August 30, 2026 5:10 PM
August 30, 2026
Failing Robot Cop Company Knightscope Now Publishing Bizarre AI Slop Fan Fiction About Its Robots Solving Absurd Crimes
For its 13 years in businesses, robot security company Knightscope has weathered a remarkable run of self-inflicted disasters.…
Amazon Investigating Its Own Employees for Daring to Oppose AI Data Center
Though the data centers undergirding the AI boom are becoming hugely unpopular with US voters, companies like Amazon…
Meta’s Program That Spies on Every Employee’s Computer Just Blew Up in Its Face in Spectacular Fashion
Meta’s controversial program that spied on its employees’ computers has backfired spectacularly. Though its chief technology officer Andrew…
White House Pushes Back Against Claim That Trump Was Given Early Access to a Powerful Experimental Weight Loss Drug
According to president Donald Trump’s annual medical exam, results of which were released last month, the 80-year-old’s body…
Trump Orders Construction of Powerful Quantum Computer
Let it never be said that he makes small swings. President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive…
AI Companies Are Trying to Seize Control of Elections
With trillions of dollars on the line, it should come as no surprise that tech companies are spending…
Amazon Just Pulled Something Absolutely Craven to Avoid Embarrassing Its Friends at OpenAI
There was apparently one threat that the centibillion dollar AI firm OpenAI, and its multitrillion dollar partner Amazon,…
SpaceX Stock Has Officially Fallen Below Its Opening Price
Elon Musk’s SpaceX went stratospheric following its June 12 IPO, soaring from an opening price of $150 to…
New Paper Proposes What Really Causes AI Psychosis
Psychiatrists and other researchers are still working to understand the phenomenon known as “AI psychosis,” in which users…
Tech Stocks Are Abruptly Collapsing
Following a blockbuster IPO earlier this month, Elon Musk’s SpaceX experienced a rude awakening. The rocket company’s shares…
A24 Fans in Meltdown After It Enters AI Partnership With Google
A24 has spent years carefully crafting its image as a canny underdog studio that platforms artist driven films.…
Illinois Is Getting Battered by Freak Tornadoes
So far in 2026, the top US state for tornadoes isn’t Kansas or Oklahoma, but the unlikely state…
Fury Erupts as Val Kilmer’s Estate Announces Starring Role in AI Film Made From Beyond the Grave
Hollywood actors have been ringing the alarm bells over an industry that’s seemingly hellbent on replacing them with…
Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional AI Pivot
Tech bro sneaker company Allbirds made a huge splash yesterday when it announced a baffling pivot to AI…
NAACP Sues Elon Over His Noxious AI Data Center
Elon Musk may have yet another day in court, at least if the NAACP has anything to say…
More Than Half of Men Aged 18 to 49 Have Already Fallen Into Online Sports Betting
Sports betting has seen a massive surge in popularity since a 2018 Supreme Court decision struck down a…
Top Security Experts Alarmed by Power of Anthropic’s New Hacker AI
In November, Anthropic revealed that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group had exploited its Claude AI’s agentic capabilities to…
Teens Alarmed at What AI Is Doing to Their Minds
There’s a strange dynamic emerging around artificial intelligence. Research has shown that young people — who are typically…
Video Shows Amazon Delivery Drone Dropping Package Directly Onto Concrete, Smashing Its Delicate Contents
Over the past few months, Amazon has been rapidly deploying its Prime delivery drones to cities across the…
What It Really Means That a Failing Shoe Brand “Pivoted to AI” and Its Stock Soared 700 Percent
As it turns out, all it takes to turn a cash-bleeding company into the New York Stock Exchange’s…
Starbucks’ Baffling ChatGPT Collab Treats Customers Like Empty, Soulless Venti Cups
As AI chatbots go, OpenAI’s ChatGPT isn’t the most provocative. Its relentlessly upbeat, hand-holding style has drawn constant…
ChatGPT’s “Honest Reaction” to a “Song” Composed Entirely of Gas-Passing Noises Will Make You Question Whether It’s Honestly Evaluating Your Other Brilliant Ideas
It doesn’t take much to impress an AI chatbot. Tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have long garnered a reputation…
AI Is Turning Workplaces Into Hopeless Gridlock
CEOs have eagerly grabbed onto AI as a tool to make offices more efficient, and often to reduce…
Companies Just Learned a Brutal Lesson About Training AI to Do Human Jobs
A dismal job market has given rise to a grim new cottage industry: a buzzy San Francisco-based AI…