October 5, 2026 4:40 PM
October 5, 2026
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.…
AI Startup’s Bizarre Plan to Launch a Hundred 24/7 Cafes Disintegrates as Reality Sets In
When you’re building out an experimental AI-powered insurance company, it’s probably best to stick with the business fundamentals…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children’s Minds to AI Is a Price He’s Willing to Pay
With so much hype about the future of AI safety, it can be easy to overlook the harms…
People Are Already Lusting After Meta’s New AI Assistant Muse
Meta, for once, is doing something pretty novel in the AI sphere. It’s created — and heavily marketed…
Kalshi Admits That It Took a Random Guy’s Video and Used AI to Make Him the Host of an Ad, Changing His Race in the Process
As the public backlash to cheap AI-generated slop continues to grow, companies continue to insist on cutting costs…
Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances
Whatever special kind of brain worms have established themselves in Elon Musk’s noggin appear to be spreading throughout…
Google Gearing Up to Launch Experimental “Data Center” Into Space Next Week
It’s not just Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin looking to send data centers into orbit.…
The Winner of Elon Musk’s AI “Odyssey” Contest Will Make You Laugh Out Loud
Remember how Elon Musk vowed that his AI Grok would make an anti-woke, “historically accurate” version of the…
Anthropic Boasts It Would Be Profitable if You Ignore How Much It Costs to Develop AI
Despite being one of the world leaders in AI development, the private firm Anthropic has yet to post…
Bernie Sanders Proposes Banning Superintelligent AI and Imprisoning Developers for 20 Years
While the US appears to be further away from meaningful AI regulations than ever before, lawmakers certainly have…
Trump Throws His Weight Behind Flock Cameras
President Donald Trump continues to push the boundaries of what it means to be out-of-touch after he gave…
Trump’s Uninformed Blundering About the AI Slowdown Could Literally Threaten Humankind’s Future
Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in calling for…
Amazon Deploying AI Tech That Forces Actors’ Mouths to Match Dubbed Dialogue
Amazon is catapulting us into the final boss of sub vs dub debates. On Thursday, its Prime Video…
OpenAI Faces Congressional Probe Over Swarm Hacking Incident
Earlier this week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon drew major media attention after announcing he was quitting his job,…
Laptop Toasts Boy
Here’s a hazard you probably didn’t expect from too much screen time. Two doctors in the UK reported…
America’s Health Care System Is So Screwed That Patients Are Flying to China for Cancer Treatment
The myriad horrors of the US healthcare system have spawned generations of medical tourism from the wealthiest country…
California, Which Is Creating All the AI That’s Poisoning Children, Just Cracked Down on AI Use for Its Own Kids
Frontier AI labs are seemingly in a race to melt the impressionable minds of underage users into a…
Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain
As far as completely pointless ways to kill time on your phone, this is certainly one of the…
Aging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It
Surely our creaking gerontocracy is well-equipped to respond to a technology as novel, disruptive, and rapidly evolving as…