March 18, 2026 12:24 AM
March 18, 2026
They Gave a Robot a Sword
Folks, it finally happened: they gave a robot a sword. Over the past few years, engineers have often…
Former xAI Staffers Say They Were Burned Out by the Company’s Carelessness and Lack of Innovation
Earlier this week, two cofounders of Elon Musk’s xAI abruptly announced their departure, meaning that half of the…
Another OpenAI Researcher Just Quit in Disgust
A mere two years ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed the idea of stuffing his company’s blockbuster chatbot…
Man Lets AI Rent His Body
Last week, we brought you the story of RentAHuman, a platform brokering connections between AI agents and humans…
Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care
When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel…
NASA Running Out of Non-Life Explanations for What Its Rover Found on Mars
Last year, NASA’s Curiosity rover made a fascinating discovery after boring into a suspected ancient lake bed on…
Anthropic CEO Says Company No Longer Sure Whether Claude Is Conscious
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s not sure whether his Claude AI chatbot is conscious — a rhetorical…
As OpenAI Pulls Down the Controversial GPT-4o, Someone Has Already Created a Clone
OpenAI is finally sunsetting GPT-4o, a controversial version of ChatGPT known for its sycophantic style and its central role…
Blundering Husband Asks Claude AI to “Organize” Wife’s PC, Accidentally Erases Her Life’s Work
One of the core promises of the AI industry is that its tools can automate work for you…
Crypto Has Finally Found Its Killer App: Human Trafficking
Cryptocurrencies have long been lauded for being a borderless, decentralized way to transfer cash — and while they’ve…
Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody’s Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place
Google has relied on a tremendous amount of material without permission to train its Gemini AI models. The…
Campaign Urges Users to Quit ChatGPT Over OpenAI’s Support for Trump and ICE
It isn’t exactly big news that big tech is in deep with the US government. Days after Trump’s…
Astronauts Helicoptered to Hospital After Mystery Evacuation From Space Station
Earlier this month, NASA announced that it had to cancel a scheduled spacewalk, citing a “medical situation” affecting…
Tesla Cybercab Spotted Dripping Liquid
Anybody who’s regularly driven in winter conditions knows the importance of keeping windshield washer fluid topped up. Keeping…
They Started an Entire College Dedicated to Resisting Cancel Culture, and Then the Funniest Possible Thing Happened
In 2021, a crew of self-described free speech martyrs announced they were founding a university to save American…
As Microsoft Stuffs Windows With AI, New Update Prevents Users From Turning Off Their PCs
Microsoft is hellbent on stuffing Windows 11 with AI — and many feel that this is coming at…
Experts Concerned That AI Progress Could Be Speeding Toward a Sudden Wall
Is the AI industry racing towards a point where the tech’s progress stalls out or slows to a…
Young Tech Bros Are Embracing Celibacy in Favor of the All-Consuming Drive for Wealth
The future moguls of corporate America aren’t living like the new money princes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The…
Inventor Building AI-Powered Suicide Chamber
The inventor of a controversial suicide pod is making sure his device keeps up with the times by…
NASA Moves Giant Artemis II Rocket to Launchpad to Blast Astronauts to Moon
NASA’s Moon rocket has made it to its launchpad. On Saturday, the towering assembly — comprising the enormous…
Cybertruck Sales Show Stomach-Churning Drop
Tesla’s “apocalypse-proof” Cybertruck is continuing to experience a near-cataclysmic plunge in sales that seems impossible to recover from.…
Arrests Made for Murder at Amazon Facility
An Amazon fulfillment center in Texas became a murder scene after a dispute between co-workers spiraled into a…
There’s a Particularly Sinister Explanation for Why Trump Wants to Seize Greenland
On the campaign trail leading up to his election in 2024, Donald Trump made a plenty of bizarre…
Outer Space Is a Viscous Fluid, New Paper Claims
There’s endless debate among cosmologists about what really makes up the emptiness of outer space, though many believe…