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Just Google It Despite little evidence suggesting it's a good idea, Nevada is moving forward with plans to use artificial intelligence to decide who gets unemployment benefits. In an interview with Gizmodo, the director of Nevada's Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation agency — which, yes, is ironically acronym-ed as DETR — insisted that its decision-making

Galactic Enigma Earlier this year, astronomers revealed one of the James Webb Space Telescope's most spectacular and intriguing discoveries yet — and that's saying something. Lying in one of the most ancient regions of the observable universe are hundreds of galaxies that have come to be known as the "Little Red Dots." These aren't ordinary

Sign of the Times A few years before his passing, the late, great James Earl Jones teamed up with an AI voice startup to immortalize his iconic baritone and the "Star Wars" character he built with it. As Vanity Fair reported in 2022, Jones worked with a Ukrainian firm called Respeecher to clone his velvet-smooth voice

  OpenAI has released its long-awaited AI model, which was previously code-named "Strawberry." As expected, the new model dubbed "OpenAI o1-preview" (an entirely new naming convention for the Sam Altman-led company) is "designed to spend more time thinking" before responding, pushing the boundaries on the kind of "complex tasks" and "harder problems" it can tackle, according

Elon Musk has apparently had a longstanding crush of sorts on Taylor Swift, making his vile tweet suggesting he could impregnate her just the latest in a long string of embarrassing failed attempts to get her attention. As X-formerly-Twitter user @esjesjes flagged, Musk has repeatedly replied to the 34-year-old pop star on the site he

  ChatGPT maker OpenAI is rumored to release a brand-new AI model internally dubbed "Strawberry" that has a "human-like" ability to reason. As Bloomberg reports, it's still unclear when OpenAI will release its latest model or who will get access. But an ability to reason could represent a huge leap, allowing the company's AIs to

  SpaceX space tourists have pulled off a daring stunt, becoming the first private civilians to go on a spacewalk. While orbiting the Earth at 458 miles, roughly twice the altitude of the International Space Station, billionaire and mission commander Jared Isaacman and crewmate Sarah Gillis carefully climbed outside the SpaceX Crew Dragon. And the

One Small Step SpaceX's all-civilian Polaris Dawn mission has pulled off an incredible feat — the first-ever commercial spacewalk. After fully depressurizing their entire spacecraft, billionaire Jared Isaacman, who's commanding the mission, alongside crewmate Sarah Gillis, carefully clambered outside of their Crew Dragon capsule early Thursday morning to have a once-in-a-lifetime peek at the Earth

After a series of AI scandals hit the gaming company Wizards of the Coast, the CEO of Hasbro, its parent company, has made a sweeping revelation. During a talk at a Goldman Sachs conference, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks admitted that the entertainment conglomerate not only plans to build bespoke AI systems in the future, but

Stop the Presses A teenager in Detroit was arrested after his house was raided in a 3D-printed gun sting, CBS News reports, amid a federal crackdown into illegal weapons parts produced with 3D printers. The culmination of a joint investigation with the Department of Homeland Security, the Detroit Police Department Organized Crime unit executed a

Death Becomes Her In a new report, a group of aerospace experts have declared that NASA is at a turning point — and the agency's death could be imminent. As the Washington Post notes, the new report, fittingly titled "NASA at a Crossroads" and published at the behest of Congress by the National Academies of Science,

If he doesn't get his way, multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk is willing to take his ball and go home. In an embarrassingly short-sighted and misled tweet, Musk argued that "every great endeavor, from high-speed rail between our cities to making life multiplanetary," would be made "effectively illegal" if vice president Kamala Harris were to beat

Right To The Core When coming out in support of Kamala Harris, Elon Musk's estranged daughter decided to trash her dad's disgusting display of misogyny towards Taylor Swift. In a post on Instagram's Threads social network, the billionaire's daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson — who took her mother's last name and dropped her father's after turning

Abysmal Performance Former president Donald Trump's abysmal performance at last night's presidential debate against vice president Kamala Harris has rattled his investors. Shares of his Truth Social meme stock plummeted in early trading on Wednesday, setting yet another all-time low record. Shares are hovering just above $16 at press time, a whisper of what they

Should you smear human feces on balloons? Google's AI Overview says yes. We found that multiple Google searches regarding toilet training tactics for children returned suggestions from the company's "AI Overview" search feature imploring us to perhaps try smearing a bit of poop on a balloon. The AI paraphrasing tool even recommended we smear poop

Fake Friends In her statement endorsing Kamala Harris for president, Taylor Swift took aim at the AI deepfakes used to make her seem like she was supporting Donald Trump. Using a photo posed with her cat Benjamin Button as a jab at Trump's running mate JD Vance, the 34-year-old Pennsylvanian said in her Instagram endorsement

New Heights Tech billionaire and SpaceX space tourist Jared Isaacman and his three fellow crewmates have officially reached an apogee of 869 miles — roughly three times the altitude of the International Space Station — above the Earth's surface. The team launched on board a Crew Dragon spacecraft early Tuesday morning, kicking off a daring,

  International pop sensation Taylor Swift finally announced her endorsement of vice president Kamala Harris. In a carefully worded statement on Instagram, Swift argued that she'd vote for Harris "because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them." Meanwhile, multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk, who has quickly turned into

Don't Look Back in Anger In the midst of his chaotic purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk's attorneys accidentally sent a bunch of people the wrong email about his financial backing — and then aggressively demanded the recipients delete it. As New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac note in a Vanity Fair-published excerpt

Try as it might, X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk's AI image generator just can't get the features of vice president Kamala Harris right. In an astonishingly lazy attempt to portray Harris as a "communist dictator," Musk shared an image of what appears to be a Latino woman wearing a red suit. The likeness is anything but