March 24, 2026 2:12 PM
March 24, 2026
Sam Altman Fumes That It Takes Longer to Train a Human Than an AI, Plus They Eat All That Wasteful Food
AI leaders insist they’ve got humanity’s best interests in mind. If we’re to take them at their word,…
Palantir Is Stocking the Wildest Imaginable Item in Its Vending Machines
Cigarette smoking in the United States has plummeted over the decades, reaching an 80-year low in 2024. But…
A Serial Killer Used ChatGPT to Plan Murders, Police Say
An accused serial killer in South Korea used ChatGPT to help plan a string of murders, investigators alleged…
Here’s How Many Remote Operators Waymo Has Per Self-Driving Taxi
Autonomous ride-hailing services companies have built their image on the concept that their vehicles fully drive themselves. The…
Japan Opens School Staffed Entirely by Virtual Waifus
Japan’s gakushu juku industry — private, after-hours study schools — has spent decades monetizing the country’s notoriously busted…
AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains
Whole Foods shelves sit empty after a data breach shut down its wholesale distributor. Meat packers working for…
Barrage of Emails From AI Politics Platform Defeats Clean Air Initiative
Late in 2023, the corporate world was abuzz with the utopian promise of AI — especially about the…
Eric Trump Pouring Funding Into “Low Cost-Per-Kill” Drone Corporation
Somewhere in the long tradition of Trump family grifting, there’s a line between “nakedly corrupt” and “genuinely mortifying.”…
Antarctica’s Gravity Hole Growing Stronger, Scientists Find
For decades, scientists have been studying intriguing “gravity holes,” which are enormous depressions in the Earth’s crust where…
Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse
Since the start of 2025, at least 30 cities have canceled their contracts with Flock Safety, the AI…
AI “Filmmaker” Gets Funding, Begs For Ideas On What to Actually Make
An AI “filmmaker” was viciously mocked after begging his followers for ideas on what to make. “I will…
Hackers Working on Method to Make Ring Cameras Store Footage Locally, Never Giving It to Amazon
When you buy a Ring camera for your house, you’re also agreeing to let Amazon store everything it…
Scientists Testing Controversial Human Rejuvenation Compound Called ER-100
During the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Elon Musk called human aging a “very solvable” problem.…
The United States Is Suffering Stomach-Churning Brain Drain
As Donald Trump has taken an axe to US federal spending, thousands of highly educated experts in scientific…
Experts Say Bitcoin’s Crash Is Only Getting Started
Cryptocurrency markets plunged this week — to the dismay of crypto bros everywhere — with Bitcoin reaching two-month…
Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Asking to Visit His Notorious Island
Somehow, Elon Musk’s infamous outburst accusing Donald Trump of being in the Epstein files has managed to age…
Mystery Man Dressed as FBI Agent Tries to Break Luigi Mangione Out of Jail
A mysterious man, dressed as an FBI agent, showed up to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in…
Amid Lawsuits, OpenAI Says It Will Retire “Reckless” Model Linked to Deaths
OpenAI announced on Thursday that it would retire GPT-4o — an especially warm, sycophantic version of the chatbot at…
Darren Aronofsky’s AI-Generated Show Contains Garbled Neural Gore, Even Just in the Teaser Trailer
The use of generative AI in creative fields has turned into a flame war — a nightmare of…
OpenAI Representatives Are Going to Critics’ Houses With Threats and Demands
A man who works at an AI watchdog group was alarmed when OpenAI suddenly showed up at his…
Microsoft Stock Takes Most Massive Single-Day Loss Since Pandemic as Its AI Efforts Flail
Microsoft is taking a pounding in the stock market. On Thursday, the Redmont giant’s share price collapsed by…
Crypto Bros in Meltdown as Bitcoin Crashes
The crypto market has not had a cozy winter. After Bitcoin suffered some epic tumbles in November, the…
Sam Altman Says AI Will Cause Massive Deflation, Making Money Worth Vastly More
OpenAI is betting in the biggest way possible on a future ruled by AI. It’s committing to spending…
NASA’s Moon Spacesuits Are Plagued With Issues
NASA is gearing up for the first crewed journey to the Moon in over half a century, a…