August 25, 2026 6:42 AM
August 25, 2026
Waymo Baffles Police When it Plows Through Taped Off Crime Scene
Londoners are learning the hard way that self-driving cars still have plenty of kinks to iron out. The…
Your Former Employer Is Selling Your Slacks and Emails to Train AI
There’s a new link in the food chain of tech startups. Founders are realizing that they can make…
Tesla Quietly Buys Mysterious $2 Billion Entity
Amid Tesla’s disappointing first quarter earnings report, a one-sentence disclosure tucked into the financial statement is raising more…
The Number of Drones Being Deployed to Surveil Anti-Trump Protestors Is Staggering
Police drones are fast becoming a fact of life across the United States, where they’re showing up in…
The US Military Just Arrested One of Its Soldiers for Making Ghoulish Polymarket Bets, and It Shows How Deep the Moral Rot of Prediction Markets Really Goes
Amid the carnage as the United States invaded Venezuela earlier this year, millions of dollars furiously changed hands…
Three Years Ago Today, “Avengers” Director Joe Russo Predicted There Would Be a Fully AI-Generated Movie Within Two Years
Hollywood has been “cooked” for years now, according to AI fanatics, yet movies still remain largely human-made, and…
Just 11 AI Data Centers Could Belch More Fumes Than Entire Countries
Just eleven gas-powered data centers in the US could belch more greenhouse emissions than countries with populations of…
Chinese Netflix Competitor Opens Floodgates to AI Slop
It may be the beginning of the end for the global legions of C-drama fans. iQIYI, the Chinese…
Millionaire Big Game Hunter Trampled to Death by Elephants
While big game hunting for food is an ancient practice, it’s more recently turned into a sport. It’s…
Palantir’s Employees Are in Crisis
The military and intelligence contractor Palantir has been embroiled in nonstop controversy during Trump’s second term. It’s been…
Tech Companies Are Using Insidious Tactics to Build Data Centers on Indigenous Lands, Activists Say
Last month, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction…
Norway Approves Autonomous Buses for Public Roads
After a ten-year period of trial and error, officials approved fully autonomous buses for operation in Norway, where…
Liberals Are Falling for Extremely Obvious AI Fakes
AI misinformation isn’t just for the right-wing boomers anymore. What once was mostly the domain of Facebook-bound conservatives…
As Controversy Grows, Mattel Scraps Plans for OpenAI Reveal This Year
Experts have been urgently warning that allowing young kids to play with AI-powered toys could have negative consequences,…
AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They’re Creating
They may be responsible for creating the AI tech that many fear will wipe out jobs — if…
The Things Young Kids Are Using AI for Are Absolutely Horrifying
New research is pulling back the curtain on how large numbers of kids are using AI companion apps…
Amazon Deletes AI-Generated Recap of “Fallout” Season 1 After It’s Called Out for Being Full of Errors
Earlier this month, Amazon revealed a new feature that aims to use AI to recap its Prime Video…
China Is Absolutely Obsessed With Copying SpaceX’s Starship Rocket
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket ushered in a new era, offering a fully reusable launch platform that brought outer…
SpaceX Furious at China, Saying It Almost Destroyed One of Its Satellites
The Earth’s orbit is becoming incredibly crowded. A growing number of companies and world powers are establishing new…
Company in Huge Trouble for Creating “Tinder for Kids” App
These days, startups are trying just about everything. Some of them are wacky, if harmless, like the company…
Streamer Sued for Assaulting Gay Robot
Earlier this year, a cowboy hat-toting bipedal robot dubbed “Jake the Rizzbot” burst onto the scene, baffling residents…
Founder of Mental Health Startup Has Epic Public Breakdown, Tries to Start Fire, Flees in Tesla, Crashes
The idyllic countryside of a Bay Area winery was rudely disrupted this weekend when a man allegedly tried…
OpenAI Preparing to Launch Smut Blaster 5000
The AI smut market is booming, and tech executives are starting to notice. Indeed, one study found that…
Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI
On the topic of states rights, Donald Trump doesn’t exactly follow the party line. During his first term,…