March 18, 2026 6:41 PM
March 18, 2026
Buckle Up: New Fund Will Let Regular Investors Buy SpaceX Stock
After being merged with Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, SpaceX is gearing up for a $1.25 trillion IPO…
Skeptic Builds “Havana Syndrome”-Style Device, Tests It on Himself, Suffers Grim Consequences
One of the strangest stories in contemporary statecraft refuses to go away. New reporting by the Washington Post…
Tesla Robotaxis Crashing Vastly More Often Than Human Drivers
The ostensible point of robotaxis is that they’re supposed to be safer drivers than humans. Tesla, apparently, didn’t…
Oxford Researcher Warns That AI Is Heading for a Hindenburg-Style Disaster
Is the AI bubble going to burst? Will it cause the economy to go up in flames? Both…
Realtor Uses AI, Accidentally Posts Photo of Rental Property With Demonic Figure Emerging From Mirror
The real estate industry has seized on generative AI with a passion. Realtors have made extensive use of…
Tesla’s New Sales Data Is Absolutely Brutal
Over the past few months, Tesla has been making a major pivot away from its highly lucrative electric…
Unity Says It Has a New Product That Cooks Up Entire Games Using AI
Attention, gamers: if you thought new titles on top of the endless cavalcade of sequels and remakes were…
AI Data Centers Are Now Spiking Hard Drive Prices
Over the last couple of months, the AI industry’s obsession with building out costly data centers has sent…
It Turns Out That Constantly Telling Workers They’re About to Be Replaced by AI Has Grim Psychological Effects
Two researchers are warning of the devastating psychological impacts that AI automation, or the threat of it, can…
Pentagon Issues Threat to Anthropic
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US military had used Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot…
Chinese Robots Can Now Run Up Walls
While humanoid robots have a long way to go to prove useful in our day-to-day lives, they’ve at…
FSD Tries to Drive Straight Into Lake
Tesla CEO Elon Musk once boasted that the Cybertruck could double as a boat. Perhaps the AI behind…
Trump Forgets the Word for “Alzheimer’s” While Insisting His Memory Is Fine
Experts have long questioned president Donald Trump’s claims of having a clean bill of health. He has been…
Scientists Investigating 2,000-Year-Old Artifact That Appears to Be a Battery
A 2,000 year old battery, or just a very interesting pot? This is the debate that’s been swirling…
Entire City Buried by Epic Snow
As much of North America is still recovering from a devastating winter storm over the weekend, other parts…
AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find
Generative AI relies on a massive body of training material, primarily made up of human-authored content haphazardly scraped…
Meta Just Quietly Admitted a Major Defeat on AI
Meta says it’s cutting off teenagers’ access to its AI characters — at least until it can build…
AI Agents Are Mathematically Incapable of Doing Functional Work, Paper Finds
A months-old but until now overlooked study recently featured in Wired claims to mathematically prove that large language…
Scientists Say Go Ahead, Keep Gooning
Adult content has never been as accessible as it is now, thanks to the internet. Hell, online smut…
Job Seekers Sue Company Scanning Their Résumés Using AI
Thanks to scores of competing AI systems clogging up online application portals, applying for a new job in…
Scientists Intrigued by Unfamiliar Life Form
It’s a plant! It’s a fungus! It’s… an entirely new type of lifeform hitherto unknown to science? That…
When You Learn How Low the 2025 Murder Rate Was, You’ll Realize How Profoundly the Media Has Failed the American People
The headlines of 2025 painted a portrait of America in chaos, driven by the financial logic of America’s…
Strange Mushroom Makes You See Tiny People Chilling on Every Surface
Magic mushrooms, an informal group of fungi that contain the naturally occurring psychedelic substance psilocybin, are known for…
OnlyFans Rival Seemingly Succumbs to AI Psychosis, Which We Dare You to Try Explain to Your Parents
Something strange is happening with ManyVids, an OnlyFans-like porn platform with millions of users. For roughly the past…