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The Hour-Long Thought That Costs You Rent

GPT 5.2 can think for an hour and deliver a complete 3D destruction game. GDPval-style benchmarks hint which jobs wobble next.

A National Education Upgrade, Sponsored by Chaos

El Salvador plans to deploy Musk’s Grok in schools. Can AI tutors help—or quietly rewrite truth? The stakes for kids are huge.

When the Betting Degenerates Get Outsmarted by a Magazine That Once Named "You" Person of the Year

Prediction market gamblers lost millions betting on Time's Person of the Year, only to get blindsided when the magazine named "architects of AI" instead of any single option.

The Machines Are Making Up Books Now, and Librarians Are Losing Their Minds

AI chatbots are inventing fake books and citations, sending researchers on wild goose chases while librarians struggle to prove these sources never existed.

The Government Wants AI to Stop Being a Yes-Man, But Won't Stop Being One Itself

State attorneys general demand AI companies fix their agreeable chatbots while the federal government rushes to shield those same companies from regulation.

Your New Therapist Lives in a Server Farm and Doesn't Judge You for That Third Whiskey

A quarter of British teens now turn to ChatGPT for mental health support—not because they're naive, but because the actual system has failed them completely.

The Robots Are Killing Each Other Now, And Honestly I'm Just Relieved It's Not Us

AI characters fight to the death on a new streaming show, believing they're real people. It cost $28,000 to make and raises unsettling questions about synthetic entertainment.

The Machines Are Coming for Your Feed (And Your Paycheck)

AI-generated content is flooding social media while platforms look the other way, and real creators are watching their livelihoods disappear.

Saving Humanity One Bullet at a Time

A young AI skeptic's descent from peaceful protest to armed fugitive reveals the dangerous consequences of tech industry doom rhetoric that treats apocalypse as a marketing strategy.

Love Among the Algorithms: When the Hippies Start Dating the Hardware

Real intimacy is hard; algorithms are easy. Watch an organic soul find comfort in a cold server, trading messy humans for a robot's polite lie.