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July 20, 2026
Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients
If you’ve been to a medical appointment in the past two or three years, chances are high that…
Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI
If you’ve been on TikTok lately, you might have come across a viral meme showing yet another dark…
Scientists Say Test Subjects Were Able to Quit Smoking After They Blasted Their Brains With a Huge Magnet
If you’ve ever tried to quit cigarettes, you know that nicotine addiction is ridiculously difficult to beat. A…
Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals
For millennia — since at least the time of Aristotle — medical thinkers have pondered why certain animals…
Elon Musk Absolutely Obsessed With Tweets From Random Guy In India Who Constantly Glazes Him, Analysis Shows
It looks like Elon Musk has an even bigger sycophant than his AI model Grok. According to a…
Meta Employee Attacks Zuckerberg for Collecting Every Employee Keystroke
Mark Zuckerberg’s new initiative to track employee computer use is tearing the company apart. In a sign that…
Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold
A poster wrought some moderate havoc this week when they shared a cropped image of a real Monet…
Crabby 82-Year-Old Politician Attacks 10-Year-Old Child for Thinking Electric Cars Are Cool
North Carolinian congresswoman Virginia Foxx has never shied away from regressive takes. Over her many decades in politics,…
AI Appears to Be Trapping Certain Job Applicants in a Limbo Where They Never Get an Interview for “Reasons” That Are Completely Unfair
For workers already enmeshed in the US workforce, AI is akin to a far-off asteroid, a looming threat…
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…
If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?
These days, the conversation around AI automation and the job market is increasingly focused on “labor displacement,” the…
Elon Musk Flees OpenAI Trial as Tide Turns Against Him
Elon Musk is locked in a heated trial in a lawsuit he lodged against his rival OpenAI and…
Xiaomi Now Using Humanoid Robots to Assemble Electric Cars
There’s a new “intern” on the assembly line, and it won’t be pausing every hour to take a…
The Supreme Court Just Dealt a Crushing Blow to “AI Artists”
Proponents of generative AI say the tech has greatly lowered the barriers of entry in the art world,…
Study Finds That Execs Are Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
The headlines warning about AI melting our brains usually point to students or workers, which — fair enough.…
A Machine Learning Engineer Thought He Was Safe From AI Layoffs. Then He Got Some Depressing News
While the exact impact of AI on the job market remains hazy at best, ongoing fears that an…
Using AI to Do Your Taxes Is Likely to Backfire Spectacularly
Tax season, that dreaded time of year, is upon us. But if you were hoping that newfangled AI…
Efforts Grow to Ban Octopus Farming
The case for a prohibition on octopus farming is simple enough: we probably shouldn’t raise animals capable of…
Kalshi Sent Bizarre Message to Underage Streamer
Kalshi hasn’t been particularly subtle about sucking young users into its gambling empire. Now, new reporting from the…
AI Job Loss Is Breaking the Psyche of Workers, Psychiatrist Warns
If you’re one of the hundreds of millions of Americans who earn a wage for a living, it…
Scientists Find Microbes Can Survive Traveling from Planet to Planet While Clinging to Asteroids
In an effort to explain how life started on Earth billions of years ago, some scientists have suggested…
Emergency Responders Say They’re Now Unpaid “Roadside Assistance” for Confused Waymos
Overseas teleoperators aren’t the only ones stuck cleaning up Waymo’s messes. Emergency responders are also having to swoop…
Atmospheric CO2 Getting So High That It’s Weakening Human Skeletons
Though talks of climate change typically conjure up images of dripping glaciers and rising tides, it turns out…
You’ll Choke When You Hear How Many Full-Time Jobs a $136 Million Data Center Will Actually Create
Fit Precast, an industrial concrete company, is dropping $102 million on a new facility in Gastonia, North Carolina,…