October 5, 2026 7:31 AM
October 5, 2026
Meta Employee Attacks Zuckerberg for Collecting Every Employee Keystroke
Mark Zuckerberg’s new initiative to track employee computer use is tearing the company apart. In a sign that…
Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold
A poster wrought some moderate havoc this week when they shared a cropped image of a real Monet…
Crabby 82-Year-Old Politician Attacks 10-Year-Old Child for Thinking Electric Cars Are Cool
North Carolinian congresswoman Virginia Foxx has never shied away from regressive takes. Over her many decades in politics,…
AI Appears to Be Trapping Certain Job Applicants in a Limbo Where They Never Get an Interview for “Reasons” That Are Completely Unfair
For workers already enmeshed in the US workforce, AI is akin to a far-off asteroid, a looming threat…
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…
If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?
These days, the conversation around AI automation and the job market is increasingly focused on “labor displacement,” the…
Elon Musk Flees OpenAI Trial as Tide Turns Against Him
Elon Musk is locked in a heated trial in a lawsuit he lodged against his rival OpenAI and…
Sam Altman Faces Nightmare Questions in Cross-Examination
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced what sounds like a truly awful day on the stand this week during…
Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going to Make Their Bosses Extremely Mad
AI automation is typically exactly what it sounds like: automating tasks — many of which were previously carried…
OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google
A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing data including user chat queries and personal identifying information…
Electric Company Says It’s Cutting Off an Entire Town So It Can Sell All Its Power to Data Centers
The data center scramble feeding off the AI boom is no longer just raising utility prices for nearby…
Sam Altman Accuses Elon Musk of Laughing at Memes During Important OpenAI Meetings
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand yesterday in Musk v. Altman, the chaotic, embarrassing, and yet deeply…
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,…
Police Investigating Weird Man Found in Waymo by Passenger
Earlier this week, a woman made a startling discovery while hailing a Waymo autonomous cab for her daughter…
Regular People Are Rising Up Against AI Surveillance Cameras
AI surveillance company Flock Safety might be having a banner year as it aggressively expands its dragnet across…
Huge Study Finds Very Worrying Results for Medical Marijuana Patients
In a blow to the medical cannabis establishment, a team of psychiatrists performed a detailed analysis on 15…
Waymo’s Software Patch to Not Run Down Children Getting Off School Buses Isn’t Working, School Claims
Despite holding a track record as some of the safest self-driving cars on American roads, Waymo’s robotaxis seem…
Scientists Reveal Robot Small Enough to Travel Through Human Body
We’re far from realizing the kind of nanomachines envisioned in media like “The Diamond Age” and Metal Gear…