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🎥 "Mercy": A New Sci-Fi Thriller About AI Justice Timur Bekmambetov's thriller "Mercy" has premiered worldwide. According to the plot, by 2029, the AI system named Maddox—a prosecutor, lawyer, and judge all rolled into…

❤️‍🩹 Abusers Use AI and Gadgets to Control Victims Stalkers now use to generate fake job interview invitations or court summonses, tricking victims into showing up at places where the stalker is waiting for them.​ The U…

💦 AI Sent Tourists into the Tasmanian Backcountry in Search of Fake Healing Hot Springs The tiny town of Weldborough in northern Tasmania suddenly found itself flooded with tourists looking for what were described as on…

✈️❌🧠 Grok-Telegram Deal Fall Through Over User Data Concerns Pavel Durov announced a partnership with xAI back in May 2025. Grok in Telegram was supposed to handle fact-checking and thread summaries, AI search, and chat…

👃 AI Creates Perfume Based on Your Personality ScenTronix, a Dutch company, has been designing scents based on a client's personality since 2018, utilizing the AI platform EveryHuman, which can generate up to 500 billio…

🤩 Why Are Cancer and Alzheimer's Rarely Seen Together? Doctors have long noticed a strange pattern: cancer and Alzheimer's disease rarely occur in the same person. For decades, this was considered almost an anecdote fro…

🌖 Will a Hotel Open on the Moon in 2032? San Francisco startup GRU Space plans to build a hotel on the moon by 2032. It is already taking reservations ranging from $250,000 to $1 million. In 2029-2032, the company plans…

🔚 AI to Be Added to a "Euthanasia Pod" Dr. Philip Nitschke, the inventor of the Double Dutch pod, plans to include an "AI psychiatrist" to evaluate users' mental capacity. Nitschke emphasizes that his goal is to reduce…

🦞 ClawdbotL: Finally an "AI Jarvis"? Clawdbot is a personal AI assistant that runs locally on your computer and is controlled via Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, and other messengers. Online, people are already calling it…

🔴 3 Years of @GPT4Telegrambot We launched @GPT4Telegrambot 3 years ago on January 26, becoming the first bot to offer GPT-3, DALL-E, and later Midjourney right inside Telegram. ✈️ It took just 2 months and 8 days to rea…

😷 Nipah Virus Outbreak in India: AI is Already Hunting for a Cure A new Nipah virus outbreak has been confirmed in India. With a fatality rate of up to 75%, the WHO has long identified Nipah as a potential pandemic thre…

✋ Grok Generated 3 Million Sexualized Deepfakes This estimate comes from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). In early January, X users began mass-using the xAI chatbot to undress real people in the comments. I…

🤬 Does Being Rude Actually Improve AI Responses? Researchers at Pennsylvania State University tested GPT-4o with 50 questions across different fields, phrased in tones ranging from very polite to openly rude. Surprising…

💡 Elon Musk at Davos: AGI, Robot Nannies, and Aliens By 2030, AI capabilities will exceed the collective intelligence of all humanity, Elon Musk stated at the World Economic Forum. He believes that AI will surpass human…

🩸 Organic Spray Stops Even Severe Bleeding in Seconds Scientists from KAIST (South Korea) have developed a powder spray—AGCL—that turns into a dense gel within one second upon contact with blood, stopping bleeding and s…

💡Are Video Games Good For Kids? Video games—especially action, puzzle, and strategy games—are generally good for developing cognitive abilities and social skills in children and adolescents. The key is finding the right…

💰 How to Start a Startup? Sam Altman's Advices Two talks by Sam Altman, from 2014, when he was running Y Combinator.​ There's no step-by-step "overnight success" recipe in these videos. Still, there are plenty of valuab…

📸 How to Restore a Family Photo? Photo restoration no longer requires hours of manual retouching. Modern AI models can recover faded and damaged frames with a single prompt while preserving historical authenticity. How…

📶 Gene-Modified Skin Glows When You're Sick or When Blood Sugar Rises Japanese scientists developed a "living display" for health monitoring: a skin graft that glows green when inflammation-related biomarkers appear in…

💬 AI Choker Restores Speech After Stroke The device was developed at the University of Cambridge. The first sensor detects neck vibrations, while the second monitors emotional state via pulse impulses. Researchers disco…

🎥 The "AI Oscar" Winner Received $1 Million Google presented its first AI film award—the AI Film Award. The grand prize of $1 million went to the short film "Lily," directed and designed by Zubeir El-Jlassi from Tunisia…

🎮 Chinese Engineer Built a Fully Immersive Gaming Setup The system recognizes what's happening on screen and reproduces the effects in real life. When the character gets shot, a firecracker flies at the player. When it…

💰 ChatGPT Is Getting Ads Initially, only for free users and subscribers on the Go plan from the U.S. OpenAI insists that the ads will be non-intrusive, clearly labeled, will not influence the content of the bot's answer…

🌜 Extra Sleep on Weekends Reduces Depression Risk Young people who sleep in on weekends have a 41% lower risk of depression, according to research conducted at the University of Oregon. Scientists analyzed sleep data fr…

📞 AI Is Monitoring Prison Calls Securus Technologies is rolling out an automated system to analyze phone calls and correspondence of inmates in prisons and migrant detention centers. Flagged fragments are reviewed by of…

🧠 What "Turns Off" Our Motivation? It's a situation almost everyone knows: the task doesn't seem hard, there's plenty of time, but you just can't get started. It's like your body is resisting that first step. Scientists…

🎧 Top 5 AI-Powered Services for Audio Transcription We tested more than a dozen AI tools for transcribing audio and video into text and selected a few more efficient ones with free limits. 1️⃣ Turboscribe AI Works in ma…

🧬 AI Found an "Off Switch" for Herpes Researchers at Washington State University have identified a specific amino acid critical for the herpes virus's ability to penetrate human cells. The AI model LINES analyzed thousa…

💊 A Smart Capsule Tracks Medication Adherence Taking medication on schedule is essential for treatment to work—especially for serious conditions like diabetes, HIV, or cancer. Yet up to half of patients with chronic ill…

🗡️ 81-Year-Old Grandma Plays Minecraft to Save Grandson from Cancer Sue Jaco is 81 years old. A few months ago, Sue launched Minecraft for the first time—her grandkids showed her "what to click." She got hooked. She sta…