September 14, 2026 10:45 AM
September 14, 2026
Aging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It
Surely our creaking gerontocracy is well-equipped to respond to a technology as novel, disruptive, and rapidly evolving as…
Earth May Have Had a Larger Cousin that the Sun Devoured
Did the Earth once have a larger cousin that was devoured by the Sun? And more importantly: would…
GLP-1 Users Are Being Cruelly Shamed by Their Own Families
GLP-1 weight loss drugs are changing lives in more ways than one. In a new piece for The…
College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection
You wouldn’t be remiss to accuse college students using AI to cheat of being lazy. But some of…
Federal Agents Are Secretly Monitoring Americans’ Financial Transactions So Cops Can Arrest People They Find Suspicious
The surveillance state is trying out a new tactic: pocket watching. 404 Media reports on how secretive “predictive…
China Deploys Rare Type of Space Junk That Pollutes Orbit for Hundreds of Years
The number of space launches has skyrocketed over the last few years, rapidly turning the Earth’s atmosphere into…
Werner Herzog Demolishes Talentless Hacks Who Use AI to Imitate Other Filmmakers
The legendary German director Werner Herzog had a few choice words about other so-called “filmmakers” who use AI…
Lawyers Already Lining Up to Defend Victims of Cybercab Crashes
Tesla’s mawkishly sleek new Cybercab has begun rolling out to Austin, Texas this week, with more sighted in…
Top Chinese Court Issues Sweeping Legal Crackdown on AI Deepfakes
Months after China’s Intermediate People’s Court ruled against a company using AI to liquidate an employee’s position, the…
Firefighters Say There’s a Glaring Issue With Tesla’s Cybercab
Tesla’s flashy gold Cybercabs are rolling out to the streets of Austin, their butterfly doors glowing under the…
Meta Releases Uber-Creepy AI Chatbot as Its Platforms Crumble Under Grotesque Child Abuse
Meta’s platforms are in a sorry state as grotesque AI slop continues to proliferate widely. As a recent…
Elon Musk Is So Mad About This New Documentary That He’s Threatening Legal Action
Does Elon Musk, who claims to be so smart that chess bores him, understand what the Streisand effect…
Elon Musk Has Been Calling Women “Breeders” Since His First Marriage, His First Wife Says
Elon Musk is reportedly “freaking out” over a new documentary by documentarian and investigative journalist Alex Gibney. And…
CNN Just Ran One of the Worst AI Puff Pieces We’ve Ever Seen in Our Lives About That “AI Actor” Tilly Norwood
Last year, a so-called “AI actress,” dubbed Tilly Norwood sparked a near-universal backlash. The algorithmic brunette’s appearance couldn’t…
There’s a Huge Economic Problem With Tesla’s Cybercabs
Tesla’s flashy unveiling of its Cybercab robotaxi in 2024 left some glaring questions unanswered. The sleek, gold-colored coupé…
Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities
With opposition to AI continuing to grow, a top AI lab is building out a massive surveillance apparatus…
Mother Horrified When Meta’s AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters
Last week, a mother in Utah named Kalie Robins took to Instagram to post what she felt was…
Fire Marshal Uncovers House of Horrors Lurking Inside Bitcoin-Mining Data Center
Back in August, a massive leak in El Reno, Oklahoma spewed close to four million gallons of local…
Man Announces That He Has Synthesized a New Schizophrenia Treatment in His Garage, Based on a Formula Devised by ChatGPT
These days, large language models are pushing the line between schizophrenic break and reality closer than ever before.…
Tesla’s Glitchy Cybercab Accidentally Lets Passengers Access Controls to Manually Drive the Car Using Virtual Joystick on In-Vehicle Screen
One of the selling points of Tesla’s much-hyped Cybercab — its purpose-built robotaxi — is that it doesn’t…
Numerous Deaths Reported at Burning Man
Burning Man, the week-long festival that takes place in the middle of the Nevada desert and draws many…
Top NFL Receiver Insists There’s “Another Civilization” Living Deep Under Antarctica
After an ego-bruising stint with the New York Jets, it seems like seasoned quarterback and chief NFL conspiracy…
Wait, Did Zuckerberg Just Steal Muse the Band’s Instagram Handle For His New AI?
Muse, the popular English rock band that’s been selling out arenas for decades, is no longer @muse on…
Anthropic Was Meant to Be the More Responsible AI Lab. A Terrified Researcher Just Quit, Saying the Company Is Threatening the Survival of Humankind.
AI researchers are watching in terror as the product of their hard labor has started to take a…