April 7, 2026 8:10 AM
April 7, 2026
Physicists Successfully Deliver First Bottle of CERN Antimatter From the Antimatter Factory
For thirty minutes on Tuesday, a team of researchers white-knuckled it across the CERN campus on the outskirts…
Surreal Footage Shows Melania Trump Walking Into White House Summit With Humanoid Robot
President Donald Trump’s State-of-the-Union speech last month was notably light on education policy. While actively dismantling the US…
Why Does Every Case of AI Hiring a Human Feel Like a Groveling Publicity Stunt?
It’s been a strange launch for RentAHuman, the job platform built for AI agents to hire human gig…
Scan Finds Presence of Nuclear Fuel in 3I/ATLAS
Deuterium, a stable and non-radioactive isotope of hydrogen that features a neutron in addition to the single proton…
Evidence Grows That Trump Is Using the War in Iran to Manipulate Markets
Just after noon on Friday, March 20th, US president Donald Trump declared victory to a group of reporters…
OpenAI Fumbled Its $1 Billion Deal With Disney
On Tuesday, news emerged that OpenAI was canning its chaotic and controversial text-to-video AI app, Sora. The app,…
Broken Nvidia CEO Says He Can’t Stand AI Slop Either
The overwhelming backlash against Nvidia’s new DLSS 5 feature that uses AI to yassify video games has clearly…
As Mass Layoffs Loom, OpenAI Looks to Double Headcount in Desperate Bid to Catch Up With Anthropic
The tech industry is roiling from sweeping layoffs affecting tens of thousands of workers. Executives are citing AI…
OpenAI Is Reportedly Killing Its Disastrous Video AI Slop App
It didn’t take long for OpenAI’s text-to-video AI app, Sora, to melt down into outrageous drama. Almost immediately…
There’s a $10 Billion Problem With Elon Musk’s New Chip Factory
If Elon Musk ever cuts the ribbon on his massive chip factory “Terafab,” it could be among the…
NASA Announces Gigantic Armada of Moon Launches to “Build President Trump’s Moon Base,” Starting Next Year
In a flashy “Ignition” event today, NASA firmly recommitted itself to returning astronauts to the Moon, while fleshing…
Trump Administration Would Rather Pay a Billion Dollars Than Build a Single Wind Farm
Donald Trump’s Quixotic hatred of wind power is breezing up once again. On Monday, the administration said it…
Study Finds That Execs Are Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
The headlines warning about AI melting our brains usually point to students or workers, which — fair enough.…
A Machine Learning Engineer Thought He Was Safe From AI Layoffs. Then He Got Some Depressing News
While the exact impact of AI on the job market remains hazy at best, ongoing fears that an…
Using AI to Do Your Taxes Is Likely to Backfire Spectacularly
Tax season, that dreaded time of year, is upon us. But if you were hoping that newfangled AI…
Efforts Grow to Ban Octopus Farming
The case for a prohibition on octopus farming is simple enough: we probably shouldn’t raise animals capable of…
Kalshi Sent Bizarre Message to Underage Streamer
Kalshi hasn’t been particularly subtle about sucking young users into its gambling empire. Now, new reporting from the…
AI Job Loss Is Breaking the Psyche of Workers, Psychiatrist Warns
If you’re one of the hundreds of millions of Americans who earn a wage for a living, it…
Scientists Find Microbes Can Survive Traveling from Planet to Planet While Clinging to Asteroids
In an effort to explain how life started on Earth billions of years ago, some scientists have suggested…
Emergency Responders Say They’re Now Unpaid “Roadside Assistance” for Confused Waymos
Overseas teleoperators aren’t the only ones stuck cleaning up Waymo’s messes. Emergency responders are also having to swoop…
Atmospheric CO2 Getting So High That It’s Weakening Human Skeletons
Though talks of climate change typically conjure up images of dripping glaciers and rising tides, it turns out…
You’ll Choke When You Hear How Many Full-Time Jobs a $136 Million Data Center Will Actually Create
Fit Precast, an industrial concrete company, is dropping $102 million on a new facility in Gastonia, North Carolina,…
Evidence Grows That Google’s AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry
Media workers aren’t so much being replaced by AI systems as fed to one: Google’s gluttonous AI Overviews,…
Famed Plastic Surgeon Weighs in on Jim Carrey’s Face
Is it a shock that an aging actor may or may not have gotten work done on their…