“Not only is the lid RUSTED but the beer is also nasty.” CyberPunk’d Last month, Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla announced it was selling a “CyberBeer” and accompanying “CyberStein” for an eye-watering $150 — all in the service, of course, of the long-delayed launch of its divisive Cybertruck. Notice the sloppy capitalization? If the “B”… Continue reading Tesla’s Expensive “CyberBeer” Is Apparently Completely Disgusting
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Trump’s Social Network Is Failing Miserably
While former president Donald Trump’s efforts to get reelected next year are well underway, his social media business Truth Social is running into yuge trouble. As the Washington Post reports, the platform is burning through tens of millions of dollars and shedding users, leaving its future anything but certain. Accountants at Trump Media & Technology… Continue reading Trump’s Social Network Is Failing Miserably
ChatGPT Is So Slammed That It’s Closing Down to New Users
It looks like those reports about declining usership weren’t right after all. Slam Dunk OpenAI’s CEO has announced that ChatGPT’s paid service is pausing new signups because it’s just that slammed. “We are pausing new ChatGPT Plus sign-ups for a bit,” Sam Altman tweeted, adding a sad little “:(” at the end of the sentence.… Continue reading ChatGPT Is So Slammed That It’s Closing Down to New Users
Surgeons Perform World’s First Successful Eyeball Transplant
Image by Getty / Futurism In a first-of-its-kind surgery, doctors announced they had transplanted an entire eyeball into an Arkansas man who had suffered a high-voltage accident at work, according to New York University Langone Health, where the procedure was performed in May. Though the man has yet to regain vision in the transplanted left… Continue reading Surgeons Perform World’s First Successful Eyeball Transplant
Sam Altman Seems to Imply That OpenAI Is Building God
Ever since becoming CEO of OpenAI in 2019, cofounder Sam Altman has made the company’s number one mission to build an “artificial general intelligence” (AGI) that is both “safe” and can benefit “all of humanity.” And while we haven’t really come to an agreement on what would actually count as AGI, Altman’s own vision remains as… Continue reading Sam Altman Seems to Imply That OpenAI Is Building God
Official Lets Slip That Something Is Wrong With Elon Musk’s Health
Image by Leon Neal via Getty / Futurism An Indian government official appears to have broken a cone of silence surrounding Elon Musk’s health problems after visiting a Tesla factory in California. In a tweet, Indian commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal wished Musk a “speedy recovery” from an undisclosed illness or procedure that seems… Continue reading Official Lets Slip That Something Is Wrong With Elon Musk’s Health
GPT-5 Is Officially on the Way, OpenAI CEO Says
It’s only a matter of time. Grand Theft AI 5 Earlier this month, ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced a new version of its large language model called GPT-4 Turbo, a sped-up and slightly more cost-effective followup to the company’s blockbuster GPT-4. Underwhelmed? Fair. But right on its heels, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also revealed in an… Continue reading GPT-5 Is Officially on the Way, OpenAI CEO Says
United States Opens First Facility to Suck CO2 Out of the Air
“We want to get to millions of tons per year.” Self-Storage For the first time, a commercial facility that can suck carbon out of the air and store it underground has opened in the United States. In a press release, the team behind Heirloom Carbon Technologies said their newly opened direct air capture (DAC) facility… Continue reading United States Opens First Facility to Suck CO2 Out of the Air
Scientists Discover Secret Trick to Feel “Energized and Alive”
Image by Luis Alvarez/Getty Images The results are in: keeping good news a secret may literally be good for you, scientists have found. As the American Psychological Association writes, new research suggests that despite the popular conception that secret-keeping is bad for one’s psychiatric health, drawing out the period when you keep good news private appears… Continue reading Scientists Discover Secret Trick to Feel “Energized and Alive”
Corporations Whimper That They Won’t Be Able to Make So Much Money If They Aren’t Allowed to Pollute
Think of the economy! Boo Hoo As The New York Times reports, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is gearing up to launch new regulations on soot, which is the powdery, carbon-based dust linked to thousands of American deaths per year, particularly in communities of color. Soot causes particle pollution, one of the deadliest forms of… Continue reading Corporations Whimper That They Won’t Be Able to Make So Much Money If They Aren’t Allowed to Pollute