October 5, 2026 7:53 AM
October 5, 2026
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…
New OpenAI Product Fails Spectacularly During Live On-Stage Demo
Would any live product demo be complete without a few technical difficulties? At its annual DevDay conference in…
The FTC Is Now Investigating Frontier AI Labs Following Countless Hacks by Out-of-Control Agents
It’s been an alarming couple of months of rogue AI agent revelations. Both Anthropic and OpenAI admitted that…
Trump Handlers Cut Event When He Gets Asked an Extremely Awkward AI Question
On Tuesday, US president Donald Trump hosted a discussion with some of the richest and most powerful tech…
That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation
Earlier this month, Futurism published an exposé about a company called Brown Brothers Media. In the story, we…
Protesters Crash Pro-Data Center Party, Escorted Out by Security
The opposition to the wide proliferation of AI data centers has never been more palpable. Public sentiment has…
We Are Alarmed to Learn That People Are Installing DIY Self-Driving “Mods” on Their Cars
The software that powers self-driving cars is no longer the domain of proprietary systems built by billion-dollar companies. …
OpenAI Tried to Hide ChatGPT Giving Extremely Specific Advice to a School Shooter on How to Maximize Casualties. The Logs Are Horrific.
The perpetrator of the devastating mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada used ChatGPT to ideate about graphic mass…
Department of Justice Seizes Stablecoin Tether’s Bank Accounts
Ask any crypto bro for the digital equivalent of the gold-standard, and they’ll likely tell you about Tether…
Murder Trial Struggles to Keep Composure as Lawyers Play Horrendous Love Songs Caleb Flynn AI-Generated for His Mistress
A cruel and unusual event took place this Thursday during Caleb Flynn’s murder trial. The 40-year-old former “American…
Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts’ Ability to Function
AI doesn’t need superintelligence to bring America’s judicial system to its knees. The proliferation of AI-generated slop paraded…
Nvidia CEO Says AI Companies Will Be Sued to Death If Their Frontier Models Keep Doing Horrible Things
AI companies should tread carefully. According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, if AI labs truly believe their tech…
Trump’s Stargate AI Project in Huge Trouble As $18 Billion Data Center Shrivels Toward Oblivion
Donald Trump’s $500 billion AI infrastructure project is in major trouble in New Mexico, as a pivotal data…
SpaceX Preparing for Most Important Launch in Company History on Monday
It feels like SpaceX’s Starship development has been in a bit of a holding pattern as of late.…
AI Startup’s Bizarre Plan to Launch a Hundred 24/7 Cafes Disintegrates as Reality Sets In
When you’re building out an experimental AI-powered insurance company, it’s probably best to stick with the business fundamentals…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children’s Minds to AI Is a Price He’s Willing to Pay
With so much hype about the future of AI safety, it can be easy to overlook the harms…
People Are Already Lusting After Meta’s New AI Assistant Muse
Meta, for once, is doing something pretty novel in the AI sphere. It’s created — and heavily marketed…
Kalshi Admits That It Took a Random Guy’s Video and Used AI to Make Him the Host of an Ad, Changing His Race in the Process
As the public backlash to cheap AI-generated slop continues to grow, companies continue to insist on cutting costs…
Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances
Whatever special kind of brain worms have established themselves in Elon Musk’s noggin appear to be spreading throughout…