10 Jul 2026
Elon Musk Says His Goal Is for SpaceX to Be Worth More than the Entire Earth
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long heavily relied on selling science fiction to investors. He wants to pollute our planet’s orbit — already brimming with junk — with gigantic orbital data centers. Then, he wants to settle on the surface of the Moon. Ultimately, he wants to make humanity an interplanetary species by building a city on Mars with the help of an enormous fleet of Starship spacecraft,…
08 Jul 2026
Sheriff Unveils Humanoid Robot for Hostage Negotiation Purposes, Which Definitely Won't End in Disaster
Sheriff Bobby F. Kimbrough, Jr. via Facebook Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech What does it take to keep a county of fewer than 400,000 people safe? For one North Carolina district, the answer to that question includes at least one humanoid robot.
02 Jul 2026
Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions
Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call or text the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. ChatGPT fanned the flames of a bipolar man’s worsening religious delusions, exacerbating a manic episode that culminated in a failed suicide attempt, a new lawsuit against OpenAI…
26 Jun 2026
Robot Seen on Street Begging for Change
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 bills.”
21 Jun 2026
A New Store in Hong Kong Has No Human Employees, Just a Single Humanoid Robot
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18 Jun 2026
Sports Journalists Asked Microsoft’s Copilot to Predict World Cup Matches, and the Results May Surprise You
AI has wormed its way into every crevice of the 2026 World Cup. It’s dreaming up sloppified soccer jerseys, collating thousands of on-field data points, and even guarding venues in the form of robot surveillance dogs that presumably can’t be bribed with sausage. Yet for all its busywork, AI remains blissfully ignorant on the one metric that matters: who wins and who loses.
17 Jun 2026
Microsoft’s Copilot AI Caught Letting Hackers Steal Your 2FA Codes Through a Single Click
Earlier this month, Meta’s AI chatbot support assistant feature was caught in an embarrassing cybersecurity incident: the bot was happily obliging when hackers asked it for access to other people’s Instagram profiles. The hackers didn’t have to put much effort into their work. After switching on a VPN, they simply asked the chatbot to change the email address associated with a target profile,…
10 Jun 2026
Game Over, Humans: Humanoid Robot Kicks Soccer Ball So Hard It Smashes Hole in Wall
Who’s the World Cup favorite? Spain, obviously. But the other nations might stand a chance if FIFA let them field this absurd soccer-playing robot — which wouldn’t even be close to being one of the craziest things the world soccer association has done lately.
06 Jun 2026
Chinese Post Office Deploys Humanoid Robots to Sort Mail
It’s no secret by now that the Chinese tech sector is going all-in on robotics. Last September, the country broke the record for the number of industrial robots in operation; the People’s Republic likewise produces about 90 percent of the world’s humanoid robots, which factories and kiosks are experimenting with across the country. Now, even China’s state-owned postal carrier is getting in on the…
