July 17, 2026 8:09 AM
July 17, 2026
The Chinese Streaming Industry Is Being Gutted by AI-Generated Shows
Earlier this year, TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance released the latest version of its Seedance AI video generating tool.…
Startup Says It’s Invented a Beanie That Reads Your Mind
If you thought AI-integrated smart glasses were bad, wait until you get a load of Sabi, a Palo…
Grimly Cyberpunk Video Shows Ukrainian Soldiers Leaning Out of Propeller Plane to Obliterate Drones With Rifles
A video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones with rifles — while leaning out of Soviet-era propeller…
Man Says His Waymo Ditched Him at the Airport Before He Could Get His Luggage Out of the Trunk, Refused to Return
Losing your suitcase is a rite of passage for travelers, something you can usually blame on human error.…
Frontier AI Models Giving Specific, Actionable Instructions to Perpetrate Bioterror Attack
There’s a pretty sizable list of things an AI assistant should refuse to help you with. Is engineering…
AI Slop YouTube Channel Glitches Out in a Way So Bizarre That It’s Vaguely Disturbing
YouTube has a serious slop problem. The platform has been inundated with lazy AI-generated footage, from pseudo-educational videos…
Climate Change Is Getting So Bad That It’s Making Food Less Nutritious
Climate change’s effects often aren’t obvious. In a particularly lateral example of how our planet’s changing environment is…
Double Murder Suspect Asked ChatGPT How to Hide Body in Dumpster
Earlier this month, we got a glimpse of the harrowing conversations that Florida State University school shooting suspect…
Meta Had the Worst Possible Response When Its Workers Were Watching Naked Footage of Its Ray-Ban AI Glasses Users
In February, Meta contractors in Kenya told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten that the company required them…
An Elegant Solution to AI Slop: Tax It, and Use the Resulting Billions of Dollars to Fund Cultural Institutions, Artists, and Researchers
If you can’t beat ’em, tax ’em. AI slop is as certain as government levies these days, infecting…
The “Pentastack” of Illegal Drugs That Looksmaxxers Like Clavicular Are Taking to Enjoy a Night Out Sounds Like a One-Way Trip to the Hospital
Look, if you’re out there safely experimenting with drugs, no judgment. There are plenty of ketamine therapy clinics…
Chinese Court Rules That a Worker Cannot Be Replaced by AI
While workers in the western world agonize over what seems to be an impending job apocalypse, their Chinese…
Former xAI Staffers Say They Were Burned Out by the Company’s Carelessness and Lack of Innovation
Earlier this week, two cofounders of Elon Musk’s xAI abruptly announced their departure, meaning that half of the…
Another OpenAI Researcher Just Quit in Disgust
A mere two years ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed the idea of stuffing his company’s blockbuster chatbot…
Man Lets AI Rent His Body
Last week, we brought you the story of RentAHuman, a platform brokering connections between AI agents and humans…
Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care
When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel…
NASA Running Out of Non-Life Explanations for What Its Rover Found on Mars
Last year, NASA’s Curiosity rover made a fascinating discovery after boring into a suspected ancient lake bed on…
Anthropic CEO Says Company No Longer Sure Whether Claude Is Conscious
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s not sure whether his Claude AI chatbot is conscious — a rhetorical…
As OpenAI Pulls Down the Controversial GPT-4o, Someone Has Already Created a Clone
OpenAI is finally sunsetting GPT-4o, a controversial version of ChatGPT known for its sycophantic style and its central role…
Blundering Husband Asks Claude AI to “Organize” Wife’s PC, Accidentally Erases Her Life’s Work
One of the core promises of the AI industry is that its tools can automate work for you…
Crypto Has Finally Found Its Killer App: Human Trafficking
Cryptocurrencies have long been lauded for being a borderless, decentralized way to transfer cash — and while they’ve…
Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody’s Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place
Google has relied on a tremendous amount of material without permission to train its Gemini AI models. The…
Campaign Urges Users to Quit ChatGPT Over OpenAI’s Support for Trump and ICE
It isn’t exactly big news that big tech is in deep with the US government. Days after Trump’s…
All These Ring Cameras Are Creating a “Surveillance Nightmare,” Critics Say
What if the biggest threat to your safety and privacy isn’t a person, but a device millions of…