July 18, 2026 1:18 AM
July 18, 2026
A Major Paper Claiming AI Is Good for Students Just Got Retracted, Which Is Very Bad News for Advocates of AI in the Classroom
The jury’s still out on AI’s effectiveness as a learning tool, but research so far paints a grim…
Amazon Admits Its Flagship AI Coding Tool Isn’t Good Enough for Its Own Workers to Use
In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating…
Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users’ PCs
As of 2026, Google maintains an iron grip on the web browser market, boasting well over three billion…
Cybertruck Recalled to Keep Its Wheels From Flying Off While Driving
Tesla’s Cybertruck is facing yet another recall. And it’s not some minor software update: a glaring flaw meant…
In Irony-Soaked Incident, Amazon Data Center Shuts Down Due to High Temperatures
On Thursday, Amazon Web Services said that one of its major data centers in north Virginia was overheating…
Thermoses Linked to Permanent Vision Loss
It turns out that Thermos bottles are potential Rube Goldberg machines for blinding you in cartoonish but utterly…
Hacker Takes Over Robot Lawnmower, Runs Over Innocent Man
Is building autonomous robots equipped with sharp oscillating blades that roam your front yard a good idea? What…
China Presses Pause on Self-Driving Taxis Nationwide After Issue Where They Blocked Streets. America Could Learn a Lot From That
Earlier this year, dozens of autonomous vehicles from the Chinese company Baidu suddenly stopped in their tracks in…
Meta Has Entered Its Death Spiral
It’s hard to even imagine now, but immediately after it launched in 2004, there was nothing on the…
Cursed New AI Service Writes a Mother’s Day Card and Mails It to Your Mom, Without Any Human Involvement Except Inputting Your Credit Card Details
Hey kids! Want to tell your mom you love her, but without expending a single iota of emotional…
NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye
There’s a fresh twist in the mystery of the “little red dots.” Astronomers say they’ve found a new specimen,…
Scammers Furious That Their Fellow Criminals Are Using AI, Saying It’s Unethical
The AI sloppification of the internet comes for us all, even the petty scammers and fraudsters doing business…
Anthropic Furious at DeepSeek for Copying Its AI Without Permission, Which Is Pretty Ironic When You Consider How It Built Claude in the First Place
Earlier this month, Google publicly griped that “commercially motivated” actors were trying to clone its Gemini AI through…
American AI Industry Trembles as Deepseek Prepares to Release New Model
When Chinese AI company DeepSeek released its cheap and serviceable V3 model early last year, it sent shockwaves…
New AI Agent Logs Directly Into College Platform Canvas to Do Your Homework for You
Lazy undergrads rejoice. A new AI “homework agent” can supposedly log into your account on the learning management…
Sam Altman Fumes That It Takes Longer to Train a Human Than an AI, Plus They Eat All That Wasteful Food
AI leaders insist they’ve got humanity’s best interests in mind. If we’re to take them at their word,…
Palantir Is Stocking the Wildest Imaginable Item in Its Vending Machines
Cigarette smoking in the United States has plummeted over the decades, reaching an 80-year low in 2024. But…
A Serial Killer Used ChatGPT to Plan Murders, Police Say
An accused serial killer in South Korea used ChatGPT to help plan a string of murders, investigators alleged…
Here’s How Many Remote Operators Waymo Has Per Self-Driving Taxi
Autonomous ride-hailing services companies have built their image on the concept that their vehicles fully drive themselves. The…
Japan Opens School Staffed Entirely by Virtual Waifus
Japan’s gakushu juku industry — private, after-hours study schools — has spent decades monetizing the country’s notoriously busted…
AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains
Whole Foods shelves sit empty after a data breach shut down its wholesale distributor. Meat packers working for…
Barrage of Emails From AI Politics Platform Defeats Clean Air Initiative
Late in 2023, the corporate world was abuzz with the utopian promise of AI — especially about the…
Eric Trump Pouring Funding Into “Low Cost-Per-Kill” Drone Corporation
Somewhere in the long tradition of Trump family grifting, there’s a line between “nakedly corrupt” and “genuinely mortifying.”…
Antarctica’s Gravity Hole Growing Stronger, Scientists Find
For decades, scientists have been studying intriguing “gravity holes,” which are enormous depressions in the Earth’s crust where…