August 29, 2026 1:22 PM
August 29, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly
Despite having almost nothing to show from his enormous spending on AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling…
Amazon Insiders Horrified at “Catastrophically Expensive” Internal AI Usage
Even the gazillion-dollar empire that is Amazon is reeling from the costs of letting its employees run loose…
US Government Displays AI-Mangled Map of Africa That Gets Every Single Country Wrong
This government sure loves its AI slop, doesn’t it? While presenting at the global AIDS 2026 conference in…
Wild Footage Shows Man Blocking Flock Camera With Comically Gigantic Protest Sign
There’s been plenty of buzz lately around vandalism of Flock Safety’s automatic license plate readers, which are AI-integrated…
Almost the Entire Country Is Drowning in Cases of Explosive Diarrhea
Just over a week ago, Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr declared that the ongoing…
Shell Is Profiting Massively Off the War in Iran
Don’t worry about the death toll and economic devastation. There’s money to be made! As the United States…
LinkedIn Adds Button on Every Post to Report “Seems Like AI Slop,” Which Is Definitely Going to Get a Real Workout
Perhaps more so than any other social media platform, LinkedIn has been inundated with lazy AI-generated brainrot content.…
NASA Mars Rover Discovers Field of Mesmerizing Polygons
A vast field of mesmerizing polygons has left Mars scientists enthralled. Don’t be mistaken: NASA didn’t send a…
Cambridge Analytica’s Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm
It may already feel like a distant memory, but Cambridge Analytica was once implicated in one of the…
Meta’s Attempted Crackdown on AI Glasses Perverts Is Already Failing
Meta knows its AI-powered camera equipped spectacles are widely seen as “pervert glasses.” And though it professes to…
Schools Deploying Pepper Spray Drones to Sic on Mass Shooters
How do we combat the scourge of school shootings? The distinctly cyberpunk gamble that some places of learning…
Hack “Writers” Fuming After ChatGPT Starts Refusing Prompts to Copy a Specific Author’s Style
It only took them three and a half years, but the powers that be at OpenAI have apparently…
Elon Musk Is Crashing Out Badly
Over the weekend, Elon Musk publicly challenged anybody to “cite a single name of someone who died” as…
Elon Musk Confronted With List of People He’s Killed, Including Children
On the same week as his 55th birthday, almost-trillionaire Elon Musk attempted to defend himself after representative Ro…
You Are Entirely Unready to Learn the Name of the Company That Accidentally Filled the Reflecting Pool With Green Algae
US President Donald Trump has been desperately trying stop the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC from…
Anthropic Hires Economist Who Says 33 Percent Chance of Human Extinction Is Acceptable
Out of all the big AI players, Anthropic is the one that likes to doomsay about AI the…
Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue
Demand for the computing power that undergirds AI models — “compute,” in the lingo of the industry —…
Madonna Issues Explosive Take on AI
If you’re using AI to try and make “art,” Madonna Ciccone has some bad news for you. In…
Grim New Prediction Market Lets Gamblers Bet on Raging Wildfires
Ever wanted to role play a claims adjustor in Southern California? Now you can — with Wyldfyre, the…
A24 Is Dealing With a Full-on Crisis Among Fans After Signing an AI Deal With Google
Indie Hollywood darling A24 scored a massive financial hit with its “Backrooms” horror flick this year, netting over…
Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire
A lawyer was working at a legal tech startup when her boss’s fascination with AI began to veer…
Elon Musk’s Mother Posts Happy Birthday Image for Him That, on Closer Inspection, Is Devastatingly Sad
The world’s first trillionaire just celebrated his 55th birthday. And we can’t tell which possibility is more depressing:…
NASA Prepping to Launch Extremely Risky Rescue Mission
NASA’s Swift observatory, designed to study the most powerful explosions in the universe, launched into orbit over two…
AI Zillionaires Are Starting to Get Scared as the Public Turns Against Them
There’s no doubt that the broader public has turned against AI in a serious way. In the United…