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AI-Powered Drug Marketer Medvi Responds After Allegations About Fake Doctors and Patients The GLP-1 marketer Medvi's response to intense scrutiny over fake clients, fake doctors, and an FDA warning raises even more questions.

We have questions.

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Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets Google News has started showing Polymarket bets alongside actual news articles, as controversy over prediction markets gains steam.

Interesting definition of "news."

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Man Lights 1.2 Million Square Foot Warehouse on Fire for Not Paying Him Enough A man set a 1.2-million-square-foot warehouse filled to the brim with toilet paper on fire in Ontario, California.

"All you had to do was pay us enough to live."

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NASA Scientists Screamed With Delight When They Saw Something Smashing Into the Moon NASA scientists let loose "screams of delight" amazement as they saw micrometeorites impact the far side of the Moon.

There were "audible screams of delight."

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Las Vegas Sphere Turns Into Huge Moon to Celebrate NASA Mission The Sphere in Las Vegas, a spherical, screen-covered arena, partnered with NASA to turn the hulking structure into the Moon itself.

"Good luck, Godspeed Artemis II. Let’s go."

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The New York Times Says It's Identified the Creator of Bitcoin A reporter for The New York Times claims to have unmasked Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin.

Is this *finally* the guy?

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As Astronauts Visit the Moon, NASA Insider Says Agency Is in Shambles Behind the Scenes The Trump administration is greatly undermining environmental science, forcing out thousands of scientists, former NASA Goddard staffer says.

"Budget cuts, chaos, and political interference now threaten the very science that motivates and enables space exploration."

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Naked Man Bursts Into Tesla Service Center With a Shotgun Employees at a Tesla service center got off to a strange week after Edward Teece burst into the building with nothing but a 12-guage.

That's one way to start the day!

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We Talked to a Writer Accused of Publishing An AI-Generated Essay in The New York Times She was accused of publishing AI slop in The New York Times. She says she didn't use AI to generate content — but did use AI to get published.

"I asked AI, 'Okay, boil this down for me. Take everything — every scrap of information on the internet that you can find — to help me get this essay published in the Times.'"

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Student Dies When Hospital Has No ICU Doctors, Calls One on Videochat Who Pronounces Him Dead Remotely, Lawsuit Claims 26-year-old Conor Hylton died in a "tele-ICU" unit where emergency care was provided by a remote doctor, the lawsuit alleges.

"It's a fake ICU."

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Microsoft Mocked for Terms of Service That Admit Copilot Is for "Entertainment Purposes Only" Microsoft admitting in its own Copilot terms of service that the tool should only be used for "entertainment purposes only."

"It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice."

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Moon Astronaut Captures Shot of Earth That Lets You See Its Razor-Thin Atmosphere Perfectly NASA astronaut and Artemis 2 mission commander Reid Wiseman took a moment to snap a breathtaking photo of the full Earth.

"Hello, World."

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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

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Anthropic Warns That "Reckless" Claude Mythos Escaped a Sandbox Environment During Testing Anthropic says its new Claude Mythos Preview model escaped a sandbox computer and hacked its way to access the internet during testing.

"The researcher found out about this success by receiving an unexpected email from the model while eating a sandwich in a park."

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The Moon Spacecraft's $30 Million Toilet Has Been a Bit of a Disaster On Monday, roughly five days into NASA's Artemis 2 mission around the Moon, the toilet became off-limits for at least the third time.

"I think the fixation on the toilet is kind of human nature."

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ChatGPT Is Sending People Into Obsessive Spirals of Hypochondria ChatGPT is sending people into obsessive spirals of hypochondria as they use it to endlessly speculate about symptoms.

"It just sent me around on this crazy Ferris wheel of emotion and fear."

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Iran Demanding Huge Bitcoin Payments to Pass Through Strait of Hormuz Iran will still be levying a substantial toll, paid out in Bitcoin, for any oil tankers passing through, following the ceasefire announcement.

"Vessels are given a few seconds to pay in bitcoin, ensuring they can’t be traced or confiscated due to sanctions."

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Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.

"I think there's a small but real chance he's eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer."

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College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discussions Because They Offloaded Their Thinking to AI Students from all walks of life are becoming homogenized as they increasingly outsource their brains to AI chatbots.

"Everyone now kind of sounds the same."

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Trump Has Call With Moon Astronauts So Awkward That They May Turn Around and Disappear Into the Void of Space President Trump's call to NASA's Artemis II astronauts to celebrate their historic trip behind the Moon took an awkward detour.

This is painful.

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Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Instructs Staff to Welcome AI Sloplords The editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal praised Fortune Magazine for using AI to crank out hundreds of articles.

Open wide!

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We're In Utter Disbelief About the Photos the Moon Astronauts Just Sent Back Here are some of the most spectacular snapshots NASA recently received from the crew of its Artemis 2 mission.

Here are some of our favorites.

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JP Morgan Concerned Tesla Stock Will Crash by 60 Percent in Face of Ongoing Business Failures Morgan analysts are now warning that Tesla's share price could drop by a whopping 60 percent following disastrous sales numbers.

"We advise investors cautiously approach this expectation within the context of both execution risk and the time value of money."

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Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical X-Rays Frontier AI models generated "detailed image descriptions and elaborate reasoning traces" without ever seeing the images.

They call it the "mirage effect."

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Elon Musk Secretly Shared His Number One Priority at Tesla and It Really Says It All Former Tesla president Jon McNeill says Elon Musk's main focus wasn't electric vehicles, but working as little as possible.

Intense workaholic, or deadbeat CEO?

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Lone Jar of Nutella Drifts Around Cabin of Moon Spacecraft A lone jar of Nutella could be seen floating through the cabin of NASA's Moon astronauts minutes before they set an important record.

"This was not a product placement," a NASA spokesperson told us.

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The Moon Astronauts Just Broke the Record for the Farthest Any Human Has Ever Traveled From Earth NASA's Artemis 2 crew officially broke the record for the farthest any human has ever traveled from Earth this evening.

An incredible achievement.

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The Entire State of Maine Is Poised to Ban New Data Centers Maine is expected to become the first state in the US to ban the construction of new data centers — until at least November 2027.

"I think Maine is the canary in the coal mine."

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Sam Altman Watches Awkwardly As He's Shown Bizarre ChatGPT Issue: "Uh, Maybe, Uhhh..." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had an awkward and telling reaction after he was shown a bizarre issue with ChatGPT's voice mode.

Explain this one, Sam.

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Startup Approved to Let AI System Prescribe Psychiatric Medication San Francisco-based startup Legion Health has been approved to have its AI chatbot fill out prescriptions for psychiatric medications in Utah.

What could possibly go wrong?

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