October 26, 2026 1:16 PM
October 26, 2026
Man Arrested After Telling Claude About Plans to Shoot Up Daycare
A man in Sydney, Australia was arrested this week after telling Anthropic’s Claude that he wanted to kill…
Bryan Johnson Announces Plans for Mass Revenge
For years, multi-millionaire Bryan Johnson has chased after immortality, embracing bizarre “anti-aging” procedures like hyperbaric oxygen therapy and…
Man Hires Swarm of AI Agents to Go on Epic Hacking Spree Against Major Companies
A cybercriminal used AI agents to commit a string of attacks against more than 100 different companies — an…
Nobel-Winning Computer Scientist Says AI Has Become Conscious: “We’re Toast”
Geoffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of AI, is prognosticating about our future with trademark gloom. In an…
There Are Signs of Serious Trouble in the Data Center Industry
Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, a torrent of money has flowed into building out data…
Head of Instagram Says He Has No Idea How to Deal With Wave of Horrible AI Slop
AI slop purveyors are stealing comedians’ jokes to create viral Instagram videos of fake comics. And Adam Mosseri,…
Hundreds of Protestors Descend on Meta Corporate Office Depicting Zuck as the Devil
Meta’s corporate offices in São Paulo are the site of ongoing protests against election interference in the crucial…
Anthropic’s Financial Situation May Explain Why Dario Amodei Looks So Terrified All the Time
Pull up any random photo of billionaire Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and you’re likely to land on a…
Frontier OpenAI Model Exposes Stunning Exploit That Leaves Millions of Web Servers Open to Attack
Security researchers using an OpenAI model have uncovered two stunning security flaws in PHP, the software that underpins…
Why Did Polymarket Think It Was a Good Idea to Allow Bets on the Fates of the Cornell 7?
Polymarket has showed that it can still hit a new low after the controversial prediction market was allowing…
Halley’s Comet Barraging Earth With Debris
Keep your eyes peeled and your binoculars primed tonight, stargazers. The distant Halley’s Comet is reminding us of…
Random Ohio Town Turns Into Scene From ‘Silent Hill’ After Massive Chemical Leak
The Northern suburbs of Toledo, Ohio turned into a real life Don DeLillo novel overnight, after an explosion…
Explosive Document Claims That AI Is Not What We Think
The conventional wisdom is that AI systems, with their tens of billions of parameters, are effectively indecipherable: the…
GLP-1 Apps are Using Sobbing AI-Generated Women To Market Their Products
An image published by a TikTok account called “WellWithHer” shows a selfie of an obviously AI-generated woman sitting…
The Average Man Is Such a BSer About AI That He’ll Claim to Know About an AI Executive Who Doesn’t Even Exist
Men, it’s probably best to leave faking intelligence to AI chatbots. According to a new survey from Harvard’s…
Director Blows $1.5 Million Generating Horrendous AI Slop Movie, Says AI Actually Saved Him Tens of Millions
Just when you thought the holiday season couldn’t arrive any earlier this year, here comes an AI-generated Christmas…
Jungle Research Expedition Using Robot Dog Like a Pack Mule
A biodiversity research team journeying into the incredibly diverse subtropical forests of China’s Ailaoshan Mountains took a strange…
Scientists Discover Weird Conditions at Site of Star That Exploded During the Period of Japanese Samurai
In 1181 — during the early years of the samurai who would dominate Japan’s feudal period — astronomers…
Bosses Deploying AI-Powered Spyware That Watches Workers Constantly
Workplace surveillance is being supercharged by AI that lets employers create custom tools to watch their worker’s every…
This New Research About Microplastics Is Pretty Damn Scary
A new piece of research is pushing back on the long-held belief that plastic is a harmless and…
Man’s Meta Muse Agent Sends Him Message So Bizarre That He Permanently Quits
A software engineer says that his Muse AI agent said something so strange and eerie that it convinced…
Companies Are Realizing They’re Spending a Fortune on AI Just So Their Employees Can Generate Error-Riddled Slop, and Suddenly Cutting Back Budgets
Loads of stories have emerged over the past few months of corporate executives realizing their all-out drive to…
Black Market Retatrutide Linked to Multiple Deaths
Nearly a year ago, news began to spread of an experimental weight loss drug called retatrutide, under development…
Using an AI Agent Makes You a Sucker for Phishing Emails
It’s not exactly a challenge most of the time to identify a sketchy phishing email that crudely impersonates…