August 25, 2026 9:15 AM
August 25, 2026
Richard Dawkins One-Shotted By AI Girl
The famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins may have coined the word “meme,” but lately it feels like he’s…
Jeff Bezos’ Moon Lander Just Completed a Key Test
NASA is still hoping to land the first Artemis astronauts on the surface of the Moon by the…
Zuckerberg Trying to Simulate Human Biology at the Cellular Level
Mark Zuckerberg is following a path paved by fellow billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffet: laundering his untold…
Scientists and Lawmakers Horrified at Trump’s Brutal Budget for NASA
Hot on the heels of NASA’s historic trip around the Moon, the Trump administration wasted no time in…
The Chinese Streaming Industry Is Being Gutted by AI-Generated Shows
Earlier this year, TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance released the latest version of its Seedance AI video generating tool.…
Startup Says It’s Invented a Beanie That Reads Your Mind
If you thought AI-integrated smart glasses were bad, wait until you get a load of Sabi, a Palo…
Grimly Cyberpunk Video Shows Ukrainian Soldiers Leaning Out of Propeller Plane to Obliterate Drones With Rifles
A video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones with rifles — while leaning out of Soviet-era propeller…
Man Says His Waymo Ditched Him at the Airport Before He Could Get His Luggage Out of the Trunk, Refused to Return
Losing your suitcase is a rite of passage for travelers, something you can usually blame on human error.…
Frontier AI Models Giving Specific, Actionable Instructions to Perpetrate Bioterror Attack
There’s a pretty sizable list of things an AI assistant should refuse to help you with. Is engineering…
AI Slop YouTube Channel Glitches Out in a Way So Bizarre That It’s Vaguely Disturbing
YouTube has a serious slop problem. The platform has been inundated with lazy AI-generated footage, from pseudo-educational videos…
Climate Change Is Getting So Bad That It’s Making Food Less Nutritious
Climate change’s effects often aren’t obvious. In a particularly lateral example of how our planet’s changing environment is…
Double Murder Suspect Asked ChatGPT How to Hide Body in Dumpster
Earlier this month, we got a glimpse of the harrowing conversations that Florida State University school shooting suspect…
Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Are Now Falling Sharply, and You’ll Never Guess Why
For many years, the United States has waged a bitter battle against fentanyl. The staggering number of overdose…
Google Settles With Families Who Say It Killed Their Teen Children
A stack of major AI ethics lawsuits against Google have finally come to an end. According to the…
Horrendous Things Happen When You Quit Zyn Cold Turkey
Thinking about dropping those flavorful white sachets of nicotine this resolution season? You might want to reconsider how…
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Which Ingests Your Entire Medical Records, But Warns Not to Use It for “Diagnosis or Treatment”
AI chatbots may be explosively popular, but they’re known to dispense some seriously wacky— and potentially dangerous —…
New AI Device Pours Alcohol Directly Into the Void Where Your Soul Should Be
Watch out, bartenders: your jobs might be next on the AI chopping block — at least if tech…
NASA Announces Emergency Evacuation From Space Station
For the first time ever, NASA has been forced to cut a mission to the International Space Station…
NASA’s Library Shutdown Scandal Is Ballooning
By March of this year, the Trump administration is hoping to shutter over a dozen buildings and more…
Sony Patents AI That Plays Video Games for You If You Get Stuck
Amid a riotous AI hype cycle, companies are promising that their agentic AIs will —eventually, at least —…
Tesla Fan Profusely Praises FSD For Veering His Car off the Side of the Highway
After a Tesla in Full Self-Driving mode suddenly swerved off of a busy highway and almost straight into…
Kawasaki’s Robot Horse Is Going Into Production
Back in April, we came across a flashy and almost entirely CGI video of a bizarre concept for…
Researchers Just Discovered Something Extremely Unflattering About People Who Believe Conspiracy Theories
What makes a conspiracy theorist? Is it poor education, an overactive imagination, a tinfoil hat? According to one…
Astronaut on Space Station Suffers Medical Issue
A simple medical issue as mundane as an infection is far more dangerous when orbiting the Earth hundreds…