April 24, 2026 9:46 PM
April 24, 2026
Tesla’s New Sales Data Is Absolutely Brutal
Over the past few months, Tesla has been making a major pivot away from its highly lucrative electric…
Unity Says It Has a New Product That Cooks Up Entire Games Using AI
Attention, gamers: if you thought new titles on top of the endless cavalcade of sequels and remakes were…
AI Data Centers Are Now Spiking Hard Drive Prices
Over the last couple of months, the AI industry’s obsession with building out costly data centers has sent…
It Turns Out That Constantly Telling Workers They’re About to Be Replaced by AI Has Grim Psychological Effects
Two researchers are warning of the devastating psychological impacts that AI automation, or the threat of it, can…
Pentagon Issues Threat to Anthropic
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US military had used Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot…
Chinese Robots Can Now Run Up Walls
While humanoid robots have a long way to go to prove useful in our day-to-day lives, they’ve at…
FSD Tries to Drive Straight Into Lake
Tesla CEO Elon Musk once boasted that the Cybertruck could double as a boat. Perhaps the AI behind…
AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
By the time the public harassment started, a woman told Futurism, she was already living in a nightmare.…
Top Machine Learning Developer Speechless at Simple Question: Should AI Simulate Emotional Intimacy?
The question that’s stumping top AI researchers isn’t about consciousness or doomsday scenarios. After interviewing dozens of developers…
Site of Elementary School Was Sprayed With Radioactive Fracking Waste, Worker Warns
Nearly 500 elementary school children in Texas play on fields where a whistleblower says he once spread tons…
Obama Just Dropped a Truth Bomb About Aliens
To hell with your Fermi paradox: we’ve got presidential declarations. During a podcast interview with political commentator Brian…
Prediction Markets Are Sucking Huge Numbers of Young People Into Gambling
Gambling has taken over the country. But it’s not just sports betting that’s emptying wallets. Now, the rise…
Creator of “Wallace and Gromit” Says Heck, He’ll Start Using AI
Did Nick Park wake up and put on the wrong trousers this morning? In a recent interview with…
AI “Companion Bots” Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
If you’re one of the 28 percent of Americans who’ve shared an intimate relationship with an AI chatbot,…
Disney Strikes Huge Deal With OpenAI: Get Ready for Sora Videos of Donald Duck Cooking Meth
Famous copyright tyrant Disney is now bending over for the AI industry and signing away its precious intellectual…
Mysterious Interstellar Object Now Approaching Earth
For months now, astronomers have been closely watching the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it rips through the…
Woman Orders Waymo, Finds Man Hiding in Trunk
Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing service is going through a lot of firsts these days. Earlier this week, a pregnant…
Years After a Girl’s Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone
We’ve written previously about Juliana Peralta, who was only 13 years old when her parents say an AI…
Scientists Say the Time Has Arrived to Land Astronauts on Mars
The goal of sending astronauts to the surface of Mars has been a major point of contention, with…
Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist
Librarians, and the books they cherish, are already fight a losing battle for our attention spans with all…
Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast
The podcast format has largely remained the same since its inception in the early 2000s: short shows recorded…
Chinese Astronauts Clamber Outside Space Station to Inspect Damaged Spacecraft
Last month, Chinese astronauts on board the country’s Tiangong space station discovered cracks in the window of their…
Sam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without ChatGPT
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently admitted he needs extensive assistance from his company’s AI chatbot to get through…
You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into
Getting tired of dusting off Grandpa’s stuffy old urn? One startup has the solution for you. It’s called…