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A robotic claw picks up a dangling business person by the foot, while a crumpled dollar bill fills in the background.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Hype Is Dropping Off a Cliff While Costs Soar, Experts Warn

After analyzing "super-continent" structures deep inside the Earth, scientists believe they could be up to billions of years old.

Science & Energy

Scientists Listening to Signals From Huge, Mysterious Objects Inside the Earth

By Frank Landymore

Scientists claim that China's "Artificial Sun" nuclear fusion reactor has more than doubled its own previous world record.

China’s “Artificial Sun” Just Smashed the Record for Stable Fusion Reaction

By Victor Tangermann

After heavy lobbying by SpaceX, President Trump now seems poised to disband the White House's National Space Council.

Trump Appears to Be Dissolving the National Space Council at SpaceX’s Request

By Frank Landymore

A fake meme coin named after Trump's youngest son, dubbed Official Barron Meme, took off on Monday, before crashing almost immediately.

Gullible Trump Supporters Lose Millions on Fake $BARRON Meme Coin

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk isn't convinced of the Stargate project; late on Tuesday evening, he mocked the AI infrastructure plans on X.

Elon Musk Blasts Donald Trump’s Huge AI Infrastructure Deal

By Victor Tangermann

The Pentagon is bullish on its recent AI advances that apparently help the military kill people faster than ever before.

Pentagon Official Boasts That AI Is Helping The Military Kill People Faster Than Ever Before

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek announced a new model called R1, which the outfit says is performing "on par" with OpenAI's o1.

Chinese AI Firm Says Its Open Source New Model Is Beating OpenAI’s Most Advanced Publicly Released Model

President Trump is preparing to approve a $500 billion investment into private sector-built AI infrastructure, according to CBS.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Set to Approve $500 Billion Deal to Build Huge AI Datacenters

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The CIA has been stepping up its efforts to keep up with AI advances — and has developed a particularly spy-tastic way of using chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence

The CIA Is Quietly Using AI to Build Emulated Versions of World Leaders

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese carmaker BYD's Yangwang U9 hypercar can leap over giant potholes and even police road spikes, as a recent video shows.

Advanced Transport

New Electric Hypercar Can Leap Over Police Road Spikes With Cheetah-Like Powered Suspension

By Victor Tangermann

According to Axios, OpenAI is poised to "announce a next-level breakthrough that unleashes PhD-level super-agents to do complex human tasks."

Rumors Swirl That OpenAI Is About to Reveal a “PhD-Level” Human-Tier Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Sage Group temporarily suspended its AI model after it started leaking information, which allegedly included customer transactions.

Artificial Intelligence

Accounting Firm’s AI Caught Telling Customers About Each Others’ Financial Records

By Frank Landymore

Trump's meme coin has now made him vastly more in the past 24 hours than he did in his entire life previously.

The Vast Majority of Trump’s Net Worth Is Now in His Meme Coin

By Jon Christian

Gig economy platform YoungOne is allegedly charging workers an extra fee to receive their wages faster than a month.

Vile Startup Charges Gig Workers to Get Paid on Time

By Frank Landymore

A company is trying to turn the idea of an at least partially solar-powered Cybertruck into a reality with a solar panel wrap.

Advanced Transport

New Cybertruck Wrap Adds Solar Panels All Over It

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla driver fatally ran down a motorcyclist last year, while he was on his phone and his car was on Full Self-Driving mode.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Driver Called 9-11 After Running Down Motorcyclist While Browsing Phone on Full Self-Driving Mode

By Victor Tangermann

UK police have impounded a Tesla Cybertruck, which mysteriously made it across the Atlantic, for being "not road legal in the UK."

Advanced Transport

British Authorities Seize Cybertruck for Being Entirely Illegal

By Victor Tangermann

The FBI admitted that they believe hackers broke into AT&T's systems last year to steal months of call and text logs.

Hackers Apparently Stole the FBI’s Call Logs With Confidential Informants

By Victor Tangermann

Trump is following in the footsteps of luminaries like Haliey "Hawk Tuah Girl" Welch, by launching a meme coin creatively dubbed $TRUMP.

Trump Launches Meme Coin, Just Like Hawk Tuah Girl, Days Before Inauguration

By Jon Christian

Walgreens has discovered that locking its wares behind lock and key in an apparent effort to stop shoplifters has backfired spectacularly.

Walgreens CEO Admits That Locking Merchandise Away From Shoplifters Makes Regular People Not Buy It

By Victor Tangermann

Hundreds of miles north of a scorched LA, a lithium-ion battery plant has caught fire — and it wasn't the first time it's had issues.

Science & Energy

World’s Largest Lithium Ion Plant Catches Fire in California

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Utah-based startup has graced us with an AI-powered Anne Frank chatbot, and it's very eager to forgive and forget.

Artificial Intelligence

Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not to Blame Anyone for Holocaust

Billionaire tech investor Ken Howery, who happens to be a longtime friend of Elon Musk, is Trump's guy to serve as US ambassador to Denmark.

Donald Trump Dispatching Elon Musk’s Old Buddy to Go Buy Greenland

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk stares down ominously at his phone in a dark room.

Elon Musk Once Said He Mainly Tweets While Pooping, So We Now Have Grave Concerns About the Condition of His Gastrointestinal System

Apple engineers flagged major flaws with the "reasoning" abilities of top AI models: that it's mostly a front.

Artificial Intelligence

Before Apple’s AI Went Haywire and Started Making Up Fake News, Its Engineers Warned of Deep Flaws With the Tech

By Frank Landymore

Matthew Livelsberger, the soldier behind the Cybertruck bombing, tried to impress his ex-girlfriend with his choice of vehicle.

Before Blowing It Up Outside Trump Tower, Bomber Used Cybertruck to Unsuccessfully Hit on Ex-Girlfriend

By Frank Landymore

Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk has grown so close to president-elect Donald Trump, he's willing to move in with him.

Elon Musk, Who Is Definitely Not Secretly Trump’s Boss, Will Have Office on White House Compound

By Victor Tangermann

In the wake of director David Lynch's death, NASA has joined the throngs of mourners celebrating the life of the "Mulholland Drive" auteur.

NASA Posts Touching Tribute to the Late David Lynch

By Noor Al-Sibai

On China's RedNote social network, alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione is striking a chord with users who affectionately call him as "Lulu."

Americans Flood Chinese App RedNote, Discover Its Users Are Obsessed With Luigi Mangione

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dozens of flights were forced to change course or land at a different airport to avoid the debris caused by the Starship explosion.

Commercial Jets Forced to Divert After Elon Musk’s Starship Explodes, Raining Fiery Debris Through Sky

By Frank Landymore

As Angelenos look to rebuild and recoup in the wake of the region's devastating wildfires, landlords are taking advantage of their misery.

Science & Energy

Greedy Landlords Are Massively Price-Gouging Rents After LA Wildfires

By Noor Al-Sibai

Apple has temporarily halted its disastrous "Apple Intelligence" feature which consistently bungled up summaries of breaking news alerts.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple Halts Disastrous AI System That Was Making Up Fake News Stories and Pushing Them to iPhone Users

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk made a COVID-era bet with his friend Sam Harris -- and the outcome ended their friendship, Harris says.

Elon Musk Lost a Bet That COVID Would Quickly Fade, and What He Did Next Says a Lot About Him as a Person

By Frank Landymore

Congress is none too pleased after Elon Musk declared that "the Moon is a distraction" and that NASA should be going "straight to Mars."

Congress Alarmed at Elon Musk’s Plan to Cancel NASA Moon Landing

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 28-year-old woman configured ChatGPT to act as an AI-powered boyfriend, dubbed Leo. Her human husband didn't appear to mind.

Husband Unconcerned as Wife Configures ChatGPT to Engage in Cuckolding Fantasy

By Victor Tangermann

A "leaked photo of heaven" has been going mega viral on social media this week, the kind of low-brow AI slop that's already ubiquitous.

Artificial Intelligence

This “Leaked Photo of Heaven” Went Viral for All the Wrong Reasons

By Victor Tangermann

Two mocking RedNote comments superimposed over an unappetizing American school lunch.

Chinese Students Repulsed by American School Lunches

San Francisco police say they never heard anything about an axe murder that Elon Musk has claimed attacked his employees.

Elon Musk Claims Axe Murderer Targeted His Employees, Cops Say They Have No Idea What He’s Talking About

By Frank Landymore

After many delays and scrubs, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has successfully launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit early Thursday morning.

Jeff Bezos’ Falcon 9-Style Rocket Reaches Orbit on First Try, But First Stage Recovery Fails

By Victor Tangermann

A video shows the self-driving system of a Tesla vehicle identify a crossing train as gigantic, elongated cars.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Video Shows Tesla Self-Driving System Mistaking Train for Procession of Gigantic, Comically Elongated Cars

By Frank Landymore

The CEO of Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, is sounding off on his fellow tech executives for falling in line behind Donald Trump.

CEO Behind “Fortnite” Trashes Execs Suddenly Swearing Allegiance to Donald Trump

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta-formerly-Facebook has deactivated automated systems that proactively tracked and limited the spread of viral conspiracies.

Facebook Shuts Down Machine Learning Systems for Identifying Viral Hoaxes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

No Solicitors: Two salesmen, one a human and the other a robot, walk merrily in parallel with each other.

Artificial Intelligence

Horrendous New Startup Uses AI Agents to Flood Reddit With Posts Shilling Clients’ Products

Khloe Kardashian has come under fire after criticizing Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass for cutting the city's fire department's budget.

Science & Energy

Kardashians Slammed for Using Way More Than Their Fair Share of Water, Then Griping About City’s Fire Response

By Victor Tangermann

Screenshots of various 3D-printed gun posts on Chinese app RedNote by American users

Americans Flood Chinese Social App, Teach Users to 3D Print Guns

After blaming past blazes on "Jewish space lasers," Marjorie Taylor Greene is now big mad that the government isn't controlling the LA fires.

Congresswoman Who Believed in “Jewish Space Lasers” Complains That Government Can’t Just Use Weather Control to Shut Down LA Fires

By Noor Al-Sibai

Home security footage shows a meteorite smashing into the ground right where the owner was standing only moments before.

Video Shows Meteorite Smashing Ground Right Where Man Had Been Standing

By Frank Landymore

Donald Trump has vowed to release information on the first day of his second presidency about the rash of bizarre drone sightings.

Trump Pledges Information About Mystery Drones on “Day One” of Presidency

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced sweeping layoffs of what he refers to as "low-performers" at his empire.

Zuckerberg Announces Layoffs After Saying Coding Jobs Will Be Replaced by AI

By Victor Tangermann

The home of real estate mogul Keith Wasserman, who was mocked for calling for "private firefighters," burned down to the ground.

Science & Energy

CEO’s House Burns Down After He Pled for Private Firefighters

By Victor Tangermann

Without Evidence, Elon Musk Says He’s Saved Thousands of Lives in LA Wildfires

Without Evidence, Elon Musk Says He’s Saved Thousands of Lives in LA Wildfires

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk made a programming joke about deleting the "woke mind virus" from his brain, betraying his limited knowledge of the field.

Alleged Tech Genius Elon Musk Makes Programming Joke That Makes Zero Sense

By Frank Landymore

Companies are equipping robotic vaccums with arms that can pick up after lazy people. Should we really be making them angry?

Manufacturers Giving Robot Vacuums Arms, to Better Attack Humans During the Machine Uprising

By Victor Tangermann

Blue Origin scrubbed the launch of its New Glenn rocket right before it was scheduled to lift off on Monday morning from Cape Canaveral.

Advanced Transport

Bezos’ Huge New Rocket Launch Shut Down Minutes Before Liftoff

By Frank Landymore

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will likely release an AI model that acts as a "midlevel engineer" this year.

Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI

By Frank Landymore

In the wake of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji's death, the young man's family say they believe he was murdered.

Parents of Dead OpenAI Whistleblower Say They Believe He Was Murdered

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk got a cold splash of reality from an LA County firefighter, extinguishing his lie that DEI is to blame for the LA wildfires.

Firefighter Shuts Down Elon Musk to His Face

New research finally solves the nearly two hundred year old mystery of which volcano caused the Sun to turn blue with its epic eruption.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What Turned the Sun Blue

By Frank Landymore

A new video shows a driverless Waymo robotaxi struggling to decipher the hand signals of a construction worker.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Self-Driving Taxi Flummoxed by Construction Worker’s Hand Signals

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have drilled nearly two miles into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting a core sample estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old.

Scientists Recover 1.2 Million-Year-Old Ice Core From Two Miles Deep in Antarctica

By Frank Landymore

Jimmy Carter Once Lowered Himself Into a Nuclear Reactor After a Partial Meltdown

Jimmy Carter Once Lowered Himself Into a Nuclear Reactor After a Partial Meltdown

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chick-fil-A has an army robots to squeeze citrus for its lemonade, turning the fast food chain's lemonade plant into a veritable lemon party.

Chick-fil-A Using Advanced Squeezing Robots to Conduct Huge Lemon Party

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two "Punk" and "Emo" fossils are challenging scientists' understanding of the evolution of mollusks. The scene, folks, is not dead.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover “Punk” and “Emo” Fossils

By Frank Landymore