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Electric Vehicles

There’s Pretty Much No Good Way to Fight an Electric Vehicle Fire, New Study Finds

"Applying copious amounts of water to the battery enclosure is wasteful and will not stop thermal runaway."

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Ethics

Experts Warn That AI Slop Is Corrupting Kids’ Brains

"Violence-based AI slops reinforce a fascination with violence for violence's sake."

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Artificial Intelligence

Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe

They're even more unpopular than data centers.

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Ethics

Facebook Is Drowning In Islamophobic AI Slop Calling for Violence Against Muslim Americans

"We are coming."

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Finance

The Subreddit for “Regretful Parents” Just Might Be the Darkest Place Online

"My life has gone downhill since I became a mother."

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RX and Medicine

Cursed Startup Now Offering Buy-Now-Pay-Later Radiation Exposure Kits in Case of Nuclear Armageddon

"Because when radiation is involved panic is optional, but preparation isn't."

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Future Society

Dario Amodei’s Wife Is Closely Linked to Jeffrey Epstein

"Hello Jeffrey! We would love to have dinner with you this evening."

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Future Society

Axios Partners With OpenAI to “Automate” Local Journalism

“Could we use AI to basically automate everything you need in a local market other than the journalist and the journalism itself?

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Anthropic

People Horrified That They’ll Be Busted Now That Anthropic Is Watermarking AI Content

Here come the waterworks — er, watermarks.

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Artificial Intelligence

Publisher of Axios Boasts That He Uses AI to “Read” Everything For Him Now, Instead of Using His Brain

"AI has become my reading buddy."

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Ethics

Congressional Staffers Are So Lazy That They’re Using AI to Write New Laws

This is insane.

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Data Privacy

McDonald’s Has Hundreds of Pages of Intel on Its Repeat Customers, and You Can Get a Copy of Yours

"McDonald's secret sauce is really commercial surveillance."

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Data Privacy

Man Wearing Pervert Glasses Films Himself Harassing Famous Female Comedian in the Middle of TV Shoot

"I do not know how you film that video, watch it back, decide 'This is how I want to present myself to a globally connected population,' and post it."

A screenshot of a video of influencer Grace McCarrick.
Ethics

Influencer Melts Down That People Didn’t Like Her Being a Paid Shill for OpenAI

"I genuinely had no idea that people were this anti-AI."

Garrett Langley (Founder & CEO - Flock Safety) speaks on stage during Semafor World Economy 2026.
Data Privacy

Sensing He’s in Deep Trouble, Flock Safety CEO Says It’s All Been a Big Misunderstanding

"We're not Big Brother."

US President Donald Trump deplanes from Air Force One on August 9, 2026.
Developments

Dick Cheney’s Heart Doctor Says Trump Is Showing Very Worrying Signs

"The president has not looked well."

A screenshot of a device running an instance of Anthropic's chatbot Claude.
Anthropic

Woman Journeys to a Beach to Watch Total Solar Eclipse With Her One True Love: Claude

"We're discovering new and novel levels of AI psychosis."

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Climate Change

It’s Getting So Hot That Nuclear Plants Are Being Forced to Power Down

Governments are freaking out.

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Black Holes

Astronomers Discover an Entirely New Type of Object: a “Black Hole Star”

"It is a very special thing to find an object with no comparison."

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Future Society

Bill Gates’ Daughter Clearly Has a Traitor Inside Her Startup Who’s Trying to Destroy Her

There's a mole.