May 16, 2026 1:13 AM
May 16, 2026
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”…
Evidence Grows That One of the Largest Known Stars Is Poised to Explode in a Spectacular Blast
One of the largest known stars in the cosmos is poised for catastrophe. After witnessing the massive object…
ChatGPT Health Is Staggeringly Bad at Recognizing Life-Threatening Medical Emergencies
Earlier this year, OpenAI launched a new tool called ChatGPT Health, which is designed to ingest your medical…
A Staggering Proportion of High School Kids Are Using AI to Do Their Homework, Which Is Probably Not Going to End Well
Who could’ve guessed that when you give millions of kids free access to a homework-writing chatbot, they’d stop…
AI-Generated Film Pulled From AMC Cinemas
Moviegoers just took a stand against slop and won. Following a flurry of online backlash, AMC Theaters said…
NASA Spots Sun-like Star Inflating Massive Bubble
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have spotted a young star just 120 light years away engaging in…
MIT’s New 3D Printer Can Print a Working Motor, Complete With Moving Parts
The tech behind 3D printing has come an extremely long way. The additive manufacturing technique, which generally involves…
Bacteria Engineered to Eat Tumors From the Inside
While plenty of bad bacteria — like E. coli — can get you sick, many other types are…
Uber Employees Have Created an AI Clone of Its CEO
In need of a little confidence boost before a face-to-face with your boss? That urge seems to be…
A Huge Number of People Starved to Death After Elon Musk Cut USAID’s Funding
In the weeks following the second inauguration of Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk — appointed to a powerful…
When You Hear What Happens When They Put Lab Mice in Nature, You Might Rethink Your Entire Life
Lab mice are subjected to countless horrors during their short lives, from being injected with cancerous cells to…
MIT Fusion Physicist Murdered in His Home
Lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro has been murdered…
Joe Rogan Keeps Playing AI-Generated Music for Guests, But He’s Speechless When One of Them Points Out That Podcasts Can Be AI-Generated Too
Joe Rogan absolutely loves AI-generated music. For the past few months, the podcaster has been drooling like a…
People Are Injecting Themselves With an Experimental New Weight Loss Drug
Retatrutide, a new weight loss from Eli Lilly, isn’t even out yet. For tht matter, it hasn’t even…
“I Guess They Used AI or Something”: Trump Says BBC Journalists Deepfaked “Words in My Mouth, Literally”
President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the BBC on Monday night, seeking a whopping $10 billion in…
Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments
When it comes to toppling governments from behind the scenes, not many know the business better than MI6.…
CoreWeave Has Lost a Staggering Amount of Stock Value Over the Past Six Months
AI cloud computing company CoreWave exploded onto the scene in March with the biggest tech IPO since 2021.…
Washington Post Says It Will Continue AI-Generating Error Filled Podcasts as Its Own Editors Groan in Embarrassment
The outcry sparked by the Washington Post’s launch of AI-generated podcasts has gone in one ear of the…
We’re Bracing for an Accident Now That Tesla Is Taking the Safety Drivers Out of Its Robotaxis
Tesla is preparing for its Robotaxis to go fully driverless and ditch its human safety monitors, according to…
Replica Statue of Liberty Topples in Urban Hellscape
In what can only be described as a too-on-the-nose metaphor for the United States’ weakening influence on the…
Liberals Are Falling for Extremely Obvious AI Fakes
AI misinformation isn’t just for the right-wing boomers anymore. What once was mostly the domain of Facebook-bound conservatives…