Do or Donut A man had the misfortune of becoming trapped inside a driverless Waymo taxi as it drove around a Scottsdale, Arizona parking lot in circles — instead of…
Flavored nitrous oxide is the newest drug to sweep America's youth — and it sounds like folks are already developing debilitating addictions and alarming side effects. As New York Magazine reports,…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is calling for NASA to ditch its Artemis program, arguing that the "Moon is a distraction" and that "we're going straight to Mars" instead in a…
Orbstacle Course Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao says he had a baffling encounter when he was flying his private four-seat airplane in 2023. At an altitude of 9,000 feet over…
In a freewheeling interview with Bloomberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman unloaded on the company's board members who abruptly sacked him in November 2023 — new perspective on the coup that…
Kill 'Em All Meta was forced to euthanize its AI-generated "characters" after getting slammed for how cringe and problematic they were. As 404 Media reports, Meta has now killed off…
Last week, an active-duty US Army soldier died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound right before blowing up the Tesla Cybertruck he had rented in front of the Trump Towers hotel…
Two years on, the consequences of the Texas abortion ban are almost too grim to contemplate: amidst a surge in infant mortality, babies are being found discarded in dumpsters, ditches,…
Bolt from the Blue The sophomore year of Kia's three-row electric SUV has come to a pretty inauspicious conclusion. This week, the Korean automaker issued a recall for nearly 23,000…
Friendly Fire A video shared on social media appears to depict the prelude to an inter-robot-species conflict. The belligerents? A Waymo robotaxi and a Serve Robotics delivery robot, according to…
A Tesla Cybertruck exploded just outside the Trump Towers hotel in Las Vegas early Wednesday morning, killing the person occupying the vehicle and injuring seven others. You'd be forgiven for…
Insane Clown Posse's Joseph Utsler, better known by his stage persona Shaggy 2 Dope, has an AI clone — and apparently, he's a fan. Hosted on the Google-backed Character.AI service…
Folks on social media are in an uproar after Meta announced that it's planning to load Facebook up with AI "users," better known as bots. First reported by the Financial Times,…
Probe the Probe The family of Suchir Balaji, the 26-year-old OpenAI whistleblower who was found dead just a month after his New York Times exposé was published, is claiming that…
Localizer Tragedy In South Korea, a jet quite literally crashed and burned when it hit a wall that was placed at the end of an airport runway, killing 179 passengers.…
Fund and Games The former entirely-nonprofit-company known as OpenAI says it needs a boatload of more cash as it plans to transform its corporate structure to prioritize making money. In…
Money to Burn OpenAI's recently unveiled o3 model is purportedly its most powerful AI yet, but with one big drawback: it costs ungodly sums of money to run, TechCrunch reports.…
Golden Rule Elon Musk just wants to be a wholesome guy. On Sunday, the tech centibillionaire made a humble plea on his website X — formerly Twitter — to his…
It turns out that the slang "brain rot" may not be an inaccurate description of what's actually going on in our domes while we endlessly scroll TikTok. As Spanish newspaper…
Bot Net Were you hoping that bots on social media would be a thing of the past? Well, don't hold your breath. Meta says that it will be aiming to…