March 18, 2026 4:43 AM
March 18, 2026
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…
AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains
Whole Foods shelves sit empty after a data breach shut down its wholesale distributor. Meat packers working for…
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…
Investors Concerned AI Bubble Is Finally Popping
For quite some time now, investors have fought the suggestion that the artificial intelligence industry may be forming…
As AI Surges, Layoffs Hit Worst Moment Since 2009 During Throes of Financial Crisis
US employers announced over 108,000 layoffs across January, in the highest to start the year since the depths…
As Crash Deepens, Investors Say Bitcoin Is Headed for Zero Dollars
Mainstream cryptocurrency Bitcoin is being eviscerated this week. The token tanked to a historic low, coming eerily close…
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
Waymo has established itself as the autonomous ride-hailing service to beat, operating a fleet of several thousand self-driving…
Internet Sleuths Just Found Something About Elon Musk Getting a Massage in the Epstein Files
For a guy who keeps insisting he’s totally innocent of any accusations of wrongdoing with Jeffrey Epstein, Elon…
Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment
Bitcoin is crashing hard, reaching historic lows of well below the $70,000 mark. At the time of writing,…
Crypto Guys Who Bought a Huge Gold Trump Statue Now Have a Problem
When a group of crypto bros spent $300,000 commissioning a 15-foot gold statue of Donald Trump, their grift…