20+ hour, 32+ 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…...

1+ day, 13+ 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…...

1+ day, 17+ 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…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (230+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 6:03 AM EDT As the triple-threat of AI-fueled unemployment, rampant inflation, and further erosion of workers’ rights take their toll, US workers are throwing their support behind a long-neglected institution: labor unions. According to a new survey by polling…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (335+ words) Published Sep 10, 2026 8:28 AM EDT Back in August, a massive leak in El Reno, Oklahoma spewed close to four million gallons of local water into the ground, forcing the city into an unofficial stand-still. The cause was quickly traced back to…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (338+ words) Published Sep 8, 2026 7:56 PM EDT The companies ushering in food delivery robots aren’t buying themselves much goodwill in the Windy City. In the short amount of time they’ve been on Chicago streets, the bots have sent residents to the hospital and…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (714+ words) Published Sep 8, 2026 6:54 PM EDT Schools across the world are experimenting with AI tools, usually to the dismay of unsuspecting parents. But one privately-run school is explicitly embracing AI as part of its sales pitch, and the in-class experience sounds more…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (394+ words) Published Sep 6, 2026 11:01 AM EDT A group of software engineers who say they were fired by their bosses because of AI are giving their former employers a taste of their own medicine. With the powers of spite and friendship, they’ve built…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (724+ words) Published Sep 4, 2026 2:02 PM EDT While American tech billionaires fret over the capabilities of Chinese AI, one national security advisor has a brilliant idea to flatten the competition: simply bomb their data centers to smithereens. In a new report titled “Superpowers…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (440+ words) Published Sep 3, 2026 9:52 AM EDT At this point, the AI economy is like a drunk guy who managed to mount a tiger. Though nothing about the current situation is ideal, there’s no clear way to hop off without ensuring certain doom…...