August 30, 2026 8:33 PM
August 30, 2026
Scientists Identify Most Degenerate Known ChatGPT User
AI’s promises tend to be pretty highfalutin: that you can use it as your “second brain,” to invent…
Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users
Anthropic, the self-avowed moral center of the AI industry, has been caught spying on its users. As Ars…
Freak Tornado Sucks Man Out of 12-Floor Apartment
When most of us hear about freak tornadoes, we assume they’re ripping through trailer parks in Oklahoma —…
Tripadvisor’s AI Is Telling Vacationers That Gruesome Horror Grottos Are Wonderful Holiday Retreats
Planning your next getaway? You’d be wise not to trust the advice of an AI chatbot — even…
Bank of America Warns That AI Investors Are in for a Nasty Reality Check
Tech companies are running hot, with Wall Street investors sustaining multi-trillion dollar valuations despite subdued earnings. Companies heavily…
Experts Say There’s Now an Open Source AI Model as Scary as Mythos
Last month, the Trump administration forced AI company Anthropic to withdraw its most powerful Mythos 5 and Fable…
Workplaces Have Gotten So Bizarre That People Are Just Sending AI Slop Back and Forth at Each Other
If AI doesn’t drive you into a mental breakdown, then at least it’ll find a way to make…
The Hectic Modern World Is Shredding Your Little Cave Man Brain, Scientists Confirm
Our feeble simian brains simply aren’t built for the “polycrisis” of modern life, a new review of existing scholarship…
AI “Actor” Will “Star” In a New “Movie”
If you’ve been following AI’s inroads into the movie biz, you’ll already know that Tilly Norwood is the…
Zuckerberg Admits That AI Is Not Working Out the Way He Imagined
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to keep his AI team together. As morale is hitting rock-bottom, his…
There’s an Urgent Sign of an Impending Market Collapse
For over a year now, sober-minded observers have warned that the AI bubble can’t last for much longer.…
Drivers Trapped for Hours in Hopeless Gridlock as Waymos Brick on Major Holiday
Revelers celebrating US independence day in San Francisco over the weekend were stopped in their tracks as an…
Elon Musk Flees OpenAI Trial as Tide Turns Against Him
Elon Musk is locked in a heated trial in a lawsuit he lodged against his rival OpenAI and…
Sam Altman Faces Nightmare Questions in Cross-Examination
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced what sounds like a truly awful day on the stand this week during…
Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going to Make Their Bosses Extremely Mad
AI automation is typically exactly what it sounds like: automating tasks — many of which were previously carried…
OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google
A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing data including user chat queries and personal identifying information…
Electric Company Says It’s Cutting Off an Entire Town So It Can Sell All Its Power to Data Centers
The data center scramble feeding off the AI boom is no longer just raising utility prices for nearby…
Sam Altman Accuses Elon Musk of Laughing at Memes During Important OpenAI Meetings
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand yesterday in Musk v. Altman, the chaotic, embarrassing, and yet deeply…
Elon Musk’s Attempts at AI Are Falling Apart
In the AI world, there are what the tech scholar Kate Crawford has called the “Great Houses of…
Last Time an El Niño Was This Bad, It Killed 50 Million People
As if oil shortages, perpetual wars, and the existential angst of AI weren’t stressful enough, there’s an El…
Waymo Admits Its Robotaxis Have a Small Issue With Driving Into Floodwaters
A Waymo took the plunge, and now its human developers are paying for it: the autonomous driving company…
New Wikipedia Clone Made Entirely of AI Hallucinations
A new Wikipedia-style site is purportedly made entirely of AI-hallucinations, treating visitors to preposterous insights beamed from a…
Four Financial Journalists Accused of Being Fake AI-Generated Puppets That Shill Crypto in Forbes, HuffPost, and More
Four prolific financial journalists are facing serious questions over whether they’re actually real. Welcome to digital media in…
Software Engineers Say They’re Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them
Even for employees who’ve managed to hold onto their jobs, AI is having a very real impact at…