October 26, 2026 4:43 PM
October 26, 2026
Recipe Scammers Are Using an AI-Generated Emily Blunt as a Slop Puppet to Promote Their Garbage
A new report exposes thousands of scam websites flooding the web with AI-generated recipes. In the report, Decrypt…
Political Candidates Spending An Obscene Amount of Money on AI-Generated Election Slop
Whether as short-form slop Reels or the data centers that spit them out, Americans are absolutely sick of…
Truth Social Stock Hits All-Time Low as Userbase Craters on Trump’s Twitter Clone
Donald Trump’s Twitter clone, Truth Social, is in serious trouble. The company has weathered bad news before, hitting…
IMF Warns That AI Bubble Could Take Down the Entire World Economy
Fears of an AI bubble have been growing for years. And now the International Monetary Fund is the…
78-Year-Old Woman Hauled Off In Handcuffs After Blocking Delivery Robot
A retired professor was handcuffed and arrested last week, for the crime of standing on the sidewalk in…
Anthropic Secretly Lobbying Government to Only Shut Down an AI Model If It’s Poised to Kill More Than 50 People
For months, executives at top AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic have been dumping tens of millions of…
Explosive Document Claims That AI Is Not What We Think
The conventional wisdom is that AI systems, with their tens of billions of parameters, are effectively indecipherable: the…
GLP-1 Apps are Using Sobbing AI-Generated Women To Market Their Products
An image published by a TikTok account called “WellWithHer” shows a selfie of an obviously AI-generated woman sitting…
The Average Man Is Such a BSer About AI That He’ll Claim to Know About an AI Executive Who Doesn’t Even Exist
Men, it’s probably best to leave faking intelligence to AI chatbots. According to a new survey from Harvard’s…
Director Blows $1.5 Million Generating Horrendous AI Slop Movie, Says AI Actually Saved Him Tens of Millions
Just when you thought the holiday season couldn’t arrive any earlier this year, here comes an AI-generated Christmas…
Jungle Research Expedition Using Robot Dog Like a Pack Mule
A biodiversity research team journeying into the incredibly diverse subtropical forests of China’s Ailaoshan Mountains took a strange…
Scientists Discover Weird Conditions at Site of Star That Exploded During the Period of Japanese Samurai
In 1181 — during the early years of the samurai who would dominate Japan’s feudal period — astronomers…
Anthropic Warns “AI Worms” Will Infect Your Smart Home Devices and Use Them to Self-Replicate Beyond Control
You’ve heard the reports of rogue AI agents going after websites and corporate systems. But they also may…
Cops Not Happy When Man Creates Flock-Style Camera That Only Collects Police Plates
When police showed up to Anthony Sistilli’s front door in September, it wasn’t to accuse him of a…
Google-Tied AI Startup Once Valued at a Billion Dollars Declares Bankruptcy
Character.AI, the once-buzzy chatbot startup that faced high-profile lawsuits over the deaths of minors, has declared bankruptcy. Character.AI…
Eyebrows Raise When Elon Musk’s Twitter Engagement Shrivels After Destruction of Russian Data Centers Linked to Bot Farms
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky claimed on Monday that the country’s three strikes on Russian tech giant Yandex’s data…
NASA Investigating Large Hole on Moon That May Open Into Enormous Cave
Beneath its pock-marked, craggy exterior, the Moon is thought to harbor a network of caves and tunnels from…
Marijuana Linked to Rampant Violence
While the recreational use of marijuana is usually associated with a more peaceful mental state, scientists just a…
A Core Demographic of People Who Love AI: Pedophiles
Open-weight AI models have skyrocketed in popularity. They allow users to host their own AI systems locally and…
Completely Unused ChatGPT Accounts Are Telling Users They’re in the Top Percentiles of Intelligence
Ever wondered what it felt like to be a genius? It’s truly never been easier, thanks to the…
The AI Data Center Boom Is Causing a Gigantic Spike in Smog-Spewing Gas Power Plants
The United States runs on gas powered generators. As of 2022, the US had nearly 1,000 gas-fired plants,…
Amid Terrifying Readings, Experts Fear El Niño Is About to Wreak Havoc
Record temperatures all across the Pacific, and a prelude of powerful hurricanes to boot. The omens are all…
Flock Cameras Are Really Just the Start of Our Dystopian Surveillance Hell, Experts Warn
Spring and summer of 2026 have seen a sharp increase in the public’s awareness of pervasive police tech…
This Graph of Data Center Spending Compared to All Other Construction Will Give You Chills
Against all odds, the US economy continues to grow at a record-setting pace. Yet as new economic data…