August 25, 2026 11:37 PM
August 25, 2026
Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly
As AI continues to weave its way into every corner of daily life, one of the public’s chief…
OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Allegedly Killed College Student
The family of a 19-year-old college student who died of an overdose after consulting ChatGPT for medical advice…
New York Times Issues Stern Warning to Its Freelance Writers About AI Use
After a string of AI controversies, The New York Times emailed a “periodic reminder” to freelancers on Tuesday…
Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It’s Inexorably Driving It Out of Business
An AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and it’s going about…
Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take
Even if you don’t know Nick Bostrom’s name, you’re almost certainly familiar with the idea he’s most famous…
Unitree Shows Off Fully Functional Mecha Suit
Chinese tech company Unitree has quickly established itself as the brand to beat in the humanoids robotics industry,…
Husband Alarmed as Wife Starts Whispering Quietly to Her Computer
In a trend that sounds like it was engineered in a lab to send chills down the spine…
AI Is Giving Your Boss Tools to Be More Monstrous Than Ever Before
The debate raging about AI’s future consequences, with a complete AI automation apocalypse on one side and a…
Grok Just Issued a Brutal Beatdown to Elon Musk
If you ever needed proof that money can’t buy intelligence, just watch the richest man in the world…
Google Alarmed by Formidable AI-Powered Zero-Day Cyberattack
Google was rattled by a cyberattack that used AI to unearth a major flaw in its software that…
Angry Mom Defeats Entire AI Data Center
Jayne Black is a Wisconsin-area environmentalist and mother of four. An organizer with the group Moms Clean Air…
Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future
This year’s commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was visibly floored after she extolled AI as…
ICE Is Scanning Civilians’ Faces, Telling Them They’re Being Entered Into a Terrorism Database
In case you needed further evidence that we’re living in the worst version of a cyberpunk dystopia, immigration…
Elon Musk Is So Unlikable That His Feud With Random Airline Is Doing Wonders for Sales, Says CEO
Elon Musk tried to pick a fight with a major airline CEO — who says thanks for all…
Business Leaders Suddenly Fearful as Anger Surges Over AI Replacing Human Jobs
It’s an agonizing time for the labor market in the US, where unemployment is on the rise and…
There’s Reportedly a Car Secretly Following Every Tesla Robotaxi, and the Reason Why Is So Absurd You Aren’t Going to Believe It
When Tesla launched its Robotaxi service last summer, it came with an embarrassing caveat. Sitting in the front…
Experts Warn That There’s Something Wrong With the Moon Rocket NASA Is About to Launch With Astronauts Aboard
In less than two weeks, NASA is scheduled to launch its Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed journey…
Metal Band Releases New Album on N64 Cartridge
Last year saw the highest vinyl record sales since 1984, signaling a strong desire among music enthusiasts to…
Man Explains Why He Shredded Up an AI-Generated Art Exhibit With His Bare Teeth
Last week, a University of Alaska, Fairbanks undergraduate student was detained by police after ripping off pieces of…
Meteorologist Warns That Winter Storm Means Trees Are About to Start Exploding
With a major winter storm about to blast pretty much every US state east of the Rocky Mountains,…
X’s Head of Product One Shotted by Errant Piece of Fried Chicken
If we were a top executive at X-formerly-Twitter, a social media site used by hundreds of millions of…
SpaceX Hit With Back to Back Lawsuits From Workers Who Say They Were Brutally Injured on the Job
SpaceX is facing a one-two punch of personal injury lawsuits after two different workers have sued the Elon…
White House Uses AI to Alter Protester’s Face So That She’s Sobbing, Instead of Looking Brave, During Arrest
The White House published an image on X in which the face of a protester had been altered…
The Ultra-Wealthy Are Demanding to Pay Higher Taxes
The loudest calls for taxing the ultra-rich amid this year’s Davos summit aren’t coming from hooded anarchists or…