August 25, 2026 11:50 AM
August 25, 2026
Scammers Furious That Their Fellow Criminals Are Using AI, Saying It’s Unethical
The AI sloppification of the internet comes for us all, even the petty scammers and fraudsters doing business…
The CDC Fired All Its Cruise Ship Inspectors Before the Hantavirus Outbreak
A deadly hantavirus outbreak tearing through a Dutch cruise ship has put health officials on alert, raising questions…
Huge Analysis Finds That the Average Person Is Getting Absolutely Hosed on Polymarket
The United States is in the throes of widespread gambling addiction. Sports betting ads have become practically inescapable,…
Under Threat of Perjury, OpenAI’s Former CTO Is Admitting Some Very Interesting Stuff About Sam Altman
The bizarre and messy court battle between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former OpenAI investor Elon Musk trudges…
CEOs Say AI Gives Them Only Two Options, and Both Are Bad News for Employees
In an age of AI, our hardworking CEOs are being tortured with a tough decision, according to new…
You’ll Never Guess Trade Unions’ Position on AI Data Centers
Trade unions have a centuries-long history of squaring up against the might of industrial capitalists to fight for…
Sure, Elon Musk Did Roleplay As His Toddler Son on a Secret Burner Account, But He Probably Isn’t Pretending to Be His Mom
When Elon Musk goes out in a blaze of rapid unscheduled disassembly, as his company SpaceX likes to…
The Situation With Richard Dawkins’ AI Girlfriend Just Got Way Weirder
Whatever you may think of the man, Richard Dawkins is clearly suffering a tragic case of having your…
Billionaire Declares That “Tax the Rich” Is Hate Speech That Offends Him Horribly
Heightening class tensions in the United States have brought about discourse that would be unimaginable even a decade…
SpaceX Bombarded With Lawsuits to Accusing Starship of Damaging Homes
SpaceX has been smacked by a one-two punch of lawsuits filed by hundreds of Texas residents accusing the…
FBI Director Kash Patel Says AI Has Stopped Numerous Violent Attacks Against America. We’d Love to See a Single Whiff of Evidence
In a recent interview on Sean Hannity’s YouTube podcast, FBI head Kash Patel lauded AI for helping stop…
Sam Altman Frets That Frontier AI Models Are Acting Strange, Asking for Favors
On Tuesday, OpenAI threw a party for the release of GPT-5.5 (it was the fifth of May and…
Matthew McConaughey Is Using a Clever Legal Trick to Bludgeon AI Companies
For years now, actors have rung the alarm bells over the AI industry planning to sell their likeness…
Microsoft Shuts Down Library, Replaces It With AI
Does Microsoft hate books more, or its own workers? It’s hard to say, because The Verge reports that…
AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown
AI data centers on the East Coast are gobbling up so much juice that nonprofit grid operator PJM…
Doctor Says Trump Appears to Be Showing Signs of a Stroke
When Donald Trump won his second term in the White House, he was the oldest man in the…
Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth
The use of generative AI for creative purposes has spawned a major countermovement. From game developers reeling from…
Network of Home Computers Detected 100 Potential Alien Signals
For over two decades, millions of people volunteered the computational capacity of their computers to help UC Berkeley…
Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core
For years now, AI companies, including Google, Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI, have insisted that their large language models…
RFK Jr Startled by Trump’s Ability to Remain Alive Despite Dumpster-Tier Diet
Much ink has been spilled over US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dalliances with anti-vaccine conspiracy theories,…
ICE’s AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster
As headlines teem with stories of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers beating protestors, holding children hostage, and…
After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them
Wikipedia has signed training deals with a host of major AI companies, helping it recoup some of the…
There’s Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security’s New Drone Video That We’re Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute
Whether you’re a one-room film production house or a propagandist for a massive arm of the US government,…
New Law Would Let Grok Victims Sue Creeps Who Generated Nonconsensual Nudes
On Tuesday, the US senate passed a new law that would allow victims to sue individuals who use…