August 30, 2026 12:10 PM
August 30, 2026
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…
Law School Bans Laptops and Phones as AI Cheating Scandal Grows
Classes are going to look a little different for the University of Chicago’s first year law students. On…
Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic’s Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care
One of the largest health networks integrating AI into the medical space is facing allegations that its high-tech…
Chinese Spacecraft Approaches Mysterious Object Near Earth
The Chinese space age is upon us. Beyond banner projects like the nation’s very own orbital space station…
Trump Administration Scrapping Nuclear Energy Rules Requiring Plants to Keep Radiation Levels “As Low as Reasonably Achievable”
As government agencies go, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has left a lot to be desired, often operating…
Meta Caught Running Ads for Child Abuse
For many years now, child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has run rampant on Meta’s platforms. The Mark Zuckerberg-led…
Man Sucked Out of Airplane, Dangles by Seatbelt
It pays to buckle up. A passenger on Ryanair — because of course — had his insistence on…
Uber Says Its AI Costs Just Aren’t Worth It
The true cost of AI is rapidly catching up with the tech industry. At first, tech leaders were…
Companies That Adopted AI Agents Alarmed to Discover They’re Botching Incredibly Important Tasks
AI agents used to be all the rage, the supposed next hit product category after generative AI failed…
Anthropic Cofounder Travels to Vatican, Tells Pope They’re Finding “Unsettling” Things Inside AI Models
Ever since being anointed as the leader of the Catholic Church last year, Pope Leo has been an…
Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System
A small group of scientists have long suggested that the seeds of life may have been distributed across…
99 Percent of CEOs Are Preparing to Lay Off Workers and Replace Them With AI Within Two Years, Survey Finds
Fear of AI is at an all-time high. Not fear of a Skynet-style superintelligent singularity seizing power, generally…
China Launches Synthetic Human Embryos to Space Station
Will humankind colonize other star systems, spreading life to distant worlds? Or more locally, and realistically: will we…
Oops! Domino’s-Partnered Robotics Startup That Was Supposed to Put Human Pizza Chefs Out of a Job Just Shut Down
Picnic, a Seattle-based startup that raised more than $53 million to develop robots capable of putting human restaurant…
The Pope Just Low Key Declared Holy War on Artificial Intelligence
As the AI backlash continues to grow, critics of the tech have found an unlikely voice of support:…
New Tools Strip AI Guardrails In Minutes, Allowing Them to Give Instructions on Chlorine Gas Attacks
We all know AI guardrails are far from perfect, but they should at least be pretty hard to…
They Held a New Olympics Where Athletes Can Take as Many Drugs and Steroids as They Want, and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened
For years now, organizers of a controversial sporting event called the Enhanced Games have been promising to push…
As College Grads Boo Any Mention of AI, the CEO of Google Is Trying to Figure Out What to Say at an Upcoming Graduation
What will Google CEO Sundar Pichai say next month when he gives the commencement speech at Stanford University? Under…
Man Humiliated by His AI Use Says He Just Can’t Quit
Even after being caught — and viciously criticized — for using AI to write his book about AI,…