August 28, 2026 4:38 AM
August 28, 2026
Debt Collectors Are Being Replaced With AI Agents
With inflation out of control amidst a low-fire, low-hire economy, the amount of private debt in the United…
Elon Musk Furious at Starlink Being Used for American Suicide Drones
SpaceX has established itself as an influential contractor for the US military, allowing the Pentagon access a proprietary…
The MyPillow Guy’s Entire Business is Being Held Hostage by Hackers
Monstrous defeats keep coming for Mike Lindell, the notorious entrepreneur behind the MyPillow brand and one-time advisor to…
Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They’re Fired Because of AI
We’ve long had our doubts about tech leaders making boisterous claims about automating jobs with AI. For a…
More Than This Many Hours of Sleep Is Linked to Early Death, Scientists Find
How much should we sleep each night? It’s the age-old question that makes almost nobody happy, since most…
NASA Releases Sweeping Plans for Moon Base
NASA remains committed to developing a permanent presence on the Moon — space science budgets be damned. During…
Uber Says Its AI Costs Just Aren’t Worth It
The true cost of AI is rapidly catching up with the tech industry. At first, tech leaders were…
Companies That Adopted AI Agents Alarmed to Discover They’re Botching Incredibly Important Tasks
AI agents used to be all the rage, the supposed next hit product category after generative AI failed…
Anthropic Cofounder Travels to Vatican, Tells Pope They’re Finding “Unsettling” Things Inside AI Models
Ever since being anointed as the leader of the Catholic Church last year, Pope Leo has been an…
Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System
A small group of scientists have long suggested that the seeds of life may have been distributed across…
99 Percent of CEOs Are Preparing to Lay Off Workers and Replace Them With AI Within Two Years, Survey Finds
Fear of AI is at an all-time high. Not fear of a Skynet-style superintelligent singularity seizing power, generally…
China Launches Synthetic Human Embryos to Space Station
Will humankind colonize other star systems, spreading life to distant worlds? Or more locally, and realistically: will we…
As Epstein Scandal Tightens, Trump Announces That He’s Releasing All Government Files About Alien Life
President Donald Trump has plenty of work to do to distract from a growing list of crises, from…
Every Single Headphone That Researchers Tested Contained Horrifying Chemicals
Eventually, it seems to turn out that every consumer product is killing you — from cooking utensils to…
Look Out, OpenAI: Perplexity Admits AI Adverts Were a Mistake, Is Now Getting Rid of Them
Anthropic aired a spicy ad during this year’s Super Bowl, skewering competitor OpenAI’s decision to cram ChatGPT with…
Skin-Crawlingly Awkward Video Shows Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Refusing to Hold Hands
There’s no love being lost between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei. At India’s AI Summit in New Delhi…
New Platform Lets You Gamble on CCTV Footage
Thanks to the rise of sports betting and prediction markets, gambling has turned from an activity sequestered to…
Amazon’s Shiny New Warehouse Robot Just Failed in Spectacular Style
In October, Amazon proudly announced a new warehouse robot made up of multiple robotic arms called Blue Jay,…
Farmer Hailed as Hero for Rejecting Huge Payment to Turn His Land Into a Giant Data Center
The immense hype surrounding AI has caused enormous data centers to crop up across the country, triggering significant…
Blinking New Warning Sign Appears for AI Industry
Investors have been rattled by the enormous amount of money AI companies are committing to spend on infrastructure…
Elon Musk Boasts That Grok Says America Isn’t Built on Stolen Land, Which It Obviously Is
According to Elon Musk, xAI’s Grok chatbot has a new bona fide: blatantly lying about the history of…
A Huge Survey of CEOs and Other Execs Just Found Something Damning About AI’s Effects on Productivity
The case against AI’s usefulness in the workplace continues to grow. In a new analysis of a survey…
AI Will Destroy Millions of White Collars Jobs in the Coming Months, Andrew Yang Warns, Driving Surge of Personal Bankruptcies
Andrew Yang — millionaire entrepreneur, noted Ivy leaguer, and one-time presidential hopeful — has a grim warning for…
SpaceX Angling for Military Contract to Produce Drone Swarms
In 2017, Elon Musk signed an open letter calling on the United Nations to ban the development of…