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OpenAI Faces Congressional Probe Over Swarm Hacking Incident
7+ hour, 27+ min ago (539+ words) Published Sep 13, 2026 12:01 PM EDT Earlier this week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon drew major media attention after announcing he was quitting his job, claiming that neither Anthropic nor his former employer OpenAI is “acting responsibly” and that there’s a real chance…...
Sam Altman Now Trying to Gain Control of Electric Grid
12+ hour, 26+ min ago (259+ words) Published Sep 13, 2026 7:02 AM EDT Armed with sordid tales of rogue AI agents escaping containment, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has found plenty of success using scare tactics to call for friendly regulation in the name of AI safety. Now, it seems…...
Police Investigator Accused of Making Over 4,000 Illegal Flock Camera Searches
13+ hour, 27+ min ago (319+ words) Published Sep 13, 2026 6:01 AM EDT In case you thought the extreme backlash against automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) was excessive, a veteran police investigator was just arrested after conducting over 4,000 unauthorized searches using the software provided by Flock Safety. According to…...
Aging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (375+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 2:01 PM EDT Surely our creaking gerontocracy is well-equipped to respond to a technology as novel, disruptive, and rapidly evolving as AI, right? “There is a percentage of my colleagues who are still trying to spell AI,” representative Sam…...
Federal Agents Are Secretly Monitoring Americans' Financial Transactions So Cops Can Arrest People They Find Suspicious
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (295+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 10:01 AM EDT The surveillance state is trying out a new tactic: pocket watching. 404 Media reports on how secretive “predictive policing” units in the US Border Patrol are analyzing Americans’ financial activity and using it as a pretext to…...
Trump's Plan to Give Every American Adult $5,000 After the Midterm Would Add $1.3 Trillion to the National Debt
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (335+ words) Published Sep 10, 2026 2:42 PM EDT With his approval ratings in the gutter, US president Donald Trump is cooking up another cash advance for the American people, and it’s a doozy. At the first-ever Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas — which is…...
CNN Just Ran One of the Worst AI Puff Pieces We've Ever Seen in Our Lives About That "AI Actor" Tilly Northwood
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (528+ words) Published Sep 10, 2026 12:47 PM EDT Last year, a so-called “AI actress,” dubbed Tilly Norwood sparked a near-universal backlash. The algorithmic brunette’s appearance couldn’t have come at a worse time, as the entertainment industry continued to reel from being overrun by cheap…...
Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (349+ words) Published Sep 10, 2026 10:43 AM EDT With opposition to AI continuing to grow, a top AI lab is building out a massive surveillance apparatus meant to keep a close eye on dissenters and predict when the next groundswell of protest might occur....
Data Center Caught Watering Its Lavish Lawn While Human Neighbors Are on Year-Long Water Restriction
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (418+ words) Published Sep 7, 2026 8:02 AM EDT When the Denver board of Water Commissioners approved stage one drought restrictions back in March, they did so facing some of the driest conditions in decades. According to the US Drought Monitor, the watershed sourced for…...
Humanoid Robot Fights Back After Getting Shoved
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (371+ words) Published Sep 6, 2026 10:02 AM EDT While they’re seemingly still years away from completing actually useful tasks, like cleaning a messy apartment or doing the dishes, humanoid robots have developed plenty of capabilities over the past few years, from sprinting faster than…...