August 5, 2026 12:55 AM
August 5, 2026
Top Security Experts Alarmed by Power of Anthropic’s New Hacker AI
In November, Anthropic revealed that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group had exploited its Claude AI’s agentic capabilities to…
Teens Alarmed at What AI Is Doing to Their Minds
There’s a strange dynamic emerging around artificial intelligence. Research has shown that young people — who are typically…
Video Shows Amazon Delivery Drone Dropping Package Directly Onto Concrete, Smashing Its Delicate Contents
Over the past few months, Amazon has been rapidly deploying its Prime delivery drones to cities across the…
What It Really Means That a Failing Shoe Brand “Pivoted to AI” and Its Stock Soared 700 Percent
As it turns out, all it takes to turn a cash-bleeding company into the New York Stock Exchange’s…
Starbucks’ Baffling ChatGPT Collab Treats Customers Like Empty, Soulless Venti Cups
As AI chatbots go, OpenAI’s ChatGPT isn’t the most provocative. Its relentlessly upbeat, hand-holding style has drawn constant…
ChatGPT’s “Honest Reaction” to a “Song” Composed Entirely of Gas-Passing Noises Will Make You Question Whether It’s Honestly Evaluating Your Other Brilliant Ideas
It doesn’t take much to impress an AI chatbot. Tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have long garnered a reputation…
AI Is Turning Workplaces Into Hopeless Gridlock
CEOs have eagerly grabbed onto AI as a tool to make offices more efficient, and often to reduce…
Companies Just Learned a Brutal Lesson About Training AI to Do Human Jobs
A dismal job market has given rise to a grim new cottage industry: a buzzy San Francisco-based AI…
Man Engineers Giant Robot Hand to Smash His Enemies
One of China’s preeminent engineering influencers is at it again. Fan Shisan, the Sichuan-based content creator who runs…
Earth Now Flying Through a Debris Field, Paper Finds
An eagle-eyed astronomer has discovered that an elusive asteroid is apparently shedding hundreds of fragments — and our…
Berklee College of Music Students Furious That It’s Offering an AI “Songwriting” Class
Hundreds of students at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston have signed an online petition protesting…
Clavicular Rushed to Hospital in Perfect Illustration of Why Looksmaxxing Is a Horrifying Death Cult
Braden “Clavicular” Peters, a so-called “looksmaxxing” influencer who’s gained notoriety for advocating for ill-advised and dangerous attempts to…
Waymo Spotted Driving Wrong Way Down Busy Street
You don’t share the road with robotaxis — the robotaxis munificently share the road with you. This week,…
Bernie Sanders Calls for Halt on Construction of New Data Centers
While some anti-AI advocates have called for some extreme property damage to halt the AI boom, Vermont Senator…
Truth Social Stock Explodes as It Merges With Nuclear Fusion Company
President Donald Trump’s failing social media tech bid has tirelessly tried to reinvent itself into a viable business.…
Tesla Owner Says FSD Is Great Except for the Part Where It Can’t Drive in the Sun
If Elon Musk is to be believed, there will be hundreds of thousands — if not millions —…
New NASA Director Taking Over Agency in Crisis
It’s been almost a full year since NASA last had a full-time leader. The agency, responsible for the…
Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit
You know those memes about how there’s no such thing as a free VPN? Here’s the ultimate cautionary…
Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Under Bermuda
The Bermuda Triangle, a loosely defined region bounded by Bermuda, the Bahamas, and Puerto Rico, has been the…
Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated “Influencers” on Instagram
Back in October, word started making the rounds of an AI startup called Doublespeed. Backed by venture capital…
AI Sends School Into Lockdown After It Mistook a Student’s Clarinet for a Gun
Students at Lawton Chiles Middle School in Florida were sent scrambling into lockdown last week, after an alert…
Sam Altman Uses His New Image Generator to Show Himself As a Jacked Fireman With Washboard Abs… With an Absolutely Hilarious Error
Not using AI to pretend you have the hot bod of your dreams? Then clearly you’re not the…
A Huge Number of People Starved to Death After Elon Musk Cut USAID’s Funding
In the weeks following the second inauguration of Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk — appointed to a powerful…
When You Hear What Happens When They Put Lab Mice in Nature, You Might Rethink Your Entire Life
Lab mice are subjected to countless horrors during their short lives, from being injected with cancerous cells to…