May 15, 2026 8:51 PM
May 15, 2026
OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Allegedly Killed College Student
The family of a 19-year-old college student who died of an overdose after consulting ChatGPT for medical advice…
New York Times Issues Stern Warning to Its Freelance Writers About AI Use
After a string of AI controversies, The New York Times emailed a “periodic reminder” to freelancers on Tuesday…
Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It’s Inexorably Driving It Out of Business
An AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and it’s going about…
Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take
Even if you don’t know Nick Bostrom’s name, you’re almost certainly familiar with the idea he’s most famous…
Unitree Shows Off Fully Functional Mecha Suit
Chinese tech company Unitree has quickly established itself as the brand to beat in the humanoids robotics industry,…
Husband Alarmed as Wife Starts Whispering Quietly to Her Computer
In a trend that sounds like it was engineered in a lab to send chills down the spine…
AI Is Giving Your Boss Tools to Be More Monstrous Than Ever Before
The debate raging about AI’s future consequences, with a complete AI automation apocalypse on one side and a…
Grok Just Issued a Brutal Beatdown to Elon Musk
If you ever needed proof that money can’t buy intelligence, just watch the richest man in the world…
Google Alarmed by Formidable AI-Powered Zero-Day Cyberattack
Google was rattled by a cyberattack that used AI to unearth a major flaw in its software that…
Angry Mom Defeats Entire AI Data Center
Jayne Black is a Wisconsin-area environmentalist and mother of four. An organizer with the group Moms Clean Air…
Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future
This year’s commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was visibly floored after she extolled AI as…
New Data Center Equivalent to Setting Off 23 Nuclear Bombs Per Day, Professor Finds
A proposed “hyperscale” data center in Box Elder County, Utah, will create an enormous heat island that could…
Meta Has Entered Its Death Spiral
It’s hard to even imagine now, but immediately after it launched in 2004, there was nothing on the…
Cursed New AI Service Writes a Mother’s Day Card and Mails It to Your Mom, Without Any Human Involvement Except Inputting Your Credit Card Details
Hey kids! Want to tell your mom you love her, but without expending a single iota of emotional…
NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye
There’s a fresh twist in the mystery of the “little red dots.” Astronomers say they’ve found a new specimen,…
Scammers Furious That Their Fellow Criminals Are Using AI, Saying It’s Unethical
The AI sloppification of the internet comes for us all, even the petty scammers and fraudsters doing business…
The CDC Fired All Its Cruise Ship Inspectors Before the Hantavirus Outbreak
A deadly hantavirus outbreak tearing through a Dutch cruise ship has put health officials on alert, raising questions…
Huge Analysis Finds That the Average Person Is Getting Absolutely Hosed on Polymarket
The United States is in the throes of widespread gambling addiction. Sports betting ads have become practically inescapable,…
Under Threat of Perjury, OpenAI’s Former CTO Is Admitting Some Very Interesting Stuff About Sam Altman
The bizarre and messy court battle between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former OpenAI investor Elon Musk trudges…
CEOs Say AI Gives Them Only Two Options, and Both Are Bad News for Employees
In an age of AI, our hardworking CEOs are being tortured with a tough decision, according to new…
You’ll Never Guess Trade Unions’ Position on AI Data Centers
Trade unions have a centuries-long history of squaring up against the might of industrial capitalists to fight for…
Sure, Elon Musk Did Roleplay As His Toddler Son on a Secret Burner Account, But He Probably Isn’t Pretending to Be His Mom
When Elon Musk goes out in a blaze of rapid unscheduled disassembly, as his company SpaceX likes to…
The Situation With Richard Dawkins’ AI Girlfriend Just Got Way Weirder
Whatever you may think of the man, Richard Dawkins is clearly suffering a tragic case of having your…
Billionaire Declares That “Tax the Rich” Is Hate Speech That Offends Him Horribly
Heightening class tensions in the United States have brought about discourse that would be unimaginable even a decade…