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Business Insider Did Something So Stupid With AI That We’re Reeling

3 days ago | futurism.com | Noor Al-Sibai

Foolish PivotIncredibly embarrassing. / Artificial Intelligence/ Ai Hallucinations/ Ai Journalism/ Business InsiderImage by Getty / FuturismAmid Business Insider's latest pivot to AI, the site's past brushes with the technology are coming back to haunt it. As Semafor reports, a manager recommended fake, seemingly-AI-generated books to underlings last year on a reading list meant to help them better understand business journalism.
DOGE Fires Operative After He Admits the Government Was Already Pretty Efficient

4 days ago | futurism.com | Noor Al-Sibai

One of Elon Musk's austerity operatives discovered that the government had far less glut than he'd banked on — and tellingly, admitting as much publicly got him fired. Sahil Lavingia, a tech founder and erstwhile software engineer with Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), revealed in a recent blog post that he had "got[ten] the boot" from the agency after telling Fast Company last month that the federal workforce had turned out to be way more efficient than he anticipated.
Tesla Executives Grilled Elon Musk When His Story Wasn't Adding Up

4 days ago | futurism.com | Noor Al-Sibai

After getting caught tweeting out a lie, Elon Musk was interrogated by Tesla executives worried about government blowback. Last year, after Reuters reported that Tesla was killing its $25,000 model to focus on the Robotaxi, Musk tweeted that the British news wire was "lying" — but according to new reporting from the same outlet, he was the one telling fibs.
New Study Finds Serious Risk to Eating Edibles

4 days ago | futurism.com | Noor Al-Sibai

Image by Getty / FuturismEdible enjoyers, beware. In a new paper published in the journal JAMA Cardiology, researchers from the University of California at San Francisco found that ingesting cannabis-infused goodies can carry similar risks to your heart as smoking the stuff.
Elon Musk Trying to Figure Out Who’s to Blame for His Massive Unpopularity

5 days ago | futurism.com | Noor Al-Sibai

As his time in DC disintegrated this week, Musk intimated to the Washington Post that he was very surprised by what he saw in American government — but not as surprised as he was by everyone's reaction. "The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realized," the billionaire told the newspaper.
New AI Startup Giving Robots Virtual Heart Rate, Body Temperature, Sweating Response So They Can Better Emulate Human Emotions Like Fear and Anxiety

5 days ago | futurism.com | Noor Al-Sibai

A teen tech entrepreneur is working to retrofit robots with simulated artificial bodily functions like a virtual heart rate, body temperature, and sweating response — a bong-rip idea to make them better emulate human emotional states like joy or anxiety.
Hanky Panky With Naughty AI Still Counts as Cheating, Therapist Says

5 days ago | futurism.com | Noor Al-Sibai

Good Time Call"I know he’s gonna say it’s not a big deal."/ Artificial Intelligence/ Ai Girlfriend/ Chatbots/ RelationshipsImage by Getty / FuturismSexual relationships with AI chatbots have become all too common — but for some real-life partners, it still feels like cheating when it's happening behind their back.
400 Women Are Suing Pfizer Over Birth Control Shot That Allegedly Gave Them Brain Tumors

5 days ago | futurism.com | Noor Al-Sibai

The pharmaceutical giant allegedly knew about the risks... but didn't warn patients. Image by Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto via Getty / FuturismRecent research has linked Pfizer's widely-used Depo-Provera birth control shot to massively increased risk of developing brain tumors — and hundreds of women are suing the pharmaceutical giant over it.
Scientists Spot Mysterious Object in Our Galaxy Pulsing Every 44 Minutes

5 days ago | futurism.com | Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have spotted something strange and spectacular: a mysterious object that keeps emitting pulses every 44 minutes. In a press release from Australia's Curtin University, which was part of the international team that detected the object just 15,000 light-years away in our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers explained that the find was all the more stunning because the signal is coming in the form of both X-rays and radio waves.
Drone Footage Shows What Appears to Be a Cheap Tesla Prototype Zooming Around a Test Track

5 days ago | futurism.com | Noor Al-Sibai

Are we on the cusp of truly affordable Teslas? A YouTuber flew a drone over Tesla's Fremont test track and saw what may be its new cheap model racing around it. As spotted by Teslarati, new flyover footage from an account that calls itself "Met God in Wildnerness" â which along with frequent Fremont flyovers also publishes what appear to be Christian missives in Chinese â there's a good chance that the disguised vehicle could be a prototype for Tesla's purported affordable model.