July 15, 2026 2:36 PM
July 15, 2026
Scientists Gene Hacked a Plant So It Grows Five Types of Psychoactive Drugs at Once
From the psilocybin in magic mushrooms to dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in toads to the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana, a…
Groups Set Up to Shill AI and Data Centers Are Pouring Huge Sums of Money Into the Midterm Elections
Artificial intelligence remains deeply unpopular with the American public. One poll found it’s even more reviled than ICE,…
Nonprofit Research Groups Disturbed to Learn That OpenAI Has Secretly Been Funding Their Work
If you’re running a frontier AI company, now’s not the time to rest on your laurels. The stakes…
Man Caught Sleeping Behind the Wheel While FSD Tesla Cruises the Streets After Decadent Feast of Wine and Pizza
Some cars these days might be able to drive themselves, but unless you run a multibillion dollar robotaxi…
China Cracking Down on the Types of AI That Are Tearing America Apart
The Cyberspace Administration of China is cracking down on “digital humans,” with incoming regulations that will soon require…
Target Warns That If Its AI Shopping Agent Makes an Expensive Mistake, You’ll Have to Pay for It
Big box chains have proudly embraced artificial intelligence — but don’t expect them to help when their AI…
Polymarket Has Turned Our Climate Apocalypse Into a Casino
Intensifying wildfires, coastal erosion, and increased hurricane activity are taking an ever-rising toll on humanity. And as the…
Chinese Scientists Bioengineering Plants With Firefly Genes to Glow, in Effort to Light Cities at Night
A shortcut to sprucing up any dreary urban locale is by throwing in some beautiful greenery. Now, Chinese…
CEO Says He’s Giving Employees a $1.5 Million Bonus So He Doesn’t Get Shot in the Street by a Luigi-Like Killer
You don’t forge a multibillion dollar burger empire without breaking a few eggs, or at least smashing a…
America’s Largest Hospital System Ready to Start Replacing Radiologists With AI, Its CEO Says
Just weeks after the largest nurses strike in the New York City history, the CEO of NYC Health…
AI Forces College Professor to Get Typewriters for Entire Class
Meme wisdom holds that modern problems require modern solutions, but what peddlers of this internet adage failed to…
Claude Leak Shows That Anthropic Is Tracking Users’ Vulgar Language and Deems Them “Negative”
AI company Anthropic suffered a massive leak of the source code to its Claude Code AI assistant earlier…
We’re Bracing for an Accident Now That Tesla Is Taking the Safety Drivers Out of Its Robotaxis
Tesla is preparing for its Robotaxis to go fully driverless and ditch its human safety monitors, according to…
Replica Statue of Liberty Topples in Urban Hellscape
In what can only be described as a too-on-the-nose metaphor for the United States’ weakening influence on the…
Liberals Are Falling for Extremely Obvious AI Fakes
AI misinformation isn’t just for the right-wing boomers anymore. What once was mostly the domain of Facebook-bound conservatives…
As Controversy Grows, Mattel Scraps Plans for OpenAI Reveal This Year
Experts have been urgently warning that allowing young kids to play with AI-powered toys could have negative consequences,…
AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They’re Creating
They may be responsible for creating the AI tech that many fear will wipe out jobs — if…
The Things Young Kids Are Using AI for Are Absolutely Horrifying
New research is pulling back the curtain on how large numbers of kids are using AI companion apps…
Amazon Deletes AI-Generated Recap of “Fallout” Season 1 After It’s Called Out for Being Full of Errors
Earlier this month, Amazon revealed a new feature that aims to use AI to recap its Prime Video…
China Is Absolutely Obsessed With Copying SpaceX’s Starship Rocket
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket ushered in a new era, offering a fully reusable launch platform that brought outer…
SpaceX Furious at China, Saying It Almost Destroyed One of Its Satellites
The Earth’s orbit is becoming incredibly crowded. A growing number of companies and world powers are establishing new…
Company in Huge Trouble for Creating “Tinder for Kids” App
These days, startups are trying just about everything. Some of them are wacky, if harmless, like the company…
Streamer Sued for Assaulting Gay Robot
Earlier this year, a cowboy hat-toting bipedal robot dubbed “Jake the Rizzbot” burst onto the scene, baffling residents…
Founder of Mental Health Startup Has Epic Public Breakdown, Tries to Start Fire, Flees in Tesla, Crashes
The idyllic countryside of a Bay Area winery was rudely disrupted this weekend when a man allegedly tried…