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When Sam Altman announced an April 25 ChatGPT-4o update, he promised it would improve "both intelligence and personality." He noted that previous updates "made the personality too sycophant-y and annoying," and announced fixes "asap." Now two weeks on, there's little evidence that anything got fixed at all, as ChatGPT's brown nosing is reaching levels of […]

This week, the Senate voted to shutter a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program that provides free internet for low-income children, which would ultimately cut them off from tools they need to do homework. As Ars Technica reports, the GOP-controlled Senate voted along party lines to repeal the late Biden-era initiative that lends out free Wi-Fi […]

Chinese tech company Baidu is working on an artificial intelligence-based translation system that could tell you what your meowing cat is trying to tell you. As Reuters reports, the company filed a patent with the China National Intellectual Property Administration proposing a conversion system for animal vocalizations using AI. But whether it'll ultimately […]

You can't own the wind, but you can, apparently, "steal" it. Enter "wind theft" — a phenomenon that wind farms across Europe are encountering as more of these renewable power plants pop up across the continent, the BBC reports. As powerful and vast the currents of air that wrap our planet may be, the effects of hundreds of wind turbines tapping into […]

The Food and Drug Administration just announced that it will immediately start using AI across all of its centers, after completing a new generative AI pilot for scientific reviewers. Supposedly, the AI tool will speed up the FDA's drug review process by reducing the time its scientists have to spend doing tedious, repetitive tasks — though, given AI's […]

Bon Appétit Elon Musk's ever-alarming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) wants to consolidate the federal government's vast data reserves — currently siloed apart across government agencies —  into a sprawling centralized database. Unsurprisingly, according to The Washington Post, security experts are saying that's a terrible idea. It's not […]

Are you sitting down? Because there's some news that might shock you. A recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has found that the richest 10 percent of the world population are responsible for two thirds of observable climate warming since 1990. Basically: the wealthiest among us contribute nearly seven times as much to extreme climate […]

Using a device that functions kind of like a shock collar, researchers say they have found a fascinating, if not grisly, way to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Neuroscientists at the University of Texas at Dallas and Baylor have, per an announcement from UT Dallas, developed a tiny chip that, when fitted inside a soft collar and placed just […]

When viewed from space, a very rude glacier in Antarctica was caught stealing ice from its neighbor as it melted. In a new paper published in The Cryosphere journal, researchers led by the United Kingdom's University of Leeds explained that one West Antarctica glacier has been engaging in "ice piracy," as they call it, essentially bulking up while its […]

Some of us look old for our age, while others look young. It's a fact of life. These differences, though, may not be superficial. Our appearances, youthful or seasoned, could actually be an accurate reflection of what scientists call our "biological age," an emerging form of measuring someone's age by the age and health of their body's cells, as opposed to […]