businessinsider.com · Oct 12, 2026
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Palantir CTO says some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer
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Gizmodo · Oct 12, 2026
Based AI People Are Supposedly Smoking Because AI Will Cure Cancer
ibtimes.com.au · Oct 13, 2026
Palantir CTO Says AI Researchers Are Taking Up Smoking, Betting AI Will Cure Cancer, Warns of 'Mass Psychosis'
ai.ettoday.net · Oct 13, 2026 · ZH-TW
反正以後AI會治好癌症？部分研究員竟開始抽菸展現對AI的信心 | ETtoday AI科技
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After all, AI will cure cancer? some researchers have started smoking to show confidence in AI.
dailystar.co.uk · Oct 13, 2026
AI boffins take up smoking as they're convinced 'computers will cure cancer'
outlookindia.com · Oct 13, 2026
'AI Researchers Have Started Smoking, Believing AI Will Cure Cancer', Says Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar
ibtimes.co.uk · Oct 13, 2026
Some AI Researchers Are Taking Up Smoking as a 'Flex', Believing AI Will Cure Cancer, Palantir CTO Says
nypost.com · Oct 13, 2026
Confidence in AI cancer cure has Silicon Valley smoking again, tech exec says
tech.yahoo.com · Oct 14, 2026
Palantir CTO says some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer
alwatan.com.sa · Oct 14, 2026 · Arabic
باحثون يدخنون عمدا ثقة بعلاج الذكاء الاصطناعي للسرطان
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Researchers deliberately trust artificial intelligence to cure cancer
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反正以後AI會治好癌症？部分研究員竟開始抽菸展現對AI的信心 | ETtoday AI科技ai.ettoday.net
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باحثون يدخنون عمدا ثقة بعلاج الذكاء الاصطناعي للسرطانalwatan.com.sa
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