April 4, 2026 5:57 AM
April 4, 2026
Two OpenAI Execs, Including CEO of AGI, Going on Medical Leave
Something’s going on at OpenAI — and it isn’t just the pre-IPO jitters. According to Bloomberg, the company…
The White House Is Still Desperately Trying to Slash NASA’s Budget
Last year, the Trump administration made efforts to deal NASA a devastating blow by making brutal cuts to…
Sam Altman Opens Up About Telling CEO of Disney That It Had All Been Smoke and Mirrors
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has finally dished on Disney’s reaction to his decision to kill the company’s AI…
Trump Fans Furious That NASA Is Allowing a Canadian on the Moon Mission
NASA successfully kicked off its historic Artemis 2 mission around the Moon on Wednesday, a pitch-perfect rocket launch…
Dozens of Robotaxis In China Stop Dead in the Middle of Roads and Highways, Causing Crashes
A massive system failure on Tuesday left over a hundred robotaxis stranded in the streets of Wuhan, China,…
The Moon Astronauts Brought Along USB Stick-Sized Living Samples of Their Own Tissue
Beyond their snazzy flight suits and mango peach smoothies, the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission is packing…
AI-Powered Tractor Startup Burns Through a Quarter Billion Dollars, Fires All Employees in Epic Implosion
The world simply wasn’t ready for AI powered tractors. Or perhaps it was Monarch Tractor, the much-hyped company…
$60 Million Startup Says It’s Invented a New Particle to Dim the Sun
In October, Israel-US startup Stardust Solutions announced it had raised $60 million, the largest-ever fundraising round for tech…
Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude’s Source Code
The AI industry largely acts as if it’s above lowly copyright laws — unless, of course, those laws…
Insurance Companies Already Deploying AI Systems to Deny Claims Faster Than Ever Before
No one who’s dealt with one would ever accuse an insurance claims adjuster of being too generous, but…
Delivery Robot Companies in Trouble as Bot Become Targets for Vandalism
When University of California Berkeley allowed the startup Kiwibot to pump its campus full of delivery robots in…
Do You Cry More or Less Than the Average Person?
In common parlance, allowing yourself to have a “good cry” about something is usually associated with feelings of…
There’s a Blinking Warning Sign for the Data Centers in Space Industry
It’s plain to see that Elon Musk’s ambition of putting data centers in space is a daring and…
Moon Spacecraft’s Toilet Fails Hours Into Ten-Day Journey
The four crew members of NASA’s historic Artemis 2 mission around the Moon may be on one of…
Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
The data centers powering your favorite AI chatbot are running low on helium, cash, and neighbors who don’t…
JONATHAN THE 193-YEAR-OLD TORTOISE IS STILL ALIVE, REPEAT HE HAS NOT DIED
On Wednesday, sorrow swept through the Futurism newsroom as we heard that Jonathan, a 193-year-old Seychelles giant tortoise…
Chinese University Announces 30-Story “Artificial Island” for Marine Research Purposes
Some countries pump out aircraft carriers to project power across the globe; others build research megastructures to plumb…
The Trump Administration Is Doing Something Horrifying to Workers at Nuclear Facilities
It isn’t just the guys handling plutonium who need to worry about radiation — every US nuclear worker,…
Conspiracy Theorists Are Going to Have a Field Day as NASA Gears Up to Launch Historic Moon Mission on April Fools’ Day
Conspiracy theories have run rampant over the decades following NASA’s historic Apollo missions to the surface of the…
Leaked Claude Code Shows Anthropic Building Mysterious “Tamagotchi” Feature Into It
After Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code to its blockbuster Claude chatbot, netizens swiftly pounced to start plowing…
SpaceX Files for IPO
Following months of rumors, Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX has confidentially filed for an initial…
Here’s Why Google Searches for “Bimbofication” Are Surging
Searches for “bimbofication” began surging Tuesday, from an average index score of zero to 100 in a single…
The Iran War Has Cut Off Supply of a Gas the AI Industry Desperately Needs
Forget gas prices and fertilizer. One of the biggest casualties of the US war on Iran could be…
The Fact That Anthropic Has Been Boasting About How Much Its Development Now Relies on Claude Makes It Very Interesting That It Just Suffered a Catastrophic Leak of Its Source Code
Earlier this year, the head of Anthropic’s blockbuster Claude Code AI agent Boris Cherny boasted that “pretty much…