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Detroit Preacher Runs a Giant Robot Fight Club in the Back of His Church — 9-Foot Metal Gladiators Shoot Exploding Projectiles at 20 Rounds a Second
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Detroit Preacher Runs a Giant Robot Fight Club in the Back of His Church — 9-Foot Metal Gladiators Shoot Exploding Projectiles at 20 Rounds a Second

A Detroit preacher has been running a sold-out robot fight club in the back of his church, where nine-foot armoured performers shoot exploding projectiles at each other in front of bullet-proof glass. Art Cartwright founded both the church and the spectacle, and sees no contradiction whatsoever. God's house, apparently, just needed better staging.

NPR·
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Study: AI Chatbots Are Confidently Telling People to Insert Garlic into Their Rectum for Health Benefits
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Study: AI Chatbots Are Confidently Telling People to Insert Garlic into Their Rectum for Health Benefits

The world's most powerful AI chatbots have a new party trick: endorsing medically dangerous nonsense with total confidence. A study in The Lancet Digital Health found that major AI models will cheerfully recommend inserting garlic into the rectum for immune support — among other deeply unwise suggestions — if the advice is phrased in formal clinical language. With 40 million people asking ChatGPT medical questions daily, researchers are suggesting this might be something of a problem.

Metro UK·
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Press 2 for Spanish, Get English With a Spanish Accent: Washington State DMV AI Says "Tres Minutes"
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Press 2 for Spanish, Get English With a Spanish Accent: Washington State DMV AI Says "Tres Minutes"

Washington State's Department of Licensing deployed an AI phone system that, when callers pressed 2 for Spanish, responded in English — but with a heavy Spanish accent and the occasional Spanish number thrown in for flavor. The DOL claimed it fixed the glitch, but journalists kept calling back and the robot kept saying "tres minutes."

KFFM·
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First humanoid robot gets police escort after terrifying elderly woman in Macau — officer puts hand on robot's shoulder
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First humanoid robot gets police escort after terrifying elderly woman in Macau — officer puts hand on robot's shoulder

A Unitree G1 humanoid robot in Macau sent a 70-year-old woman to hospital after silently following her through a residential complex at 9 PM — she turned around, found it standing behind her, and absolutely lost it. Police arrived to escort the machine from the scene, with one officer placing a hand on its shoulder in what looked unmistakably like an arrest. The robot's owner was reminded that public spaces have people in them.

Interesting Engineering·
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