July 22, 2026 6:58 AM
July 22, 2026
Sports Journalists Asked Microsoft’s Copilot to Predict World Cup Matches, and the Results May Surprise You
AI has wormed its way into every crevice of the 2026 World Cup. It’s dreaming up sloppified soccer…
SpaceX Stock Had Quite a Bad Night
Following its mega-IPO, shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocketed to new heights, peaking at just over $222 on…
The US Military Has Been Using Elon Musk’s Grok AI to Bomb Iran
In the early days of the US and Israeli war on Iran, situation monitors were abuzz at the…
Wall Street Terrified That SpaceX Investors Will Dump Their Stocks
The SpaceX IPO has been a windfall for investors — or most of them, at any rate. But…
Snap’s Stock Plunges the Moment It Reveals Its Comically Gigantic AR Glasses
After losing $40 million on a failed attempt to launch a pair of video-recording sunglasses almost a decade…
Tesla Allegedly Showed Cooked Data to Get Full Self-Driving Approved
As if things couldn’t get any worse for Tesla in Europe, traffic safety researchers now say they’ve caught…
MAHA Furious as Kennedy Moves to Ban Their Medicine: Gas Station Heroin
The Make America Healthy Again movement is in meltdown after their figurehead, Robert F. Kennedy Jr initiated a…
Microsoft’s Copilot AI Caught Letting Hackers Steal Your 2FA Codes Through a Single Click
Earlier this month, Meta’s AI chatbot support assistant feature was caught in an embarrassing cybersecurity incident: the bot…
SpaceX Stock Now in Rapid Decline
Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rallied after a multitrillion-dollar IPO last Friday, reaching a peak of over $222…
The Funniest Possible Thing Happened After Trump Painted the Lincoln Reflecting Pool Blue
If there’s one thing the Trump administration excels at, it’s turning just about anything into a culture war…
Ohio Police Fire Robocop for Helping Make Zero Arrests and Failing to Issue a Single Ticket
Shout out to arguably the world’s most ethical — and laziest — robot cop. After less than a…
SpaceX Stock Has Now Started to Fall
Elon Musk’s SpaceX went public on Friday, exploding onto the scene with a valuation that quickly eclipsed $2…
Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold
A poster wrought some moderate havoc this week when they shared a cropped image of a real Monet…
Crabby 82-Year-Old Politician Attacks 10-Year-Old Child for Thinking Electric Cars Are Cool
North Carolinian congresswoman Virginia Foxx has never shied away from regressive takes. Over her many decades in politics,…
AI Appears to Be Trapping Certain Job Applicants in a Limbo Where They Never Get an Interview for “Reasons” That Are Completely Unfair
For workers already enmeshed in the US workforce, AI is akin to a far-off asteroid, a looming threat…
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…
If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?
These days, the conversation around AI automation and the job market is increasingly focused on “labor displacement,” the…
Elon Musk Flees OpenAI Trial as Tide Turns Against Him
Elon Musk is locked in a heated trial in a lawsuit he lodged against his rival OpenAI and…
Sam Altman Faces Nightmare Questions in Cross-Examination
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced what sounds like a truly awful day on the stand this week during…
Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going to Make Their Bosses Extremely Mad
AI automation is typically exactly what it sounds like: automating tasks — many of which were previously carried…
OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google
A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing data including user chat queries and personal identifying information…
Electric Company Says It’s Cutting Off an Entire Town So It Can Sell All Its Power to Data Centers
The data center scramble feeding off the AI boom is no longer just raising utility prices for nearby…
Sam Altman Accuses Elon Musk of Laughing at Memes During Important OpenAI Meetings
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand yesterday in Musk v. Altman, the chaotic, embarrassing, and yet deeply…
Elon Musk’s Attempts at AI Are Falling Apart
In the AI world, there are what the tech scholar Kate Crawford has called the “Great Houses of…