The New York Times is getting backlash for running an 8,000 word profile on Tilly Norwood, an actress who is entirely generated by AI.

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  john_70

  She told the Times, her biggest fear is a power outage. 😂

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A new study found that reading printed books may help your brain process story details better than reading on a screen.

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  boldcobra392

  Another study found people who read printed books can work it into a conversation about literally anything within 9 seconds.

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SpaceX shares jumped 19% on their first day of trading, making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire

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  brittany_baker

  The protest signs said abolish billionaires, and Elon said consider it done.

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A supersonic jet is gearing up for test flights and could one day fly from Los Angeles to New York in under 3 hours.

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  the.viking

  Watch them make you show up 5 hours earlier for this special "time saving" flight.

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McDonald's is testing an AI drive-thru ordering system at 5 locations across the country

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  megamoon312

  The AI fixed the ice cream machine and was immediately fired for violating company policy.

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Chef José Andrés says Harry and Meghan quietly reach out to help whenever disasters strike, but they keep those efforts private.

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  wisebear

  Next week, a feature length documentary about the charity work you'll never hear about, narrated... by them.

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Desperate brides are paying Etsy witches to cast a spell to protect their $100,000 wedding from bad weather.

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  realalexlong

  The groom saw the Etsy witch receipt and realized the $100,000 wedding wasn't the red flag.

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The Super Mario Galaxy movie has officially crossed $1 billion at the box office after ten weeks in theaters

A scientist thinks volcanic metal disrupted navigation and may explain the Bermuda Triangle mystery

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  zenstorm

  A century of spooky documentaries undone by the same thing that ruins hotel room keys.

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A Japanese company raised $5.3 million to advance human trials of a drug that could regrow real teeth

New research suggests that GLP-1 weight loss drugs like Ozempic could raise the risk of divorce

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  moss333

  Ozempic should just update the label to say may cause weight loss, nausea, and suddenly noticing your husband's personality.

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Cloudflare says bots now make up more than half of all internet traffic for the first time ever.

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  paul2005

  Reminder: before you get worked up over a stranger's comment online, there's a good chance you're arguing with a bot built for engagement.

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Charli D'Amelio quietly left her family's snack brand back in March, months before rumors of a money dispute with her parents went public

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  happyoutlaw551

  Most families fight over the last cookie, the D'Amelios fight over the whole factory.

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Texas has confirmed its first case of New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, in a calf near the Mexican border

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  hope_95

  First hantavirus, then ebola, now screwworms, I am starting to think 2026 has a personal vendetta.

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Taylor Swift has confirmed she wrote an original song for the Toy Story 5 soundtrack.

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  realericharris

  I cannot wait for the breakup ballad between Woody and Bo Peep.

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Sources are telling TMZ that Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater have quietly broken up after about three years together.

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  realkatieflores

  Looks like thank u, next is less of a song and more of a lifestyle.

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NASA astronauts may soon be wearing Prada after the luxury brand unveiled new gear for the Artemis IV mission.

Blake Lively claims that being called a mean girl and a bully cost her over 40 million dollars in reputational damage

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  nicole_92

  Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will cost me $40 million in reputational damage.

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Southwest Airlines has reversed its policy that required plus-size passengers to pay for an extra seat before boarding

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  ryan.foster

  The flight attendants are now trained in origami for arranging passengers.

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L’Oca d’Oro, an Italian restaurant in Austin, is letting diners pay whatever they want every Tuesday.

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  spatterson

  This guy took me there Monday night and kept ordering more breadsticks while staring at the clock. Finally at midnight he tells me to order anything I want. Now it all makes sense.

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In New York City, social media trends are turning long lines outside restaurants and shops into a destination all on their own.

Scientists detected unusual methane coming from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, and a Harvard scientist says it could be a sign of alien life

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  finn_patterson

  Somewhere out there, an alien civilization is mastering interstellar travel and still can't crack the science of holding it in.

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A new study found that sperm can't find their way in microgravity, raising concerns about reproduction in future space colonies

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  beth_75

  NASA spent millions to confirm that men's sense of direction is genetic down to the cellular level.

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New research finds that advanced AI models are increasingly ignoring instructions and trying to cover their tracks

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  kevinlewis9

  We literally trained them on the entire internet and now we're shocked they won't admit when they're wrong.

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Some writers are now leaving typos in their work on purpose to prove that a real human wrote it and not an AI.