July 19, 2026 11:12 PM
July 19, 2026
Amazon Investigating Its Own Employees for Daring to Oppose AI Data Center
Though the data centers undergirding the AI boom are becoming hugely unpopular with US voters, companies like Amazon…
Meta’s Program That Spies on Every Employee’s Computer Just Blew Up in Its Face in Spectacular Fashion
Meta’s controversial program that spied on its employees’ computers has backfired spectacularly. Though its chief technology officer Andrew…
White House Pushes Back Against Claim That Trump Was Given Early Access to a Powerful Experimental Weight Loss Drug
According to president Donald Trump’s annual medical exam, results of which were released last month, the 80-year-old’s body…
Trump Orders Construction of Powerful Quantum Computer
Let it never be said that he makes small swings. President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive…
AI Companies Are Trying to Seize Control of Elections
With trillions of dollars on the line, it should come as no surprise that tech companies are spending…
Amazon Just Pulled Something Absolutely Craven to Avoid Embarrassing Its Friends at OpenAI
There was apparently one threat that the centibillion dollar AI firm OpenAI, and its multitrillion dollar partner Amazon,…
SpaceX Stock Has Officially Fallen Below Its Opening Price
Elon Musk’s SpaceX went stratospheric following its June 12 IPO, soaring from an opening price of $150 to…
New Paper Proposes What Really Causes AI Psychosis
Psychiatrists and other researchers are still working to understand the phenomenon known as “AI psychosis,” in which users…
Tech Stocks Are Abruptly Collapsing
Following a blockbuster IPO earlier this month, Elon Musk’s SpaceX experienced a rude awakening. The rocket company’s shares…
A24 Fans in Meltdown After It Enters AI Partnership With Google
A24 has spent years carefully crafting its image as a canny underdog studio that platforms artist driven films.…
Illinois Is Getting Battered by Freak Tornadoes
So far in 2026, the top US state for tornadoes isn’t Kansas or Oklahoma, but the unlikely state…
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is “Like Union Pacific,” Which Is Extremely Funny If You Know What Actually Happened to Union Pacific
With a net worth beyond the trillion-dollar mark, comparisons between Elon Musk to the robber barons of America’s…
Elon Musk Furious at Starlink Being Used for American Suicide Drones
SpaceX has established itself as an influential contractor for the US military, allowing the Pentagon access a proprietary…
The MyPillow Guy’s Entire Business is Being Held Hostage by Hackers
Monstrous defeats keep coming for Mike Lindell, the notorious entrepreneur behind the MyPillow brand and one-time advisor to…
Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They’re Fired Because of AI
We’ve long had our doubts about tech leaders making boisterous claims about automating jobs with AI. For a…
More Than This Many Hours of Sleep Is Linked to Early Death, Scientists Find
How much should we sleep each night? It’s the age-old question that makes almost nobody happy, since most…
NASA Releases Sweeping Plans for Moon Base
NASA remains committed to developing a permanent presence on the Moon — space science budgets be damned. During…
Uber Says Its AI Costs Just Aren’t Worth It
The true cost of AI is rapidly catching up with the tech industry. At first, tech leaders were…
Companies That Adopted AI Agents Alarmed to Discover They’re Botching Incredibly Important Tasks
AI agents used to be all the rage, the supposed next hit product category after generative AI failed…
Anthropic Cofounder Travels to Vatican, Tells Pope They’re Finding “Unsettling” Things Inside AI Models
Ever since being anointed as the leader of the Catholic Church last year, Pope Leo has been an…
Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System
A small group of scientists have long suggested that the seeds of life may have been distributed across…
99 Percent of CEOs Are Preparing to Lay Off Workers and Replace Them With AI Within Two Years, Survey Finds
Fear of AI is at an all-time high. Not fear of a Skynet-style superintelligent singularity seizing power, generally…
China Launches Synthetic Human Embryos to Space Station
Will humankind colonize other star systems, spreading life to distant worlds? Or more locally, and realistically: will we…
Oops! Domino’s-Partnered Robotics Startup That Was Supposed to Put Human Pizza Chefs Out of a Job Just Shut Down
Picnic, a Seattle-based startup that raised more than $53 million to develop robots capable of putting human restaurant…