October 5, 2026 6:37 AM
October 5, 2026
The AI Industry Has a Major Problem: Most People Aren’t Freaks Who Want an AI Agent Running Their Whole Life
Meta’s fuzzy Muse AI personal assistant overtook ChatGPT as the top free iOS app in the US after…
Man Facing Up to Three Years in Prison After Sharing AI Slop That Leads to Mass Panic
A Malaysian man is facing up to three years in a Singaporean prison — after an ill-conceived text…
It’s Looking Possible That Zuckerberg Is Accidentally Committing Corporate Suicide
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made the rash decision to double-down on massive AI spending, pushing a cutesy…
NASA Telescope Careening Down to Earth After Failed Rescue Mission
It was an extremely ambitious mission with the best of intentions. With the help of contractor Katalyst Space…
These Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty Bizarre
Internet sleuths have dug up old posts that appear to belong to Jacob Coxon, the former Anthropic employee…
Phoebe Bridgers Banned Phones at Her Concerts and It’s Creating a Beautiful and Mysterious Experience Where People Are Drawing Her Amazing Light Show by Hand
It’s practically impossible these days to attend a concert without a flood of bright smartphone screens obscuring your…
Top BBC Director Says He’s Been Reviewing a Fully AI-Generated Episode of “Doctor Who” and It’s “Pretty Good”
Slipping ratings, a revolving door of lead actors, and nothing quite hitting like that old school David Tennant…
Data Centers Are a $6 Trillion Time Bomb, Analysts Warn
Last year, hedge fund whisperer and founder of the firm Praetorian Capital, Harris Kupperman, issued a blistering financial…
Here’s the Email You Get When an OpenAI Model Hacks Your Organization
Companies and organizations around the world would do well to accept what their new roles are in our…
RFK Jr Announcing That AI Is Now Better Than Human Doctors Shows That He Is a Buffoon Who Is Ruining Trust in American Health Institutions
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t trust human doctors, but he does trust AI chatbots — and so should…
New Jersey So Flooded That a Shark Was Spotted Swimming Through a Suburban Neighborhood
A shark has been spotted wandering the streets of New Jersey. And it ain’t here for the vig,…
People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All
Pee drinkers are absolutely obsessed with AI. For years, Facebook has played host to a truly stupefying number…
AI Bros Are Having a Meltdown Because the Associated Press Stylebook Clarifies That AIs Don’t Have Feelings
In the midst of heated discussions on AI safety and consciousness, the Associated Press Stylebook has reminded everyone…
New Smart Glasses Scald Users’ Heads With Horrific Temperatures
Smart glasses have been shrouded in controversy for quite some time now. They’ve earned the moniker of “pervert…
Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon, Scientists Find
Venus is often called the Earth’s “evil twin” since they’re roughly the same size, formed in the same…
Workers Are Spending An Astonishing Amount of Their Own Money On AI for Their Jobs
While a rising majority of workers in the take a negative attitude toward AI in the workplace, others…
Scientists Download Frontier AI Model Into Self-Driving Car Let It Loose
Despite many years of development and enormously complex AI systems that took monstrous amounts of money to train,…
After Putting in a Massive Order for Electric Shock Gloves, ICE Is Now Buying Robot Dogs
Earlier this year, it was widely reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was trying to get its hands…
Data Center Operator Slapped With $1 Million Fine for Belching Noxious Gas Into Surrounding Community
In the United States, fierce local opposition to new data center construction continues to dog developers hoping to…
Polymarket Is Being Used for Massive Money Laundering
Gambling addicts aren’t the only ones being taken for a ride by prediction markets. As gambling platforms like…
Climate Change Is Turning Prisons Full of Human Beings Into Industrial-Scale Air Fryers
Though it may not look like it, the world as we know it is in a free fall,…
Journalist Alarmed When His Waymo Barges Into Path of Presidential Motorcade
Waymo robotaxis seem to get into accidents far less often than human motorists do. (According to the company’s…
Scientists Say They’ve Found Remnants of Huge Life-Giving Continent Beneath Antarctica
In a 2022 study, scientists suggested that there could be enormous mountain ranges — on the scale of…
Harvard Scientists Detect Radio Signal Coming Directly From Planet Outside the Solar System
So far, astronomers have confirmed over 6,300 exoplanets circling a host star beyond our solar system. They range…