July 16, 2026 11:32 PM
July 16, 2026
Robotaxis Are Turning Passengers Into Horrible and Entitled Menaces to Society
Robotaxis are multiplying across the US, and as they do, a not-so-flattering pattern is riding shotgun. Not only…
Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes
The United States is having something of a national referendum on mass surveillance as of late. Embodied most…
Prices Already Spiking at Trump’s Mysterious Gas Stations That Promised Cheap Fuel
Liberty-loving patriots who got themselves amped up about president Trump’s new gas stations are in for a rude…
Evidence Grows That Taco Bell Infected Massive Number of Customers With Explosive Diarrhea
Apocryphal tales of its meals causing the runs have plagued Taco Bell since time immemorial. But this latest…
Sixteen Nobel-Winning Economists Warn That Major AI Job Losses Are Coming
Over 200 economists, researchers and industry executives, including sixteen Nobel Prize winners, signed an urgent letter warning that AI could…
OpenAI Strikes Bold Deal With Kalshi to Mix Together the Most Hated Technologies in Existence: AI and Prediction Markets
Is it not enough to simply watch the beautiful game, unadorned? These days you might use an AI…
Health Care Workers Furious as NYC Replaces Nurses With AI
Twelve nurses in New York City were laid off on Sunday and replaced with AI software, according to…
Terrifying Video Shows Locomotive Engulfed in Wildfire Flames
Apocalyptic footage shows a Canadian train crew trapped in their locomotive as it’s devoured by a wildfire. Through…
SpaceX Investors Are Lamenting All the Money They’ve Lost
Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX are scraping by at record low levels this week, struggling to find any…
We’d Rather Live Through the Trojan War Than Spend 135 Minutes Watching an Entirely AI Version of “The Odyssey”
Many moviegoers this summer are looking forward to Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film “The Odyssey.” But have you…
Astronomers Horrified by Enormous Mirror Satellite That Reflects Sunlight Back Down to Earth at Night
There’s light pollution — and then there are giant orbital space mirrors that blot out the night sky. On…
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…