July 22, 2026 6:42 PM
July 22, 2026
Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI
When it comes to AI’s place in the classroom — and its role in education broadly — some…
AI Company Paying Random People $2,000 Per Month to Crank the Hog
AI companies have long relied on armies of data labelers, whose job it is to annotate, tag and…
Random Standard Wi-Fi Routers Can Scan Your Body to Identify Exactly Who You Are, Alarming New Research Finds
If you were paranoid about digital tracking before, you might want to think twice about reading any further.…
Woman Alarmed When Her Trusted Therapist Starts Recording Her With AI
Therapy is predicated on trust. You can’t be honest and vulnerable, and share how you’re really feeling, if…
Websites Are Spying on Your Solid State Drive
These days, it’s nearly impossible to traverse the web without leaving some trace of your activity. That’s thanks…
Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board
We’ve seen Waymo’s fleet of autonomous taxis cause plenty of mayhem on public streets. They like to ignore…
AI Filmmaker Compares His Tech to Something That Gets Worse the More You Think About It
Jorge R. Gutierrez, the animator behind the beloved animated film “The Book of Life,” is enraging his fans…
Why Is Sam Altman Teaming Up With Jared Leto, a Creep With Extensive Sex Abuse Allegations?
Last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s unsettling blockchain-based side gig seemingly got its Mars all confused. Let’s back…
Tech CEOs Have a Problem: Even Their Closest Allies Now See AI as a Sign of Laziness and Dishonesty
Tech founders and CEOs are all rapidly adopting AI, deploying it across their companies and personally using it…
Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: “I’m Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI”
Earlier this month, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was met with jeers when he brought up AI during…
Tesla Insiders Admit Self-Driving Is a Complete Disaster
It turns out not even the people building Tesla’s self-driving tech trust Elon Musk’s extravagant claims about the…
Fans Aghast as New York Jets Say They’re Switching to AI
When it comes to excuses from the front office, Jets fans have heard it all. The beleaguered New…
We Talked to a Writer Accused of Publishing An AI-Generated Essay in The New York Times
Was AI used to produce a personal essay that wound up in the pages of the New York…
Naked Man Bursts Into Tesla Service Center With a Shotgun
It was bound to happen sooner or later. On Monday this week, a man holding only a shotgun…
Student Dies When Hospital Has No ICU Doctors, Calls One on Videochat Who Pronounces Him Dead Remotely, Lawsuit Claims
The parents of a 26-year-old dental student named Conor Hylton are suing a Connecticut hospital after their son…
Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history. A…
Moon Astronaut Captures Shot of Earth That Lets You See Its Razor-Thin Atmosphere Perfectly
On December 7, 1972, NASA astronaut and Apollo 17 crew member Harrison Schmitt took a stunning photo of…
Microsoft Mocked for Terms of Service That Admit Copilot Is for “Entertainment Purposes Only”
Users of Microsoft’s Windows have grown frustrated with the company’s insistence on stuffing its Copilot AI chatbot into…
Anthropic Warns That “Reckless” Claude Mythos Escaped a Sandbox Environment During Testing
In a move that could be seen as either responsible AI development or an expertly-executed hype maneuver, Anthropic…
Iran Demanding Huge Bitcoin Payments to Pass Through Strait of Hormuz
Late Tuesday evening, US president Donald Trump said the US had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran…
The Moon Spacecraft’s $30 Million Toilet Has Been a Bit of a Disaster
As we continue to feast on breathtaking images of the Moon’s far side taken by the crew of…
ChatGPT Is Sending People Into Obsessive Spirals of Hypochondria
Bad things happen when an AI chatbot latches onto one of your neuroses. The infamously sycophantic machines are…
Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and the public face of ChatGPT, has carved out an image for himself as…
We’re In Utter Disbelief About the Photos the Moon Astronauts Just Sent Back
On Monday, the four crew members of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission made history, officially breaking the record for…