March 17, 2026 10:41 PM
March 17, 2026
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…
All These Ring Cameras Are Creating a “Surveillance Nightmare,” Critics Say
What if the biggest threat to your safety and privacy isn’t a person, but a device millions of…
Israel Arrests Members of Military for Placing Polymarket Bets Using Inside Information on Upcoming Strikes
For months, experts have warned that prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket were ripe for abuse. Now, some…
Scientists Intrigued as Prominent Star Suddenly Winks Out of Existence
The end of a star’s life can be an extremely violent event. Once it runs out of fuel,…
Creeps Are Using Grok to Unblur Children’s Faces in the Epstein Files
Some of the worst freaks to walk planet Earth are using Elon Musk’s Grok to “unblur” the faces…
Vending Machine Run by Claude More of a Disaster Than Previously Known
Maybe we don’t need the Turing test, because there’s a mighty obstacle that’s proving far more challenging to…
It Appears That Immigration Officials Caused the El Paso Airport Shutdown When They Panic-Fired a Powerful Laser Weapon at a Children’s Balloon
Federal officials made the unprecedented decision to abruptly close the airspace above El Paso, Texas, this week —…
Tech Corporations Engaging in “Human Fracking”
Social media algorithms keep us all hopelessly engaged. The data these platforms gather on us enable feeds to…
Nuclear Bunker Falling Into Ocean
How’s a literal nuclear bunker hanging off the side of a crumbling cliff face for portent symbols of…
Scientists Just Discovered Something Horrid About Those Disposable Coffee Cups You’ve Been Slurping
According to a wealth of recent scientific literature, microplastics, tiny pieces of debris anywhere from one micrometer to…
AI Surveillance Systems Are Causing a Staggering Number of Wrongful Arrests
These days, AI surveillance systems are everywhere. They’re watching our roads, tracking our purchases at the grocery store,…
Government Tells Tesla That This Is Definitely the Last Time It Can Blow Off Deadline to Turn In Data On Why FSD Is Constantly Ignoring Traffic Laws
Elon Musk’s Tesla would never get special treatment by the US government, right? This week, Ars Technica reports,…
Elon Musk Says His Optimus Robot Is So Dope That People Will Forget Tesla Ever Made Cars
Amid abysmal car sales that continue to plummet worldwide and major regulatory hurdles plaguing the company’s driver assistance…
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
While AI companies continue to command the global economy and pour billions of dollars into building data centers,…
Man Confused by AI-Generated Reports That He’s Dead
You know the old adage “don’t believe everything you see on the internet”? In the age of AI,…
Media Execs Prepare for AI to Bring End of Journalism Industry
Will the slow anaconda crush of AI mean the end of journalism? It’s hard to imagine it completely…
Man Gets Clean Bill of Health From Super-Expensive MRI Scan, Then Gets Horrible News
A 35-year-old New York City man paid about $2,500 for a whole body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan…
Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg’s Vision Fails
After years of failing to produce a profitable augmented reality platform, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is pounding one of…
Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse
Elon Musk’s Grok AI kicked off a massive scandal over the past month when users started using it…