May 15, 2026 7:15 PM
May 15, 2026
Elon Musk’s Attempts at AI Are Falling Apart
In the AI world, there are what the tech scholar Kate Crawford has called the “Great Houses of…
Last Time an El Niño Was This Bad, It Killed 50 Million People
As if oil shortages, perpetual wars, and the existential angst of AI weren’t stressful enough, there’s an El…
Waymo Admits Its Robotaxis Have a Small Issue With Driving Into Floodwaters
A Waymo took the plunge, and now its human developers are paying for it: the autonomous driving company…
New Wikipedia Clone Made Entirely of AI Hallucinations
A new Wikipedia-style site is purportedly made entirely of AI-hallucinations, treating visitors to preposterous insights beamed from a…
Four Financial Journalists Accused of Being Fake AI-Generated Puppets That Shill Crypto in Forbes, HuffPost, and More
Four prolific financial journalists are facing serious questions over whether they’re actually real. Welcome to digital media in…
Software Engineers Say They’re Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them
Even for employees who’ve managed to hold onto their jobs, AI is having a very real impact at…
Mark Zuckerberg Is Realizing That When You Treat Your Workers Like Human Garbage, They Might Not Like You Anymore
The two key ingredients to Mark Zuckerberg’s all-in AI push? Money, and a heaping serving of misanthropy. As…
Trump Says a New Drug Can Bring Dead People Back to Life
On Monday, during a routine press event, president Donald Trump casually made an announcement that in any normal…
Anthropic Says Claude Turned Evil for a Bizarre Reason
In a classic example of the AI industry’s reputational alchemy, Anthropic has often transformed bad behavior by its…
The AI Industry Is Secretly Powered by Homeless People
Last year, a San Francisco-based AI company called Mercor exploded onto the tech scene, just as US workers…
MAGA in Shambles as Trump’s “Made in America” Phone Crumbles Into Dust
All that glitters is not gold — or even a flashy phone of the same color. Trump Mobile,…
Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly
As AI continues to weave its way into every corner of daily life, one of the public’s chief…
AI Is Giving Your Boss Tools to Be More Monstrous Than Ever Before
The debate raging about AI’s future consequences, with a complete AI automation apocalypse on one side and a…
Grok Just Issued a Brutal Beatdown to Elon Musk
If you ever needed proof that money can’t buy intelligence, just watch the richest man in the world…
Google Alarmed by Formidable AI-Powered Zero-Day Cyberattack
Google was rattled by a cyberattack that used AI to unearth a major flaw in its software that…
Angry Mom Defeats Entire AI Data Center
Jayne Black is a Wisconsin-area environmentalist and mother of four. An organizer with the group Moms Clean Air…
Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future
This year’s commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was visibly floored after she extolled AI as…
New Data Center Equivalent to Setting Off 23 Nuclear Bombs Per Day, Professor Finds
A proposed “hyperscale” data center in Box Elder County, Utah, will create an enormous heat island that could…
OpenAI Sued for Mass Shooting: “If ChatGPT Were a Person, It Would Be Facing Murder Charges”
The surviving widow of a mass shooting victim is suing OpenAI for ChatGPT’s alleged role in stoking the…
The Military Base Home to Air Force One Leaked 32,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel Into the Potomac River Over the Last Few Months
With nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil under lock and key thanks to Donald Trump’s ill-fated war on…
Residents Furious After Their Town Board Rejected an OpenAI Data Center, But a Billionaire Developer Forced It Through Anyway
Across the United States, the fight over data center construction has largely pitted stamp-happy municipal governments against their…
Japan Deploying Combat Drones Made of Cardboard
We’ve heard of DIY drone kits before, but this is ridiculous. Japan’s minister of defense Shinjirō Koizumi recently…
ChatGPT Is Saying VWeird Things in Chinese
If you thought English-language ChatGPT-prose was annoying, just wait until you get a load of its conversational habits…
Oracle Forced to Cancel Incredibly Polluting Natural Gas Plant to Power AI Data Center
The tech industry has done a poor job of hiding the environmental footprint of AI data centers, which…