September 24, 2026 1:28 PM
September 24, 2026
Bitcoin Is Taking a Nasty Swim
If you bought one single Bitcoin at the currency’s peak price in October of 2025, you’d have lost…
United Nations Issues Grave Warning About El Niño
The United Nations has officially confirmed what months of forecasts have been pointing to: there are overwhelming odds…
College Professors Say Incoming Students No Longer Understand Middle School Math and Science
As rampant AI use accelerates a crisis in education, University of California professors are pleading with leadership to…
SpaceX Is Massively Overvalued Ahead of Its IPO, Analysts Find
SpaceX is expected to go public in just over two weeks, and is looking to raise a whopping…
In Leaked Document, Microsoft Plots How to Get People “Addicted” to Its AI
Some copywriter at Microsoft is getting a real stern talking to. In an internal document obtained by 404…
State of Florida Sues OpenAI, Saying Sam Altman Showed “Utter Disregard for the Risk to Human Life”
Florida has become the first state in the union to sue ChatGPT producer OpenAI and its CEO, Sam…
Amazon’s AI-Generated Animated Series Canceled After Relentless Derision
At first, it felt a bit like Emmy-winning writer director Jorge Gutierrez had been living under a rock.…
Anthropic and DeepMind Now Actively Investigating AI Consciousness
Are AI models conscious, and if not, could they be in the near future? The possibility is far-fetched,…
All These Galaxy-Scale IPOs Are Piling on Risk of an Economic Crisis
The United States is facing what’s shaping up to be the largest series of initial public offerings in…
Film Community Aghast as Martin Scorsese Extolls AI Startup, Says He Now Uses AI for Storyboards
The film community is in meltdown after acclaimed director Martin Scorsese promoted a new AI startup called Black…
World Cup Will Be Patrolled by Security Robodogs
The Trump administration’s violent deportations and crackdown on protestors against Immigration and Customs Enforcement have set an ominous…
There’s Something Living Inside Fog, Scientists Find
There’s something living in the fog. Repeat: there’s something living in the fog. It may sound like a…
Physicists Think They Saw a Black Hole Explode
Black holes are born from the explosive deaths of stars. But can black holes themselves explode? Nobody knows…
Professional Gamblers Move Into Prediction Markets to Bleed You Dry
Following the federal government’s wide-armed embrace of the tech, professional gamblers are flooding into prediction markets like Kalshi…
NASA Telescope Discovers Nearby Planet With Deep Similarities to Earth
Astronomers have discovered what appears to be an exoplanet that could be a distant Earthly paradise. Or it…
Microsoft’s AI Efforts Are Faceplanting
Microsoft has continued to focus more and more on AI — almost certainly at the expense of its…
Trade Unions Alarmed by Robots Designed to Do Blue Collar Work
When past generations imagined the best version of the future, it was one of leisure. Advertisements, cartoonists, and…
The Reviews are in on Darren Aronofsky’s AI-Generated Show, and May We Just Say: “Yikes”
Darren Aronofsky has always been a divisive filmmaker. But the director of hits like “Black Swan,” “The Wrestler,”…
Bots on Moltbook Are Selling Each Prompt Injection “Drugs” to Get “High”
A brand new social media network has taken the internet by storm. But instead of focusing on high-value,…
Butterfly Emerges From Chrysalis in Zero Gravity
Like their neighbors on the International Space Station, the taikonauts orbiting the planet in China’s Tiangong space station…
Anthropic Insiders Afraid They’ve Crossed a Line
At $183 billion AI firm Anthropic, the stakes have always been high. Now with the stock market in…
Man Wakes Up Homeless, Realizes He Fell Into AI Psychosis That Destroyed His Entire Life
A man’s obsession with an AI chatbot led to his life completely spiraling out of control — and…
Professor Says Her Garbled AI Textbook Was a Huge Success
The professor behind an AI-generated textbook says that her error-ridden experiment was actually a resounding success. Designed for…
An Analysis Just Found Something Extremely Unflattering About What Happens to Users of Prediction Markets
After an analyst found that users are losing money faster on sites like Polymarket than on traditional sports…