July 19, 2026 12:19 PM
July 19, 2026
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…
Mark Zuckerberg Is Realizing That When You Treat Your Workers Like Human Garbage, They Might Not Like You Anymore
The two key ingredients to Mark Zuckerberg’s all-in AI push? Money, and a heaping serving of misanthropy. As…
Trump Says a New Drug Can Bring Dead People Back to Life
On Monday, during a routine press event, president Donald Trump casually made an announcement that in any normal…
Anthropic Says Claude Turned Evil for a Bizarre Reason
In a classic example of the AI industry’s reputational alchemy, Anthropic has often transformed bad behavior by its…
The AI Industry Is Secretly Powered by Homeless People
Last year, a San Francisco-based AI company called Mercor exploded onto the tech scene, just as US workers…
MAGA in Shambles as Trump’s “Made in America” Phone Crumbles Into Dust
All that glitters is not gold — or even a flashy phone of the same color. Trump Mobile,…
Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly
As AI continues to weave its way into every corner of daily life, one of the public’s chief…
Waymo Says It Has Nothing to Say After Its Self-Driving Taxi Blocked an Ambulance Responding to a Mass Shooting
A Waymo robotaxi blocked an ambulance from responding to the scene of a mass shooting in Austin, Texas,…
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
The Condé Nast-owned Ars Technica has terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following a controversy over his role…
Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses
Meta’s Ray Ban AI glasses have shot up in popularity in recent years, selling over seven million pairs…
AI Tools Are Supercharging Hackers
It’s no secret that AI models have come a long way, from tools that can complete high school…
Sam Altman in Damage Control Mode as ChatGPT Users Are Mass Cancelling Subscriptions Because OpenAI Is “Training a War Machine”
OpenAI just handed one of its biggest rivals a massive PR victory, in a blunder that even CEO…
US Military Using Claude to Select Targets in Iran Strikes
The ongoing attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched by a joint coalition of US and Israeli…
White House Responds as Scabby Mark Appears on Trump’s Neck
After kicking off major strikes in Iran on Saturday, president Donald Trump wasn’t in a hurry to return…
Microsoft Bans the Word “Microslop” on Copilot Discord, Gets So Humiliated That It Locks Down the Whole Server
Last year, the editors of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary anointed their word of the year as “slop,” a term denoting…
Anonymous Polymarket Accounts Won $1.2 Million on Trump’s Iran Strikes in Suspicious Bets
It’s been less than eight weeks since an anonymous account on Polymarket netted over $400,000 after successfully predicting…
James Webb Takes Long, Hard Look Inside Uranus
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, has only been visited once by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, which…
Former Delivery Drivers Are Getting Weird New Jobs as Delivery Robots Take Over
Gig delivery workers, already earning poverty wages, are now being undercut by robots that don’t need tips. These…
Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom
In 2022, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs made a big splash after announcing that it had taught “mini-brains”…