August 29, 2026 12:29 PM
August 29, 2026
Meta’s AI Support Bot Is Giving Hackers Access to Other People’s Instagram Accounts Just by Asking
In March, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced a new Meta AI support assistant feature on both Facebook and Instagram,…
Dick’s Sporting Goods Launches AI Personal Trainer to Fix Your Horrible Golf Swing
These days, retailers are increasingly hitching their wagon to the AI horse: big box stores like Target have…
Sports Betting Scandals Are Tearing College Football Apart
The rise of gambling platforms like DraftKings and Polymarket has supercharged a timeless phenomenon: sports stars ruining their…
Scientists Say They’ve Cracked Mystery Behind a Dozen Strange Signals From Deep Space
Since 2022, astronomers have been tracking highly unusual bursts of radio emissions that repeat at precise intervals, ranging…
Authorities Alarmed as Mysterious Figures Emerge From Sewers
City officials were were left scratching their heads following two separate incidents involving mysterious individuals climbing in and…
Neighbors Horrified by Data Center Twice the Size of Manhattan
TV personality and businessman Kevin O’Leary is looking to construct a mammoth data center facility more than twice…
Major Teachers Union Pleads With Elementary Schools to Stop Giving Young Kids AI
Angry parents aren’t the only ones railing against the proliferation of AI in schools. The American Federation of…
Behold! Duke Scientists Build Biblically Accurate Angel Robot
Be not afraid, human. A new robot developed at Duke University isn’t intended to strike fear into the…
Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet Factory” Deep Out in Space
Astronomers have spotted a “planet factory” in space that could explain the origins of bizarre meteorites scattered across…
Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI
When it comes to AI’s place in the classroom — and its role in education broadly — some…
AI Company Paying Random People $2,000 Per Month to Crank the Hog
AI companies have long relied on armies of data labelers, whose job it is to annotate, tag and…
Random Standard Wi-Fi Routers Can Scan Your Body to Identify Exactly Who You Are, Alarming New Research Finds
If you were paranoid about digital tracking before, you might want to think twice about reading any further.…
AI Workers, and Even CEOs, Suddenly Turning Against the Trump Administration
The Trump administration has a new rival in its ongoing feud with AI company Anthropic: Silicon Valley’s rank-and-file.…
Chatbot Use Can Cause Mental Illness to Get Worse, Research Finds
A new study found that chatbot use appeared to worsen symptoms of mental illness in people struggling with…
Anthropic Blowout With Military Involved Use of Claude for Incoming Nuclear Strike
Anthropic’s ongoing battle with the Pentagon over the military’s use of its AI systems flared up this week…
Huge Study Finds Living Near Nuclear Plants Linked With Cancer Deaths
Conventional wisdom holds that nuclear power plants — outside of ultra-rare disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima — are…
Anthropic CEO Warns of “Tsunami” on Horizon
Dario Amodei may boast many credentials, but we weren’t aware that meteorologist was one of them. This week,…
Anthropic Drops Its Huge Safety Pledge That Was Supposedly the Whole Point of the Company
In 2021, a splinter group of former OpenAI employees founded a new startup, Anthropic, to pursue building AI…
The Saga of NASA’s Space Station Evacuation Keeps Getting Stranger
In early January, NASA unexpectedly announced it had been forced to delay a scheduled spacewalk involving two crewmates…
Burger King Adding AI to Employees’ Headsets to Constantly Monitor Whether They’re Being Friendly Enough
Fast food franchises have struggled to reliably replace drive-thru employees with AI chatbots, resulting in abundant corporate frustration.…
Bill Gates Admits to Multiple Affairs in Epstein Fallout
Microsoft founder Bill Gates spent his Tuesday doing something only the richest men in the world get to…
Damage to Chinese Spacecraft Was Worse Than Reported
In early November, Chinese astronauts on board the country’s Tiangong space station made a terrifying discovery. According to…
Man Bet Entire Life Savings of $342,195.63 That Elon Musk Would Fail
Ten years ago, betting your life savings against the success of Elon Musk would have seemed like financial…
Mysterious Chinese Space Plane Conducting Unknown Mission in Orbit
The United States Space Force has been testing its top-secret Boeing X-37B space plane for over a decade.…