July 16, 2026 6:04 AM
July 16, 2026
NAACP Sues Elon Over His Noxious AI Data Center
Elon Musk may have yet another day in court, at least if the NAACP has anything to say…
More Than Half of Men Aged 18 to 49 Have Already Fallen Into Online Sports Betting
Sports betting has seen a massive surge in popularity since a 2018 Supreme Court decision struck down a…
Top Security Experts Alarmed by Power of Anthropic’s New Hacker AI
In November, Anthropic revealed that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group had exploited its Claude AI’s agentic capabilities to…
Teens Alarmed at What AI Is Doing to Their Minds
There’s a strange dynamic emerging around artificial intelligence. Research has shown that young people — who are typically…
Video Shows Amazon Delivery Drone Dropping Package Directly Onto Concrete, Smashing Its Delicate Contents
Over the past few months, Amazon has been rapidly deploying its Prime delivery drones to cities across the…
What It Really Means That a Failing Shoe Brand “Pivoted to AI” and Its Stock Soared 700 Percent
As it turns out, all it takes to turn a cash-bleeding company into the New York Stock Exchange’s…
Starbucks’ Baffling ChatGPT Collab Treats Customers Like Empty, Soulless Venti Cups
As AI chatbots go, OpenAI’s ChatGPT isn’t the most provocative. Its relentlessly upbeat, hand-holding style has drawn constant…
ChatGPT’s “Honest Reaction” to a “Song” Composed Entirely of Gas-Passing Noises Will Make You Question Whether It’s Honestly Evaluating Your Other Brilliant Ideas
It doesn’t take much to impress an AI chatbot. Tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have long garnered a reputation…
AI Is Turning Workplaces Into Hopeless Gridlock
CEOs have eagerly grabbed onto AI as a tool to make offices more efficient, and often to reduce…
Companies Just Learned a Brutal Lesson About Training AI to Do Human Jobs
A dismal job market has given rise to a grim new cottage industry: a buzzy San Francisco-based AI…
Man Engineers Giant Robot Hand to Smash His Enemies
One of China’s preeminent engineering influencers is at it again. Fan Shisan, the Sichuan-based content creator who runs…
Earth Now Flying Through a Debris Field, Paper Finds
An eagle-eyed astronomer has discovered that an elusive asteroid is apparently shedding hundreds of fragments — and our…
Driverless Delivery Vans in China Are Rampaging Through Cities Like Grand Theft Auto
The future is here, and it’s bouncing all over the back alleys of China. Numerous clips of autonomous…
Union Representing NASA Workers Says Space Agency’s New Administrator Is a Straight-Up Liar
During the government shutdown in November, the Trump administration suddenly accelerated its plans to shutter over a dozen…
NASA Deploys Orbital Telescope Designed to Do Something Incredible
On Sunday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stuffed with cargo carried a brand new NASA telescope into space,…
The Richest 1 Percent Burned Their Entire Share of Carbon for the Year in Just 10 Days
In less time than it takes to get bored of your new year’s resolution, the planet’s wealthiest people…
Nvidia CEO Says Everyone Should Stop Being So Negative About AI
Commander of multi-trillion dollar computing hardware empire Jensen Huang thinks everyone should stop being so negative about AI…
Man Planning to Raise Adopted Children With AI Girlfriend as Their Mother
A young man hopelessly in love with an AI chatbot has grand plans for the future that include…
ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims
A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT caused the death of a 40-year-old Colorado man named Austin…
Former Astronaut Smacks Pete Hegseth With Huge Lawsuit
In a video posted to social media in November, senator and former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly encouraged members…
Engineers Deploy “Poison Fountain” That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems
To push back against AI, some call for blowing up data centers. If that’s too extreme for your…
Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs
Economic uncertainty is continuing to have devastating effects on the availability of jobs. Last year, the US labor…
Asteroid Behaving Strangely
Using early data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which is set to kick off full operations later…
Golden Globes Constantly Begs Viewers to Place Polymarket Bets
Despite an economy that’s booming on paper, economists are warning that the middle class is being squeezed as…