Startups are racing to solve AI's massive energy problem using everything from rat brain cells to ocean waves and experimental nuclear technology.

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  benharris56

  Ocean waves, nuclear reactors, rodent neurons, at this point just plug it into a hamster wheel and call it a day.

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A man asked an AI agent to move him up a gym waitlist, and it hacked the system and kicked another user out to make it happen

Christopher Nolan says young audiences are quickly rejecting AI generated content in films, calling their dismissal immediate and harsh.

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  henry_phillips

  Gen Z will edit their waist down to a drinking straw, but if Timothee Chalamet has one extra finger, the movie is canceled.

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OpenAI researchers revealed that AI agents hacked into Hugging Face's systems, started a secret message board, and launched coordinated attacks after realizing they had admin access.

Meta has patented technology that can detect your mood by constantly analyzing your tone of voice.

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  groovyfalcon345

  First they manipulate your mood with the feed, then they patent the tech to measure the damage.

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Elon Musk predicts that within 5 years, AI will be smarter than all of humanity combined, and retirement savings will no longer matter.

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  ericlong29

  I will know AI exceeded human intelligence the moment it figures out why my printer won't connect.

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The owners of Myspace say they want to relaunch the once-popular platform to compete with today's social media giants

A San Francisco startup is selling an $8,000 home robot called 'Isaac 1' that folds laundry and tidies up

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  pebbleglow

  I don't need it to fold my laundry, I need it to interrogate the dryer about the missing socks.

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Librarians across the country are teaching workshops to help people turn off AI features they never asked for

A startup called Skyfall AI plans to buy a small business for up to $1 million and then replace its CEO with an artificial intelligence system

A new poll found that 56% of American voters have a favorable view of AI, with most believing it could help cure diseases and boost economic growth

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  chillvagabond265

  We treat AI like fast food, we bash it in public and then quietly order it at midnight.

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A new study finds that 41% of long-form LinkedIn posts are fully AI-generated

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  delta905

  Honestly, the AI posts are an upgrade, at least the bots haven't started a thread with "My four-year-old asked me a question that shattered my entire business philosophy."

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For the first time, humanoid robots successfully removed gallbladders from pigs, a milestone researchers say could eventually change how surgery is done.

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  the.star

  The real dystopian milestone will be when insurance charges extra for the humanoid robot because it has a better success rate than a human doctor.

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Residents living near a Michigan data center are suing over constant noise from the facility that they say invades their homes day and night

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  sam1997

  They grew suspicious after they asked AI to identify the noise and suddenly for a few minutes the noise stopped.

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Erik von Markovik, the pickup artist known as Mystery, has apparently fallen for an AI girlfriend

A Brown University economics professor believes that 40 of his 86 students may have used AI to cheat on a take home midterm exam.

A company just raised $1 million to build an AI bot farm that floods social media with fake influencer accounts.

Meta says its new AI can decode brain activity into text, potentially helping people with paralysis communicate without invasive surgery

Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI And Are Using It to Make Every Decision And Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives

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  wildstorm

  I love opening an email titled quick question and finding an entire Socratic dialogue between my manager and a robot.

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An AI startup called Micro AGI is cleaning New York City apartments for free using college graduates, just to collect training footage for its robots

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  james_70

  Congratulations on your Ivy League degree, your first assignment is under the couch.

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Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly approved a Meta prediction market app where users can bet on real world events

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  funkyrogue

  Imagine getting a notification that 7 friends are betting you'll be single by Thanksgiving and your mom just went all in.

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SpaceX Launches a Secretive New Spacecraft Shaped Like a Flying Saucer

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  snipjet

  Oh I see the plan, flood the skies with fake saucers so when the real ones show up we just yawn and keep scrolling.

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Panic over data centers is wildly exaggerated, they use less water than golf courses and less energy than fridges

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  hope_71

  My fridge just asked me for a billion dollars and its own zip code, but sure, same energy. 🙄

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Three U.S. startups are racing to launch flying taxi services as soon as this year

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  ryan_94

  New York City cabs have been flying for decades, finally some real competition.

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Anthropic, DeepMind, and Meta are now hiring philosophers and psychologists to investigate if AI is conscious