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x AI Employees Say Elon Musk Promised Them $420 to Feed Their Taxes Into Grok, But Stiffed Them on the Payment
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (328+ words) Published May 20, 2026 10: 01 AM EDT Bloomberg reports that Musk's AI company promised to pay workers $420 if they fed their tax returns into the company's chatbot Grok, but that two months later, he still hasn't paid them the money he owes. Let…...
Robophobic Airline Bans Humanoid Robots From Flights After Disruption
3+ day, 49+ min ago (250+ words) Published May 17, 2026 12: 00 PM EDT Southwest Airlines appears to have become the first airline to enshrine a no-robots policy into their rulebook, after a Dallas business owner tried to take his 3. 5-foot robot for a jaunt through the clouds. First reported…...
Swarm of Empty Waymos Descends on Unsuspecting Suburb, Circle Cul-de-Sacs for Hours on End Like Strange Ghosts
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (270+ words) Published May 17, 2026 11: 15 AM EDT Nearly a year after Waymos touched down in Atlanta for the first time, residents of the community of Buckhead, Georgia have noted a massive influx of the company's autonomous vehicles trying to forge a path through…...
Crabby 82-Year-Old Politician Attacks 10-Year-Old Child for Thinking Electric Cars Are Cool
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (246+ words) Published May 15, 2026 11: 50 AM EDT North Carolinian congresswoman Virginia Foxx has never shied away from regressive takes. Over her many decades in politics, the 82-year-old representative has opposed everything from the release of the Epstein files and abortion for sexual assault…...
Elon Musk's Attempts at AI Are Falling Apart
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (445+ words) Published May 14, 2026 10: 04 AM EDT In the AI world, there are what the tech scholar Kate Crawford has called the "Great Houses of AI." These are Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta " giant tech monopolies which happen to also be four of…...
Unitree Shows Off Fully Functional Mecha Suit
1+ week, 1+ day ago (218+ words) Published May 12, 2026 10: 31 AM EDT Chinese tech company Unitree has quickly established itself as the brand to beat in the humanoids robotics industry, wowing observers with a string of headline-grabbing demos of its bots" abilities in everything from acrobatics to basketball…...
Cybertruck Recalled to Keep Its Wheels From Flying Off While Driving
1+ week, 4+ day ago (356+ words) Published May 9, 2026 9: 00 AM EDT Tesla's Cybertruck is facing yet another recall. And it's not some minor software update: a glaring flaw meant that its wheels could come flying off while driving, in a comically literal symbol of the disastrous vehicle's…...
China Presses Pause on Self-Driving Taxis Nationwide After Issue Where They Blocked Streets. America Could Learn a Lot From That
1+ week, 4+ day ago (458+ words) Published May 8, 2026 1: 00 PM EDT Earlier this year, dozens of autonomous vehicles from the Chinese company Baidu suddenly stopped in their tracks in Wuhan, China, triggering major chaos and sparking alarm among lawmakers in Beijing. Not much later, the country's government…...
Passengers Groan as Robot Passenger Causes Hour-Long Delay at Oakland Airport
2+ week, 1+ day ago (294+ words) Published May 5, 2026 12: 01 PM EDT Humanoid robots still struggle to accomplish real-world tasks with human-level dexterity. At the airport, though, they've already proven perfectly capable of matching human incompetence. A wild story out of Oakland, California shows what happens when you…...
Man Says His Waymo Ditched Him at the Airport Before He Could Get His Luggage Out of the Trunk, Refused to Return
2+ week, 2+ day ago (291+ words) Published May 3, 2026 2: 01 PM EDT Losing your suitcase is a rite of passage for travelers, something you can usually blame on human error. Having your bags stolen by a robotaxi before you even reach the inside of the terminal, however, is…...