July 16, 2026 4:50 AM
July 16, 2026
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…
Berklee College of Music Students Furious That It’s Offering an AI “Songwriting” Class
Hundreds of students at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston have signed an online petition protesting…
Clavicular Rushed to Hospital in Perfect Illustration of Why Looksmaxxing Is a Horrifying Death Cult
Braden “Clavicular” Peters, a so-called “looksmaxxing” influencer who’s gained notoriety for advocating for ill-advised and dangerous attempts to…
Usually, Young People Embrace New Technology. Gen Z’s Attitude Toward AI Should Worry the Entire Tech Industry
Traditionally, young people have eagerly embraced hot new technologies — think Sony’s Walkman, Apple’s iPhone, or Napster —…
AI Use Appears to Have a “Boiling Frog” Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns
In a new study, researchers claim to provide the first causal evidence that leaning on AI to assist with…
Man Who Threw Molotov at Sam Altman’s House Warned AI Will Exterminate Humankind
We’re learning more about the guy who allegedly lobbed a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house…
Trump Is Inflicting Massive Damage to His Public Image by Posting Offensive AI Slop
This week, US president Donald Trump posted an AI slop image of himself as Jesus Christ, miraculously healing…
Red Hot Christmas Toy Crashes So Badly That Kids Can’t Actually Use It
Parents were left scrambling on Christmas day after the hot toy of the season appeared to crash and…
Plastic Surgeons Are Using Material From Dead People on New Patients
Cosmetic surgeons have turned to using a “fat filler” harvested from dead people in order to give patients…
Researchers Just Discovered Something Startling About How Conservatives Pick Political Positions
If you’ve been watching the intense partisan divide over the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent…
War Profiteers Furious After Polymarket Refuses to Pay Out on Venezuelan Invasion Bets
Nearly a week after US strikes bombarded Venezuela during the kidnapping of its president Nicolás Maduro, betting platform…
Doomsday Glacier Bombarded by Earthquakes
Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier — the…
Elon’s xAI Is Losing Staggering Amounts of Money
Elon Musk constructed his personal mythology around a pair of weighty accomplishments: building actual, stable businesses around both…
Pentagon Begs Shop to Stop Sending Butt Plugs to Military Personnel
The owners of a Toronto-based sex toy shop made a bizarre discovery after opening two returned items that…
Scientists Weirded Out by Cosmic Bones in Distant Space
Current theories suggest that dark matter — the mysterious substance that’s believed not to emit, absorb, or reflect…
Billionaire NASA Head Offers Bizarre Perk for Top Staff
It took almost a year for the Trump administration to settle on a non-interim NASA administrator. Back in…
Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
Move over, Ship of Theseus — there’s a new paradoxical thought experiment in town. Some power users of…
Government Approving Artist Visas for OnlyFans Models Based on How Many Followers They Have
For foreign-born people looking for an easy entry into the United States, success no longer seems to hinge…
China Builds Wild Gravity Machine
China has unveiled an extremely powerful “hypergravity machine” that can generate forces almost two thousand times stronger than…