July 22, 2026 5:30 PM
July 22, 2026
Extremely Unflattering Statue of Elon Musk Appears in Times Square, Complete With Horrifying Slogan
SpaceX’s IPO this week made founder Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, a sobering milestone highlighting unprecedented levels…
Temperatures Soaring So High That Trump’s UFC Fighters May Just Collapse in the Heat
Donald Trump has gone all-in on a massive fight night to ring in the semiquincentennial of the United…
The More Data We See About SpaceX’s IPO, the More We’re Wincing
Last Call for the Hype Train Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to imminently go public at a valuation…
Bill Gates Offers Bizarre Excuse About Epstein
In 2011 — three years after Jeffrey Epstein plead guilty to charges of soliciting prostitution of a minor…
Teardown of Trump Phone Reveals Incredibly Embarrassing Secret
Ever since it was announced, tech journalists wondered whether president Donald Trump’s “Trump Mobile” smartphone would ever see…
These Logs of ChatGPT Allegedly Driving a Suicidal Woman to Her Death Are Deeply Disturbing
OpenAI is facing yet another lawsuit over a user’s death by suicide. The latest lawsuit, filed today in…
Furious Judge Cancels Entire Trial After Finding Out Lawyers on Both Sides Used AI
Lawyers just can’t stop being caught using AI chatbots, polluting their filings with hallucinated citations that infuriate judges…
Anthropic Was So Concerned About Its New Mythos-Based Model’s Power That It Lobotomized Its Ability to Improve Itself
Earlier this year, Anthropic refused to release its Mythos AI model to the public, saying it was simply…
OpenAI Execs Are Panicking
An AI price war is brewing. Corporations are reeling after finding that the cost to access powerful AI…
New York Accuses Company of Smuggling Injectable Substance Made From Cadavers
The extracted flesh of the dead being used to fulfill the youth-chasing vanities of the living? That’s the…
Palantir, World’s Weepiest Eye of Sauron, Sues Mayor of London After Losing a Contract
Palantir, the multi-billion dollar AI surveillance company, has been dealt a major blow after London mayor Sadiq Khan…
Solar Just Produced More Electricity Than Coal for the First Time in the History of the United States
Last week, the Trump administration announced that it was pumping $700 million of federal funding into the US…
Meta Had the Worst Possible Response When Its Workers Were Watching Naked Footage of Its Ray-Ban AI Glasses Users
In February, Meta contractors in Kenya told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten that the company required them…
An Elegant Solution to AI Slop: Tax It, and Use the Resulting Billions of Dollars to Fund Cultural Institutions, Artists, and Researchers
If you can’t beat ’em, tax ’em. AI slop is as certain as government levies these days, infecting…
The “Pentastack” of Illegal Drugs That Looksmaxxers Like Clavicular Are Taking to Enjoy a Night Out Sounds Like a One-Way Trip to the Hospital
Look, if you’re out there safely experimenting with drugs, no judgment. There are plenty of ketamine therapy clinics…
Chinese Court Rules That a Worker Cannot Be Replaced by AI
While workers in the western world agonize over what seems to be an impending job apocalypse, their Chinese…
Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What Causes “Ghosts”
There are unseen forces behind why a house might feel haunted — but no, it’s not ghosts. New…
There’s Something Bizarre About the Offices of AI Startups
With questions swirling about whether hundreds of AI startups will ever translate the tech into real-world economic returns,…
You’ll Gasp When You Hear How Many Chinese EVs You Can Buy For the Price of a Single US Car
American automakers have some explaining to do. According to new reporting from Reuters, you could buy up to…
NASA’s Moon Landing Schedule Slipping Horrendously Under Trump
During his first term in late 2017, president Donald Trump announced that the United States would make its…
Bank CEO Brags He Used AI Clone of Himself to Host Conference Call
If you decided to blow off a Zoom meeting by sending an AI dummy instead, you might find…
New AI Trained Only on Pre-1930 Data Speaks Like the Most Old-Timey Guy Imaginable
Tired of your AI chatbot’s constantly-glazing therapy-speak? You could instead try striking up a conversation with “Talkie,” an…
NASA Fires Up Futuristic Plasma Thruster Designed to Take Us to Mars
Covering the well over 100 million miles to Mars is no easy feat. Even in the best case…
Wild Video Shows Ukrainian Troops Evacuate Babushka With a Military Robot
One granny has been safely plucked from the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war by the unlikeliest of heroes:…