August 30, 2026 2:09 PM
August 30, 2026
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…
AI Is Pushing Older Employees Straight Out of the Workforce, New Report Finds
So far, the narrative of AI in the workplace has had a consistent victim: the recent college grad,…
Famous “Pick Up Artist” Reduced to Hitting on AI Girlfriend
Erik von Markovik, the notorious “pickup artist” known by his stage name Mystery, is apparently obsessed with an…
The AI Industry Has Finally Found the Perfect Customer: Bloodthirsty Terrorists
AI chatbots has been a dream come true for criminals. The tech has been a boon for scammers.…
CEO Pleads With AI Industry to Stop Charging So Much to Replace Human Labor
With each passing day without an AI labor revolution, the tech industry’s pricing scheme for AI is becoming…
Scientists Say They’ve Identified an Earth-Like Planet Right Next Door
A recently discovered exoplanet only 25 light years away resembles our own planet a lot more than once…
FanDuel Is Using Personal Messages From Sports Stars to Keep Gambling Addicts Hooked
The soaring popularity of sports betting apps and prediction markets has alarmed researchers, who’ve observed a spike in…
Hackers Find That Inaudible Sounds Hidden in Podcasts or Random Videos Can Hijack Your AI Voice Chatbot
Imagine this scenario: your algorithm has pulled up a background YouTube video, or maybe a podcast. Unbeknownst to…
Barnes and Noble CEO Says Sure, Why Not Sell AI-Generated Books and Set Our Reputation On Fire?
Barnes & Noble has been making a comeback over the past few years — which is impressive, since…
Insiders at SoftBank Worry Their CEO Is Getting Conned by Sam Altman
The rise of AI is many things: technological, sociological, political, even teleological. But perhaps above all, it’s financial.…
MIT Expert Warns Courts “Will Basically Have to Grind to a Halt” as They’re Overwhelmed by AI-Generated Lawsuits
Data shows that more and more people are self-filing lawsuits with the help of AI chatbots. Experts warn…
The Amish Are Embracing ChatGPT
AI is reportedly making inroads in a famously tech-cautious community: the Amish. According to a fascinating story by…
Man Drives Cybertruck Into Lake to Test Elon Musk’s “Boat” Claims, and It Went About as Well as You’d Guess
Longtime Cybertruck watchers might remember a peculiar day back before the brutalist pickup was even released, when Tesla…
Doomsday Glacier Shows Signs of Imminent Disintegration
Bad news for anybody holding out hope for a future free of climate disaster: one of the largest…
SpaceX Announces Plans to Put Billionaire on First Rocket to Mars
The future of space travel is pay to play, but that might not be a bad thing. During…
Starbucks Scraps Disastrous AI Tool
Hold onto your pumpkin spice lattes, because Starbucks is canning its AI tool after it turned out to…
Marc Andreessen Sputters Incomprehensibly at Question About How AI Will Actually Benefit Humankind
There’s plenty of hype to go around about AI. It’s going to revolutionize this and automate that. But…
Cannes Film Festival Says the Wall Street Journal Is Wrong: It’s Not Debuting an AI-Generated Feature Film This Week
This week, the Wall Street Journal ran a provocative story claiming that a fully AI-generated movie called “Hell…
Finance Bros Tremble in Fear That They Could Be Replaced by AI Too
It’s not looking good for finance bros as another major banker has sung the praises of AI automating…