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May 16, 2026
Residents Furious After Their Town Board Rejected an OpenAI Data Center, But a Billionaire Developer Forced It Through Anyway
Across the United States, the fight over data center construction has largely pitted stamp-happy municipal governments against their…
Japan Deploying Combat Drones Made of Cardboard
We’ve heard of DIY drone kits before, but this is ridiculous. Japan’s minister of defense Shinjirō Koizumi recently…
ChatGPT Is Saying VWeird Things in Chinese
If you thought English-language ChatGPT-prose was annoying, just wait until you get a load of its conversational habits…
Oracle Forced to Cancel Incredibly Polluting Natural Gas Plant to Power AI Data Center
The tech industry has done a poor job of hiding the environmental footprint of AI data centers, which…
Researchers Alarmed by AI That Can Self-Replicate Into Another Machine
A new report from Palisade Research has found that AI models can self-replicate by copying themselves onto other…
Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System
For thousands of years, astronomers have watched Halley’s Comet come and go, becoming visible to the naked eye…
The Upcoming El Niño Is About to Unleash Devastation, Experts Warn
Cities running out of water. Heat waves that kill you if you stand outside for a few minutes…
Man Wearing Smart Glasses Secretly Records Woman, Demands Money to Delete Video From His Socials
A man secretly filmed a woman with smart glasses, before demanding money to take down the video he…
A Major Paper Claiming AI Is Good for Students Just Got Retracted, Which Is Very Bad News for Advocates of AI in the Classroom
The jury’s still out on AI’s effectiveness as a learning tool, but research so far paints a grim…
Amazon Admits Its Flagship AI Coding Tool Isn’t Good Enough for Its Own Workers to Use
In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating…
Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users’ PCs
As of 2026, Google maintains an iron grip on the web browser market, boasting well over three billion…
Cybertruck Recalled to Keep Its Wheels From Flying Off While Driving
Tesla’s Cybertruck is facing yet another recall. And it’s not some minor software update: a glaring flaw meant…
Startup Says It’s Invented a Beanie That Reads Your Mind
If you thought AI-integrated smart glasses were bad, wait until you get a load of Sabi, a Palo…
Grimly Cyberpunk Video Shows Ukrainian Soldiers Leaning Out of Propeller Plane to Obliterate Drones With Rifles
A video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones with rifles — while leaning out of Soviet-era propeller…
Man Says His Waymo Ditched Him at the Airport Before He Could Get His Luggage Out of the Trunk, Refused to Return
Losing your suitcase is a rite of passage for travelers, something you can usually blame on human error.…
Frontier AI Models Giving Specific, Actionable Instructions to Perpetrate Bioterror Attack
There’s a pretty sizable list of things an AI assistant should refuse to help you with. Is engineering…
AI Slop YouTube Channel Glitches Out in a Way So Bizarre That It’s Vaguely Disturbing
YouTube has a serious slop problem. The platform has been inundated with lazy AI-generated footage, from pseudo-educational videos…
Climate Change Is Getting So Bad That It’s Making Food Less Nutritious
Climate change’s effects often aren’t obvious. In a particularly lateral example of how our planet’s changing environment is…
Double Murder Suspect Asked ChatGPT How to Hide Body in Dumpster
Earlier this month, we got a glimpse of the harrowing conversations that Florida State University school shooting suspect…
Meta Had the Worst Possible Response When Its Workers Were Watching Naked Footage of Its Ray-Ban AI Glasses Users
In February, Meta contractors in Kenya told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten that the company required them…
An Elegant Solution to AI Slop: Tax It, and Use the Resulting Billions of Dollars to Fund Cultural Institutions, Artists, and Researchers
If you can’t beat ’em, tax ’em. AI slop is as certain as government levies these days, infecting…
The “Pentastack” of Illegal Drugs That Looksmaxxers Like Clavicular Are Taking to Enjoy a Night Out Sounds Like a One-Way Trip to the Hospital
Look, if you’re out there safely experimenting with drugs, no judgment. There are plenty of ketamine therapy clinics…
Chinese Court Rules That a Worker Cannot Be Replaced by AI
While workers in the western world agonize over what seems to be an impending job apocalypse, their Chinese…
Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What Causes “Ghosts”
There are unseen forces behind why a house might feel haunted — but no, it’s not ghosts. New…