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Man Lets AI Rent His Body

Last week, we brought you the story of RentAHuman, a platform brokering connections between AI agents and humans…

Feb 14, 2026 3 min read

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…

Feb 14, 2026 3 min read

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…

Feb 14, 2026 3 min read

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…

Feb 14, 2026 4 min read

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…

Feb 14, 2026 5 min read

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…

Feb 14, 2026 3 min read

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…

Feb 14, 2026 3 min read

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…

Feb 14, 2026 4 min read

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…

Feb 13, 2026 2 min read