Close Call A Tesla owner had a terrifying run-in on May 3 while driving down a country road with his vehicle's so-called "Full Self-Driving" feature turned on. Dashcam footage from the user, who goes by FixorFkit and shared the video on X-formerly-Twitter, shows the vehicle crossing the median and veering into the opposite lane to avoid a cyclist...

Dial It Back The AI bubble isn't bursting just yet, but one insightful investor is suspicious it's overhyped. During an appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box, billionaire Stanely Druckenmiller — the founder of the Duquesne Family Office hedge fund — revealed that his firm had cut its investment in the AI chipmaker Nvidia earlier this year. As the financier...

Chatbot in Need Some lonely high schoolers are turning to AI models to take the place of friends or even therapists, The Verge reports, raising uneasy questions about how the technology might affect the mental health of young people. One teenage boy going by the alias Aaron told the website that he depended on the "Psychologist" chatbot on a service...

Bottom Line The future of Neom, Saudi Arabia's enormous city building project, is looking shaky as costs soar and sloppy construction setbacks mount, The Wall Street Journal reports. Constructing its centerpiece, "the Line," was never going to be easy. The uber-ambitious pair of skyscrapers is supposed to be taller than the Empire State Building and...

Lumps in the Night Researchers are increasingly suspicious that a powerful collision between the Earth and a Mars-sized object dubbed Theia some 4.5 billion years ago may have left "mysterious blobs" buried deep within Earth's interior — an impact so violent that it ejected enough material to allow the Moon to form. Now, as the Washington Post reports,...

Fool Me Twice Singer Katy Perry was apparently in the studio the night of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual gala — but if you were fooled by AI pics of her attending the event, you were in good company. The "I Kissed A Girl" singer, born Kathryn Elizabeth Hudson, shared in an Instagram post two AI-generated photos of her wearing floral dresses...