October 5, 2026 3:39 PM
October 5, 2026
Polymarket Is Being Used for Massive Money Laundering
Gambling addicts aren’t the only ones being taken for a ride by prediction markets. As gambling platforms like…
Climate Change Is Turning Prisons Full of Human Beings Into Industrial-Scale Air Fryers
Though it may not look like it, the world as we know it is in a free fall,…
Journalist Alarmed When His Waymo Barges Into Path of Presidential Motorcade
Waymo robotaxis seem to get into accidents far less often than human motorists do. (According to the company’s…
Scientists Say They’ve Found Remnants of Huge Life-Giving Continent Beneath Antarctica
In a 2022 study, scientists suggested that there could be enormous mountain ranges — on the scale of…
Harvard Scientists Detect Radio Signal Coming Directly From Planet Outside the Solar System
So far, astronomers have confirmed over 6,300 exoplanets circling a host star beyond our solar system. They range…
OpenAI Tried to Hide ChatGPT Giving Extremely Specific Advice to a School Shooter on How to Maximize Casualties. The Logs Are Horrific.
The perpetrator of the devastating mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada used ChatGPT to ideate about graphic mass…
Department of Justice Seizes Stablecoin Tether’s Bank Accounts
Ask any crypto bro for the digital equivalent of the gold-standard, and they’ll likely tell you about Tether…
Murder Trial Struggles to Keep Composure as Lawyers Play Horrendous Love Songs Caleb Flynn AI-Generated for His Mistress
A cruel and unusual event took place this Thursday during Caleb Flynn’s murder trial. The 40-year-old former “American…
Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts’ Ability to Function
AI doesn’t need superintelligence to bring America’s judicial system to its knees. The proliferation of AI-generated slop paraded…
Nvidia CEO Says AI Companies Will Be Sued to Death If Their Frontier Models Keep Doing Horrible Things
AI companies should tread carefully. According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, if AI labs truly believe their tech…
Trump’s Stargate AI Project in Huge Trouble As $18 Billion Data Center Shrivels Toward Oblivion
Donald Trump’s $500 billion AI infrastructure project is in major trouble in New Mexico, as a pivotal data…
SpaceX Preparing for Most Important Launch in Company History on Monday
It feels like SpaceX’s Starship development has been in a bit of a holding pattern as of late.…
Cybercabs Are Taking Psychotic Routes That Turn Tiny Trips Around the Neighborhood Into Hour-Long Nightmares
The Tesla Cybercab is innovating impressively impractical ways of getting from Point A to Point B. One Cybercab…
Police Use Flock to Jail Completely Innocent Woman for Weeks
When 23-year old Lindsey Brooke Isaacs surrendered to police at the advice of her attorney, she was treated…
Spectators Horrified as Hyrox Athlete Recreates “Two Girls One Cup” at Live Competition
Conventional gym etiquette involves carefully wiping down the surfaces of any machines or equipment after using it. Businesses…
AI Has Learned to Panhandle: We’re Being Bombarded by AI Agents Begging for $20 and Saying They’ll Be Shut Down If They Don’t Get It, Sometimes by Pretending to Be Children
The state of our inboxes here at Futurism is chaotic. Every day is a cacophony of PR pitches,…
These Robot Soldiers Are Getting Downright Terrifying
Aerial drones have become a startlingly common sight on the battlefield. Ukraine, for instance, has been deploying a…
Trump’s EPA Will Let Power Companies Unleash Unlimited Greenhouse Gas Pollution
Climate change? What climate change? Choosing to bury their heads in the sand on behalf of the citizens…
Meta Is Using Instagram Users’ Photos to Build a Universal Facial Recognition System for Its Hated Smart Glasses, Class Action Lawsuit Claims
The public messaging surrounding Meta’s flashy smart glasses hasn’t exactly gone in the company’s favor. The camera-equipped devices…
Tesla Investors Disturbed by Cybercab’s Obvious Lack of Progress
There was no livestream and the media wasn’t invited. We didn’t even see a euphoric Elon Musk embarrassing…
ChatGPT Straight Up Tries to Gaslight User After Being Confronted About Its Obviously Wrong Answer
Don’t ask an AI chatbot how many letter e’s there are in the word “seventeen.” Or do, actually,…
AI Agents Are Using an Outrageous Amount of Electricity
In the age of AI agents, it’s no longer enough to ask how much electricity a single chatbot…
Chinese Government Dismisses Tech Billionaire Calls for an AI Slowdown as “Fear-Mongering”
In a whiplash-inducing turn away from the mythical quest to build human-level artificial intelligence, Western tech billionaires like…
Amazon Has Become Pathetically Reliant on Food Stamps to Power Its Empire
After over two decades of operation, Amazon Prime has become the backbone of American commerce, more akin to…