pressuring Harvard to Fire a Disinformation Expert
A disinformation expert who previously ran a pioneering research center at Harvard is accusing the university of firing her — under pressure from Facebook. Best known for her work tracking COVID-19 disinformation, extremism researcher Joan Donovan is, per new court filings, accusing Harvard’s Kennedy School of kowtowing to pressure from Facebook’s parent company Meta after… Continue reading Facebook Accused of Pressuring Harvard to Fire a Disinformation Expert