October 9, 2026 5:47 AM
October 9, 2026
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…
DraftKings Is Using AI to Identify Problem Gamblers and Get Them Hooked
The gambling hub DraftKings could be using the mountains of user data it collects, and the analyst expertise…
Trump Addresses United Nations to Declare That the United States Is Now Calling Artificial Intelligence “Super Intelligence” in “All Official Documents”
President Donald Trump has waded into the AI debate with a lexical proclamation: AI shouldn’t be called AI.…
Is There a Secret Reason for the Industry-Wide AI Slowdown?
Plenty of eyebrows went up this summer when one by one, the leaders of frontier AI labs announced…
Former Obama Admin Official Says It’s Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI
While American tech billionaires fret over the capabilities of Chinese AI, one national security advisor has a brilliant…
OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI is facing 30 new lawsuits from victims of the devastating school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia,…
Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday
On Thursday, three major chatbots — ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok — all went down without warning. The simultaneous…
American Medical Association Fires Back Against Paper Finding AI Is Now Outperforming Doctors
A new paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this month concluded, after surveying hundreds…
College Graduate Employment Is Cratering Where Data Centers Are Being Built
Will AI supercharge the economy? Will the data centers powering it bring prosperity and provide paying jobs to…
Uber Abruptly Ends Operations in Africa, Abandoning Drivers and Riders Mid-Trip
Uber drivers and their passengers across Nigeria and Uganda were shocked on Wednesday when the platform abruptly ceased…
Man Rolls Up to Police Station With Pickup Truck Full of Torn Up Flock Cameras
While most of the vandals ripping down automatic license plate readers prefer to go incognito, an Albuquerque character…
United Nations Concedes That Efforts to Arrest Climate Change Have Failed, and the Planet Is Now Spiraling Into Environmental Catastrophe
With so many climate projections and mitigation strategies eyeing far-away years like 2050, it can be tempting to…
China Installing Huge Facility That Turns Plastic Waste Into Jet Fuel
Around the world, the demand for cleaner alternatives to petroleum-based jet fuel is rising. By 2030, the European…
Toronto Blue Jays Roasted for Posting AI Slop Promoting Nestle, Claiming It’s the Work of a Human Animator
The animation industry is facing an existential threat in the form of generative AI. Entertainment execs remain adamant…
Zohran Mamdani Bans AI for NYC Public School Students Up to Eighth Grade
New York City just instituted a sweeping ban on schools using AI in the classroom through the start…
Hackers Are Selling Stolen Scans of 153 Million US and Canadian Drivers Licenses, Which Very Likely Include Yours
The digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses of individuals from the United States and Canada…