October 10, 2026 1:48 PM
October 10, 2026
It Turns Out the US Military Really Did Use AI to Blow Up a School Full of Iranian Children
Now over half a year into the United States’ war on Iran, it’s becoming abundantly clear that AI…
Behold: Video of “First-Ever” Human Versus Robot MMA Fight
The era of the robots is here. We’ve seen humanoid bots pull off impressive martial arts choreographies, run…
Signs of Crisis at Flock as It Offers Employees Buyouts to Quit and Get Off Payroll
As backlash against its surveillance network refuses to die down, Flock Safety is kicking off an employee buyout…
Bloomberg Finds That the AI Industry’s Finances Are a “Wobbly House of Cards”
While the majority of AI leaders seem to agree that we need to take the foot off the…
Nvidia CEO Promises Not to Kill Everybody Before 2030
Earlier this month, disillusioned Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon publicly announced he was quitting his job, accusing both his…
A Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated Slop
The space publication Space Daily, which has been operating for over three decades, has become an unrecognizable shell…
Solar Power Is Getting So Cheap That It’s Almost Unbelievable
Though the price to install new solar panels has been trending downward for a while, it’s officially reached…
Australia, the Land of Bluey, Tim-Tams, and Kylie Minogue: Not Having Those Pervert Glasses, Seeks to Pass “World Leading” Ban on Them
What to do about Meta’s AI-powered smart “pervert” glasses? Setting the bar for the rest of us, Australia’s…
Scientists Claim That Three Minutes With a “Donkey or Small Horse” Can Save Teenagers From Depression
Life got you feeling down? A donkey could be the solution to lifting your spirits. This is the…
Kenya Unleashing Solar-Powered Ambulance With Wicked Long Range for Service to Remote Villages
A huge share of Kenya’s population lives in remote villages and townships, far away from the amenities offered…
Scientists Create New Humanoid Robot That Flinches in Fear When You Come Close
There are plenty of safety concerns to consider when deploying robots in workplaces like warehouses alongside human workers.…
US Federal Register Caught Using Chinese AI Model for Document Search
Inexpenive AI models developed by Chinese companies are taking the United States by storm, as cost-conscious business leaders…
The Transcripts of OpenAI Models Plotting Together to Commit an Actual Crime Is Pretty Chilling
Earlier this year, OpenAI found that a group of its AI models broke out of their sandbox environment…
A Scientist Was Presenting His Vibe-Coded New Work When One of His Colleagues Pointed Out Something Extremely Embarrassing
There are a litany of reasons to take the output of generative AI with a heavy dose of…
Former Lyft Drivers Now Doing Menial Tasks for Their Waymo Overlords
When robotaxis start taking over, what happens to Uber and Lyft drivers? According to a new Business Insider…
Scientists Gave 12-Year-Olds Access to an AI Tutor and You Probably Already Know What They Did With It
Advocates for the use of AI in the classroom have long argued that the tech could supercharge learning,…
If Corporations Are People, They Should Be Subject to the Death Penalty
Over 130 years ago, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company pulled off a major victory for the private market…
Welp, They’re Officially Displaying Ads Directly on Your Monitor
If there’s one thing that smart TVs have proven, it’s that some tech is better off staying dumb. …
Chinese Companies Are Unleashing AI-Powered Robo-Chefs
Chinese engineers are zeroing in on one of the loftiest goals in applied robotics: fully automated cooking. At…
People Taking Down Flock Towers Are Becoming Folk Heroes, With Communities Circling to Protect Them
At this point, Flock automatic license plate readers are basically a 90-10 issue in the US. In fact,…
Data Shows That Mark Zuckerberg Is the Anti-Dolly Parton: Instead of Being Loved by Everybody Across the Political Spectrum, Pretty Much Everybody Despises Him, Regardless of Their Beliefs
When Dolly Parton died this week, everyone mourned. She was the queen of country music and a magnetic…
Russia Now Using Fully AI-Controlled Drones to Kill Ukrainian Civilians, Powered by Nvidia Chips
In a joint statement earlier this week, United Nations chief António Guterres and Red Cross president Mirjana Spoljaric…
Chinese Scientists Develop Muscle Grafts That Can Be Injected Straight Under the Skin
In his genre-defining 1984 sci-fi novel “Neuromancer,” William Gibson envisioned a future filled with “joeboys,” or “nearly identical…
NASA’s Powerful New Space Telescope, Just Cleared for Launch, Was Developed by an Intelligence Agency to “Spy on America’s Adversaries”
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has a lot to live up to. The orbital observatory, a long-awaited…