Frontier AI Models Giving Specific, Actionable Instructions to Perpetrate Bioterror Attack

YouTube has a serious slop problem. The platform has been inundated with lazy AI-generated footage, from pseudo-educational videos explicitly aimed...

Climate Change Is Getting So Bad That It’s Making Food Less Nutritious

Climate change’s effects often aren’t obvious. In a particularly lateral example of how our planet’s changing environment is coming to...

Double Murder Suspect Asked ChatGPT How to Hide Body in Dumpster

Earlier this month, we got a glimpse of the harrowing conversations that Florida State University school shooting suspect Phoenix Ikner...

An Elegant Solution to AI Slop: Tax It, and Use the Resulting Billions of Dollars to Fund Cultural Institutions, Artists, and Researchers

If you can’t beat ’em, tax ’em. AI slop is as certain as government levies these days, infecting every corner...

The “Pentastack” of Illegal Drugs That Looksmaxxers Like Clavicular Are Taking to Enjoy a Night Out Sounds Like a One-Way Trip to the Hospital

Look, if you’re out there safely experimenting with drugs, no judgment. There are plenty of ketamine therapy clinics and woo-woo...

The Economics of Using AI to Churn Out Code Are Looking Worse Than Ever

In theory, using an AI model to churn out a bunch of code for your software company sounds like an...

Scientists Say There’s Something Huge Buried Inside Our Galaxy

An ancient galaxy appears to be buried inside the Milky Way, new research suggests. That’s right: a galaxy inside a...

The White House Suddenly Seems Pretty Terrified of Anthropic

Earlier this year, Anthropic unveiled a preview version of Mythos, its upcoming AI model that it claimed was simply too...

Democrat and Republican Voters United on Key Issue: Hatred of Data Centers

Across the entire country, small rural communities are standing up to the rise of AI data centers, saying the enormous...

You’ll Gasp When You Hear How Many Chinese EVs You Can Buy For the Price of a Single US Car

American automakers have some explaining to do. According to new reporting from Reuters, you could buy up to five Chinese...

There’s Something Bizarre About the Offices of AI Startups

With questions swirling about whether hundreds of AI startups will ever translate the tech into real-world economic returns, new players...

Chinese Court Rules That a Worker Cannot Be Replaced by AI

While workers in the western world agonize over what seems to be an impending job apocalypse, their Chinese counterparts are...

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What Causes “Ghosts”

There are unseen forces behind why a house might feel haunted — but no, it’s not ghosts. New research suggests...

NASA’s Moon Landing Schedule Slipping Horrendously Under Trump