July 19, 2026 8:19 PM
July 19, 2026
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…
Sam Altman Faces Nightmare Questions in Cross-Examination
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced what sounds like a truly awful day on the stand this week during…
Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going to Make Their Bosses Extremely Mad
AI automation is typically exactly what it sounds like: automating tasks — many of which were previously carried…
OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google
A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing data including user chat queries and personal identifying information…
Electric Company Says It’s Cutting Off an Entire Town So It Can Sell All Its Power to Data Centers
The data center scramble feeding off the AI boom is no longer just raising utility prices for nearby…
Sam Altman Accuses Elon Musk of Laughing at Memes During Important OpenAI Meetings
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand yesterday in Musk v. Altman, the chaotic, embarrassing, and yet deeply…
Elon Musk’s Attempts at AI Are Falling Apart
In the AI world, there are what the tech scholar Kate Crawford has called the “Great Houses of…
Last Time an El Niño Was This Bad, It Killed 50 Million People
As if oil shortages, perpetual wars, and the existential angst of AI weren’t stressful enough, there’s an El…
Waymo Admits Its Robotaxis Have a Small Issue With Driving Into Floodwaters
A Waymo took the plunge, and now its human developers are paying for it: the autonomous driving company…
New Wikipedia Clone Made Entirely of AI Hallucinations
A new Wikipedia-style site is purportedly made entirely of AI-hallucinations, treating visitors to preposterous insights beamed from a…
Four Financial Journalists Accused of Being Fake AI-Generated Puppets That Shill Crypto in Forbes, HuffPost, and More
Four prolific financial journalists are facing serious questions over whether they’re actually real. Welcome to digital media in…
Software Engineers Say They’re Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them
Even for employees who’ve managed to hold onto their jobs, AI is having a very real impact at…
Gas Prices Spiking After Trump’s War in Iran
The Trump administration’s war with Iran has forced oil and gas tankers and cargo ships to a standstill…
America Does Not Run on Dunkin, RFK Jr. Rages
Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has attracted immense controversy, cancelling potentially life-saving research, giving…
Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors
Grammarly is being accused of “necromancy” after users discovered a feature for reviewing manuscripts with AI versions of…
Polymarket Quietly Takes Down Bet On Nuclear Detonation
The crypto-based prediction sensation Polymarket has quietly taken down a bet on whether a nuclear weapon would be…
After Banning Anthropic From Military Use, Pentagon Still Relying Heavily on It in Iran War
Last week, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei publicly drew a line in the sand with the US military, insisting…
Residents Say Elon Musk’s AI Facility Is Like Living Next Door to Mordor
Elon Musk’s new AI data center has turned a formerly quiet Mississippi town into a noisy nightmare. The…
OpenAI Says It Will Let Users Add Trusted Contacts to Alert If They Experience a Mental Health Crisis While Using ChatGPT
As it fights a growing stack of user safety and wrongful death lawsuits, OpenAI says it will introduce…
Humongous Numbers of People Are Uninstalling ChatGPT as Anti-OpenAI Sentiment Surges
This is one PR hit that’ll be hard to come back from. After OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced…
Government Handing Out Cash Bonuses to Drug Researchers Who Rush Through Regulatory Approvals
Not even a year after the US Food and Drug Administration announced it was using generative AI to…
Lead Investor in Music Generation App Suno Deletes Tweet That Contradicts Its Argument in High Stakes Court Cases
As music streaming services continue to be overwhelmed by a tidal wave of AI slop, companies facilitating the…
Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is perhaps best known for raising eyebrows with public suggestions that various stellar phenomena…
Sam Altman Admits He’s Made a Huge Mistake
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went into full damage control mode over the weekend. A day before the United…