May 15, 2026 7:22 PM
May 15, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg Is Realizing That When You Treat Your Workers Like Human Garbage, They Might Not Like You Anymore
The two key ingredients to Mark Zuckerberg’s all-in AI push? Money, and a heaping serving of misanthropy. As…
Trump Says a New Drug Can Bring Dead People Back to Life
On Monday, during a routine press event, president Donald Trump casually made an announcement that in any normal…
Anthropic Says Claude Turned Evil for a Bizarre Reason
In a classic example of the AI industry’s reputational alchemy, Anthropic has often transformed bad behavior by its…
The AI Industry Is Secretly Powered by Homeless People
Last year, a San Francisco-based AI company called Mercor exploded onto the tech scene, just as US workers…
MAGA in Shambles as Trump’s “Made in America” Phone Crumbles Into Dust
All that glitters is not gold — or even a flashy phone of the same color. Trump Mobile,…
Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly
As AI continues to weave its way into every corner of daily life, one of the public’s chief…
OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Allegedly Killed College Student
The family of a 19-year-old college student who died of an overdose after consulting ChatGPT for medical advice…
New York Times Issues Stern Warning to Its Freelance Writers About AI Use
After a string of AI controversies, The New York Times emailed a “periodic reminder” to freelancers on Tuesday…
Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It’s Inexorably Driving It Out of Business
An AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and it’s going about…
Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take
Even if you don’t know Nick Bostrom’s name, you’re almost certainly familiar with the idea he’s most famous…
Unitree Shows Off Fully Functional Mecha Suit
Chinese tech company Unitree has quickly established itself as the brand to beat in the humanoids robotics industry,…
Husband Alarmed as Wife Starts Whispering Quietly to Her Computer
In a trend that sounds like it was engineered in a lab to send chills down the spine…
Researchers Alarmed by AI That Can Self-Replicate Into Another Machine
A new report from Palisade Research has found that AI models can self-replicate by copying themselves onto other…
Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System
For thousands of years, astronomers have watched Halley’s Comet come and go, becoming visible to the naked eye…
The Upcoming El Niño Is About to Unleash Devastation, Experts Warn
Cities running out of water. Heat waves that kill you if you stand outside for a few minutes…
Man Wearing Smart Glasses Secretly Records Woman, Demands Money to Delete Video From His Socials
A man secretly filmed a woman with smart glasses, before demanding money to take down the video he…
A Major Paper Claiming AI Is Good for Students Just Got Retracted, Which Is Very Bad News for Advocates of AI in the Classroom
The jury’s still out on AI’s effectiveness as a learning tool, but research so far paints a grim…
Amazon Admits Its Flagship AI Coding Tool Isn’t Good Enough for Its Own Workers to Use
In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating…
Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users’ PCs
As of 2026, Google maintains an iron grip on the web browser market, boasting well over three billion…
Cybertruck Recalled to Keep Its Wheels From Flying Off While Driving
Tesla’s Cybertruck is facing yet another recall. And it’s not some minor software update: a glaring flaw meant…
In Irony-Soaked Incident, Amazon Data Center Shuts Down Due to High Temperatures
On Thursday, Amazon Web Services said that one of its major data centers in north Virginia was overheating…
Thermoses Linked to Permanent Vision Loss
It turns out that Thermos bottles are potential Rube Goldberg machines for blinding you in cartoonish but utterly…
Hacker Takes Over Robot Lawnmower, Runs Over Innocent Man
Is building autonomous robots equipped with sharp oscillating blades that roam your front yard a good idea? What…
China Presses Pause on Self-Driving Taxis Nationwide After Issue Where They Blocked Streets. America Could Learn a Lot From That
Earlier this year, dozens of autonomous vehicles from the Chinese company Baidu suddenly stopped in their tracks in…