Aurora's driverless trucks can now travel farther distances faster than human drivers | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/auroras-driverless-trucks-can-now-travel-farther-distances-faster-than-human-drivers/

(Not so) fun fact: Ars Technica story on this incident got retracted. I’ve noticed that the article “disappeared” and this got me confused at first: was this story a fake after all? Why would Ars Technica report on it and then pull back?

Turns out, their article contained AI-hallucinated quotes:

“On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them.”

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

Yes, way to go for an article on failing of the so-called “AI”…

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Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.

Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.

Image: NASA