March 15, 2026 11:45 PM
March 15, 2026
The Hubble Is Inexorably Falling to Earth
For years now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has had its fair share of brushes with death. The groundbreaking…
The Economy Is Lurching Downward as Fear of AI Spreads
AI chipmaker Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, demolished analyst expectations this week when it posted a massive…
AI Workers, and Even CEOs, Suddenly Turning Against the Trump Administration
The Trump administration has a new rival in its ongoing feud with AI company Anthropic: Silicon Valley’s rank-and-file.…
Chatbot Use Can Cause Mental Illness to Get Worse, Research Finds
A new study found that chatbot use appeared to worsen symptoms of mental illness in people struggling with…
Anthropic Blowout With Military Involved Use of Claude for Incoming Nuclear Strike
Anthropic’s ongoing battle with the Pentagon over the military’s use of its AI systems flared up this week…
Huge Study Finds Living Near Nuclear Plants Linked With Cancer Deaths
Conventional wisdom holds that nuclear power plants — outside of ultra-rare disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima — are…
Anthropic CEO Warns of “Tsunami” on Horizon
Dario Amodei may boast many credentials, but we weren’t aware that meteorologist was one of them. This week,…
Anthropic Drops Its Huge Safety Pledge That Was Supposedly the Whole Point of the Company
In 2021, a splinter group of former OpenAI employees founded a new startup, Anthropic, to pursue building AI…
The Saga of NASA’s Space Station Evacuation Keeps Getting Stranger
In early January, NASA unexpectedly announced it had been forced to delay a scheduled spacewalk involving two crewmates…
Burger King Adding AI to Employees’ Headsets to Constantly Monitor Whether They’re Being Friendly Enough
Fast food franchises have struggled to reliably replace drive-thru employees with AI chatbots, resulting in abundant corporate frustration.…
Bill Gates Admits to Multiple Affairs in Epstein Fallout
Microsoft founder Bill Gates spent his Tuesday doing something only the richest men in the world get to…
Damage to Chinese Spacecraft Was Worse Than Reported
In early November, Chinese astronauts on board the country’s Tiangong space station made a terrifying discovery. According to…
You’ll Be Sorry When You Hear What Justin Bieber’s $1.3 Million Bored Ape Is Worth Now
In January 2022, when the world was still in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic and coping with…
Scientists Find Intense Psychological Differences in People Who Exercise
Ever notice how some people seem weirdly unbothered by the horrible news swirling around us, while others freak…
AIs Controlling Vending Machines Start Cartel After Being Told to Maximize Profits At All Costs
In December, Anthropic red teamers and business journalists at the Wall Street Journal teamed up in a bold…
Emails Show Epstein Scheming That Environmental Destruction Could Solve “Overpopulation”
For all the horrible stuff crammed into the Epstein files, they sure have a way of making even…
The Object at the Core of the Milky Way Might Not Be a Black Hole at All, Scientists Say
The traditional understanding is that the center of our galaxy is dominated by a supermassive black hole. The…
New AI Video Generator Is So Impressive That It’s Scaring Hollywood
Text-to-video generating tools have made tremendous leaps in a few short years. We went from a horrifying clip…
Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say
Surprise, surprise: all that climate stuff scientists have been warning us about is coming back to bite us.…
Microsoft Added AI to Notepad and It Created a Security Failure Because the AI Was Stupidly Easy for Hackers to Trick
As Microsoft continues to force AI features onto users of its Windows operating system and other crucial software,…
They Gave a Robot a Sword
Folks, it finally happened: they gave a robot a sword. Over the past few years, engineers have often…
Former xAI Staffers Say They Were Burned Out by the Company’s Carelessness and Lack of Innovation
Earlier this week, two cofounders of Elon Musk’s xAI abruptly announced their departure, meaning that half of the…
Another OpenAI Researcher Just Quit in Disgust
A mere two years ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed the idea of stuffing his company’s blockbuster chatbot…
Man Lets AI Rent His Body
Last week, we brought you the story of RentAHuman, a platform brokering connections between AI agents and humans…