April 7, 2026 2:57 AM
April 7, 2026
If Your Job Involves Using Your Brain, You May Be in Big Trouble, Tufts Report Finds
As fears over an AI-driven jobs apocalypse continue to grow, researchers are trying to get a better sense…
Protesters Have Figured Out They Can Block Waymos and Berate Their Passengers While the Cars Are Paralyzed
Tech boosters might love them, but Waymo’s self-driving cars aren’t exactly currying favor with John Q Public. In…
Meta’s Big Court Defeat Has Huge Implications for Lawsuits Against the AI Industry
Tech giants Meta and Google-owned YouTube suffered a devastating legal blow yesterday after losing a landmark social media…
OpenClaw Bots Are a Security Disaster
OpenClaw agents, which are personal AI assistants designed to take over entire computers to carry out complex, multistep…
Protestors Outside Anthropic Warn of AI That Keeps Improving Itself
Months after a daring hunger strike failed to pause development of Anthropic’s AI Claude, protestors have rallied around…
Study: New York Times Has Published Extensive AI-Generated Articles
The odds that the New York Times and other major news outlets have published AI-generated articles — whether…
With the Metaverse Canceled and Zuckerberg Training AI to Run the Company, Meta Is Slashing Its Headcount
Intermittent layoffs are the norm at Meta, but it’s now carrying them out as its shift towards building…
Those Viral Posts About the Brave Kidnapped Dogs Escaping and Finding Their Homes Together Are Fake, You Gullible Buffoons
In Disney’s beloved 1993 family film, “Homeward Bound,” a ragtag group of two dogs and a cat embark…
There’s Something Incredibly Weird About Two Delivery Robots Crashing Through Glass Bus Shelter in Chicago Within a Few Days of Each Other
Chicagoans are ducking for cover as delivery robots turn into heat-seeking missiles for innocent glass structures. On Tuesday, another…
OpenAI Cancels Spicy “Adult Mode” Chatbot as Crisis Deepens
The walls continue to close in on OpenAI. The company recently raised an additional $10 billion in funding,…
Why Is Everyone Losing Their Minds Over This Little Old Mars Pyramid?
The pyramids in Egypt have long been a fixation for conspiracy theorists, who like to claim they were…
Scientists Cloned a Mouse, Then Cloned the Clone, Et Cetera. The Results Were Horrific
Here’s the cautionary tale you didn’t know you needed: cloning the same mouse in perpetuity will produce horrific…
Atlassian Lays Off 10 Percent of Its Workforce as It Pivots to AI
Another tech giant is culling immense numbers of workers. On Thursday, prominent Australian software firm Atlassian announced it…
Trucker Awarded $20,000 for Hauling a Massive Amount of Nuclear Waste
The US government might not know where to store its spent nuclear waste, but that sure hasn’t stopped…
Company Testing Humanoid Robot Soldiers on Frontlines of Ukraine
Humanoid robots are already folding clothes, running marathons, and assembling cars — so it was probably only a…
Americans’ Anger Against AI Data Centers Is Boiling Over
America really hates data centers. While the rise of grassroots data center opposition makes compelling evidence on its…
NASA Has No Plan to Rescue Lunar Astronauts in Case of Emergency
Late last month, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman announced during a livestreamed press conference that the space agency would…
Watchdog Issues Grim Warning About Letting AI Run Your Life
These days, the AI stack beckons: emails, shopping, personal finance — there’s hardly a task some company isn’t…
Scientists Say Something Bizarre Is Hiding Inside Black Holes
What’s “inside” a black hole? Are they portals to another universe, or are actually other universes in miniature? Those…
Elon Musk Orders Sweeping Layoffs as xAI Fails to Catch Up
In a Thursday tweet, Elon Musk said he was looking to rebuild his AI startup xAI “from the…
Trump’s Disastrous Truth Social Company Hits Rock Bottom With Lowest Stock Price Ever
President Donald Trump’s Truth Social bid, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), has burned through an alarming amount…
BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI
In January 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced in a memo to staff that the company was making…
Iran Declares Google and Microsoft to Be Military Targets
There’s a new target in 21st century warfare: US tech companies. According to Al Jazeera, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary…
Elon Musk Says He’s Epically Screwed Up at xAI, Is Rebuilding “From the Foundations”
Besides headlines about the majority of original cofounders fleeing the company, Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has struggled…