July 22, 2026 1:36 PM
July 22, 2026
This Summer Is Going to Kill a Lot of People
Summer hasn’t even started in the Northern Hemisphere, and thermometers around the globe are already fit to burst.…
AI Firm Trots Out Digitally Resurrected Corpse of Stan Lee You Can Use to Create Mind-Numbing Slop
Stan Lee, an icon of the comic books world, died in 2018. But tell that to ElevenLabs, the…
New Website Detects Apocalypse If Billionaire Jets Start Fleeing en Masse
Billionaires aren’t like us. They get special tax breaks to protect their fortunes, operate private intelligence rings, and…
Debt Collectors Are Being Replaced With AI Agents
With inflation out of control amidst a low-fire, low-hire economy, the amount of private debt in the United…
Elon Musk Furious at Starlink Being Used for American Suicide Drones
SpaceX has established itself as an influential contractor for the US military, allowing the Pentagon access a proprietary…
The MyPillow Guy’s Entire Business is Being Held Hostage by Hackers
Monstrous defeats keep coming for Mike Lindell, the notorious entrepreneur behind the MyPillow brand and one-time advisor to…
Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They’re Fired Because of AI
We’ve long had our doubts about tech leaders making boisterous claims about automating jobs with AI. For a…
More Than This Many Hours of Sleep Is Linked to Early Death, Scientists Find
How much should we sleep each night? It’s the age-old question that makes almost nobody happy, since most…
NASA Releases Sweeping Plans for Moon Base
NASA remains committed to developing a permanent presence on the Moon — space science budgets be damned. During…
Uber Says Its AI Costs Just Aren’t Worth It
The true cost of AI is rapidly catching up with the tech industry. At first, tech leaders were…
Companies That Adopted AI Agents Alarmed to Discover They’re Botching Incredibly Important Tasks
AI agents used to be all the rage, the supposed next hit product category after generative AI failed…
Anthropic Cofounder Travels to Vatican, Tells Pope They’re Finding “Unsettling” Things Inside AI Models
Ever since being anointed as the leader of the Catholic Church last year, Pope Leo has been an…
$60 Million Startup Says It’s Invented a New Particle to Dim the Sun
In October, Israel-US startup Stardust Solutions announced it had raised $60 million, the largest-ever fundraising round for tech…
Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude’s Source Code
The AI industry largely acts as if it’s above lowly copyright laws — unless, of course, those laws…
Insurance Companies Already Deploying AI Systems to Deny Claims Faster Than Ever Before
No one who’s dealt with one would ever accuse an insurance claims adjuster of being too generous, but…
Delivery Robot Companies in Trouble as Bot Become Targets for Vandalism
When University of California Berkeley allowed the startup Kiwibot to pump its campus full of delivery robots in…
Do You Cry More or Less Than the Average Person?
In common parlance, allowing yourself to have a “good cry” about something is usually associated with feelings of…
There’s a Blinking Warning Sign for the Data Centers in Space Industry
It’s plain to see that Elon Musk’s ambition of putting data centers in space is a daring and…
Moon Spacecraft’s Toilet Fails Hours Into Ten-Day Journey
The four crew members of NASA’s historic Artemis 2 mission around the Moon may be on one of…
Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
The data centers powering your favorite AI chatbot are running low on helium, cash, and neighbors who don’t…
JONATHAN THE 193-YEAR-OLD TORTOISE IS STILL ALIVE, REPEAT HE HAS NOT DIED
On Wednesday, sorrow swept through the Futurism newsroom as we heard that Jonathan, a 193-year-old Seychelles giant tortoise…
Chinese University Announces 30-Story “Artificial Island” for Marine Research Purposes
Some countries pump out aircraft carriers to project power across the globe; others build research megastructures to plumb…
The Trump Administration Is Doing Something Horrifying to Workers at Nuclear Facilities
It isn’t just the guys handling plutonium who need to worry about radiation — every US nuclear worker,…
Conspiracy Theorists Are Going to Have a Field Day as NASA Gears Up to Launch Historic Moon Mission on April Fools’ Day
Conspiracy theories have run rampant over the decades following NASA’s historic Apollo missions to the surface of the…