October 5, 2026 10:14 AM
October 5, 2026
The FTC Is Now Investigating Frontier AI Labs Following Countless Hacks by Out-of-Control Agents
It’s been an alarming couple of months of rogue AI agent revelations. Both Anthropic and OpenAI admitted that…
Trump Handlers Cut Event When He Gets Asked an Extremely Awkward AI Question
On Tuesday, US president Donald Trump hosted a discussion with some of the richest and most powerful tech…
That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation
Earlier this month, Futurism published an exposé about a company called Brown Brothers Media. In the story, we…
Protesters Crash Pro-Data Center Party, Escorted Out by Security
The opposition to the wide proliferation of AI data centers has never been more palpable. Public sentiment has…
We Are Alarmed to Learn That People Are Installing DIY Self-Driving “Mods” on Their Cars
The software that powers self-driving cars is no longer the domain of proprietary systems built by billion-dollar companies. …
Scientists Alarmed by “Kelvin Wave” That Could Raise California Ocean Level by a Whole Foot
There’s a massive wave heading across the ocean straight for the California coast — not a freak tsunami,…
SpaceX’s Troubled Starship Test Yesterday Is Looking Ominous for NASA’s Moon Landing
On its 14th flight test Monday, SpaceX’s Starship successfully flew into orbit for the first time, marking a…
OpenAI Cancels Upcoming AI Model When It Shows Signs of Being Evil
For the second time in a matter of months, OpenAI paused the development of its frontier AI models…
Scientists Unveil Underwater Solar Panels
China’s green energy boom has seen solar panels plastered on the side of rainy mountains, on floating coastal…
SpaceX Investors Are Losing Their Minds Trying to Figure Out Why the Company’s Stock Failed to Go Up Yesterday
By most accounts, SpaceX’s 14th Starship test flight on Monday was an overwhelming success. Sure there were problems.…
Horrifying Research Finds What Happens to 12-Year-Olds Who Get Smart Phones
New research suggests a grim consequence of giving smartphones to minors before they even hit their teen years.…
Woman Calls Police on Herself After Google’s AI Overviews Led Her to Poach Small Adorable Birds Out of Season
For hunters trying to follow the law, it’s arguably never been harder to find a clear answer to…
Former Google Exec Warns That AI Could Be Causing Terrible Harm to Minors, Even Worse Than Social Media
Never mind killer robots and sci-fi doomsday scenarios. A former Google executive says we need a slowdown in…
Stanford University Caught Using AI to Create Fake Black Student on Banners Hung Around Campus
Stanford University was caught using AI to swap out a student in a photo and replace him with…
AI Community Linked to Disturbing Culture of Sexual Assault
The tech world’s potential future founders are living out hedonistic existences in giant Silicon Valley mansions, where they…
Crowd of Angry Citizens Loses It After City Council Fast-Tracks Resolution on Flock AI Cameras
A crowd of anxious community members in Springfield, Missouri turned downright hostile on Monday, leaping to their feet…
Mathematicians Can’t Make Sense of How OpenAI’s Agents Solved One of the Toughest Math Problems Because the AI’s “Proof” Is Borderline Incomprehensible
Earlier this month, OpenAI announced that it had found a solution for one of the biggest unsolved problems…
Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them
Trying to escape the increasingly dystopian real world with a jaunt into the virtual one? A new system…
Software Engineer Says AI Is Causing Chaos Among Coders Who Now Just “Press Enter” All Day, Have Stopped Thinking or Understanding Software
The advent of powerful AI coding tools has quickly made programmers heavily reliant on the tech, with experts…
Trump Says No Need to Regulate AI, Since That Strategy Is Working Fine for Climate Change
If you’ve even so much as glanced at the news recently, you may have picked up on the…
Former Air Traffic Controller Terrified New AI System Will Hallucinate and Cause Catastrophe
As the US federal government rolls ahead with its controversial plans to deploy an AI air traffic control…
Tesla Instructs Firefighters to Call Two Separate Support Hotlines in the Event of a Robotaxi Accident
Firefighters and emergency responders already consider robotaxis a pain in their backsides. And Tesla’s gilded Cybercab, free of…
Robin Williams’ Daughter Horrified by People Creating AI Conspiracy Videos of Her Dad Long After His Death
Almost a decade after his tragic passing, iconic comedian Robin Williams is being remembered in the worst way…
DraftKings Is Using AI to Identify Problem Gamblers and Get Them Hooked
The gambling hub DraftKings could be using the mountains of user data it collects, and the analyst expertise…