October 5, 2026 9:07 AM
October 5, 2026
Data Centers Are a $6 Trillion Time Bomb, Analysts Warn
Last year, hedge fund whisperer and founder of the firm Praetorian Capital, Harris Kupperman, issued a blistering financial…
Here’s the Email You Get When an OpenAI Model Hacks Your Organization
Companies and organizations around the world would do well to accept what their new roles are in our…
RFK Jr Announcing That AI Is Now Better Than Human Doctors Shows That He Is a Buffoon Who Is Ruining Trust in American Health Institutions
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t trust human doctors, but he does trust AI chatbots — and so should…
New Jersey So Flooded That a Shark Was Spotted Swimming Through a Suburban Neighborhood
A shark has been spotted wandering the streets of New Jersey. And it ain’t here for the vig,…
People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All
Pee drinkers are absolutely obsessed with AI. For years, Facebook has played host to a truly stupefying number…
New OpenAI Product Fails Spectacularly During Live On-Stage Demo
Would any live product demo be complete without a few technical difficulties? At its annual DevDay conference in…
The FTC Is Now Investigating Frontier AI Labs Following Countless Hacks by Out-of-Control Agents
It’s been an alarming couple of months of rogue AI agent revelations. Both Anthropic and OpenAI admitted that…
Trump Handlers Cut Event When He Gets Asked an Extremely Awkward AI Question
On Tuesday, US president Donald Trump hosted a discussion with some of the richest and most powerful tech…
That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation
Earlier this month, Futurism published an exposé about a company called Brown Brothers Media. In the story, we…
Protesters Crash Pro-Data Center Party, Escorted Out by Security
The opposition to the wide proliferation of AI data centers has never been more palpable. Public sentiment has…
We Are Alarmed to Learn That People Are Installing DIY Self-Driving “Mods” on Their Cars
The software that powers self-driving cars is no longer the domain of proprietary systems built by billion-dollar companies. …
Scientists Alarmed by “Kelvin Wave” That Could Raise California Ocean Level by a Whole Foot
There’s a massive wave heading across the ocean straight for the California coast — not a freak tsunami,…
AI Startup’s Bizarre Plan to Launch a Hundred 24/7 Cafes Disintegrates as Reality Sets In
When you’re building out an experimental AI-powered insurance company, it’s probably best to stick with the business fundamentals…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children’s Minds to AI Is a Price He’s Willing to Pay
With so much hype about the future of AI safety, it can be easy to overlook the harms…
People Are Already Lusting After Meta’s New AI Assistant Muse
Meta, for once, is doing something pretty novel in the AI sphere. It’s created — and heavily marketed…
Kalshi Admits That It Took a Random Guy’s Video and Used AI to Make Him the Host of an Ad, Changing His Race in the Process
As the public backlash to cheap AI-generated slop continues to grow, companies continue to insist on cutting costs…
Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances
Whatever special kind of brain worms have established themselves in Elon Musk’s noggin appear to be spreading throughout…
Google Gearing Up to Launch Experimental “Data Center” Into Space Next Week
It’s not just Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin looking to send data centers into orbit.…
World Braces for Nearly a Half Million El Niño Deaths
As climate change continues to rear its ugly head, this summer has been particularly brutal for much of…
New York Sues Polymarket, Accuses It of Running an “Illegal Gambling” Operation
Just over a month after suing prediction market Kalshi for running an “illegal gambling” operation, New York state…
Stanford Scientists Find That the Human Brain Is Actually Two Separate Organs
Despite centuries of scientific research, the human brain remains an enigma. It’s made up of tens of billions…
Google Has Its Hand Around the Throat of the Independent Media and It’s Squeezing Harder and Harder
The shift to digital platforms has not been kind to the independent media industry, which has had to…
Software Update Turns Samsung’s “AI Fridges” Into Useless Bricks
It’s become common knowledge among home owners to avoid Samsung home appliances like the plague. They’re notorious for…
It Turns Out That Meta’s Muse AI Has an Amazingly Dirty Secret
Meta brags that its new AI agent, Muse, can be an all-around “personal assistant” that takes care of…