July 16, 2026 1:47 PM
July 16, 2026
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…
Prego Pivots From Budget-Tier Pasta Sauce to Small Microphones That Listen to Your Family’s Intimate Conversations
Ever sit down at an awkward family dinner and think to yourself: “You know what this conversation needs?…
Chinese Workers Horrified as Bosses Direct Them to Train Their AI Replacements
For years, a buzzy Silicon Valley startup called Mercor has been hiring an army of desperate job-seekers —…
Concern Grows That AI Is Damaging Users’ Cognitive Abilities
Last year, a team of researchers led by MIT research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna used electroencephalograms to monitor the…
Jeff Bezos’ Botched Space Launch Was So Bad It Could Threaten NASA’s Entire Moon Program
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin experienced a significant setback over the weekend. During its third launch, the…
Guess What This Creepy Underwater Thing Is That Was Photographed by US Navy Divers for NASA
It may look like the underwater remains of a church that’s been submerged for hundreds of years following…
Tesla Drivers Losing Patience at Elon Musk’s Eternal Excuses
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising that his company’s EVs will be capable of fully driving themselves…
White House Uses AI to Alter Protester’s Face So That She’s Sobbing, Instead of Looking Brave, During Arrest
The White House published an image on X in which the face of a protester had been altered…
The Ultra-Wealthy Are Demanding to Pay Higher Taxes
The loudest calls for taxing the ultra-rich amid this year’s Davos summit aren’t coming from hooded anarchists or…
Trump’s Other Hand Is Also Now Showing a Grisly Mark
Last year, questions regarding president Donald Trump’s physical health started swirling after photographs showed a large, greenish bruise…
Private Space Station Being Assembled for Launch
The International Space Station is scheduled to be retired in 2030, bringing an end to three decades of…
Astronauts Give Crucial Clue About NASA’s Emergency Space Evacuation
Four astronauts had to cut their mission on board the International Space Station short after a “medical concern”…
Grinning Wolf Tells Little Red Riding Hood That Her Safety Is His Top Priority
A new AI startup formed from the cast-offs of some of the industry’s biggest, most ethically dubious players…
Newspaper Makes Brain-Melting Error in AI-Generated Graphic
The advent of generative AI has turned much of the internet into an unrecognizable flood plain of mind-numbing…
Steak ‘n Shake Announces Pitiful “Bitcoin Bonus” for Workers
Still think burger flipping is a low-wage job? Think again. The Indianapolis-based fast food chain Steak ‘n Shake…
Simulation Found Civil War Could Be Triggered by Exactly What ICE Is Doing Right Now
What’s the most surefire way to achieve Civil War 2.0 in the United States? According to one wild…
Sam Altman Lets Loose About AI Psychosis
As uneasy questions swirl over the safety of large language models, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to social…
Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis
Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text…
Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System
As US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wreak havoc on American communities, big tech companies have been making…