August 26, 2026 9:47 AM
August 26, 2026
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…
33 Students Treated for Deadly Bacteria Exposure When Classroom Experiment Goes Horribly Wrong
Talk about homework: a large class of undergraduates at an unnamed university in Utah became the unfortunate subject…
Public Offers Implausible Number of Alibis for Man Accused of Destroying Flock Cameras
When police in West Virginia’s Monongalia County arrested 20-year-old Wesley Jackson for his alleged involvement in the destruction…
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…
The Proliferation of Deepfakes Is Profoundly Changing the Way Teenagers Use the Internet
AI-generated sexual content is rapidly remaking young people’s lives as they confront sex and dating — and the…
SpaceX Is Learning a Nasty Lesson About Going Public When Your Main Product Is Experimental
On Thursday, Elon Musk’s SpaceX was forced to call off the latest launch attempt of its enormous Starship…
Whole Foods Offering Steep Discount on Taylor Farms Shredded Iceberg Lettuce
Most of the nation may want nothing to do with Taylor Farms and its shredded iceberg lettuce, which…
Taylor Farms Made Huge Donation to Trump Group After Loosening of Rules That Could Have Prevented Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak
In a stunning reversal on Sunday, the Food and Drug Administration said that lettuce samples from Taylor Farms…
OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin
Even as the AI bubble becomes a mainstream talking point on Wall Street, tech companies continue to peddle…
OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit Companies Won’t Be Able to Compete
Last week, a Chinese-made large language model called Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI, burst onto…
There’s a Gigantic Problem at the Heart of the AI Industry That Could Cause the Whole Thing to Collapse
For years, AI companies have been selling investors on the idea that scaling up operations is the key…
Lawsuit Alleges That ChatGPT Encouraged Suicide of Woman Who Walked Into Traffic
In June 2025, 29-year-old Christian Faith Madison died after after walking into oncoming traffic in the early hours…