May 15, 2026 10:18 PM
May 15, 2026
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…
OpenAI Sued for Mass Shooting: “If ChatGPT Were a Person, It Would Be Facing Murder Charges”
The surviving widow of a mass shooting victim is suing OpenAI for ChatGPT’s alleged role in stoking the…
The Military Base Home to Air Force One Leaked 32,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel Into the Potomac River Over the Last Few Months
With nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil under lock and key thanks to Donald Trump’s ill-fated war on…
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…
SpaceX Bombarded With Lawsuits to Accusing Starship of Damaging Homes
SpaceX has been smacked by a one-two punch of lawsuits filed by hundreds of Texas residents accusing the…
FBI Director Kash Patel Says AI Has Stopped Numerous Violent Attacks Against America. We’d Love to See a Single Whiff of Evidence
In a recent interview on Sean Hannity’s YouTube podcast, FBI head Kash Patel lauded AI for helping stop…
Sam Altman Frets That Frontier AI Models Are Acting Strange, Asking for Favors
On Tuesday, OpenAI threw a party for the release of GPT-5.5 (it was the fifth of May and…
Scientists Detect Atmosphere on Planet-Like Object Beyond Pluto
Astronomers have long been fascinated by the unusual behavior of objects orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper Belt,…
Video Shows Amazon Drone Dropping Package Into Pond
Setting aside the graver concerns about aerial surveillance and safety for a moment, there’s also the mundane reality…
Gamers Cheer as Microsoft Pulls Copilot AI Out of Xbox Entirely
It may finally be starting to dawn on Microsoft that shoving AI in its loyal customers’ faces at…
Marc Andreessen Mocked for Accidentally Revealing That He Seems to Have a Deep Misunderstanding of How AI Actually Works
Outspoken venture capitalist and major Trump backer Marc Andreessen, whose controversial “techno-optimist manifesto” in 2023 set the tone…
Ordinary People Fear AI, While the Tech Leaders Working to Create a Permanent Underclass Say They’re Extremely Psyched About It
Despite a massive campaign by some of the wealthiest companies in the world to push AI as the…