August 27, 2026 6:18 PM
August 27, 2026
Man Sues Bank for Being Stupid Enough to Give Him a Mortgage Even When Experts Were Warning Him It Was About to Fall Into the Ocean
A Massachusetts man is feeling some buyer’s remorse after securing a $5.5 million mortgage on a mansion poised…
Better Hope You Don’t Need an Ambulance in New Orleans, Because the City’s 911 Operators Are Now AI
If you thought AI customer service bots were bad, just wait until you need to convince a large…
Jealously Watching OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta Suddenly Claims That Its AI Went on a Hacking Spree Too
Last month, OpenAI revealed that a group of its AI models had broken containment, hacking into the systems…
Flock Is Losing Dozens of Contracts as Controversy Grows
Mass surveillance technology might be popular with police departments, but for the US public, it’s becoming an increasingly…
OpenAI Tried to Hire Influencers to Spread Love for Its Products, But It Backfired Horrendously
OpenAI’s attempt to boost its image by hiring influencers collided against a harsh reality: that it’s already become…
Grokipedia Appears to Have Completely Broken and Nobody Noticed
We certainly wouldn’t blame you for having completely forgotten that last year, Elon Musk tried to reinvent Wikipedia…
Andreessen Horowitz Partner Boasts That the Company’s New Tech Can Fabricate Fake History Like in “1984”
Text-to-video AI generating tools have come a long way. Just three years ago, we were all unsettled by…
Gen Z Helicopter Parents Are So Intense That They’re Calling Hiring Managers to Interfere
Few things are as mortifying to a youngster than their parents trying to butt in on their behalf:…
SpaceX Now Faces a Terrible Peril
Investors were not impressed by SpaceX’s first-ever earnings report earlier this week. Shares dropped by more than ten…
We Talked to the Guy Who Built a Chatbot That’s Just Him Manually Responding to People One-by-One
On July 27, a billboard went up in San Francisco advertising an AI service called ChatTJB. But the…
Trump Cabinet Doctor Boasts of Ability to Soil Himself During Dinner Parties Without Detection
In case you need any more evidence that the Trump administration is run and advised by cranks, here’s…
Police Department Not Happy When Every Single One of Its Flock Cameras Gets Stolen
Whether magicians, thieves, or just fed up citizens, somebody has made an entire city’s worth of ALPRs vanish…
Sixteen Nobel-Winning Economists Warn That Major AI Job Losses Are Coming
Over 200 economists, researchers and industry executives, including sixteen Nobel Prize winners, signed an urgent letter warning that AI could…
OpenAI Strikes Bold Deal With Kalshi to Mix Together the Most Hated Technologies in Existence: AI and Prediction Markets
Is it not enough to simply watch the beautiful game, unadorned? These days you might use an AI…
Health Care Workers Furious as NYC Replaces Nurses With AI
Twelve nurses in New York City were laid off on Sunday and replaced with AI software, according to…
Terrifying Video Shows Locomotive Engulfed in Wildfire Flames
Apocalyptic footage shows a Canadian train crew trapped in their locomotive as it’s devoured by a wildfire. Through…
SpaceX Investors Are Lamenting All the Money They’ve Lost
Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX are scraping by at record low levels this week, struggling to find any…
We’d Rather Live Through the Trojan War Than Spend 135 Minutes Watching an Entirely AI Version of “The Odyssey”
Many moviegoers this summer are looking forward to Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film “The Odyssey.” But have you…
Astronomers Horrified by Enormous Mirror Satellite That Reflects Sunlight Back Down to Earth at Night
There’s light pollution — and then there are giant orbital space mirrors that blot out the night sky. On…
Meta Used Its Own Flawed AI to Pick Which Employees to Lay Off, Lawsuit Claims
These days, corporations aren’t just using AI as an excuse to justify layoffs, but are increasingly turning to…
New Anthropic Ad Implies AI Could Kill Us All
Anthropic is doing what Anthropic does best: putting on its most concerned face so it can convince you…
New York Becomes First State to Ban AI Data Centers
Across the United States, lawmakers are increasingly caught between two competing pressures: the massive investment flowing into the…
Grok’s Foul-Mouthed AI “Translation” Feature Puts Unspeakably Ghoulish Words Into Users’ Mouths
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has long garnered a reputation for experiencing horrifically racist meltdowns, enabling child abuse,…
Secretive Silicon Valley Startup Tries to Quash Interview, Says It’s Definitely Not Working on Growing Brain-Free “Organ Sacks”
Last February, Alice Gilman, the cofounder and chief operating officer of a secretive Silicon Valley longevity startup called…