August 30, 2026 11:11 AM
August 30, 2026
New Anthropic Ad Implies AI Could Kill Us All
Anthropic is doing what Anthropic does best: putting on its most concerned face so it can convince you…
New York Becomes First State to Ban AI Data Centers
Across the United States, lawmakers are increasingly caught between two competing pressures: the massive investment flowing into the…
Grok’s Foul-Mouthed AI “Translation” Feature Puts Unspeakably Ghoulish Words Into Users’ Mouths
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has long garnered a reputation for experiencing horrifically racist meltdowns, enabling child abuse,…
Secretive Silicon Valley Startup Tries to Quash Interview, Says It’s Definitely Not Working on Growing Brain-Free “Organ Sacks”
Last February, Alice Gilman, the cofounder and chief operating officer of a secretive Silicon Valley longevity startup called…
Startup Upset After Journalist Points Out How Creepy Its Humanoid Robots’s Hands Are
The VP of a humanoid robotics company was in for a surprise after finding that a Wired article…
A Staggering Number of People Are Dying Because of Record Heatwaves
Europeans are being crushed by deadly temperatures. Record-breaking heatwaves across much of the continent have claimed thousands of lives…
A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry
To say Americans are divided on AI would be an understatement. Polls have shown that more people than…
LAPD Abandons Flock Contract After Making a Horrifying Discovery
Rarely has the Los Angeles Police Department found a police toy it doesn’t love. The third-largest police force…
US Companies Are Realizing That Chinese AI Models Are Way Cheaper, Ditch American Ones
As corporate AI bills spiral out of control, many companies are beginning to ask themselves a simple question:…
The Economics of Data Centers Creating Jobs Are So Bad That They Sound Like a Joke
Whenever big data center developers roll into town, their pitch ends up sounding something like this: hand over…
SpaceX Stock Plunges to All-Time Low After Competitor Makes Major Leap
Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX took another beating when trading resumed on Monday, sliding to an all-time low…
The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
Meta’s camera-equipped “AI Glasses” are so divisive that some adopters are now leaving their expensive smart glasses at…
Apocalypse Bunker Fails as Wealthy Residents Turn on Each Other
More and more wealthy individualsare buying up luxurious underground shelters to survive the apocalypse, whether it’s in the…
Influential Tech Founder Says His Peers Are Suffering From Mass AI Psychosis
It’s no secret that many of the world’s top CEOs are obsessed with AI. By pursuing lofty goals…
YouTube Announces Plans to Crack Down on AI Slop
It’s no secret that YouTube is overrun with AI slop. It’s made gestures towards reining in the flood…
This Summer Is Going to Kill a Lot of People
Summer hasn’t even started in the Northern Hemisphere, and thermometers around the globe are already fit to burst.…
AI Firm Trots Out Digitally Resurrected Corpse of Stan Lee You Can Use to Create Mind-Numbing Slop
Stan Lee, an icon of the comic books world, died in 2018. But tell that to ElevenLabs, the…
New Website Detects Apocalypse If Billionaire Jets Start Fleeing en Masse
Billionaires aren’t like us. They get special tax breaks to protect their fortunes, operate private intelligence rings, and…
Debt Collectors Are Being Replaced With AI Agents
With inflation out of control amidst a low-fire, low-hire economy, the amount of private debt in the United…
Elon Musk Furious at Starlink Being Used for American Suicide Drones
SpaceX has established itself as an influential contractor for the US military, allowing the Pentagon access a proprietary…
The MyPillow Guy’s Entire Business is Being Held Hostage by Hackers
Monstrous defeats keep coming for Mike Lindell, the notorious entrepreneur behind the MyPillow brand and one-time advisor to…
Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They’re Fired Because of AI
We’ve long had our doubts about tech leaders making boisterous claims about automating jobs with AI. For a…
More Than This Many Hours of Sleep Is Linked to Early Death, Scientists Find
How much should we sleep each night? It’s the age-old question that makes almost nobody happy, since most…
NASA Releases Sweeping Plans for Moon Base
NASA remains committed to developing a permanent presence on the Moon — space science budgets be damned. During…