August 25, 2026 3:45 AM
August 25, 2026
The Horrible Economics of AI Are Starting to Come Crashing Down
An eyebrow-raising trend has emerged this year: tech leaders rating their employees’ productivity based on the number of…
Google Exec Says Your Favorite Video Games Are Secretly Made With AI
That new, unapologetically derivative open world game or umpteenth shooter sequel you’re currently addicted to? It was almost…
Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What That Golden Orb Found at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean Actually Was
After spending two and half years pondering a “golden orb” found at the bottom of the ocean, scientists…
Trump’s Huge AI Data Center Project Is Falling Apart Behind the Scenes
Donald Trump’s bid to cash in on the AI data center boom seems to have sprung a leak…
You’ll Spill Your Juice When You Learn How Many of Florida’s Orange Trees This Incurable Bacteria Has Already Infected
Whether you take it with pulp or without, you may soon be lucky just to get some OJ…
Elon Musk Admits He Lied to Tesla Customers’ Faces for Years About Self-Driving
After over a decade of promising that fully autonomous driving is right around the corner, Tesla CEO Elon…
FBI Investigating Series of Deaths Among Top Scientists With Very Specific Specialties
On February 27, retired Air Force Research Laboratory commander William Neil McCasland, who once worked at the Wright-Patterson…
SpaceX’s IPO Plan Will Give Elon Musk Ironclad Rule Over the Resulting Empire
When SpaceX makes it debut on the stock exchange later this year, experts expect it to be the…
ChatGPT’s Tool for Ordering Starbucks Is So Staggeringly Bad That It’s Breaking Containment
Starbucks has innovated the perfect tool for getting mid-coffee in our misanthropic age. Those too cowardly to look…
Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds
Think something weird is up with your reflection in the mirror? Allow Grok to interest you in some…
Astronomers Create Entire Synthetic Universe “Indistinguishable” From Our Own
Astronomers say they’ve created an entire synthetic universe which uncannily reproduces the properties of our real one. The…
Rogue Group Gains Access to Anthropic’s Dangerous New Mythos AI
Remember Claude Mythos, Anthropic’s new AI model that it hyped as being so powerful that it was too…
Disney Strikes Huge Deal With OpenAI: Get Ready for Sora Videos of Donald Duck Cooking Meth
Famous copyright tyrant Disney is now bending over for the AI industry and signing away its precious intellectual…
Mysterious Interstellar Object Now Approaching Earth
For months now, astronomers have been closely watching the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it rips through the…
Woman Orders Waymo, Finds Man Hiding in Trunk
Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing service is going through a lot of firsts these days. Earlier this week, a pregnant…
Years After a Girl’s Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone
We’ve written previously about Juliana Peralta, who was only 13 years old when her parents say an AI…
Scientists Say the Time Has Arrived to Land Astronauts on Mars
The goal of sending astronauts to the surface of Mars has been a major point of contention, with…
Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist
Librarians, and the books they cherish, are already fight a losing battle for our attention spans with all…
Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast
The podcast format has largely remained the same since its inception in the early 2000s: short shows recorded…
Chinese Astronauts Clamber Outside Space Station to Inspect Damaged Spacecraft
Last month, Chinese astronauts on board the country’s Tiangong space station discovered cracks in the window of their…
Sam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPT
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently admitted he needs extensive assistance from his company’s AI chatbot to get through…
You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into
Getting tired of dusting off Grandpa’s stuffy old urn? One startup has the solution for you. It’s called…
Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Tropical Oasis on Mars
Scientists suspect that the surface of Mars was once teeming with water, a lush oasis full of river…
Details Emerge on Sam Altman’s Panic Sweats
OpenAI has long made it its number one goal to realize artificial general intelligence, which it described in…