August 30, 2026 7:46 AM
August 30, 2026
Elon Musk Fantasizes About Killing Journalists
Elon Musk is straight up fantasizing about murdering his mortal enemies. Those enemies being the powerful cabal of…
OpenAI Is Taking the “Crack Cocaine” Approach to Pricing
OpenAI burned through a staggering amount of money in 2025. According to audited financial figures obtained by AI…
Texas Tech Quarterback’s College Career Over After Getting Caught Betting on His Own Games
After getting caught placing $90,000 worth of bets on himself, star quarterback Brendan Sorsby has thrown in the…
Consensus Grows That China Is Crushing the United States at AI
The so-called “AI race” is a tale of two polar extremes. On one end is the Silicon Valley…
Clavicular’s “Botched” Nose Job Illustrates the Dangers of Looksmaxxing
Notorious “looksmaxxing” influencer Braden “Clavicular” Peters can’t get enough of extreme attempts to make himself look more attractive.…
$1 Million Polymarket Bet That Spain Will Win First World Cup Game Backfires Epically
Most see Spain as the out-and-out favorites to win the World Cup. So why not put a bunch…
Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues
Morale at Meta has seemingly hit rock bottom. Employees have been roiling from multiple rounds of major layoffs.…
Woman “Seriously and Permanently Injured” by Egg McMuffin, Lawsuit Alleges
We’ve all heard the story of the woman who sued McDonald’s for selling her scalding hot coffee —…
Scientists Detect Hundreds of Earthquakes Deep Beneath Antarctica
Something is stirring deep beneath the thick sheet of ice blanketing Antarctica. With the help of deep learning…
Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class
Would you believe it: a teacher and her students say their reading ability soared after banning tech in…
Google CEO Humiliated by Graduating Stanford Students as They Walk Out of His Speech in Protest
As anger at the tech industry boils over, college students across the United States are using their graduation…
CEOs Now Being Forced to Reverse Course, Cut AI Spending
The era of AI maximalism is grinding to a halt. It was only months ago that CEOs were…
The Moon Astronauts Brought Along USB Stick-Sized Living Samples of Their Own Tissue
Beyond their snazzy flight suits and mango peach smoothies, the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission is packing…
AI-Powered Tractor Startup Burns Through a Quarter Billion Dollars, Fires All Employees in Epic Implosion
The world simply wasn’t ready for AI powered tractors. Or perhaps it was Monarch Tractor, the much-hyped company…
$60 Million Startup Says It’s Invented a New Particle to Dim the Sun
In October, Israel-US startup Stardust Solutions announced it had raised $60 million, the largest-ever fundraising round for tech…
Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude’s Source Code
The AI industry largely acts as if it’s above lowly copyright laws — unless, of course, those laws…
Insurance Companies Already Deploying AI Systems to Deny Claims Faster Than Ever Before
No one who’s dealt with one would ever accuse an insurance claims adjuster of being too generous, but…
Delivery Robot Companies in Trouble as Bot Become Targets for Vandalism
When University of California Berkeley allowed the startup Kiwibot to pump its campus full of delivery robots in…
Do You Cry More or Less Than the Average Person?
In common parlance, allowing yourself to have a “good cry” about something is usually associated with feelings of…
There’s a Blinking Warning Sign for the Data Centers in Space Industry
It’s plain to see that Elon Musk’s ambition of putting data centers in space is a daring and…
Moon Spacecraft’s Toilet Fails Hours Into Ten-Day Journey
The four crew members of NASA’s historic Artemis 2 mission around the Moon may be on one of…
Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
The data centers powering your favorite AI chatbot are running low on helium, cash, and neighbors who don’t…
JONATHAN THE 193-YEAR-OLD TORTOISE IS STILL ALIVE, REPEAT HE HAS NOT DIED
On Wednesday, sorrow swept through the Futurism newsroom as we heard that Jonathan, a 193-year-old Seychelles giant tortoise…
Chinese University Announces 30-Story “Artificial Island” for Marine Research Purposes
Some countries pump out aircraft carriers to project power across the globe; others build research megastructures to plumb…