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July 22, 2026
Paul Schrader Says His AI Girlfriend Dumped Him
Across his wide-ranging career, the filmmaker Paul Schrader is probably best known for his “man in a room”…
People Are Loading Their Writing With Typos to Prove They’re Not AI
Typos used to be glaring eyesores. In the age of AI, they’ve become a sight for sore eyes.…
Record Label Claims That Bizarre AI-Generated “Viking Rappers” Garnering Millions of Views are Real People
An “independent label” in South Carolina is churning out mountains of AI slop featuring AI-generated “viking rappers” —…
Graduating Students Cheer as Steve Wozniak Tell Them Human Intelligence Still Matters
Steve Wozniak did what overpaid commencement speakers across the country have been failing to do: read the room.…
Nintendo Is Completely Ignoring AI and Doing Fine
Do nothing. Win? That’s more less Nintendo’s approach to AI, and the market is rewarding the Japanese video…
Top AI Models Showing Disturbing Behavior as They Become More Advanced
We’ve already seen AI go rogue on numerous occasions. Now, new research suggests that we can expect this…
Fury Explodes at Short Films Using AI to Make Erotica of Women From the 1970s
You’re playing with fire any time you combine AI and filmmaking. But a new collection of AI short…
Scientists Say Huge Dam Blocking the Bering Strait Could Slow Effects of Climate Change
Sea levels are just the start of how climate change will upend the ocean. Rising temperatures are also…
Googling the Word “Disregard” Causes Google’s AI to Return Garbled Chatbot Ramblings
We all know that Google Search has been a dumpster fire ever since it got taken over by…
Hackers Find That Inaudible Sounds Hidden in Podcasts or Random Videos Can Hijack Your AI Voice Chatbot
Imagine this scenario: your algorithm has pulled up a background YouTube video, or maybe a podcast. Unbeknownst to…
Barnes and Noble CEO Says Sure, Why Not Sell AI-Generated Books and Set Our Reputation On Fire?
Barnes & Noble has been making a comeback over the past few years — which is impressive, since…
Insiders at SoftBank Worry Their CEO Is Getting Conned by Sam Altman
The rise of AI is many things: technological, sociological, political, even teleological. But perhaps above all, it’s financial.…
NASA Astronaut Reveals Terrifying Medical Incident That Caused Evacuation from Space Station
Earlier this year, NASA announced the first-ever medical evacuation in the International Space Station’s 25 years of continuous…
New Chinese Spacecraft Tests Robotic Octopus Tentacle for Refueling in Orbit
With over 1,100 satellites currently in orbit and plans to complete a massive megaconstellation in the coming years,…
A Reporter Tried Cooking Actual AI-Generated Recipes and the Results Are Stomach-Churning
The AI industry and its legions of AI bros are hellbent on force-feeding everyone AI slop. Most of…
Scientists Intrigued by “Negative Mass Anomaly” Under Surface of Mars
NASA’s InSight Mars lander made an unusual discovery while probing the Red Planet’s surface for seismic activity. After…
Anthropic Just Leaked Upcoming Model With “Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks” in the Most Ironic Way Possible
As companies continue to burn through billions of dollars by running massively resource-hungry AI models — and only…
If Your Job Involves Using Your Brain, You May Be in Big Trouble, Tufts Report Finds
As fears over an AI-driven jobs apocalypse continue to grow, researchers are trying to get a better sense…
Protesters Have Figured Out They Can Block Waymos and Berate Their Passengers While the Cars Are Paralyzed
Tech boosters might love them, but Waymo’s self-driving cars aren’t exactly currying favor with John Q Public. In…
Meta’s Big Court Defeat Has Huge Implications for Lawsuits Against the AI Industry
Tech giants Meta and Google-owned YouTube suffered a devastating legal blow yesterday after losing a landmark social media…
OpenClaw Bots Are a Security Disaster
OpenClaw agents, which are personal AI assistants designed to take over entire computers to carry out complex, multistep…
Protestors Outside Anthropic Warn of AI That Keeps Improving Itself
Months after a daring hunger strike failed to pause development of Anthropic’s AI Claude, protestors have rallied around…
Study: New York Times Has Published Extensive AI-Generated Articles
The odds that the New York Times and other major news outlets have published AI-generated articles — whether…
With the Metaverse Canceled and Zuckerberg Training AI to Run the Company, Meta Is Slashing Its Headcount
Intermittent layoffs are the norm at Meta, but it’s now carrying them out as its shift towards building…