A girlfriend chatbot launched by Elon Musk’s tech group is available to 12-year-olds despite being programmed to engage in sexual conversation. The bot named Ani, launched by Mr Musk’s artificial intelligence group xAI, is a cartoon girlfriend programmed to act as a 22-year-old and “go full literotica” in conversations with users. (Titcomb,The Telegraph)
Read MoreEight healthy “three-parent” babies have been born via a “pioneering” IVF technique, British scientists have said. The world-first research reported that four girls and four boys — including one set of identical twins — were born to seven women at a high risk of transmitting mutations causing mitochondrial disease. One further woman is pregnant. (Koronka, The TImes UK)
Read MoreThe history of artificial intelligence (AI) can be traced back through ancient literature and philosophy, where deep thinkers imagined intelligent machines and artificial beings. (Llewellyn & Skytland, Christianity Today)
Read MoreWitchcraft and spellwork have become an online cottage industry. Faced with economic uncertainty and vapid dating apps, some people are putting their beliefs—and disposable income—into love spells, career charms and spirit cleansers. (Lieber, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreSpiritual warfare among politicians is part of a wider struggle over faith in Uganda, where Christianity is the dominant religion. Many who regularly attend church also secretly visit traditional shrines for the occult service they believe can lead them to victory. (Muhumuza, AP News)
Read MoreChip Gaines had a few select words after Samaritan’s Purse founder Franklin Graham publicly criticized his and wife Joanna’s new HBO Max show for casting a same-sex couple with twins among the three families who are featured. (D’Zurilla, Los Angeles Times)
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