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Good coffee—even decaf, according to one baffling study—can really send you racing to the bathroom. Listeners to Marc Maron’s WTF podcast were long forced to think about this bowel-shaking phenomenon over years of the comedian’s scatological ad reads, but modern medical science has yet to really land on a settled explanation for why coffee makes so many people need to drop a deuce. One 2025 medical paper described it, I think hyperbolically, as “the subjec

If you’re thinking of attending any sort of public meeting about, say, zoning changes in and around your community that enable the building of data centers, here’s something to keep in mind: a school teacher has now been carried out of one such meeting and booked in jail for clapping after someone else’s speech. “I think we’re all in a state of fear because of what this government’s doing to us,” an anonymous attendee of that meeting told the Wichita TV ne

The American AI industry is split over open models. Those in the industry who say they are all for open AI development have started blaming frontier AI model providers, especially Anthropic, for pushing the Trump administration towards adopting a stricter stance favoring closed models. Now, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is claiming he is just misunderstood. The debate over open-source models was reopened earlier this month when Chinese AI lab Moonshot release

The more Americans learn and interact with artificial intelligence, the more skeptical they grow of it. That is one trend that shows up in a new Bentley University-Gallup survey shared with Gizmodo. The examination of public opinion on AI, which dates back to 2023, found that while people increasingly see the technology as comparable to certain human capabilities, their trust in it and faith in its ability to improve their lives are declining. Per the surv

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Matt Bruenig is a socialist lawyer who loves using AI. You might even say he’s the prototypical example of a lefty who takes the contrarian position on AI among those he’s allied with politically. Earlier this year, he told Transformer’s Dan Kagan-Kans, for a piece titled “The left is missing out on AI,” that he was worried about “the left-wing abstaining from using the tools when the right-wing does not.” But it wasn’t abundantly clear to me at the time h

The DSA has struck again, and corporations are trembling. No, not the Mamdani DSA, the other DSA, the EU’s Digital Services Act, Europe’s legal framework for regulating the tech industry, which is also arguably the entire world’s de facto legal framework for regulating the tech industry. The targets today: Roblox, the gaming sandbox and online space where kids can interact, and where, perhaps too often, adults can interact with kids, along with ChatGPT, th

Meta’s financial metrics have taken a notable punch due to its AI spending. In the company’s earnings report on Wednesday, Meta executives shared that free cash flow for the past quarter was down to only $784 million, a major drop compared to the $8.55 billion number for the same time period last year. Revenue for the entire fiscal year is also looking likely to come below market expectations. Meta is the second AI hyperscaler in a week to receive investor

Are you badly fumbling the bag as a partner? Alternatively, are you staying in an obviously bad relationship with a thoughtless person who doesn’t seem to care about you? Finally, there’s an AI agent that will uphold your delusional belief that you can make it work. Meet Orchid AI. Based on its new ad and previous promotional content, Orchid AI appears to be an attempt to capture the thunder of the OpenClaw craze from earlier this year. Remember when a bun

Brazilian ex-president Jair Bolsonaro has been in political exile since September, after he was convicted of plotting a military coup against the government. But thanks to the use of AI, the voice of the 71-year-old right-wing populist and former army captain is once again being heard by the masses. On Saturday, a giant, AI-generated video recreation of Bolsonaro was projected in front of a crowd who had assembled for the presidential campaign launch of hi

Andon Labs has released the results of new AI tests. They simulated operating a vending machine to see which model could run a business the best, and it’s a great reminder that CEOs may be the easiest jobs to replace in the AI revolution. Even if tech executives like Sam Altman insist they’re the last ones who should be replaced. “Claude Opus 5 is the best AI capitalist we’ve tested, making more money running our simulated vending machine than any other AI

Back in 2024, former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner captured everyone’s attention with a 135-page essay/manifesto mapping out the future of artificial intelligence. Then he put his money where his mouth was, starting an investment firm specifically to bet on where he saw the world moving. Now he’s pretty much just got his mouth left. Situational Awareness, Aschenbrenner’s firm with the same name as his essay, was forced to sell off the majority of i