July 16, 2026 3:15 PM
July 16, 2026
ChatGPT’s Tool for Ordering Starbucks Is So Staggeringly Bad That It’s Breaking Containment
Starbucks has innovated the perfect tool for getting mid-coffee in our misanthropic age. Those too cowardly to look…
Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds
Think something weird is up with your reflection in the mirror? Allow Grok to interest you in some…
Astronomers Create Entire Synthetic Universe “Indistinguishable” From Our Own
Astronomers say they’ve created an entire synthetic universe which uncannily reproduces the properties of our real one. The…
Rogue Group Gains Access to Anthropic’s Dangerous New Mythos AI
Remember Claude Mythos, Anthropic’s new AI model that it hyped as being so powerful that it was too…
Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time
Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureaucrats are reportedly planning to use specialty facial recognition glasses to collect data on…
SpaceX Admits AI Data Centers in Space May Be a Really Terrible Idea
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been adamant that putting enormous AI data centers in Earth’s orbit is a…
Today Is the Day Anthropic Promised That Fully Autonomous Employees Would Be Tearing Through the Business World
A year ago today, AI giant Anthropic’s Chief Information Security Officer, Jason Clinton, made a bold pronouncement: within…
Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Be a Permanent Micromanaging Boss Who Never Stops Nagging You
As fear over an AI-driven jobs apocalypse continues to simmer, some tech leaders remain adamant that the wide…
Florida Opens Criminal Probe Into ChatGPT’s Role in School Shooting
In April 2025, a student opened fire on the campus of Florida State University, killing two and wounding…
AI Chatbots Telling Cancer Patients to Try Useless Woo-Woo Treatments Instead of Chemotherapy
AI chatbots will recommend that cancer patients try unproven alternatives to chemotherapy and offer up other unscientific medical…
Scientists Puzzled by Huge Shadowy Blight Spreading Across Surface of Mars
A shadowy presence is spreading across the surface of Mars. New images released by the European Space Agency…
Meta Installing Software on Employee Computers to Track Everything They Do, Feed the Data to AI
As if activity-monitoring software installed on your work computer that snitches on you if you’re away from the…
Facebook AI Slop Has Grown So Dark That You May Not Be Prepared
For years now, Facebook’s feeds have been drowned out by an unrelenting tidal wave of AI slop, turning…
Scientists Astonished by Glimpse of Huge, Ancient Ocean on Mars
Scientists have long suspected that Mars was once teeming with water, a tropical oasis with vast river systems…
ICE Is Scanning Civilians’ Faces, Telling Them They’re Being Entered Into a Terrorism Database
In case you needed further evidence that we’re living in the worst version of a cyberpunk dystopia, immigration…
Elon Musk Is So Unlikable That His Feud With Random Airline Is Doing Wonders for Sales, Says CEO
Elon Musk tried to pick a fight with a major airline CEO — who says thanks for all…
Business Leaders Suddenly Fearful as Anger Surges Over AI Replacing Human Jobs
It’s an agonizing time for the labor market in the US, where unemployment is on the rise and…
There’s Reportedly a Car Secretly Following Every Tesla Robotaxi, and the Reason Why Is So Absurd You Aren’t Going to Believe It
When Tesla launched its Robotaxi service last summer, it came with an embarrassing caveat. Sitting in the front…
Experts Warn That There’s Something Wrong With the Moon Rocket NASA Is About to Launch With Astronauts Aboard
In less than two weeks, NASA is scheduled to launch its Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed journey…
Metal Band Releases New Album on N64 Cartridge
Last year saw the highest vinyl record sales since 1984, signaling a strong desire among music enthusiasts to…
Man Explains Why He Shredded Up an AI-Generated Art Exhibit With His Bare Teeth
Last week, a University of Alaska, Fairbanks undergraduate student was detained by police after ripping off pieces of…
Meteorologist Warns That Winter Storm Means Trees Are About to Start Exploding
With a major winter storm about to blast pretty much every US state east of the Rocky Mountains,…
X’s Head of Product One Shotted by Errant Piece of Fried Chicken
If we were a top executive at X-formerly-Twitter, a social media site used by hundreds of millions of…
SpaceX Hit With Back to Back Lawsuits From Workers Who Say They Were Brutally Injured on the Job
SpaceX is facing a one-two punch of personal injury lawsuits after two different workers have sued the Elon…