March 17, 2026 7:36 PM
March 17, 2026
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…
Man Bet Entire Life Savings of $342,195.63 That Elon Musk Would Fail
Ten years ago, betting your life savings against the success of Elon Musk would have seemed like financial…
Mysterious Chinese Space Plane Conducting Unknown Mission in Orbit
The United States Space Force has been testing its top-secret Boeing X-37B space plane for over a decade.…
Anthropic CEO Says Company No Longer Sure Whether Claude Is Conscious
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s not sure whether his Claude AI chatbot is conscious — a rhetorical…
As OpenAI Pulls Down the Controversial GPT-4o, Someone Has Already Created a Clone
OpenAI is finally sunsetting GPT-4o, a controversial version of ChatGPT known for its sycophantic style and its central role…
Blundering Husband Asks Claude AI to “Organize” Wife’s PC, Accidentally Erases Her Life’s Work
One of the core promises of the AI industry is that its tools can automate work for you…
Crypto Has Finally Found Its Killer App: Human Trafficking
Cryptocurrencies have long been lauded for being a borderless, decentralized way to transfer cash — and while they’ve…
Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody’s Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place
Google has relied on a tremendous amount of material without permission to train its Gemini AI models. The…
Campaign Urges Users to Quit ChatGPT Over OpenAI’s Support for Trump and ICE
It isn’t exactly big news that big tech is in deep with the US government. Days after Trump’s…
All These Ring Cameras Are Creating a “Surveillance Nightmare,” Critics Say
What if the biggest threat to your safety and privacy isn’t a person, but a device millions of…
Israel Arrests Members of Military for Placing Polymarket Bets Using Inside Information on Upcoming Strikes
For months, experts have warned that prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket were ripe for abuse. Now, some…
Scientists Intrigued as Prominent Star Suddenly Winks Out of Existence
The end of a star’s life can be an extremely violent event. Once it runs out of fuel,…
Creeps Are Using Grok to Unblur Children’s Faces in the Epstein Files
Some of the worst freaks to walk planet Earth are using Elon Musk’s Grok to “unblur” the faces…
Vending Machine Run by Claude More of a Disaster Than Previously Known
Maybe we don’t need the Turing test, because there’s a mighty obstacle that’s proving far more challenging to…
It Appears That Immigration Officials Caused the El Paso Airport Shutdown When They Panic-Fired a Powerful Laser Weapon at a Children’s Balloon
Federal officials made the unprecedented decision to abruptly close the airspace above El Paso, Texas, this week —…