October 14, 2026 1:02 PM
October 14, 2026
Anthropic Boasts It Would Be Profitable if You Ignore How Much It Costs to Develop AI
Despite being one of the world leaders in AI development, the private firm Anthropic has yet to post…
Bernie Sanders Proposes Banning Superintelligent AI and Imprisoning Developers for 20 Years
While the US appears to be further away from meaningful AI regulations than ever before, lawmakers certainly have…
Trump Throws His Weight Behind Flock Cameras
President Donald Trump continues to push the boundaries of what it means to be out-of-touch after he gave…
Trump’s Uninformed Blundering About the AI Slowdown Could Literally Threaten Humankind’s Future
Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in calling for…
Amazon Deploying AI Tech That Forces Actors’ Mouths to Match Dubbed Dialogue
Amazon is catapulting us into the final boss of sub vs dub debates. On Thursday, its Prime Video…
OpenAI Faces Congressional Probe Over Swarm Hacking Incident
Earlier this week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon drew major media attention after announcing he was quitting his job,…
Laptop Toasts Boy
Here’s a hazard you probably didn’t expect from too much screen time. Two doctors in the UK reported…
America’s Health Care System Is So Screwed That Patients Are Flying to China for Cancer Treatment
The myriad horrors of the US healthcare system have spawned generations of medical tourism from the wealthiest country…
California, Which Is Creating All the AI That’s Poisoning Children, Just Cracked Down on AI Use for Its Own Kids
Frontier AI labs are seemingly in a race to melt the impressionable minds of underage users into a…
Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain
As far as completely pointless ways to kill time on your phone, this is certainly one of the…
Aging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It
Surely our creaking gerontocracy is well-equipped to respond to a technology as novel, disruptive, and rapidly evolving as…
Earth May Have Had a Larger Cousin that the Sun Devoured
Did the Earth once have a larger cousin that was devoured by the Sun? And more importantly: would…
Transportation Secretary Announces That the Air Traffic Controller Crisis Is History Now That He’s Hired Thousands of Epic Gamers
How do you fix a shortage in air traffic controllers and restore trust in the safety of the…
Internal Google Document Reveals That Its HR AI Has Been Throwing Résumés From Qualified Applicants Straight Into the Trash
Bad news for anyone seeking a job in this AI-infested hiring hellscape: not even Google’s top AI lab…
Farmer Horrified as AI Gives Bad Advice That Kills 25 Acres of Crops
Whether you’re looking for medical advice or tips on industrial agriculture, one thing is abundantly clear: never trust…
Dude Asks AI Agent to Book Gym Spot, Accidentally Launches Autonomous Cyberattack
An Australian man asked his personal AI agent to book him a spot at his local gym. Little…
Doctors Warn That Med Students Are Surrendering Their Brains to Medical AIs That Are Even Worse than Regular Chatbots
It’s no secret that doctors across the world are using AI tools to do stuff from taking notes…
Man Covers Car in Special Wrap That Breaks Flock Cameras’ Electronic Brains
In light of plummeting public support for its widespread automatic license plate readers, surveillance company Flock has lost…
Protesters Arrested After Storming OpenAI Lobbying Office
Over 30 student activists came together on Monday afternoon to occupy the Gallup Building in Washington DC, home…
Google Just Updated Its Home Page to Replace the “Search” Button With a Bunch of AI
Since its earliest days, Google’s homepage has been iconic in its simplicity: a central text box and a…
It’s Official: This Is the Hottest America Has Ever Been
It’s not just you — the United States is going through a record-bustingly hot summer. According to the…
AI Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots
German AI researcher and hedge fund manager Leopold Aschenbrenner became the poster child for the hubris of an…
Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Tech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as they possibly can, come hell or…
Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With ChatGPT
As if the practice of homeschooling wasn’t fraught enough already, parents are now bragging about using large language…