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July 22, 2026
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…
Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System
A small group of scientists have long suggested that the seeds of life may have been distributed across…
99 Percent of CEOs Are Preparing to Lay Off Workers and Replace Them With AI Within Two Years, Survey Finds
Fear of AI is at an all-time high. Not fear of a Skynet-style superintelligent singularity seizing power, generally…
China Launches Synthetic Human Embryos to Space Station
Will humankind colonize other star systems, spreading life to distant worlds? Or more locally, and realistically: will we…
Oops! Domino’s-Partnered Robotics Startup That Was Supposed to Put Human Pizza Chefs Out of a Job Just Shut Down
Picnic, a Seattle-based startup that raised more than $53 million to develop robots capable of putting human restaurant…
The Pope Just Low Key Declared Holy War on Artificial Intelligence
As the AI backlash continues to grow, critics of the tech have found an unlikely voice of support:…
New Tools Strip AI Guardrails In Minutes, Allowing Them to Give Instructions on Chlorine Gas Attacks
We all know AI guardrails are far from perfect, but they should at least be pretty hard to…
Leaked Claude Code Shows Anthropic Building Mysterious “Tamagotchi” Feature Into It
After Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code to its blockbuster Claude chatbot, netizens swiftly pounced to start plowing…
SpaceX Files for IPO
Following months of rumors, Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX has confidentially filed for an initial…
Here’s Why Google Searches for “Bimbofication” Are Surging
Searches for “bimbofication” began surging Tuesday, from an average index score of zero to 100 in a single…
The Iran War Has Cut Off Supply of a Gas the AI Industry Desperately Needs
Forget gas prices and fertilizer. One of the biggest casualties of the US war on Iran could be…
The Fact That Anthropic Has Been Boasting About How Much Its Development Now Relies on Claude Makes It Very Interesting That It Just Suffered a Catastrophic Leak of Its Source Code
Earlier this year, the head of Anthropic’s blockbuster Claude Code AI agent Boris Cherny boasted that “pretty much…
NYT Cuts Ties With Writer as Scrutiny of AI Content Grows
Amid mounting scrutiny into AI usage creeping into the newspaper of record, the New York Times has cut…
Data Centers Causing Huge Temperature Spikes for Miles Around Them, Study Suggests
The data centers at the heart of the AI boom are producing so much heat that they’re spiking…
A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into
Since the mid-1990s, scientists have been obsessed with cloning animals. Dolly the sheep famously became the first mammal…
Students Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Tests
Smart glasses aren’t just being used by juvenile pranksters and pickup artists to terrorize strangers, traumatize Meta’s data…
Tesla Admits Its Robotaxis Are Being Driven Remotely
Autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo made headlines last month after one of its executives explained during a Congressional hearing…
Remember That Robot Olaf Disney Was So Proud of? It Just Wiped Out So Hard That His Carrot Nose Went Clattering Across the Pavement
Disney’s much-hyped Olaf robot just got a faceful of pavement. In a viral video, the animatronic of the…
Second SpaceX Satellite Abruptly Explodes
In December, SpaceX revealed that it had lost control of one of its Starlink satellites after suffering an…