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Tom Hanks Frets That AI Could Let Them Keep Pumping Out "Toy Story" Movies Forever
1+ hour, 30+ min ago (474+ words) Published Jun 27, 2026 2: 49 PM EDT It's 2026 and we're still getting new "Toy Story" movies. In fact, we're now on "Toy Story 5" " and the original was released in 1995, some 31 years ago. How long can Disney and Pixar keep this madness up?" It's…...
Korean Workers Vote to Go On Strike, Fearing Robots Could Replace Them
3+ hour, 28+ min ago (467+ words) Published Jun 27, 2026 12: 51 PM EDT Sensing where the winds are blowing, Hyundai factory workers in South Korea have voted to go on strike over fears that they could be replaced by humanoid robots. The Financial Times reports that the employees, who…...
AI Companies Are Learning an Ironic Lesson as the People They Pay to Improve Their Chatbots Are Just Feeding AI Slop Into Them
8+ hour, 29+ min ago (349+ words) Published Jun 27, 2026 7: 50 AM EDT For tech companies racing to be the king of the AI hill, there are few things more precious than raw, original data. To keep the large language models underlying our favorite AI chatbots up to date,…...
Deranged Stalker Uses AI to Edit Her Imaginary Baby Into Man's Photos
10+ hour, 19+ min ago (182+ words) Published Jun 27, 2026 6: 00 AM EDT An unbalanced stalker posed as an unwitting man's fianc, claiming they had a child together. To sell the act " and live out her obsessive fantasy " she used AI to edit images that showed them going on…...
Mark Zuckerberg Is Selflessly Building Yet Another Horrible Product Nobody Asked For
21+ hour, 29+ min ago (389+ words) Published Jun 26, 2026 6: 49 PM EDT The explosive popularity of prediction markets, spearheaded by Polymarket and Kalshi, has shocked experts, who are warning of a surge in gambling addiction. The platforms have massively lowered the barriers to entry for problem betting, allowing…...
Ford Scrambled to Rehire Engineers After Sabotaging Itself With AI
1+ day, 39+ min ago (310+ words) Published Jun 26, 2026 3: 39 PM EDT Ford just admitted that it scrambled to rehire former employees and find new technicians after its AI systems simply weren't good enough. "Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and adjusting the design requirements…...
Massive Data Center Cooks Nearby Residents Alive Amidst Deadly Heatwave
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (452+ words) Published Jun 26, 2026 2: 40 PM EDT As Europe bakes in the throes of a deadly heatwave, residents living near the continent's largest data center in Slough, a town just west of central London, UK, are enduring extreme temperatures. To keep all of…...
If There Wasn't Enough Opposition to AI Data Centers Already, Now They're Supercharging Inflation
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (316+ words) Published Jun 26, 2026 10: 48 AM EDT The shockingly unpopular drive to pepper the United States with massive AI data centers isn't just driving up electricity prices, wasting huge amounts of water, and reviving heavy-polluter power stations " it's also making life more expensive…...
Robot Seen on Street Begging for Change
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (268+ words) Published Jun 26, 2026 8: 44 AM EDT In today's global economy, even robots are begging for help. In a now-viral stunt involving a Unitree G1, a humanoid robot was seen begging on the streets of Chengdu, China in order to get "help with electricity…...
Peppa Pig Owner Demands Child Actors Sign Away Voice Rights to AI
2+ day, 24+ min ago (487+ words) Published Jun 25, 2026 3: 54 PM EDT Voice actors have been waging a fierce battle with the entertainment industry over training AI to synthesize their voices, effectively allowing them to reproduce their likenesses in perpetuity. Not even underage performers are safe from the…...