You May Be Startled to Learn How Many Humans Have Been Killed by Gorillas

With Harambe’s tragic death nearly a decade behind us, folks online are now fantasizing about whether 100 men could vanquish single gorilla in mortal combat. Though there are no official databases tallying up the number of humans killed by gorillas — or any other animal, for that matter — experts suggest that it’s exceedingly rare… Continue reading You May Be Startled to Learn How Many Humans Have Been Killed by Gorillas

OpenAI Says It’s Identified Why ChatGPT Became a Groveling Sycophant

Last week, countless users on social media noticed that the latest version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT had made it extremely “sycophantic.” The company rolled out an update to the underlying GPT-4o large language model on April 25 — with results that took users aback at their fawning deference. “Oh God, please stop this,” another user complained,… Continue reading OpenAI Says It’s Identified Why ChatGPT Became a Groveling Sycophant

Elon Musk Is Getting Huge New Government Deals While Everything Else Is Getting Slashed

President Donald Trump announced his proposed budget today, calling for roughly $163 billion in cuts to non-defense-related funds. Among the cuts, which would kick in for the year starting in October if approved by Congress, are major health cutbacks, slashing the Centers for Disease Control Centers’ budget in more than half, “streamlining” financial assistance to… Continue reading Elon Musk Is Getting Huge New Government Deals While Everything Else Is Getting Slashed

New Wearable for Exceptionally Pathetic Men Detects When Their Wife Is Cheating

In an apparent effort to cash in on the hype surrounding AI and wearables, a startup called RAW Ring has come up with a wearable that it claims can catch a cheating partner in the act. The eyebrow-raising concept, described as a “dystopian loyalty tracker” by the New York Post, claims on its website that the… Continue reading New Wearable for Exceptionally Pathetic Men Detects When Their Wife Is Cheating

Temu Addicts Suffering Withdrawal

American shoppers ordering from ultra-cheap Chinese shopping websites Temu and Shein are already experiencing major sticker shocks in the wake of president Donald Trump’s trade war. A 145 percent tariff on all imports from China and today’s expiry of a “de minimis” exemption, which had previously allowed goods worth less than $800 to enter the… Continue reading Temu Addicts Suffering Withdrawal

A Military Whistleblower Showed a Photo of an Allegedly Huge “Disc-Shaped” Object, But There’s an Incredibly Obvious Explanation

Self-styled Pentagon whistleblower and former US Army counterintelligence officer Luis “Lue” Elizondo showed off a peculiar image of what appeared to be a gigantic, disc-shaped object floating hundreds of feet above the ground, during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee meeting this week. The briefing, which took place on Thursday, was hosted by the Unidentified Anomalous… Continue reading A Military Whistleblower Showed a Photo of an Allegedly Huge “Disc-Shaped” Object, But There’s an Incredibly Obvious Explanation

Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College’s Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Site

Earlier this month, student leaders at Emerson College’s student radio station, WECB, received an urgent email. “Yo!!!” read the subject line. “There’s an AI website using your identity!” The email was from a student at the University of Oregon, who went on to explain that her professor had, in class, pulled up what they believed… Continue reading Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College’s Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Site

Katy Perry Says Her Treatment After Bezos Spaceflight Was Horribly Unfair

It’s the 11-minute space trip heard round the world — and it just won’t go away. Weeks on from Katy Perry’s epic girlboss trip to the outer atmosphere, the multi-millionaire pop musician says she’s been “battered and bruised” by the internet’s backlash to her garish stunt. The all-female space trip — which happened on April… Continue reading Katy Perry Says Her Treatment After Bezos Spaceflight Was Horribly Unfair

Top Venture Capitalist Says AI Will Replace Pretty Much All Jobs Except His, Which Relies on His Unique Genius

The future is a world of jobless workers — except for the enlightened philosopher-kings of venture capital, that is. Or at least that’s according to Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Marc Andreessen, who imagines a future where the workers of the world sit jobless, in an employment apocalypse that will affect pretty much everyone except the unique genius of… Continue reading Top Venture Capitalist Says AI Will Replace Pretty Much All Jobs Except His, Which Relies on His Unique Genius

Signs Grow That AI Is Starting to Seriously Bite Into the Job Market

The discrepancy between expectations and reality faced by young college graduates entering the workforce has hit an all-time low in the United States, with figures published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that new grads are struggling to find jobs. As The Atlantic reports, the cause behind the shift is likely a combination of several… Continue reading Signs Grow That AI Is Starting to Seriously Bite Into the Job Market