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Furious Users Are Fed Up of Getting Stuck Talking to AI Customer Service Agents, Resort to Screaming "Human"
56+ min ago (449+ words) Published Jun 25, 2026 1: 47 PM EDT There's something grating about finding out that the customer service representative on the other end of the line is an AI agent, not an actual human. If it hasn't happened to you, it's certainly happened to…...
Duck Duck Go's AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (603+ words) Published Jun 25, 2026 12: 53 PM EDT According to Duck Duck Go's AI search feature, US President Donald Trump passed away earlier this month from rabies. Needless to say, not a word of this is true. Trump and Vance are alive, and though…...
Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code
5+ hour, 52+ min ago (274+ words) Published Jun 25, 2026 8: 51 AM EDT A lot of ink has been spilled on the programmers who got replaced by AI agents. But it doesn't sound like it's a whole better for the ones who avoided getting the axe, either. "Most software…...
Failing Robot Cop Company Knightscope Now Publishing Bizarre AI Slop Fan Fiction About Its Robots Solving Absurd Crimes
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1106+ words) Published Jun 24, 2026 10: 13 AM EDT For its 13 years in businesses, robot security company Knightscope has weathered a remarkable run of self-inflicted disasters. Not even the notoriously tech-obsessed NYPD renewed its contract with Knightscope, probably because the K5 required constant monitoring by human…...
Meta's Program That Spies on Every Employee's Computer Just Blew Up in Its Face in Spectacular Fashion
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (461+ words) Published Jun 23, 2026 4: 40 PM EDT Though its chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth assured that the data it collected would be "tightly controlled," the company is now pausing the tracking program after sensitive employee information was leaked internally, according to reports from…...
Trump Orders Construction of Powerful Quantum Computer
2+ day, 21+ min ago (334+ words) Published Jun 23, 2026 2: 22 PM EDT Let it never be said that he makes small swings. President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders today to drive research in the quantum computing industry, with the purported aim of accelerating scientific research…...
New Paper Proposes What Really Causes AI Psychosis
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (343+ words) Published Jun 23, 2026 10: 15 AM EDT Psychiatrists and other researchers are still working to understand the phenomenon known as "AI psychosis," in which users of chatbots enter into delusional mental health crises following intensive use of the tech. A new paper proposes…...
A24 Fans in Meltdown After It Enters AI Partnership With Google
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (455+ words) Published Jun 23, 2026 9: 07 AM EDT A24 has spent years carefully crafting its image as a canny underdog studio that platforms artist driven films. It commands incredible loyalty among moviegoers, with its brand often preceding the names of the actual talent involved in…...
Head of Microsoft Rages at His Fellow CEOs for Admitting What They're Actually Doing to Society With AI
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (418+ words) Published Jun 22, 2026 4: 47 PM EDT After cementing himself as the leader of one of the top AI companies in the world, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has some biting criticism for his rival tech executives. In an interview with the Wall Street…...
Desperate AI Startup Now Cleaning Messy Apartments for Free
3+ day, 35+ min ago (483+ words) Published Jun 22, 2026 2: 08 PM EDT The adage, "data is the new currency," has taken on a whole new meaning in a society obsessed with AI. The prevailing thinking is that with more data, AI models will continue to improve dramatically, turning…...