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Organizations working with independent political candidates in the US say AI could be a major help in identifying friendly districts.

Political Operatives Say AI Is Poised to Upend the Two-Party System

Government analysts found that the UK's rapidly expanding AI surveillance system is horribly biased toward Black and Asian people.

Police Admit AI Surveillance Panopticon Still Has Issues With “Some Demographic Groups”

Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently rhapsodized that US air strikes on Venezuelan civilians would be good for business, if only it were legal.

The Industrialists

Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business

Waymo has been experimenting with programming to make its typically-cautious robotaxis "confidently assertive."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Has Been Reprogramming Its Robotaxis to Drive More Aggressively

Video shared on social media shows a Waymo driving through a red light and into an active police standoff in downtown Los Angeles.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Cops Stunned as Waymo Cruises Through Active Police Standoff

Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People

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Residents of Boxtown, Tennessee say Elon Musk's xAI "Colossus Supercomputer" is turning the air into a noxious chemical brew.

Nearby Residents Say Elon Musk’s Gigantic Supercomputer Is Making Them Sick

After building a flying hover-sword earlier this year, Chinese sword influencer Fan Shisan has created a swarm of floating blades.

Chinese Man Unleashes Swarm of Flying Swords

Recent data from the US Census Bureau shows that the amount of workers using AI on the job is falling to a dismal rate.

Machine Learning

The Number of People Using AI at Work Is Suddenly Falling

A new platform called Polyglobe is helping gamblers visualize real-time geopolitical conflicts to bet on through Polymarket.

New App Lets Users Bet on Deadly Conflicts in Real Time

It really seems like Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, just posted Dave Portnoy's home address for millions to see.

Grok Appears to Have Doxxed Dave Portnoy’s Home Address

An inquiry led by Republican senator Ted Cruz is blaming life-saving car safety regulations for the rising cost of cars.

Republicans Complain That Cars Have Become Too Safe, Say It Must Be Reversed

A pilot program has unleashed a hoard of delivery robots onto Chicago sidewalks, prompting outrage from locals.

Residents Rage Against Fleet of Delivery Robots Taking Over Chicago

Millionaire AI startup founder Maor Shlomo admits that it's incredibly easy to copy other companies thanks to vibe coding.

Startups Using AI Have a Problem: Anyone Can Copy Their Awesome Idea

A sprawling data center in eastern Oregon has been linked to a huge rise in rare cancers, muscle conditions, and miscarriages.

Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers

The city council of Santa Monica, California voted unanimously to demand Waymo cease nighttime operations at two charging lots.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus

An AgiBot A2 has completed a 66-mile, three-day pilgrimage without powering down, breaking previous world records.

Robot Walks for Three Days Straight, Hotswapping Its Battery Over and Over in New World Record

The South Korean government's billion-dollar AI textbook initiative has been a complete failure from start to finish.

South Korea’s Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster

At a conference alongside Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suggested that any AI productivity gains will leave us working more, not less.

Nvidia CEO Says Instead of Taking Your Job, AI Will Force You to Work Even Harder

Meta's $27 billion hyperion data center is already making life a living hell for the residents of Holly Ridge, Louisiana.

Meta’s $27 Billion Datacenter Is Wreaking Havoc on a Louisiana Town

Three major insurance companies have requested permission to exclude AI from their policies as anxiety grows throughout the industry.

Insurance Companies Are Terrified to Cover AI, Which Should Probably Tell You Something

A former activist with the group StopAI has reportedly gone missing after making violent threats against OpenAI employees.

OpenAI Locks Down Office After Violent Threat

According to a lawsuit, Mark Zuckerberg allegedly directed his company to prioritize the metaverse over youth safety, among other violations.

Mark Zuckerberg Allegedly Said Child Safety Was Less Important Than “Building the Metaverse”

A massive fire broke out inside the convention center hosting over 50,000 UN delegates attending COP30, forcing an evacuation.

Fire Breaks Out at UN Climate Summit

Sam Altman's blockchain startup "Tools for Humanity" demands employees treat its surveillance orb project with a slavish devotion.

Sam Altman’s Eyeball-Scanning Orb Startup Made a Cult-Like Demand of Its Employees

Students at the University of Staffordshire have spent the past two years learning to code from AI-generated course material.

College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in China has successfully completed its first proof-of-concept experiment.

Quantum Physics

Giant Chinese Orb Detects “Ghost Particles” While Buried Under Mountain

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian says the country has no choice but to move the nation's capital amidst an unprecedented water crisis.

President of Iran Says It’s Forced to Move Its Entire Capital City

A bizarre cryptocurrency company is creating an alternative to the widely used opium reversal drug Naxalone, for inexplicable reasons.

RX and Medicine

Crypto Company Creates Bizarre Drug

Elon Musk's Boring Company has been illegally dumping toxic waste byproduct for months, landing itself a $500k fine from local officials.

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Caught Hiding Toxic Waste Pond in Vegas

A startup called Mission Barns is using pig fat to grow pork in a bioreactor, a process with major implications for the meat industry.

New Startup Harvests Bacon Without Killing Pig

Roblox CEO and co-founder David Baszucki says his game's longstanding issues with child predators are an opportunity for growth.

CEO of Roblox Says Child Predators on the Platform Are an “Opportunity”

New data shows that user numbers have fallen flat during Elon Musk's reign over X-formerly-Twitter, as young users flee for other apps.

Twitter Use Has Stagnated Pathetically Under Elon Musk

A researcher uncovered evidence that 171 SpaceX Starlink satellites used by the US government were broadcasting in the "wrong direction."

SpaceX Has Wildly Screwed Up Its Military Satellites, Researcher Finds

Larry Summers, a prominent OpenAI board member, just resigned from his post after emails showed Jeffery Epstein was his "wing man."

OpenAI Board Member Resigns After Deep Connections to Epstein Exposed

AI companies like Mercor are scrapping thousands of worker contracts in order restart operations while paying much lower rates.

AI Companies Are Treating Their Workers Like Human Garbage, Which May Be a Sign of Things to Come for the Rest of Us

Researchers at MIT have invented "Circulatronics," a medical platform they say enables non-invasive treatment of neuroinflammation.

MIT Invents Injectable Brain Chips

A new Y Combinator-backed startup called "Chad" is revolutionizing the way software engineers waste time at work.

Artificial Intelligence

New Development Environment for Programmers Rewards Them With Brainrot When They Prompt the AI

New research shows roleplaying romantic relationships with chatbots like Replika can include marriage, homemaking, and even pregnancies.

People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners

The international R&B sensation was arrested in Georgia after a Flock AI camera flagged his white Cybertruck at a tiny shop.

Akon Arrested After Cybertruck Mishap

A new provision tagged onto the recent US government funding bill will effectively ban hemp-derived THC products in Fall of 2026.

Congress Just Snuck a Bizarre Hemp Ban Into Law in Ridiculous Example of Government Overreach

The Chinese government is implementing phase two of its comprehensive safety crackdown on AI misinformation.

China Is Cracking Down on AI Slop

A YouTuber's attempt to create an animatronic Aristotle-bot went slightly off the rails when it called for the elimination of humanity.

Terrifying-Looking Robot Powers Up, Immediately Declares Humanity Is a “Resource” to Be “Manipulated or Eliminated”

OpenAI's Sora 2 is helping users flood the internet with dehumanizing content of fat people in impossible scenarios.

Sora Is Being Used to Brutally Mock Fat People

Fireflies CTO and co-founder Sam Udotong recently admitted that his AI transcription startup charged $100 an hour for notes taken by a human.

Founder Admits His “AI Transcription” Startup Was Just Him Joining People’s Meetings and Taking Notes by Hand

Workers at NASA's Goddard Space Center describe a "campaign of destruction" being carried out by the Trump Administration.

NASA Insiders Say They’re Now Under “Constant Attack” by Trump’s White House

XPeng's new "Iron" robot is a horrifying abomination without its skin, but that doesn't mean it's not an impressive piece of machinery.

This Company’s Terminator-Style Robot Is Low-Key Terrifying

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas is using the troubling rise in AI companionship apps to hawk his company's AI web browser.

Perplexity CEO Warns That AI Girlfriends Can Melt Your Brain

Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered an idea to curtail crime during his latest meeting with the board of directors: robots that stalk criminals.

Elon Says His Robot Will Follow Criminals Around to Make Sure They Never Offend Again

If there's any job artificial intelligence should be good at, it's spamming the internet with algorithmic comments.

AI Is Failing at the Most Hilarious Task Imaginable

The tech giant's stocks tumbled after SoftBank pulled nearly $6 billion in funding, though the AI bubble isn't bursting yet.

Nvidia Stock Lurches Down as SoftBank Pulls Entire Investment

A clandestine startup privately funded by tech billionaires is looking into germline gene editing a human embryo.

Startup Secretly Working to Gene-Hack Human Baby

A YouTuber named Chris Doel cracked open hundreds of vapes to build an energy cell capable of powering his entire house.

Man Builds Huge Battery Bank From 500 Disposable Vapes to Power His Entire House

Publishing magnate Keith Riegert recently told a crowded room that there are only two possible AI futures, and neither of them are good.

Genius Exec Says There Are Only Two Possibilities for AI: It’ll Collapse the Economy, or Make Everyone’s Job Obsolete

New research suggests that an algorithm which scans your face could accurately predict financial, academic, and job success.

Scientists Say Their AI System Can Scan Your Face to Detect Whether a Company Should Hire You

A diver discovered the heinous piece of vandalism on a magnificent colony of plate coral, and not for the first time.

Officials Outraged by Coral Reef Vandalized With Underwater Graffiti

Electric vehicle company XPeng has released a video of its "Iron" robot without skin, and the results are pretty disturbing.

Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator

A Maryland appellate court judge issued a scathing opinion after a family attorney was caught using ChatGPT to write legal briefs.

Judge Blasts Lawyer Caught Using ChatGPT in Divorce Court, Orders Him to Take Remedial Law Classes

A new report found that tech worker layoffs are rising astronomically thanks to AI narratives, over hiring, and a dismal economy.

Tech Workers Are in Deep, Deep Trouble

Meta's arguing that a massive goon stash actually belonged to some worker's dad, and not a secret AI porn lab.

Meta Accuses Employee’s Dad of Downloading Gigantic Illegal Goon Stash

Chinese company Unitree is unleashing robotic dogs to fight fires in all kinds of real-world disaster scenarios.

Chinese Firefighters Using Robot Dogs With Huge Hoses Attached

Jensen Huang just admitted the People's Republic is outmaneuvering the "cynical" US on electrical costs and regulation.

Nvidia CEO Says China Is “Going to Win” the AI Race

Geoffrey Hinton is warning that the AI industry is fundamentally built on the total destruction of human labor.

The AI Industry Can’t Profit Unless It Replaces Human Jobs, Warns Man Who Helped Create It

The President announced a deal to cap the prices of weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound for some Medicare recipients.

RX and Medicine

Trump Strikes Deal to Offer Americans GLP-1 Drugs for Much Cheaper

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