June 5, 2026 11:08 AM
June 5, 2026
Novel Pulled From Shelves After Author Is Accused of Using AI
A prominent publisher is pulling a horror novel after the author was widely accused of using AI to…
Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns
An analysis of hundreds of thousands of chats between AI chatbots and human users who experienced AI-tied delusional…
Blockchain Slumlord Startup Implodes in Real Time
If you’re not a renter in Detroit, you might not have heard about RealT, a startup that allows…
Self-Driving Cars Slated to Clog Roads With Horrendous Congestion
Self-driving cars might seem like the future, but they still share the same asphalt as your grandma’s ’98…
Man Caught Using Smart Glasses to Get Advice While Being Cross-Examined in Court
The emergence of smart glasses, which feature largely concealed cameras, microphones and speakers, has turned into a major…
A Grim Truth Is Emerging in Employers’ AI Experiments
The tremendous hype surrounding AI coding shows no signs of dying down. Last month, Anthropic released a suite…
Polymarket Announces New Bar For Degenerate War Profiteers
Any good bartender knows that talking heads on TVs are bad for business. In watering holes across the…
Encyclopedia Britannica Hits OpenAI With Scary Lawsuit
Writers are often cautioned not to hit readers over the head with the dictionary. But what if it’s…
Grab Your Betrayal-Themed Popcorn Buckets, Because Microsoft Is Threatening to Sue OpenAI
Mutual success has only heightened tensions between Microsoft and OpenAI, whose partnership helped kickstart the AI boom. Now,…
CEO of AI Company Says Gen Z Needs to Get Ready for 30 Percent Unemployment
If you think it’s hard to find a job now, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott says just wait until…
Things Are Suddenly Looking Incredibly Bad for Trump’s Social Media Company
President Donald Trump’s struggling Truth Social social network, traded on the stock market as Trump Media & Technology…
“Educational” YouTube AI Slop Encourages Kids to Play in Traffic
YouTube is rife with AI-generated “educational” videos targeting children, and many of the lessons they’re imparting — if…
Astronauts Suit Up for Their Journey to the Moon
If all goes according to plan, four astronauts are set to become the first humans to travel past…
Murder of MIT Fusion Scientist Getting More and More Bizarre
Last week, lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro was…
Photos Are Being Deleted From the Epstein Files
Even before the Department of Justice’s release of a major collection of files pertaining to late billionaire sex…
Home Depot Deploys Havana-Style Sonic Weapon Against Day Laborers
While federal agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are running…
James Webb Discovers Planet Shaped Like Lemon
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an astonishing exoplanet that’s stretching our understanding of what’s…
White House Confused by How Random YouTuber’s Stream Became Featured on Its Website
The executive branch has been infiltrated by an unexpected entity: a random livestreamer. On Friday, the White House…
Twitter User Uncovers Secret Link to Bizarre CDC Text File
It’s not quite a CIA black site, but a link to an old Centers for Disease Control and…
Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave
The use of autonomous drones on the battlefield has already raised plenty of murky ethical questions. Many experts…
Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom”
In 2020, Hungarian software engineer and neuroscientist Viktor Tóth came up with a fascinating experiment. With the use…
YouTube Now Shutting Down Channels Posting AI Slop
YouTube’s janitors are swooping in to mop up the slop. As reported by Deadline, the Google-owned video platform…
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
In 2025, there seem to be as many narratives about AI as there are startups peddling the stuff.…
Elon Says His New Rocket Is as Important as the Origin of Life Itself
Multibillionaire Elon Musk has never exactly been humble about his corporate empire, but his latest comments are genuinely…