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July 16, 2026
In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control
Eight children were murdered in a horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana over the weekend. Forbes published an…
Chinese Humanoid Robot Runs Half Marathon, Beats Fastest Human Time in History
A mere year ago, the half marathon for humanoid robots in Beijing mainly produced slapstick comedy. The bots…
Madison Square Garden Reportedly Used Facial Recognition to Stalk Trans Woman For Two Years
In most privately-owned venues today, you probably take it for granted that AI-integrated cameras are tracking your every…
The Florida Mass Shooter’s Conversations With ChatGPT Are Worse Than You Could Possibly Imagine
In the months before he committed a grisly mass shooting, Phoenix Ikner obsessively used Open AI’s ChatGPT to…
Scientists Intrigued by Nasal Spray That Reverse Brain Aging in Mice, Say It May Work on Humans as Well
A team of scientists at Texas A&M University say they’ve developed a nasal spray that improves the working…
China Is Starting to Pull Ahead of US in AI Race
Back in 2017, China’s state council laid out the first draft of its long-term AI strategy in a…
Researchers Invented a Fake Disease to Trick AI and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened
In 2024, a team led by University of Gothenburg medical researcher Almira Osmanovic Thunström invented a fake disease…
Hospital Reuses Syringes, Infects Hundreds of Children With HIV
Nightmarish scenes are playing out in one hospital in Taunsa, a city located in the central Punjab province…
Study Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users’ Confidence in Their Own Brains
Researchers are growing increasingly suspicious that outsourcing intellectual tasks to AI is causing a range of cognitive deficits.…
Democrats Warned Not to Upset Multi-Million Dollar AI Lobbyists, Even Though It’d Be a Slam Dunk With Voters
During the 2024 presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the Democratic party establishment made the strange…
You Are Not Prepared to Learn the Size of Neanderthal Infants
Neanderthal babies were apparently bigger — and grew faster — than familiar human tykes. At least, El Pais…
City Council Wrecked in Voter Bloodbath After Allowing New Data Center
Small town politicians are learning the hard way that when Americans say no to data centers, they mean…
AI Surveillance Systems Are Causing a Staggering Number of Wrongful Arrests
These days, AI surveillance systems are everywhere. They’re watching our roads, tracking our purchases at the grocery store,…
Government Tells Tesla That This Is Definitely the Last Time It Can Blow Off Deadline to Turn In Data On Why FSD Is Constantly Ignoring Traffic Laws
Elon Musk’s Tesla would never get special treatment by the US government, right? This week, Ars Technica reports,…
Elon Musk Says His Optimus Robot Is So Dope That People Will Forget Tesla Ever Made Cars
Amid abysmal car sales that continue to plummet worldwide and major regulatory hurdles plaguing the company’s driver assistance…
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
While AI companies continue to command the global economy and pour billions of dollars into building data centers,…
Man Confused by AI-Generated Reports That He’s Dead
You know the old adage “don’t believe everything you see on the internet”? In the age of AI,…
Media Execs Prepare for AI to Bring End of Journalism Industry
Will the slow anaconda crush of AI mean the end of journalism? It’s hard to imagine it completely…
Man Gets Clean Bill of Health From Super-Expensive MRI Scan, Then Gets Horrible News
A 35-year-old New York City man paid about $2,500 for a whole body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan…
Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg’s Vision Fails
After years of failing to produce a profitable augmented reality platform, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is pounding one of…
Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse
Elon Musk’s Grok AI kicked off a massive scandal over the past month when users started using it…
Google’s AI Insists That Next Year Is Not 2027
We have it on good authority that next year is not 2027. That authority, of course, is Google’s…
New Study Finds AI in Schools Is Undermining Kids’ Social and Intellectual Development
AI models are being unleashed into schools across the world, in a massive experiment on kids with uncertain…
Scientists Preparing to Simulate Human Brain on Supercomputer
In 2024, researchers completed the first-ever map of the circuitry of a fruit fly’s brain. Despite its diminutive…