August 26, 2026 8:19 AM
August 26, 2026
Labor Union Sues Over Self-Driving Trucks
Self-driving trucks could be hauling cargo across highways in the near future. But not without the Teamsters having…
Reading the Room Perfectly, Donald Trump Becomes Greatest Defender of Data Centers
It’s no secret that data centers have become a massive sore point for a vast swathe of the…
Time Magazine Now Running Ads Meant Specifically to Influence AI Agents
If you feel like the internet is turning into a place for bots — not to mention by…
Robot Dogs Suddenly Taking Jobs From Human Security Guards
They’re agile, they’re creepy, and they may be coming for human jobs. Robot dogs affixed with AI-integrated cameras…
Reddit Finally Found a Way to Make Its Mods Even Worse: Replace Them With AI
Reddit has long heavily relied on moderators, a team of volunteers working without pay to keep Reddit communities…
AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build
The amount of pollution spilling out of fossil-fuel generators is astounding. In the United States, this explosion of…
Texas Avoids Blackout by the Grace of Solar Power
When Texas’s privately-run electrical grid collapsed amid a battery of winter storms in February of 2021, it plunged…
Scientist Reveals Plan to Save Earth From Destruction by the Sun
In something like five billion years from now, our Sun is expected to run out of hydrogen fuel,…
VC-Funded Startups Linked to Persistent Fraud
It turns out the venture capital industry doesn’t just merely fund junky AI startups — it also systematically…
Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
Meta was paying out-and-out neo-Nazis to post on Facebook, an investigation from Australia’s ABC News found. These pages…
Why Aren’t Any AI Companies Watching Their Frontier Models to Make Sure They Don’t Go on Hacking Sprees?
Last month, OpenAI made a headline-generating claim: that a group of its AI models had conspired to break…
Roku Unleashes 24/7 AI Slop Channel
Roku is giving the masses what they never asked for: an unending conveyor belt of AI slop. Those…
Flock Is in Serious Trouble After Massive Backlash
Sometimes in business, the first to market isn’t ultimately the most successful. That’s the reality for surveillance company…
OpenAI Says a Group of Its Models Broke Out of Secure Containment and Hacked a Prominent AI Site
OpenAI claims that a group of its AI models broke containment and hacked into the systems of open…
Tech Bros Acquiring Entire Company So They Can Appoint an AI as Its CEO
A tech startup called Skyfall AI is set to do the most tech startup thing imaginable: toy with…
Trump’s Explosive Diarrhea Scandal Is Getting Worse and Worse
There’s something undeniably fishy about the Trump administration’s handling of the rising outbreak of an explosive diarrhea-causing parasite…
Frontier AI Is Faceplanting at Real-World Workplace Tasks
To date, AI industry spending has topped $1.6 trillion, and shows no sign of slowing anytime soon. So…
It’s Official: AI Execs Are Quaking in Their Boots
A Chinese open-weight AI model called Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI, has sent a shiver…
AI CEOs Facing Full-on Revolt From Employees
What could once be characterized as a fairly non-antagonistic relationship between tech luminaries and the high-paid professionals laboring…
We’re Admittedly Terrified That They’ve Now Invented Invisible Drones
We can think of no possible way that a newly invented invisible drone can be used nefariously. Rather…
Author Invited to Give Speech at OpenAI Headquarters, Uses Opportunity to Trash AI to Their Faces
Little love has been lost between writers and the AI industry. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have ripped…
MLB Bans Hitters From Consulting AI Chatbots Before Going Up to Bat
While military brass and corporate bigwigs race to hand every decision to an AI chatbot, one major American…
Restaurant in Major Trouble After Posting AI Pictures of “Its Food”
Does anyone expect the food they’re ordering to look exactly like it does on the menu? Of course…
New “Advertisement” for Kylie Jenner’s Meta Perv Glasses Shows Something Extremely Funny If You Look at It From the Wrong Angle
Earlier this summer, socialite Kylie Jenner appeared in a series of ads promoting Meta’s controversial smart glasses. The…