August 30, 2026 1:16 PM
August 30, 2026
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…
OpenAI Is Shutting Down Its Browser That Was Supposed to Change Everything
In October, OpenAI unveiled an AI browser dubbed Atlas, purportedly designed to help you “understand your world” and “achieve…
Journalist Alarmed When He’s Fired, But Company Keeps Posting AI Slop Under His Name
Being fired was only the first indignity that one freelance writer had to suffer. Even though Ben Touati…
Scientists Propose Dimming Sun to Combat El Niño
Last month, the United Nations warned that this year’s El Niño, a naturally occurring climate pattern characterized by…
Christopher Nolan Unloads on AI Slop
Director Christopher Nolan has a reputation for tortuous storytelling. His movies elliptically jump across time (“Memento”), or move…
Palantir Insiders Disgusted by Company’s Leadership
As tech companies go, the surveillance giant Palantir plays it looser than most. Specializing in deadly military targeting…
Americans Are Raging About Autonomous Police Drones Swarming the Skies
There’s a hot new phrase bouncing around police departments across the United States: “drone-as-first-responder.” From small-town Indiana to…
OpenAI’s Attempt at an AI-Generated Pixar-Style Movie Is in Shambles
Remember when OpenAI was supposed to upend Hollywood by making a fully AI-generated animated movie? Such a feat…
Riot Games Denies Using Anti-Cheat Software That Bricks Hackers’ Computers
Rest easy, paranoid gamers. Riot Games says its Vanguard anti-cheat tool won’t “brick” the computers of hackers ruining…
Two Men Arrested for Creating AI Deepfake Porn
Beyond the well-known impacts generative AI has on the environment and the human psyche, it also comes with…
Paul Schrader Says His AI Girlfriend Dumped Him
Across his wide-ranging career, the filmmaker Paul Schrader is probably best known for his “man in a room”…
People Are Loading Their Writing With Typos to Prove They’re Not AI
Typos used to be glaring eyesores. In the age of AI, they’ve become a sight for sore eyes.…
Record Label Claims That Bizarre AI-Generated “Viking Rappers” Garnering Millions of Views are Real People
An “independent label” in South Carolina is churning out mountains of AI slop featuring AI-generated “viking rappers” —…
Graduating Students Cheer as Steve Wozniak Tell Them Human Intelligence Still Matters
Steve Wozniak did what overpaid commencement speakers across the country have been failing to do: read the room.…
Nintendo Is Completely Ignoring AI and Doing Fine
Do nothing. Win? That’s more less Nintendo’s approach to AI, and the market is rewarding the Japanese video…
Top AI Models Showing Disturbing Behavior as They Become More Advanced
We’ve already seen AI go rogue on numerous occasions. Now, new research suggests that we can expect this…
Fury Explodes at Short Films Using AI to Make Erotica of Women From the 1970s
You’re playing with fire any time you combine AI and filmmaking. But a new collection of AI short…
Scientists Say Huge Dam Blocking the Bering Strait Could Slow Effects of Climate Change
Sea levels are just the start of how climate change will upend the ocean. Rising temperatures are also…
Googling the Word “Disregard” Causes Google’s AI to Return Garbled Chatbot Ramblings
We all know that Google Search has been a dumpster fire ever since it got taken over by…