July 15, 2026 9:16 AM
July 15, 2026
Meta Used Its Own Flawed AI to Pick Which Employees to Lay Off, Lawsuit Claims
These days, corporations aren’t just using AI as an excuse to justify layoffs, but are increasingly turning to…
New Anthropic Ad Implies AI Could Kill Us All
Anthropic is doing what Anthropic does best: putting on its most concerned face so it can convince you…
New York Becomes First State to Ban AI Data Centers
Across the United States, lawmakers are increasingly caught between two competing pressures: the massive investment flowing into the…
Grok’s Foul-Mouthed AI “Translation” Feature Puts Unspeakably Ghoulish Words Into Users’ Mouths
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has long garnered a reputation for experiencing horrifically racist meltdowns, enabling child abuse,…
Secretive Silicon Valley Startup Tries to Quash Interview, Says It’s Definitely Not Working on Growing Brain-Free “Organ Sacks”
Last February, Alice Gilman, the cofounder and chief operating officer of a secretive Silicon Valley longevity startup called…
Startup Upset After Journalist Points Out How Creepy Its Humanoid Robots’s Hands Are
The VP of a humanoid robotics company was in for a surprise after finding that a Wired article…
A Staggering Number of People Are Dying Because of Record Heatwaves
Europeans are being crushed by deadly temperatures. Record-breaking heatwaves across much of the continent have claimed thousands of lives…
A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry
To say Americans are divided on AI would be an understatement. Polls have shown that more people than…
LAPD Abandons Flock Contract After Making a Horrifying Discovery
Rarely has the Los Angeles Police Department found a police toy it doesn’t love. The third-largest police force…
US Companies Are Realizing That Chinese AI Models Are Way Cheaper, Ditch American Ones
As corporate AI bills spiral out of control, many companies are beginning to ask themselves a simple question:…
The Economics of Data Centers Creating Jobs Are So Bad That They Sound Like a Joke
Whenever big data center developers roll into town, their pitch ends up sounding something like this: hand over…
SpaceX Stock Plunges to All-Time Low After Competitor Makes Major Leap
Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX took another beating when trading resumed on Monday, sliding to an all-time low…
The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
Meta’s camera-equipped “AI Glasses” are so divisive that some adopters are now leaving their expensive smart glasses at…
Law School Bans Laptops and Phones as AI Cheating Scandal Grows
Classes are going to look a little different for the University of Chicago’s first year law students. On…
Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic’s Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care
One of the largest health networks integrating AI into the medical space is facing allegations that its high-tech…
Chinese Spacecraft Approaches Mysterious Object Near Earth
The Chinese space age is upon us. Beyond banner projects like the nation’s very own orbital space station…
Trump Administration Scrapping Nuclear Energy Rules Requiring Plants to Keep Radiation Levels “As Low as Reasonably Achievable”
As government agencies go, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has left a lot to be desired, often operating…
Meta Caught Running Ads for Child Abuse
For many years now, child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has run rampant on Meta’s platforms. The Mark Zuckerberg-led…
Man Sucked Out of Airplane, Dangles by Seatbelt
It pays to buckle up. A passenger on Ryanair — because of course — had his insistence on…
OpenAI Is Shutting Down Its Browser That Was Supposed to Change Everything
In October, OpenAI unveiled an AI browser dubbed Atlas, purportedly designed to help you “understand your world” and “achieve…
Journalist Alarmed When He’s Fired, But Company Keeps Posting AI Slop Under His Name
Being fired was only the first indignity that one freelance writer had to suffer. Even though Ben Touati…
Scientists Propose Dimming Sun to Combat El Niño
Last month, the United Nations warned that this year’s El Niño, a naturally occurring climate pattern characterized by…
Christopher Nolan Unloads on AI Slop
Director Christopher Nolan has a reputation for tortuous storytelling. His movies elliptically jump across time (“Memento”), or move…
Palantir Insiders Disgusted by Company’s Leadership
As tech companies go, the surveillance giant Palantir plays it looser than most. Specializing in deadly military targeting…