April 25, 2026 9:28 AM
April 25, 2026
New AI Agent Logs Directly Into College Platform Canvas to Do Your Homework for You
Lazy undergrads rejoice. A new AI “homework agent” can supposedly log into your account on the learning management…
Sam Altman Fumes That It Takes Longer to Train a Human Than an AI, Plus They Eat All That Wasteful Food
AI leaders insist they’ve got humanity’s best interests in mind. If we’re to take them at their word,…
Palantir Is Stocking the Wildest Imaginable Item in Its Vending Machines
Cigarette smoking in the United States has plummeted over the decades, reaching an 80-year low in 2024. But…
A Serial Killer Used ChatGPT to Plan Murders, Police Say
An accused serial killer in South Korea used ChatGPT to help plan a string of murders, investigators alleged…
Here’s How Many Remote Operators Waymo Has Per Self-Driving Taxi
Autonomous ride-hailing services companies have built their image on the concept that their vehicles fully drive themselves. The…
Japan Opens School Staffed Entirely by Virtual Waifus
Japan’s gakushu juku industry — private, after-hours study schools — has spent decades monetizing the country’s notoriously busted…
AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains
Whole Foods shelves sit empty after a data breach shut down its wholesale distributor. Meat packers working for…
Barrage of Emails From AI Politics Platform Defeats Clean Air Initiative
Late in 2023, the corporate world was abuzz with the utopian promise of AI — especially about the…
Eric Trump Pouring Funding Into “Low Cost-Per-Kill” Drone Corporation
Somewhere in the long tradition of Trump family grifting, there’s a line between “nakedly corrupt” and “genuinely mortifying.”…
Antarctica’s Gravity Hole Growing Stronger, Scientists Find
For decades, scientists have been studying intriguing “gravity holes,” which are enormous depressions in the Earth’s crust where…
Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse
Since the start of 2025, at least 30 cities have canceled their contracts with Flock Safety, the AI…
AI “Filmmaker” Gets Funding, Begs For Ideas On What to Actually Make
An AI “filmmaker” was viciously mocked after begging his followers for ideas on what to make. “I will…
Grimes Says She Has AI Psychosis, Recommends You Should Get it Too
Claire “Grimes” Boucher says that you’re really missing out if you’re not experiencing a mental health crisis at…
Trump’s Chip Embargo Against China Is Backfiring Spectacularly
In a probably-predictable twist of geopolitical irony, America’s effort to block China’s access to cutting-edge AI chips hasn’t…
Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself
On top of the environmental, political, and social toll AI has taken on the world, it’s also been…
Disney’s Robot Olaf Is a Straight Up Nightmare
Disney’s robot of its character “Olaf” is incredibly impressive. It’s also kind of terrifying. This weekend, engineers at…
AI Is a Godsend for Criminals Forging Fake Art
For hundreds of years, humans have engaged in the fine craft of art forgery. Indeed, in 1496, a…
Activists Downloaded Pretty Much All of Spotify
Hacktivists with the group Anna’s Archive — a search engine for shadow libraries, which are unauthorized collections of…
Gen Z Terrified of Losing Their Humanity to AI
As generative AI seeps into virtually every aspect of our daily lives through jobs, entertainment, and even food,…
Elon Musk’s Starship Explosion Endangered Hundreds of Airline Passengers
On January 16, SpaceX conceded that the latest prototype of its enormous Starship spacecraft had “experienced a rapid…
Man Describes How ChatGPT Led Him Straight Into Psychosis
32-year-old Anthony Duncan first used ChatGPT to help with the business side of his career as a content…
Top Software Engineering Students Can’t Get a Job Because of AI
Graduates at some of the top universities are finding it nearly impossible to find new jobs in software…
Korea Tests Ultra-Rugged Robot to Explore the Moon’s Mysterious Caves
If humans finally colonize the Moon, lunar caves formed from primeval volcanic activity could provide shelter from cosmic…
Zuckerberg Already Blowing Up Relationship With New Head of AI He Paid Ten Zillion Dollars to Hire
This summer, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg moved heaven and earth to recharge his company’s lagging AI division, spending…