September 15, 2026 9:40 AM
September 15, 2026
Chinese Government Dismisses Tech Billionaire Calls for an AI Slowdown as “Fear-Mongering”
In a whiplash-inducing turn away from the mythical quest to build human-level artificial intelligence, Western tech billionaires like…
Amazon Has Become Pathetically Reliant on Food Stamps to Power Its Empire
After over two decades of operation, Amazon Prime has become the backbone of American commerce, more akin to…
The Winner of Elon Musk’s AI “Odyssey” Contest Will Make You Laugh Out Loud
Remember how Elon Musk vowed that his AI Grok would make an anti-woke, “historically accurate” version of the…
Anthropic Boasts It Would Be Profitable if You Ignore How Much It Costs to Develop AI
Despite being one of the world leaders in AI development, the private firm Anthropic has yet to post…
Bernie Sanders Proposes Banning Superintelligent AI and Imprisoning Developers for 20 Years
While the US appears to be further away from meaningful AI regulations than ever before, lawmakers certainly have…
Trump Throws His Weight Behind Flock Cameras
President Donald Trump continues to push the boundaries of what it means to be out-of-touch after he gave…
Trump’s Uninformed Blundering About the AI Slowdown Could Literally Threaten Humankind’s Future
Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in calling for…
Amazon Deploying AI Tech That Forces Actors’ Mouths to Match Dubbed Dialogue
Amazon is catapulting us into the final boss of sub vs dub debates. On Thursday, its Prime Video…
OpenAI Faces Congressional Probe Over Swarm Hacking Incident
Earlier this week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon drew major media attention after announcing he was quitting his job,…
Laptop Toasts Boy
Here’s a hazard you probably didn’t expect from too much screen time. Two doctors in the UK reported…
America’s Health Care System Is So Screwed That Patients Are Flying to China for Cancer Treatment
The myriad horrors of the US healthcare system have spawned generations of medical tourism from the wealthiest country…
California, Which Is Creating All the AI That’s Poisoning Children, Just Cracked Down on AI Use for Its Own Kids
Frontier AI labs are seemingly in a race to melt the impressionable minds of underage users into a…
Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain
As far as completely pointless ways to kill time on your phone, this is certainly one of the…
Aging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It
Surely our creaking gerontocracy is well-equipped to respond to a technology as novel, disruptive, and rapidly evolving as…
Earth May Have Had a Larger Cousin that the Sun Devoured
Did the Earth once have a larger cousin that was devoured by the Sun? And more importantly: would…
GLP-1 Users Are Being Cruelly Shamed by Their Own Families
GLP-1 weight loss drugs are changing lives in more ways than one. In a new piece for The…
College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection
You wouldn’t be remiss to accuse college students using AI to cheat of being lazy. But some of…
Federal Agents Are Secretly Monitoring Americans’ Financial Transactions So Cops Can Arrest People They Find Suspicious
The surveillance state is trying out a new tactic: pocket watching. 404 Media reports on how secretive “predictive…
China Deploys Rare Type of Space Junk That Pollutes Orbit for Hundreds of Years
The number of space launches has skyrocketed over the last few years, rapidly turning the Earth’s atmosphere into…
Werner Herzog Demolishes Talentless Hacks Who Use AI to Imitate Other Filmmakers
The legendary German director Werner Herzog had a few choice words about other so-called “filmmakers” who use AI…
Lawyers Already Lining Up to Defend Victims of Cybercab Crashes
Tesla’s mawkishly sleek new Cybercab has begun rolling out to Austin, Texas this week, with more sighted in…
Top Chinese Court Issues Sweeping Legal Crackdown on AI Deepfakes
Months after China’s Intermediate People’s Court ruled against a company using AI to liquidate an employee’s position, the…
Firefighters Say There’s a Glaring Issue With Tesla’s Cybercab
Tesla’s flashy gold Cybercabs are rolling out to the streets of Austin, their butterfly doors glowing under the…
Meta Releases Uber-Creepy AI Chatbot as Its Platforms Crumble Under Grotesque Child Abuse
Meta’s platforms are in a sorry state as grotesque AI slop continues to proliferate widely. As a recent…