October 8, 2026 1:44 AM
October 8, 2026
It Turns Out That Meta’s Muse AI Has an Amazingly Dirty Secret
Meta brags that its new AI agent, Muse, can be an all-around “personal assistant” that takes care of…
Former Google Exec Warns That AI Could Be Causing Terrible Harm to Minors, Even Worse Than Social Media
Never mind killer robots and sci-fi doomsday scenarios. A former Google executive says we need a slowdown in…
Stanford University Caught Using AI to Create Fake Black Student on Banners Hung Around Campus
Stanford University was caught using AI to swap out a student in a photo and replace him with…
AI Community Linked to Disturbing Culture of Sexual Assault
The tech world’s potential future founders are living out hedonistic existences in giant Silicon Valley mansions, where they…
Crowd of Angry Citizens Loses It After City Council Fast-Tracks Resolution on Flock AI Cameras
A crowd of anxious community members in Springfield, Missouri turned downright hostile on Monday, leaping to their feet…
Mathematicians Can’t Make Sense of How OpenAI’s Agents Solved One of the Toughest Math Problems Because the AI’s “Proof” Is Borderline Incomprehensible
Earlier this month, OpenAI announced that it had found a solution for one of the biggest unsolved problems…
Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them
Trying to escape the increasingly dystopian real world with a jaunt into the virtual one? A new system…
Software Engineer Says AI Is Causing Chaos Among Coders Who Now Just “Press Enter” All Day, Have Stopped Thinking or Understanding Software
The advent of powerful AI coding tools has quickly made programmers heavily reliant on the tech, with experts…
Trump Says No Need to Regulate AI, Since That Strategy Is Working Fine for Climate Change
If you’ve even so much as glanced at the news recently, you may have picked up on the…
Former Air Traffic Controller Terrified New AI System Will Hallucinate and Cause Catastrophe
As the US federal government rolls ahead with its controversial plans to deploy an AI air traffic control…
Tesla Instructs Firefighters to Call Two Separate Support Hotlines in the Event of a Robotaxi Accident
Firefighters and emergency responders already consider robotaxis a pain in their backsides. And Tesla’s gilded Cybercab, free of…
Robin Williams’ Daughter Horrified by People Creating AI Conspiracy Videos of Her Dad Long After His Death
Almost a decade after his tragic passing, iconic comedian Robin Williams is being remembered in the worst way…
Pervs Distraught as Meta Bricks Their Smart Glasses Remotely
In an affront to creeps everywhere, Meta has started remotely bricking the smart glasses of wearers who try…
Dyson’s New AI Toothbrush Conducts Video Surveillance on the Inside of Your Mouth
As Americans are being hailed as folk heroes for sawing down Flock surveillance cameras across the country, British…
Surveillance-Happy Police In Shambles After Trump Tariffs Makes Drones Absurdly Expensive
The surveillance state costs money, people! Well, tell that to president Trump. On Thursday, he slapped a 100…
New AI Designed to Replace CEOs
A group of software engineers who say they were fired by their bosses because of AI are giving…
Humanoid Robot Fights Back After Getting Shoved
While they’re seemingly still years away from completing actually useful tasks, like cleaning a messy apartment or doing…
Scientists Find That 96 Percent of Delicious Tuna Is Infected With Parasitic Worms
For seafood lovers, there are few things more appealing than a simple slab of raw tuna — a…
It Turns Out That Drivers Absolutely Detest Those Giant Touchscreens They Put in Cars Now
Automakers are having an increasingly difficult time convincing their customers that more in-car screens — and the often…
The CDC Is Now Denying That Specific Children Died From Measles, in a Scandal Potentially Beyond Anything in Its History
After health officials in Pennsylvania found that two young children died from measles, the Centers for Disease Control…
Hikers Rescued After Using Google AI to Plan Disastrous Trip
Three hikers who extensively used Google’s Gemini to plan their trip to the summit of Mount Shasta in…
Melatonin Use Linked to Massively Increased Risk of Heart Failure
If you’re one of the many people chowing down on melatonin gummies to help get to sleep, you…
Something Strange Just Happened With the World’s Largest Dark Matter Detector
Dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up around 85 percent of all mass in the universe, forms…
People Are Telling Their Darkest Thoughts to AI Without Realizing They Can Easily Become Public
Talking to an AI chatbot can feel like confiding in a mirror, a private exchange equivalent to brainstorming…