July 17, 2026 10:48 PM
July 17, 2026
The CDC Fired All Its Cruise Ship Inspectors Before the Hantavirus Outbreak
A deadly hantavirus outbreak tearing through a Dutch cruise ship has put health officials on alert, raising questions…
Huge Analysis Finds That the Average Person Is Getting Absolutely Hosed on Polymarket
The United States is in the throes of widespread gambling addiction. Sports betting ads have become practically inescapable,…
Under Threat of Perjury, OpenAI’s Former CTO Is Admitting Some Very Interesting Stuff About Sam Altman
The bizarre and messy court battle between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former OpenAI investor Elon Musk trudges…
CEOs Say AI Gives Them Only Two Options, and Both Are Bad News for Employees
In an age of AI, our hardworking CEOs are being tortured with a tough decision, according to new…
You’ll Never Guess Trade Unions’ Position on AI Data Centers
Trade unions have a centuries-long history of squaring up against the might of industrial capitalists to fight for…
Sure, Elon Musk Did Roleplay As His Toddler Son on a Secret Burner Account, But He Probably Isn’t Pretending to Be His Mom
When Elon Musk goes out in a blaze of rapid unscheduled disassembly, as his company SpaceX likes to…
The Situation With Richard Dawkins’ AI Girlfriend Just Got Way Weirder
Whatever you may think of the man, Richard Dawkins is clearly suffering a tragic case of having your…
Billionaire Declares That “Tax the Rich” Is Hate Speech That Offends Him Horribly
Heightening class tensions in the United States have brought about discourse that would be unimaginable even a decade…
SpaceX Bombarded With Lawsuits to Accusing Starship of Damaging Homes
SpaceX has been smacked by a one-two punch of lawsuits filed by hundreds of Texas residents accusing the…
FBI Director Kash Patel Says AI Has Stopped Numerous Violent Attacks Against America. We’d Love to See a Single Whiff of Evidence
In a recent interview on Sean Hannity’s YouTube podcast, FBI head Kash Patel lauded AI for helping stop…
Sam Altman Frets That Frontier AI Models Are Acting Strange, Asking for Favors
On Tuesday, OpenAI threw a party for the release of GPT-5.5 (it was the fifth of May and…
Scientists Detect Atmosphere on Planet-Like Object Beyond Pluto
Astronomers have long been fascinated by the unusual behavior of objects orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper Belt,…
Personal Electronics Spiking in Price as AI Industry Buys Up All the Components
The AI industry’s obsession with building out enormous data centers to house power-hungry chips has put a major…
Amazon’s Blundering AI Caused Multiple AWS Outages
Are AI tools reliable enough to be used at in commercial settings? If so, should they be given…
Stanford’s New “Universal Vaccine Formula” Nasal Spray Protects Mice Against Stunning Range of Diseases
Stanford Medicine researchers claim they’ve invented a “universal vaccine formula” that protects mice against a wide range of…
It Seems Bad That Temu Is Selling Peptides
Silicon Valley’s biohacking obsession with poorly-studied chemical substances has reached its logical endpoint: they’re now buying peptides on…
OpenAI Flagged a Mass Shooter’s Troubling Conversations With ChatGPT Before the Incident, Decided Not to Warn Police
A grim scoop from the Wall Street Journal: an automated review system at OpenAI flagged disturbing conversations that…
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…