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Archives for November 2025

Robert Hart
Robert Hart
Seven more people are suing OpenAI.

The lawsuits, filed in California, are just the latest to claim ChatGPT harmed loved ones and led to mental health breakdowns. Four died by suicide after interacting with the bot.

How deep-sea mining could threaten a vital ocean food source

New industry-backed research shows how waste from deep-sea mining could have far-reaching effects on fish and their food.

Justine Calma
Justine Calma
Justine Calma
A nuclear energy startup and the Silicon Valley and MAGA bigwigs backing it are chipping away at federal oversight of new reactor designs.

“All these nuke bros who know nothing about operating a reactor, they just want a free pass,” Allison Macfarlane, former chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, tells Bloomberg. “They can have their free pass, but then they will have an accident.”

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Tom Brady’s cloned dog is marketing for one of his companies.

Whether you should, or would, clone a pet is not the point of People’s article about Tom Brady’s cloned dog Junie.

It’s to tie in with news about a company he invested in, Colossal Biosciences (which claims it has de-extincted dire wolves), buying Viagen, “the leader in animal cloning.”

Justine Calma
Justine Calma
Energy Star might survive after all.

The US Environmental Protection Agency is considering keeping it alive, following news earlier this year that the Trump administration would shutter the money-saving program as part of its efforts to roll back energy and water efficiency standards.

Justine Calma
Justine Calma
ArXiv is updating its publishing policy because of AI slop.

ArXiv, a popular platform for sharing research before it’s been peer-reviewed, now says it’ll only publish computer science review articles and position papers that’ve been peer-reviewed and accepted by an academic journal or conference.

It’s in response to a “flood” of generative AI-assisted submissions that “are little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion of open research issues.”

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
PBS’ NOVA celebrates 25 years of the International Space Station with a two-part special.

Operation Space Station will air on November 5th and 12th, with the first part, High-Risk Build, focusing on the engineering and construction of the ISS. Part two, Science and Survival, will tell the stories of the astronauts who worked on the station and the challenges they faced, including several incidents that were nearly catastrophic.