October 5, 2026 3:40 AM
October 5, 2026
Parents Are Sending Their Kids to a Playground Where They’re Given Saws and Hammers to Ward Off Brainrot
Are kids getting too soft these days, coddled by iPads and AI chatbots? In New York City, the…
AI Is Creating “Doom Loops” All Over the Economy
Recently unredacted legal documents and depositions in the New York Times‘ lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI revealed something…
Facebook Is Letting Accounts Commit Stolen Valor Using AI Slop of Troops in Warzones
Actual footage of warfare is horrific enough. But now that AI slop floods every social media feed on…
Pete Davidson Has Been Crushing Black Market Peptides to Get Disgustingly Swole
There are few actors who would seem a more unlikely candidate to undergo a typical Hollywood style body…
Credit Rating Firm Says the Economy Is About to Be Obliterated
The credit rating firm Egan-Jones hears all the serious talk about an AI murder spree apocalypse and raises…
Alternative Health Influencer Boasts That He’s Been Drinking From a Radioactive Jug for 250 Days Straight
In 2026, anybody can cultivate a massive social media following doing anything their heart desires — and that’s not…
Rag Tag Team of Biologists Who Lost Funding Because of Trump Turned a Motel Room into Makeshift Lab and Made a Groundbreaking Discovery
Brought together by Trump’s funding cuts, Julia Van Etten and her rag tag team of biologists pursued their…
Innocent Couple Confused When Armed Cops Surround Their Home Following a Wild Tip From a Flock Camera
A completely innocent couple in Lexington, Kentucky was thrust into the middle of a violent police operation last…
News Organizations Like CBS Embracing Prediction Markets as “Journalism” Is a Deep Moral Disgrace
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi operate in a regulatory vacuum that’s long garnered a reputation for allowing…
Google Updates Guidelines to Punish Sites That Use Fake Bylines and AI-Generated Headshots
Last month, Futurism published an investigation into a company called Brown Brothers Media, which has attracted tens of…
An Overwhelming Percent of Americans Now Want to Pause AI and Tax Billionaires
America’s disgust with AI — and the extreme wealth concentration with which it’s inextricably entwined — continues to…
The Tech Industry’s Aggressive Push to Integrate AI Into Schools Is Turning Into a Disaster
The American AI industry has a problem. In order to justify its explosive spending on AI infrastructure —…
The Only Thing Dumber Than Someone Creating an “AI Torture Chamber” Is the Meltdown That the AI Welfare Crowd Is Having Over It
Let’s get this out of the way: AI models don’t have feelings, and they’re certainly not “alive.” So…
Why Is Instagram Running Ads for a “Pet Incinerator”?
You can buy practically anything these days on the internet — especially when it’s being shipped straight from…
Government Officials Order the Robot Cage Fights to Stop, Organizers Say
In mid-September, a new company called Robot Entertainment Kombat hosted what it claimed was the first-ever human-on-robot cage…
Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project
As the AI race reaches white-hot temperatures, big tech companies are caught up in a heated race to…
In Case You Still Have Faith in Humanity, Here’s an Influencer “Riding” a Sea Turtle While It Tries to Lay Eggs
Desperate for clicks in a sea of outrageous video content and AI slop, influencers are using increasingly shocking…
Trump Was Reportedly Pushed Into Invading Venezuela by Conversation With Grok
It’s hardly a secret that president Donald Trump is addicted to AI slop, but his proclivity for being…
Mother of Elon Musk’s Children Says She Has Been “Let Go” by the Billionaire
In a new documentary by filmmaker and investigative journalist Alex Gibney, Elon Musk’s first wife, Justine Musk, revealed…
NASA Has Been So Thoroughly Screwed by Boeing’s Disastrous Starliner That It’s Now Throwing Its Entire Access to Space Into Question
By all accounts, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has been nothing short of a disaster. It’s cost NASA a staggering…
Horde of Obsolete Humanoid Robots Made to Hurl Themselves Into Vat of Liquid Steel for Total Obliteration
Privately-developed humanoid robots are advancing at a striking clip, which means today’s innovation may soon be tomorrow’s pile…
Trump Launched an America.org “Super Intelligence” Chatbot and It Immediately Disagrees With Him on Huge Topics, Including Whether He Won the 2020 Election
Sitting US head of state Donald Trump still insists that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from him,…
The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psychological Harms, New Research Finds
A recent paper found that the extensive use of AI chatbots can be linked to “severe negative outcomes.”…
Elon Musk Is Such a Sad Sack That He Just Stole a Random Guy’s Joke on Twitter
Elon Musk isn’t exactly known for his quick wit, and a recent incident on X-formerly-Twitter shows exactly why…