June 5, 2026 6:19 PM
June 5, 2026
New York Times Accused of Running AI-Generated Article
The New York Times faced scrutiny online this week after netizens speculated that a personal essay featured in…
NASA Announces Nuclear Mission to Mars by 2028
NASA’s plans for a Moon base have been capturing headlines lately — but today it’s putting Mars back…
CEO Confronted Over Using AI to Clone Real People Without Their Consent
What would you do if you found out a for-profit AI assistant had been trained on your work…
Delivery Robot Allegedly Smashes Through Bus Stop Window, Keeps Driving Covered in Broken Glass
Delivery robots had already proved to be a controversial fixture in Chicago, but are now shaping up to…
Sketchy Polymarket Accounts Making Suspicious Bets on Imminent Iran Ceasefire
Earlier this year, highly suspicious accounts on crypto-based prediction platform Polymarket collected a hefty $400,000 after correctly predicting…
Man Pleads Guilty to Making $8 Million by Creating Music With AI and Using Bots to Drive Zillions of Fake Streams
For quite some time now, human musicians have watched in horror as AI-generated slop has started drowning out…
You’ll Snort-Laugh When You Learn How Much AI Actually Added to the US Economy Last Year
Scanning the headlines, it can be easy to get the impression that every investor, banker, and financial analyst…
Doctor Reels as Son Becomes Plumber in Age of AI
Fear not, dreary laborer. There will always be back-breaking jobs you can do when your office ones get…
Mark Zuckerberg Secretly Training an AI Agent to Do CEO Job
Here’s one job we won’t be sorry to see get automated with AI. According to a new scoop…
Microsoft Realizes It’s Epically Screwed Up Windows 11 as Users Rage at Copilot AI Crammed Everywhere
Microsoft’s commitment to shoving its Copilot AI chatbot into every imaginable facet of its widely-used Windows operating system…
Samples From Distant Asteroid Contain All DNA and RNA Building Blocks
In June 2019, a Japanese spacecraft called Hayabusa2 touched down on Ryugu, a 3,000-foot asteroid some 185 million…
Analyst Warns Against Using Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday Afternoons
As Microsoft has aggressively pushed its Copilot AI, it’s logged more than a few high-profile errors. Copilot has…
Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It “Slop”
In mid-December 2025, the editors of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary chose “slop” as their word of the year. Their definition:…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Former Top AI Scientist Reveals Exactly Why He Quit
In a new interview with The Financial Times, Yann LeCun, one of the so-called godfathers of AI, finally…
AI Godfather Warns That It’s Starting to Show Signs of Self-Preservation
If we’re to believe Yoshua Bengio, one of the so-called “godfathers” of AI, some advanced models are showing…
Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges
Before Stein-Erik Soelberg savagely killed his 83-year-old mother and then himself last year, the former tech executive had…
You Will Never in 100 Years Guess What Elon Musk’s Lawyer Does as a Side Job
If Elon Musk’s antics over the past few years have felt like a three-ring circus, there just might…
Scientists Announce Results After Scanning 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals
In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly…
Your Jaw Will Hit the Floor When You Find Out How Much the Average OpenAI Worker Makes
Throughout 2025, the top Silicon Valley firms have been engaged in a feeding frenzy of epic proportions, shelling…
The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down
The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long…
NASA Reportedly Shutting Down Its Largest Library, Throwing Materials Away
NASA’s budget is still an unfathomable mess. The government shutdown late last year once again delayed proceedings to…
New Parents Mocked for Letting ChatGPT Name Their Baby
Naming your child isn’t a task to be taken lightly. It’s a crucial step in the child-rearing process…
Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
Earlier this week, a troubling trend emerged on X-formerly-Twitter as people started asking Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok to…
Scientist Puzzled by “Symmetric Jet Structure” on 3I/ATLAS
It may have made its closest approach to Earth last month, but the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS continues to…