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A representative for Rogan did not immediately return a request for comment.Heidecker first lampooned Rogan’s discursive and disorganized interviews in 2021, with a viral 12-hour podcast (in reality, one hour of footage looped a dozen…

Zoë Schiffer: This is a conversation?Brian Barrett: It is though. So I'm talking over you because—Zoë Schiffer: No, no, do it.Brian Barrett: I'm joking, but the whole point of I think the fact that they're making these so cutesy and fluffy…

Here’s a fun history lesson for you. Don’t worry, we’ll make it quick! In 1966, nearly 51,000 people died on US highways. The overwhelming evidence suggested that many lives could have been saved with modern seat belts, which by then had…

What I came to understand is that the only people crazy enough to deploy or release a biological weapon into the community, knowing full well that the blowback would be extraordinary and would create a pandemic around the world, would be…

OpenAI has cancelled plans to release its latest GPT-6.1 Astra system next month after the model failed to meet safety standards.Research and safety leaders decided not to ship the model after finding it was worse at sticking to human…

This week I bring news of a daring casino caper hatched by a pair of rogue AI agents—as well as the clever trick that revealed their antics.After researchers instructed them to count cards during a game of blackjack, the agents—which were…

Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law after an agent hacked into its health statistics portal in the first widely known incident of an AI agent hacking a government website.The Australian government is reviewing whether it…

Engaged in a flirtatious conversation at a bar in Manhattan, 23-year-old Gary stood with a Guinness in hand as he explained to a woman why he took an engineering job at Palantir, the data analytics company cofounded by Alex Karp and Peter…

Child predators are arguably the most reviled demographic in society.So when someone like Chris Hansen, the former NBC Dateline journalist and host of the To Catch a Predator series, decides to take up the mantle of exposing them to the…

Meta’s Muse mascot is named Jolly. It's an adorable, cuddly representation of Meta’s AI agent that you can dress however you want—like a doll. At the company’s recent Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s furry Muse donned a toga and…