July 17, 2026 5:22 AM
July 17, 2026
New AI Trained Only on Pre-1930 Data Speaks Like the Most Old-Timey Guy Imaginable
Tired of your AI chatbot’s constantly-glazing therapy-speak? You could instead try striking up a conversation with “Talkie,” an…
NASA Fires Up Futuristic Plasma Thruster Designed to Take Us to Mars
Covering the well over 100 million miles to Mars is no easy feat. Even in the best case…
Wild Video Shows Ukrainian Troops Evacuate Babushka With a Military Robot
One granny has been safely plucked from the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war by the unlikeliest of heroes:…
AV Companies Might be in Trouble Now As Cops Start Ticketing Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles have an accountability problem. Because there’s no driver, there’s nobody to hold liable when the car…
Toilet Maker Spikes in Value as It Flushes Money Into AI
Last month, failing tech bro shoe company Allbirds made the baffling announcement that it was pivoting to AI…
Japanese Airport Trialing Humanoid Robots as Baggage Handlers
The future is truly upon us — because the next time your check-in luggage gets battered, you could…
New England Journal of Medicine Retracts Paper Because Photo of Patient’s Insides Was Garbled by AI
Medical journals are being flooded with shoddy AI-generated work, a growing threat to the scientific community that could…
Eric Trump’s Crypto Company Is Falling Into Total Disaster
President Donald Trump and his spawn have reaped billions of dollars worth of crypto during his second term…
An Out of Control SpaceX Rocket Is Going to Smash Into Moon, Astronomer Says
One of Elon Musk’s spacecraft will finally reach the lunar surface — but probably not in the way…
Gen Z Is Turning Against AI in an Incredible Way
For years now, tech leaders have warned that AI will usher in a technological revolution on an unprecedented…
Elon Musk Just Got Badly Humiliated in Court
Elon Musk helped birth OpenAI in 2015, a world-changing AI non-profit which he lavished with tens of millions…
Amazon’s New AI-Generated “Podcasts” Shilling Every Imaginable Products Are Already Backfiring Spectacularly
Companies keep forcing AI features to do things that no one ever thought they needed, or indeed ever…
ChatGPT Users Are Crashing Out Because OpenAI Is Retiring the Model That Says “I Love You”
In August 2025, OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, calling it the “smartest, fastest, and most useful…
Researchers Studied What Happens When Workplaces Seriously Embrace AI, and the Results May Make You Nervous
Even if AI is — or eventually becomes — an incredible automation tool, will it make workers’ lives…
Google Has a Major Problem With ICE
Google’s rank-and-file are joining together to address their bosses with a collective demand: cut ties with the US…
Anthropic Researcher Quits in Cryptic Public Letter
An Anthropic researcher just announced his resignation in a cryptic and poetry-laden letter warning of a world “in…
TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It’s Providing User Data to ICE
Last month, the popular social video app TikTok finalized a deal with investors, including Oracle, to appease a…
If Scientists Ever Find Strong Evidence of Alien Life, Communicating It Will Pose Serious Issues
We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among…
“Novelist” Boasts That Using AI She Can Churn Out a New Book in 45 Minutes, Says Regular Writers Will Never Be Able to Keep Up
At the height of his powers, and perhaps his amphetamine habit, legendary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick cranked…
Bitcoin Finally Finds Practical Use: Kidnapping Senior Citizens for Ransom
For years, Bitcoin evangelists have grasped at straws trying to explain what their digital currency is actually good…
Forget the NFL: New Sport Forces Two Massive Guys to Smash Into Each Other like Rhinos
Turns out the sci-fi filmmakers got it backwards. All those ’70s and ’80s dystopias like “Rollerball,” “The Running…
Photo Shows Elon Musk at Jeffrey Epstein Dinner
A newly revealed photo shows Elon Musk attending a “wild” dinner with Jeffrey Epstein and other powerful tech…
SpaceX Is Building Its Own Particle Accelerator
The Sun unleashes a torrent of charged particles. Some of them slam into the Earth’s atmosphere, triggering breathtaking…
Elon Musk Announces Huge Change: Self-Growing City on Moon Now Top Priority at SpaceX
Just over a year ago, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made it abundantly clear he was not interested in…