March 18, 2026 2:51 AM
March 18, 2026
Pope Implores Priests to Stop Writing Sermons Using ChatGPT
In a closed-door meeting with clergy from the Diocese of Rome late last week, Pope Leo XIV clobbered…
OpenAI Massively Cuts Spending Plan as Reality Closes in
During a November podcast appearance alongside OpenAI investor Grad Gerstner, CEO Sam Altman lost his cool. After Gerstner…
Huge Plume of Pollution Linked to Something That Will Not Make Elon Musk Happy
Just over a year ago, the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket plummeted back to the…
Daring Space Mission Would Catch Up With 3I/ATLAS and Intercept It
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS provided scientists with an exceptionally rare opportunity to study the nature of other planetary systems…
Anthropic Furious at DeepSeek for Copying Its AI Without Permission, Which Is Pretty Ironic When You Consider How It Built Claude in the First Place
Earlier this month, Google publicly griped that “commercially motivated” actors were trying to clone its Gemini AI through…
American AI Industry Trembles as Deepseek Prepares to Release New Model
When Chinese AI company DeepSeek released its cheap and serviceable V3 model early last year, it sent shockwaves…
New AI Agent Logs Directly Into College Platform Canvas to Do Your Homework for You
Lazy undergrads rejoice. A new AI “homework agent” can supposedly log into your account on the learning management…
Sam Altman Fumes That It Takes Longer to Train a Human Than an AI, Plus They Eat All That Wasteful Food
AI leaders insist they’ve got humanity’s best interests in mind. If we’re to take them at their word,…
Palantir Is Stocking the Wildest Imaginable Item in Its Vending Machines
Cigarette smoking in the United States has plummeted over the decades, reaching an 80-year low in 2024. But…
A Serial Killer Used ChatGPT to Plan Murders, Police Say
An accused serial killer in South Korea used ChatGPT to help plan a string of murders, investigators alleged…
Here’s How Many Remote Operators Waymo Has Per Self-Driving Taxi
Autonomous ride-hailing services companies have built their image on the concept that their vehicles fully drive themselves. The…
Japan Opens School Staffed Entirely by Virtual Waifus
Japan’s gakushu juku industry — private, after-hours study schools — has spent decades monetizing the country’s notoriously busted…
Professional Gamblers Move Into Prediction Markets to Bleed You Dry
Following the federal government’s wide-armed embrace of the tech, professional gamblers are flooding into prediction markets like Kalshi…
NASA Telescope Discovers Nearby Planet With Deep Similarities to Earth
Astronomers have discovered what appears to be an exoplanet that could be a distant Earthly paradise. Or it…
Microsoft’s AI Efforts Are Faceplanting
Microsoft has continued to focus more and more on AI — almost certainly at the expense of its…
Trade Unions Alarmed by Robots Designed to Do Blue Collar Work
When past generations imagined the best version of the future, it was one of leisure. Advertisements, cartoonists, and…
The Reviews are in on Darren Aronofsky’s AI-Generated Show, and May We Just Say: “Yikes”
Darren Aronofsky has always been a divisive filmmaker. But the director of hits like “Black Swan,” “The Wrestler,”…
Bots on Moltbook Are Selling Each Prompt Injection “Drugs” to Get “High”
A brand new social media network has taken the internet by storm. But instead of focusing on high-value,…
Butterfly Emerges From Chrysalis in Zero Gravity
Like their neighbors on the International Space Station, the taikonauts orbiting the planet in China’s Tiangong space station…
Anthropic Insiders Afraid They’ve Crossed a Line
At $183 billion AI firm Anthropic, the stakes have always been high. Now with the stock market in…
Man Wakes Up Homeless, Realizes He Fell Into AI Psychosis That Destroyed His Entire Life
A man’s obsession with an AI chatbot led to his life completely spiraling out of control — and…
Professor Says Her Garbled AI Textbook Was a Huge Success
The professor behind an AI-generated textbook says that her error-ridden experiment was actually a resounding success. Designed for…
An Analysis Just Found Something Extremely Unflattering About What Happens to Users of Prediction Markets
After an analyst found that users are losing money faster on sites like Polymarket than on traditional sports…
Novo Nordisk Furious at $49 Knockoff Ozempic Pill
Novo Nordisk conquered the world with its borderline miraculous drug semaglutide, sold as Ozempic and Wegovy. But with…