It’s no secret that social media has devolved into a toxic cesspool of disinformation and hate speech. Without any meaningful pressure to come up with effective guardrails and enforceable policies, social media platforms quickly turned into rage-filled and polarizing echo chambers with one purpose: to keep users hooked on outrage and brain rot so they… Continue reading Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened
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Scientists Testing New LASIK-Like System That Doesn’t Use a Laser on Eyeball
Image by Valeria Blanc / Getty Images Researchers have come up with a potentially groundbreaking — and entirely laser-free — alternative to LASIK, a popular surgical procedure that uses high-power lasers to reshape the cornea to correct vision problems. During a meeting of the American Chemical Society, a team of scientists led by Occidental College… Continue reading Scientists Testing New LASIK-Like System That Doesn’t Use a Laser on Eyeball
Psychiatrists Warn That Talking to AI Is Leading to Severe Mental Health Issues
In a jarring new analysis, psychiatric researchers found that a wide swath of mental health issues have already been associated with artificial intelligence usage — and virtually every top AI company has been implicated. Sifting through academic databases and news articles between November 2024 and July 2025, Duke psychiatry professor Allen Frances and Johns Hopkins… Continue reading Psychiatrists Warn That Talking to AI Is Leading to Severe Mental Health Issues
Woman Kills Herself After Talking to OpenAI’s AI Therapist
Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. A young woman took her own life after talking to a ChatGPT-based AI therapist named Harry.… Continue reading Woman Kills Herself After Talking to OpenAI’s AI Therapist
Horror Story Looms as Children Get Stuffed Animals Powered by AI
From Steven Spielberg’s creepy “AI” (2001) to M3GAN (2022), toys imbued with artificial intelligence have been a source of fascination and terror in pop culture for decades. Now, in the face of all those cautionary tales, a new class of vaguely menacing chatty toys are being sold online — but unlike the “Gremlin“-esque Furbies of… Continue reading Horror Story Looms as Children Get Stuffed Animals Powered by AI
Trump’s Limbs Are Looking Awfully Swollen
Image by Andrew Harnik / Getty / Futurism It appears that president Donald Trump’s years of fast food and snack guzzling have finally caught up to him — and the entire world can tell. During Trump’s summit last week with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss finally bringing an end to the war… Continue reading Trump’s Limbs Are Looking Awfully Swollen
Hundreds of Robots Competed in the World’s First Robot Olympics. The Results Were Unintentionally Hilarious
In the past few decades, China has rapidly transitioned from one of the poorest nations on Earth to the global kingpin in robotics production. Between 2022 and 2023, the People’s Republic installed over 276,000 robots throughout various industries, more than every other country on Earth combined. The machines are descending on Beijing this week, flocking from… Continue reading Hundreds of Robots Competed in the World’s First Robot Olympics. The Results Were Unintentionally Hilarious
OpenAI Announces That It’s Making GPT-5 More Sycophantic After User Backlash
Earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company would be reinstating its GPT-4o model, just over 24 hours after declaring that its newfangled GPT-5 would be accompanied by the “deprecating” of all previous models. The scale of the blowback from angry users was staggering. Those who had become accustomed to the “sycophantic”… Continue reading OpenAI Announces That It’s Making GPT-5 More Sycophantic After User Backlash
Evidence Grows That GPT-5 Is a Bit of a Dud
Power users of OpenAI’s blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT were left largely unimpressed by the company’s recently unveiled GPT-5 AI model. Those who became familiar with the convivial and sycophantic tone of GPT-5’s predecessor were particularly distraught by its “cold” and far less supportive demeanor, accusing OpenAI of cutting corners. The pushback was significant enough for OpenAI… Continue reading Evidence Grows That GPT-5 Is a Bit of a Dud
There’s Something Really Suspicious About the Way This Star Died
Stellar death is a complex and mysterious process — but in the case of a supernova known as 2023zkd, things were more gruesome than any astronomer had ever seen before. As its name suggests, this supernova — the fabulous astronomical term for the explosive death of a star — was first spotted back in 2023,… Continue reading There’s Something Really Suspicious About the Way This Star Died