October 5, 2026 11:20 AM
October 5, 2026
SpaceX’s Troubled Starship Test Yesterday Is Looking Ominous for NASA’s Moon Landing
On its 14th flight test Monday, SpaceX’s Starship successfully flew into orbit for the first time, marking a…
OpenAI Cancels Upcoming AI Model When It Shows Signs of Being Evil
For the second time in a matter of months, OpenAI paused the development of its frontier AI models…
Scientists Unveil Underwater Solar Panels
China’s green energy boom has seen solar panels plastered on the side of rainy mountains, on floating coastal…
SpaceX Investors Are Losing Their Minds Trying to Figure Out Why the Company’s Stock Failed to Go Up Yesterday
By most accounts, SpaceX’s 14th Starship test flight on Monday was an overwhelming success. Sure there were problems.…
Horrifying Research Finds What Happens to 12-Year-Olds Who Get Smart Phones
New research suggests a grim consequence of giving smartphones to minors before they even hit their teen years.…
Woman Calls Police on Herself After Google’s AI Overviews Led Her to Poach Small Adorable Birds Out of Season
For hunters trying to follow the law, it’s arguably never been harder to find a clear answer to…
Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows
If you work in a creative industry or media, you probably don’t need anybody to tell you how…
Microsoft Shrivels When Asked If Its “Good Neighbor” Data Center Policy Will Involve Actually Supporting Community Groups
As tempers flared around AI data centers back in January, Microsoft’s president Brad Smith issued a warm and…
Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts
It’s no secret that one of the things that AI users love using chatbots for is cranking out…
It’s Starting to Look Like Frontier AI Labs Will Be Taken Down in a Storm of Product Liability Suits If Their Models Keep Going on Incredibly Illegal Rogue Hacking Sprees
At times this year, it’s almost felt as though OpenAI and Anthropic were in a race to the…
Tesla Reportedly Can’t Get the Hands to Work on Its Optimus Robot
Earlier this year, news emerged that Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California was being converted from a facility manufacturing…
Man Says Meta’s Muse AI Gave His Home Address Out to Strangers
Personal assistant, or secret saboteur? A man claims that his Muse AI agent gave out his address to…
Trump Addresses United Nations to Declare That the United States Is Now Calling Artificial Intelligence “Super Intelligence” in “All Official Documents”
President Donald Trump has waded into the AI debate with a lexical proclamation: AI shouldn’t be called AI.…
Is There a Secret Reason for the Industry-Wide AI Slowdown?
Plenty of eyebrows went up this summer when one by one, the leaders of frontier AI labs announced…
Meta’s New Muse AI Agent May Be the Creepiest Ever Released
Must an AI be useful? Isn’t being creepy sufficient testament to its utility? “Creepy” is the word being…
Wild New Website Lets You Shoot “Less Lethal” Ammunition From Gun Turrets in a Firing Range
I’ve never shot a gun before — and it’s not an activity I’d actively seek out, given the…
Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism
For years, human rights monitors have been outraged at the selective policing of content on Meta’s social media…
Hundreds of Flights Grounded Across the Eastern Seaboard as Government Rolls Out AI Air Traffic Control System
Hundreds of flights across New Jersey, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston were delayed Monday afternoon after the…
It Turns Out the US Military Really Did Use AI to Blow Up a School Full of Iranian Children
Now over half a year into the United States’ war on Iran, it’s becoming abundantly clear that AI…
Behold: Video of “First-Ever” Human Versus Robot MMA Fight
The era of the robots is here. We’ve seen humanoid bots pull off impressive martial arts choreographies, run…
Signs of Crisis at Flock as It Offers Employees Buyouts to Quit and Get Off Payroll
As backlash against its surveillance network refuses to die down, Flock Safety is kicking off an employee buyout…
Bloomberg Finds That the AI Industry’s Finances Are a “Wobbly House of Cards”
While the majority of AI leaders seem to agree that we need to take the foot off the…
Nvidia CEO Promises Not to Kill Everybody Before 2030
Earlier this month, disillusioned Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon publicly announced he was quitting his job, accusing both his…
A Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated Slop
The space publication Space Daily, which has been operating for over three decades, has become an unrecognizable shell…