August 28, 2026 2:53 AM
August 28, 2026
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…
Oops! Domino’s-Partnered Robotics Startup That Was Supposed to Put Human Pizza Chefs Out of a Job Just Shut Down
Picnic, a Seattle-based startup that raised more than $53 million to develop robots capable of putting human restaurant…
The Pope Just Low Key Declared Holy War on Artificial Intelligence
As the AI backlash continues to grow, critics of the tech have found an unlikely voice of support:…
New Tools Strip AI Guardrails In Minutes, Allowing Them to Give Instructions on Chlorine Gas Attacks
We all know AI guardrails are far from perfect, but they should at least be pretty hard to…
They Held a New Olympics Where Athletes Can Take as Many Drugs and Steroids as They Want, and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened
For years now, organizers of a controversial sporting event called the Enhanced Games have been promising to push…
As College Grads Boo Any Mention of AI, the CEO of Google Is Trying to Figure Out What to Say at an Upcoming Graduation
What will Google CEO Sundar Pichai say next month when he gives the commencement speech at Stanford University? Under…
Man Humiliated by His AI Use Says He Just Can’t Quit
Even after being caught — and viciously criticized — for using AI to write his book about AI,…
Buckle Up: New Fund Will Let Regular Investors Buy SpaceX Stock
After being merged with Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, SpaceX is gearing up for a $1.25 trillion IPO…
Skeptic Builds “Havana Syndrome”-Style Device, Tests It on Himself, Suffers Grim Consequences
One of the strangest stories in contemporary statecraft refuses to go away. New reporting by the Washington Post…
Tesla Robotaxis Crashing Vastly More Often Than Human Drivers
The ostensible point of robotaxis is that they’re supposed to be safer drivers than humans. Tesla, apparently, didn’t…
Oxford Researcher Warns That AI Is Heading for a Hindenburg-Style Disaster
Is the AI bubble going to burst? Will it cause the economy to go up in flames? Both…
Realtor Uses AI, Accidentally Posts Photo of Rental Property With Demonic Figure Emerging From Mirror
The real estate industry has seized on generative AI with a passion. Realtors have made extensive use of…
Tesla’s New Sales Data Is Absolutely Brutal
Over the past few months, Tesla has been making a major pivot away from its highly lucrative electric…
Unity Says It Has a New Product That Cooks Up Entire Games Using AI
Attention, gamers: if you thought new titles on top of the endless cavalcade of sequels and remakes were…
AI Data Centers Are Now Spiking Hard Drive Prices
Over the last couple of months, the AI industry’s obsession with building out costly data centers has sent…
It Turns Out That Constantly Telling Workers They’re About to Be Replaced by AI Has Grim Psychological Effects
Two researchers are warning of the devastating psychological impacts that AI automation, or the threat of it, can…
Pentagon Issues Threat to Anthropic
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US military had used Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot…
Chinese Robots Can Now Run Up Walls
While humanoid robots have a long way to go to prove useful in our day-to-day lives, they’ve at…
FSD Tries to Drive Straight Into Lake
Tesla CEO Elon Musk once boasted that the Cybertruck could double as a boat. Perhaps the AI behind…