August 29, 2026 10:13 PM
August 29, 2026
Whole Foods Offering Steep Discount on Taylor Farms Shredded Iceberg Lettuce
Most of the nation may want nothing to do with Taylor Farms and its shredded iceberg lettuce, which…
Taylor Farms Made Huge Donation to Trump Group After Loosening of Rules That Could Have Prevented Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak
In a stunning reversal on Sunday, the Food and Drug Administration said that lettuce samples from Taylor Farms…
OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin
Even as the AI bubble becomes a mainstream talking point on Wall Street, tech companies continue to peddle…
OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit Companies Won’t Be Able to Compete
Last week, a Chinese-made large language model called Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI, burst onto…
There’s a Gigantic Problem at the Heart of the AI Industry That Could Cause the Whole Thing to Collapse
For years, AI companies have been selling investors on the idea that scaling up operations is the key…
Lawsuit Alleges That ChatGPT Encouraged Suicide of Woman Who Walked Into Traffic
In June 2025, 29-year-old Christian Faith Madison died after after walking into oncoming traffic in the early hours…
Spotify Doubles Down on AI Slop As It’s Being Flooded With It
Spotify, like pretty much every other digital platform, has been grappling with a torrent of low-quality AI-generated content…
Amazon’s Robotaxi Company Recalls Its Fleet After One of its Cars Got Confused by Heavy Smoke
Zoox, the Amazon-owned robotaxi company, issued a recall after one of its self-driving cars blundered into a cloud…
In Light of Overwhelming Backlash, Flock Cancels Creepy Audio Surveillance Feature
These days, it’s hard to say which technological “innovation” US citizens hate more: AI data centers or Flock…
Climate Activists Pelt Microsoft Data Center With Balloons Full of Acid
As the public backlash to AI data centers continues to escalate, activists are resorting to extreme measures to…
It’s Laughably Easy to Poison Open-Weight AI Models, Researcher Finds
Good news, everyone: “open-weight” AI models that are available to anyone to download and run are comically easy…
As Much of the East Coast Is Choking on Wildfire Smoke, Texas Is Drowning in Life-Threatening Floods
Fresh off a month that saw all but five states mired in severe drought, the US is reeling…
Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation
Code uncovered by journalists revealed that Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech into its AI-enabled smart glasses —…
The Math on SpaceX’s IPO Is Virtually Impossible
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is slated to go public this week at a market cap of $1.75 trillion, which…
Scientists Detect Massive Structure Under Antarctica
Researchers have uncovered the existence of a monumental geological structure buried two miles beneath the frigid ice of…
US Soccer Scanning Videos of Millions of Youth Players to Identify New Stars
The United States Soccer Federation is hoping to recruit players from across the world by using AI to…
New York City Installing Sensors to Detect Pedestrians, Vehicles, and Pretty Much Everything Else
It may sound like yet another rollout of a dystopian surveillance state network of facial recognition cameras —…
New Study Finds Something Horrible Contaminating Half of California’s Water
There’s something monstrous lurking in the waterways of California, and it isn’t the Sacramento Mothman. According to a…
Suburbanites Freaked Out by Mysterious Drones Leering Into Their Homes at Night
Residents of the mid-sized burb of Norwich, Connecticut are disturbed at what they’ve described as massive drones descending…
Psychiatrists Investigating People Who Get Trapped Inside Vivid Daydreams
There’s nothing inherently wrong with daydreaming. Letting your thoughts wander through imaginary worlds can provide a much-needed distraction…
Astronomers Say Star Self-Destructed So Catastrophically That It Left Behind No Trace of Its Existence
When a star explodes, it typically leaves behind some sort of remnant: an exposed, ultra-dense core, for example,…
Trump Desperately Pumps Money Into Dying Coal Industry
The coal industry has been in decline for decades. But tell that to president Trump, who’s firmly convinced…
Catholic Church Boots Exorcist After He Said UFOs Are Demons
A Catholic priest just fumbled the job of a lifetime. On Wednesday, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti was stripped of…
Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips
It’s a desperate time for tech companies trying to assert dominance in the AI boom. Back in April,…