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July 16, 2026
Top Medical Journal Publishes Searing Article Warning Against Medical AI
A recent survey found that millions of Americans are asking AI chatbots for medical advice, often instead of…
Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to Deploying Ransomware Himself
When a person or company is hit with a ransomware attack, it’s common to hire a third-party negotiator…
Mowing Down Simulated Elephants Could Help Self-Driving Cars Prepare For the Chaos of Real Life Streets
Even the best self-driving cars keep getting confused and crashing into stuff, sometimes with fatal results. Here’s a…
America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools
As if air travel in the United States wasn’t cursed enough, the Trump Administration wants to ease the…
New Browser Plugin Adds Typos to Your AI-Generated Emails to Make Them Look Real
The advent of large language model-based writing tools have given lazy or unconfident writers incredible new shortcuts that…
Experts Warn of AI Swarms Hijacking Democracy With Fake Citizens
AI isn’t all chatbots and meme generators. According to a new study published in the journal Science, it…
New AI-Powered Robot Can Destroy Human Champions at Ping Pong
First, they learned how to play tennis on two feet. Then, they came for our half-marathon world record.…
Climate Scientists Shake Their Heads as First US City Running Completely Out of Water
A massive drought coupled with political mismanagement might fully deplete water in a major city: neither in West…
Unions Attack AI for Menacing Human Jobs
Workers across the US have had it with the prognostications of AI taking over the world. And their…
NASA Planning to Set First-Ever Fire on the Surface of the Moon
NASA scientists have long been fascinated by how fire behaves in the microgravity of space. They’ve even lit…
Waymo Baffles Police When it Plows Through Taped Off Crime Scene
Londoners are learning the hard way that self-driving cars still have plenty of kinks to iron out. The…
Your Former Employer Is Selling Your Slacks and Emails to Train AI
There’s a new link in the food chain of tech startups. Founders are realizing that they can make…
If You’re a Real Person Looking for a Job, the Flood of Fake AI Job Applications Will Make Your Blood Boil
Still think getting a job in 2026 is as easy as walking in with a résumé and a firm…
Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal
Anthropic shredded millions of physical books to train its Claude AI model — and new documents suggest that…
Intriguing New Machine Turns Air Into Gasoline You Can Put Straight Into Your Car
For many years, engineers have suggested sucking up the excess carbon dioxide in our planet’s atmosphere to battle…
It’s Starting to Look Like AI Has Killed the Entire Model of College
Well before “AI” had entered the lexicon of evening newscasters, the university model of higher-education was in trouble.…
Scientists Testing Controversial Human Rejuvenation Compound Called ER-100
During the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Elon Musk called human aging a “very solvable” problem.…
The United States Is Suffering Stomach-Churning Brain Drain
As Donald Trump has taken an axe to US federal spending, thousands of highly educated experts in scientific…
Experts Say Bitcoin’s Crash Is Only Getting Started
Cryptocurrency markets plunged this week — to the dismay of crypto bros everywhere — with Bitcoin reaching two-month…
Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Asking to Visit His Notorious Island
Somehow, Elon Musk’s infamous outburst accusing Donald Trump of being in the Epstein files has managed to age…
Mystery Man Dressed as FBI Agent Tries to Break Luigi Mangione Out of Jail
A mysterious man, dressed as an FBI agent, showed up to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in…
Amid Lawsuits, OpenAI Says It Will Retire “Reckless” Model Linked to Deaths
OpenAI announced on Thursday that it would retire GPT-4o — an especially warm, sycophantic version of the chatbot at…
Darren Aronofsky’s AI-Generated Show Contains Garbled Neural Gore, Even Just in the Teaser Trailer
The use of generative AI in creative fields has turned into a flame war — a nightmare of…
OpenAI Representatives Are Going to Critics’ Houses With Threats and Demands
A man who works at an AI watchdog group was alarmed when OpenAI suddenly showed up at his…