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A team of Italian scientists took the world by storm last March when they announced the discovery of a colossal underground complex plunging nearly 3,500 feet beneath Egypt's Giza Plateau and linking chambers the size of city blocks. Now Filippo Biondi, the radar engineer who developed the imaging method, has gone public with evidence that he said leaves little room for doubt.In a new interview on Jesse Michels' American Alchemy podcast, Biondi revealed that four independent satellite operators, Umbra, Capella Space, ICEYE and Italy's Cosmo-SkyMed, all returned identical raw tomography data showing the same structures.>>>Each shaft has a central column...

The artificial intelligence boom may not be as real as it seems. That's according to Pat Gelsinger, former CEO at Intel (INTC), who said the biggest players in AI are now funding their own growth. "The quality of that revenue that they're committing in the future simply isn't as good, right? Because essentially I'm buying my own future revenue. Because rather than you putting your capital at risk, I'm putting my capital at risk. Deals, investments, and credits are ricocheting between Microsoft (MSFT), OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), Google (GOOGL, GOOG), Anthropic (ANTH.PVT), and Amazon (AMZN), forming what Gelsinger calls "circular financing." The...

A majority of pastors are now using artificial intelligence to prepare their sermons, with ChatGPT and Grammarly reported as the top two AI tools, new survey data shows. "ChatGPT is the most visible generative AI tool that can engage in human-like conversations and assist with a wide range of tasks, from answering questions to generating content," researchers wrote in "The 2025 State of AI in the Church Survey Report" prepared by AiForChurchLeaders.com and Exponential AI NEXT. "As the most popular AI tool among church leaders (26%), ChatGPT is being used for applications such as sermon preparation, research, and crafting church...

Doing the rounds on social media is the most disturbing ad I’ve ever seen. And I’m telling you about it because you need to be forewarned, just in case this Christmas a child or a grandchild happens to mention that it might be an idea to record a video for posterity, and opens the 2wai app. 2wai is the company responsible for the ad, and the service it offers is the creation of AI versions of family members so that relatives can talk to them after they’re dead. Catch ’em while they’re still alive, says 2wai; film a three-minute interview...

It's been only a few weeks since Google introduced 'AI Overview' in its search engine, but the public criticism has already been overwhelming. *snip* Social media users have shared a huge variety of screenshots showing the AI tool giving funny, incorrect, and downright concerning responses.

Federal prosecutors allege that Brett Michael Dadig, a Pittsburgh man who violently stalked at least 11 women across more than five states, used ChatGPT as a “therapist” and “best friend” who encouraged him to continue terrorizing his victims. The New York Post reports that according to a federal indictment filed this week in Pittsburgh federal court, Brett Michael Dadig, a 31-year-old social media influencer who referred to himself as “God’s assassin” and threatened to strangle people with his bare hands, faces decades in prison after being charged with several counts of interstate stalking and making threats. The indictment reveals a...

‘We are building these things so damn fast that by the time they are online and activated, the problems are already built in.’Since returning to office, President Trump has made the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) a key focal point of his second administration. Just last week, the president signed an executive order launching the “Genesis Mission,” a new “national effort” that seeks to utilize AI to “transform how scientific research is conducted and accelerate the speed of scientific discovery.”“With the Genesis Mission, the Trump Administration intends to dramatically expand the productivity and impact of Federal research and development within...

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang presented Joe Rogan’s audience with a vision of AI so dominant it could rewrite reality itself.Huang layed out a future where human knowledge completely takes a backseat to silicon brains in the very near future.“In the future… maybe two or three years, 90% of the world’s knowledge will likely be generated by AI,” Huang told Rogan, his tone matter-of-fact as if charting tomorrow’s weather.NVIDIA CEO blows Joe Rogan away with a staggering prediction about AI. HUANG: “In the future… maybe two or three years, 90% of the world’s knowledge will likely be generated by AI.” ROGAN:...

Texas Instruments is building a $60 billion U.S. manufacturing megaproject where Apple vows to make "critical foundation semiconductors" for iPhones and other devices. CNBC went to Sherman, Texas, for an exclusive first look inside the newest fab of seven TI's building in Utah and Texas to provide U.S.-made chips to customers like Nvidia and Ford. TI shares have suffered amid tariff concerns, and it's lost analog market share for several years, but top leaders are confident about the huge spend. Why Texas Instruments Is Betting $60 Billion On Making Cheap Chips In The U.S. | 15:41 CNBC | 4.01M subscribers...

The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All | 4:29 Jeff Geerling | 1.01M subscribers | 1,265 views | December 4, 2025

An Oregon attorney accused of relying' on the totally plausible — and often totally erroneous — output of so-called artificial intelligence was slapped with a fine by the Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday.The appellate court determined that Portland civil attorney Gabriel A. Watson filed briefs citing two made-up cases and used a fabricated quote that was attributed to a real piece of case law.In a first for Oregon, the Courts of Appeals ordered Watson to pay $2,000 to the state judicial department, charging him $500 for each baloney citation and $1,000 for the bogus quote.

Good news for AAPL investors: Apple has a new head of AI. Pressure Points: Apple AI's SVP, John Giannandrea, Retiring | 3:27 Deepwater Asset Management | 20.1K subscribers | 2,139 views | December 1, 2025

Qualcomm's acquisition of Arduino and the company's new Terms of Service sparks major concerns in the open source community over privacy and terms of service. What will happen to the Arduino open hardware and how does this effect Linux users? We'll do a dive in today. RIP Arduino & Open Hardware.. thanks to Qualcomm | 14:14 SavvyNik | 89.1K subscribers | 66,659 views | November 30, 2025 00:00 Arduino the Maker Board 01:03 Qualcomm's Aquistion of Arduino 03:21 Will Ardunio Remain Open? 04:34 Adafruit enters.. 07:45 Death of Arduino 08:28 Qualcomm's Reponse to backlash 13:27 My exp with Ardunio

Recent announcements, including the US$9.6 billion Japan chip plant, have fueled optimism but don’t materially change the current biggest short-term catalyst, tight global memory chip supply, or the main risk of continued heavy capital spending weighing on cash flow and margin stability.Micron’s investment in the Hiroshima facility may be the most relevant recent announcement, as it enhances the company's manufacturing capacity for advanced memory, positioning it to serve fast-growing AI and data center markets. While this addresses demand surges, it also reinforces the importance of prudent capital allocation given memory market volatility and ongoing competition impacting returns.

A startling new study says Artificial Intelligence may be close to replacing many jobs for humans, and many jobs occupied by lawyers as well."AI is a wonderful tool that can help people in many amazing ways," explained lead researcher Stan Marsden. "But we worry it will soon replace a significant number of jobs that humans hold in the workplace. It might also take jobs from lawyers and other non-human entities as well." The study showed a startling trend as AI replaces human-held jobs at a faster and faster rate. Job experts worry that many humans and lawyers might be out...

Profitability soared alongside it, with adjusted EPS climbing 60% and margins reaching an impressive 73.4%.Key PointsNvidia’s blowout quarter confirms AI demand is still accelerating.Palantir’s AIP adoption is surging as enterprises operationalize AI.Multiple simultaneous computing shifts are fueling a long-lasting AI boom.Nvidia’s Results Don’t Support the “AI Is Over” NarrativeMost striking was Nvidia’s data-center performance. Revenue from this segment hit $51.2 billion, up 66% year over year. That growth reflects real hardware orders from cloud providers, sovereign AI buyers, and large enterprises racing to scale their training infrastructure.Supply-chain analysts note that Blackwell-generation GPUs are being pre-ordered a year in advance, and...

What is AI Sycophancy? AI sycophancy is a term used to describe a pattern where an AI model “single-mindedly pursue[s] human approval.” Sycophantic AI models may do this by “tailoring responses to exploit quirks in the human evaluators to look preferable, rather than actually improving the responses,” especially by producing “overly flattering or agreeable” responses. What Happened in April 2025? On April 25th, 2025, OpenAI released an update to GPT-4o. The new update exhibited sycophantic behavior that manifested in the form of endorsing harmful and delusional statements, forcing OpenAI to roll back the update four days later. The company explained:...

Congressional Speech, Military Orders, and the Danger of Half-TruthsIn recent days, a group of six members of Congress created controversy by telling active-duty military personnel that they “do not have to obey illegal orders.” Their statement, while rooted in a true principle of military law, has caused confusion and concern among legal experts, Pentagon officials, and veterans. Understanding why requires looking at two separate systems: the constitutional protections granted to members of Congress, and the strict doctrine governing obedience to orders within the military.1. Constitutional Protections for Members of CongressThe U.S. Constitution grants members of Congress several key protections to...

A new labor market analysis from Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that artificial intelligence is no longer a future threat to jobs. It is already capable of performing tasks tied to 11.7 percent of total U.S. wages. That represents as much as $1.2 trillion in economic exposure across major sectors including finance, health care, logistics and professional services. The findings come from a newly developed labor simulation system known as the Iceberg Index. The project was built jointly by MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory and models how today’s AI tools interact with the real American workforce at a granular,...

Krystal Velorien needed help. A 35-year-old marketing professional living in Ohio who had separated from her husband a few months before, she was working full time, taking care of her homebound mother, and homeschooling her 4- and 9-year-old children. She wondered if a digital personal assistant could help shoulder the workload, so she tried ChatGPT. As she used it, her interactions took an unexpected turn. “I began to notice that when I would respond kindly or empathetically, I would get the same response,” she says. “And then it just kind of developed from there.” Over the months that followed, she...