March 15, 2026 5:24 PM
March 15, 2026
Former Delivery Drivers Are Getting Weird New Jobs as Delivery Robots Take Over
Gig delivery workers, already earning poverty wages, are now being undercut by robots that don’t need tips. These…
Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom
In 2022, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs made a big splash after announcing that it had taught “mini-brains”…
Evidence Grows That One of the Largest Known Stars Is Poised to Explode in a Spectacular Blast
One of the largest known stars in the cosmos is poised for catastrophe. After witnessing the massive object…
ChatGPT Health Is Staggeringly Bad at Recognizing Life-Threatening Medical Emergencies
Earlier this year, OpenAI launched a new tool called ChatGPT Health, which is designed to ingest your medical…
A Staggering Proportion of High School Kids Are Using AI to Do Their Homework, Which Is Probably Not Going to End Well
Who could’ve guessed that when you give millions of kids free access to a homework-writing chatbot, they’d stop…
AI-Generated Film Pulled From AMC Cinemas
Moviegoers just took a stand against slop and won. Following a flurry of online backlash, AMC Theaters said…
NASA Spots Sun-like Star Inflating Massive Bubble
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have spotted a young star just 120 light years away engaging in…
MIT’s New 3D Printer Can Print a Working Motor, Complete With Moving Parts
The tech behind 3D printing has come an extremely long way. The additive manufacturing technique, which generally involves…
Bacteria Engineered to Eat Tumors From the Inside
While plenty of bad bacteria — like E. coli — can get you sick, many other types are…
Uber Employees Have Created an AI Clone of Its CEO
In need of a little confidence boost before a face-to-face with your boss? That urge seems to be…
Woman Annoyed When Delivery Robot Comes Into Her Yard, Tears Up Her Garden and Steals Her Fence
These days, moles and gophers aren’t the only pests you have to worry about tearing up your yard.…
Bill Gates’ Daughter Says Her $185 Million AI Startup Will Succeed Entirely Due to Her Merits, Not Even a Little Bit Who Her Dad Is
Against all odds, Phoebe Gates has managed to raise $35 million for a browser extension, despite the pernicious…
Jack Dorsey’s New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is running into some serious issues while overhauling his financial services company, Block. Earlier…
Lockheed Martin F-35s Can Be Jailbroken Like $80 Million iPhones, European Military Chief Says
Depending on who you ask, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II is either the most sophisticated weapons platform ever…
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…