March 8, 2026 12:56 PM
March 8, 2026
Anonymous Kalshi User Makes Huge Bet That the White House Is About to Confirm Alien Life or Technology
Is the US government about to confirm that aliens are real? That’s the claim floating around among those…
The Hubble Is Inexorably Falling to Earth
For years now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has had its fair share of brushes with death. The groundbreaking…
The Economy Is Lurching Downward as Fear of AI Spreads
AI chipmaker Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, demolished analyst expectations this week when it posted a massive…
AI Workers, and Even CEOs, Suddenly Turning Against the Trump Administration
The Trump administration has a new rival in its ongoing feud with AI company Anthropic: Silicon Valley’s rank-and-file.…
Chatbot Use Can Cause Mental Illness to Get Worse, Research Finds
A new study found that chatbot use appeared to worsen symptoms of mental illness in people struggling with…
Anthropic Blowout With Military Involved Use of Claude for Incoming Nuclear Strike
Anthropic’s ongoing battle with the Pentagon over the military’s use of its AI systems flared up this week…
Huge Study Finds Living Near Nuclear Plants Linked With Cancer Deaths
Conventional wisdom holds that nuclear power plants — outside of ultra-rare disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima — are…
Anthropic CEO Warns of “Tsunami” on Horizon
Dario Amodei may boast many credentials, but we weren’t aware that meteorologist was one of them. This week,…
Anthropic Drops Its Huge Safety Pledge That Was Supposedly the Whole Point of the Company
In 2021, a splinter group of former OpenAI employees founded a new startup, Anthropic, to pursue building AI…
The Saga of NASA’s Space Station Evacuation Keeps Getting Stranger
In early January, NASA unexpectedly announced it had been forced to delay a scheduled spacewalk involving two crewmates…
Burger King Adding AI to Employees’ Headsets to Constantly Monitor Whether They’re Being Friendly Enough
Fast food franchises have struggled to reliably replace drive-thru employees with AI chatbots, resulting in abundant corporate frustration.…
Bill Gates Admits to Multiple Affairs in Epstein Fallout
Microsoft founder Bill Gates spent his Tuesday doing something only the richest men in the world get to…
OpenAI’s Hardware Device Just Leaked, and You Will Cringe
Stuffing an AI chatbot into a consumer electronics device and turning out with a product people actually want…
Jack Dorsey’s New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is running into some serious issues while overhauling his financial services company, Block. Earlier…
Lockheed Martin F-35s Can Be Jailbroken Like $80 Million iPhones, European Military Chief Says
Depending on who you ask, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II is either the most sophisticated weapons platform ever…
As Epstein Scandal Tightens, Trump Announces That He’s Releasing All Government Files About Alien Life
President Donald Trump has plenty of work to do to distract from a growing list of crises, from…
Every Single Headphone That Researchers Tested Contained Horrifying Chemicals
Eventually, it seems to turn out that every consumer product is killing you — from cooking utensils to…
Look Out, OpenAI: Perplexity Admits AI Adverts Were a Mistake, Is Now Getting Rid of Them
Anthropic aired a spicy ad during this year’s Super Bowl, skewering competitor OpenAI’s decision to cram ChatGPT with…
Skin-Crawlingly Awkward Video Shows Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Refusing to Hold Hands
There’s no love being lost between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei. At India’s AI Summit in New Delhi…
New Platform Lets You Gamble on CCTV Footage
Thanks to the rise of sports betting and prediction markets, gambling has turned from an activity sequestered to…
Amazon’s Shiny New Warehouse Robot Just Failed in Spectacular Style
In October, Amazon proudly announced a new warehouse robot made up of multiple robotic arms called Blue Jay,…
Farmer Hailed as Hero for Rejecting Huge Payment to Turn His Land Into a Giant Data Center
The immense hype surrounding AI has caused enormous data centers to crop up across the country, triggering significant…
Blinking New Warning Sign Appears for AI Industry
Investors have been rattled by the enormous amount of money AI companies are committing to spend on infrastructure…
Elon Musk Boasts That Grok Says America Isn’t Built on Stolen Land, Which It Obviously Is
According to Elon Musk, xAI’s Grok chatbot has a new bona fide: blatantly lying about the history of…