August 30, 2026 10:57 AM
August 30, 2026
We Are Admittedly a Bit Startled by This Medical Case Report About Giving an Elderly Woman With Advanced Alzheimer’s a Gigantic Dose of Psychedelic Mushrooms Just to See What Would Happen
Scientists continue to investigate the potential clinical use of psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in psychedelic mushrooms, for everything…
Tension Flared on Space Station as Russia Threatened to Drill and Saw Into Wall, Prompting NASA Astronauts to Take Shelter
For many years, both NASA and its Russian counterpart Roscosmos have struggled to contain persistent leaks plaguing the…
Cop Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence
Law enforcement agencies across the world have rushed to integrate AI into their investigations, promising faster arrests and…
Elon Musk’s Conflicts of Interest With the Trump Administration Regulating SpaceX Are So Profound That They Have Grim Implications for Society
After SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO last week, it’s facing an agonizing crunch to show investors that it has a…
SpaceX Stock Has Officially Fallen All the Way Down to the Low $170s
At first, it felt like the sky was the limit. After its blockbuster Wall Street debut on Friday,…
Anthropic Sued for Allegedly Ripping Off Its Highest-Paying Customers
An angry customer is suing Anthropic on behalf of all users of its priciest subscription tiers. In a…
Google’s AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real
If you Google “SCP-565” — an iconic entry in the collaborative fan fiction universe known as the “SCP…
Sports Journalists Asked Microsoft’s Copilot to Predict World Cup Matches, and the Results May Surprise You
AI has wormed its way into every crevice of the 2026 World Cup. It’s dreaming up sloppified soccer…
SpaceX Stock Had Quite a Bad Night
Following its mega-IPO, shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocketed to new heights, peaking at just over $222 on…
The US Military Has Been Using Elon Musk’s Grok AI to Bomb Iran
In the early days of the US and Israeli war on Iran, situation monitors were abuzz at the…
Wall Street Terrified That SpaceX Investors Will Dump Their Stocks
The SpaceX IPO has been a windfall for investors — or most of them, at any rate. But…
Snap’s Stock Plunges the Moment It Reveals Its Comically Gigantic AR Glasses
After losing $40 million on a failed attempt to launch a pair of video-recording sunglasses almost a decade…
ChatGPT Is Sending People Into Obsessive Spirals of Hypochondria
Bad things happen when an AI chatbot latches onto one of your neuroses. The infamously sycophantic machines are…
Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and the public face of ChatGPT, has carved out an image for himself as…
We’re In Utter Disbelief About the Photos the Moon Astronauts Just Sent Back
On Monday, the four crew members of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission made history, officially breaking the record for…
College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discussions Because They Offloaded Their Thinking to AI
It’s well known that students from grade schools to the big universities are increasingly outsourcing their thinking to…
JP Morgan Concerned Tesla Stock Will Crash by 60 Percent in Face of Ongoing Business Failures
Tesla’s first quarter results this year left plenty to be desired. The embattled EV maker’s sales fell short…
Trump Has Call With Moon Astronauts So Awkward That They May Turn Around and Disappear Into the Void of Space
On Monday, four astronauts on the Artemis II mission slipped behind the Moon — and, in doing so,…
Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Instructs Staff to Welcome AI Sloplords
Emma Tucker, the editor-in-chief of the esteemed Wall Street Journal, just heaped praise on the sloplords drowning journalism…
Elon Musk Secretly Shared His Number One Priority at Tesla and It Really Says It All
Tesla’s executives might love Elon Musk, lavishing him with massive pay packages to beg him to stay on,…
Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical X-Rays
Hallucinations have plagued OpenAI ever since it launched its blockbuster ChatGPT chatbot back in 2022. The propensity of…
The Entire State of Maine Is Poised to Ban New Data Centers
Data centers designed to power immensely resource-intensive AI models have turned into a major point of contention. The…
Inside Sources Say Sam Altman Is a Sociopath
You don’t build a trillion dollar AI empire by being a saint. In a seeping new investigative piece…
Lone Jar of Nutella Drifts Around Cabin of Moon Spacecraft
We were watching with bated breath as the crew of NASA’s historic Artemis 2 mission became the farthest…