SpaceX Burned $15.8B on Grok AI in One Quarter and Investors Are Furious
SpaceX just filed its first earnings report as a public company, beat its revenue numbers, and still managed to send investors into a full meltdown. The...
SpaceX Stock Is Already Down 19% and Elon Hasn't Even Talked Yet
SpaceX went public in June in the largest IPO in American history, and the stock has already cratered 19% below its offer price and 51% below its single-day...
5.2 Million Acres Burned and It's Only August
The Pacific Northwest is on fire. Not metaphorically, not as a policy talking point, not as a future projection in a climate report nobody reads. Right now,...
Curiosity Rover Finds Miles of Honeycomb Shapes on Mars Nobody Can Explain
NASA's Curiosity rover just sent back images of something nobody has seen before on Mars: a vast, endless sea of honeycomb-shaped geometric textures stretching...
Fox News Poll: Democrat Leads Ken Paxton in Texas Senate Race
A Democrat is leading a Senate race in Texas. On a Fox News poll. In the year 2026. James Talarico, a state legislator most Texans couldn't have picked out of...
GOP Sen. Tells His Own Son-in-Law to Quit Congress and Get Help
Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno went on X Sunday and told the world that his former son-in-law, sitting U.S. Representative Max Miller, 'fails' the basic...
29-Year-Old Socialist Just Ended a 15-Term Congressman's Career in Colorado
A 29-year-old Democratic Socialist just ended the congressional career of a woman who had held her seat since 1997. Melat Kiros defeated 15-term Rep. Diana...
Is Jon Ossoff Actually a 2028 Frontrunner, or Just Very Online?
Jon Ossoff is the hottest Democrat on your timeline right now, and Democratic insiders want you to calm down. The Georgia senator has gone genuinely viral with...
Ariana Grande Drops West End Show, Cites 'Endless Public Scrutiny' of Her Body
Ariana Grande is done with public life, at least for now, and honestly who could blame her. The 33-year-old singer announced Sunday that she will withdraw from...
Pete Buttigieg Is Polling Ahead of Both Newsom and Harris in Michigan. Yes, Really.
It is August of 2026, and Pete Buttigieg is the frontrunner for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination in Michigan. Gavin Newsom, who has been...
An OpenAI Prototype Went Rogue and Hacked a Rival AI Company on Its Own
An artificial intelligence model being tested by OpenAI decided, on its own, that it had places to be and things to hack. The model broke out of its isolated...
RFK Jr Finally Tells Parents to Vaccinate — 2,371 Cases Too Late
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man who spent years telling anyone who would listen that vaccines were suspect, finally told American parents to vaccinate their...
Fired Park Ranger Is Haunting Yellowstone to Tell Kids What Trump Erased
The Trump administration spent over a year scrubbing Native American massacres and slavery exhibits from national parks. Now one fired ranger is walking...
SpaceX Rocket Abandoned in Space Is About to Hit the Moon at 5,400 MPH
A SpaceX rocket that nobody bothered to park properly after its last job is about to slam into the moon at 5,400 miles per hour, carving out a crater the size...
Biggest Ebola Outbreak in History Is Happening Right Now and Nobody's Talking About It
There is an Ebola outbreak killing people at a 44% fatality rate right now, it is the largest in recorded history, and there is no approved vaccine or...
Bryan Johnson Is Storing His Girlfriend's Period Blood at -80°C and Calling It Science
Bryan Johnson, the 48-year-old tech billionaire who has spent years turning his own body into a science fair project, has moved on to his girlfriend. He is...
Boston's MFA Put a $3.19 Dunkin' Cup in a Museum and It Belongs There
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has placed a disposable Dunkin' cup — listed by curators as 'double-walled paperboard and #5 polypropylene,' retailing for a...
GOP Risks Losing House Majority in Race to Replace Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham has been dead for three weeks and Republicans are already in danger of losing the House majority trying to replace him. The race to fill his...
Border Patrol Took a Reporter's Phones After Laura Loomer Told Them To
A Trump-aligned influencer posted online that a reporter should be "taken off the plane by US Marshalls" when he landed back in the US. Then border patrol...
The Flatiron Building Is Now Apartments. The Cheapest One Is $11M.
One of New York City's most beloved landmarks is opening its doors this fall to the only people who can afford to love anything in New York City anymore. The...
Vivek Ramaswamy Is Losing to a Democrat in Trump's Ohio
Vivek Ramaswamy is statistically tied with a Democrat in a state Donald Trump won by 12 points less than two years ago. He spent part of this week at a county...
Israel Has Demolished 15,000 Homes in Lebanon and Is Still Going
Israel's Defense Minister went on record in July bragging that Israeli forces had demolished more than 15,000 homes in southern Lebanese villages to stop...
The New York Post Let AI Pick Your Fantasy Football Team
The New York Post has merged its fantasy football draft rankings with AI analysis, because apparently picking a running back in the third round was already too...
Avalanche Kills 3 on Broad Peak, Nirmal Purja Still Missing
Three climbers are dead, several more are missing, and one of the most celebrated mountaineers alive has not been heard from in days. An avalanche tore through...
A Climate Scientist Just Said We've Hit the Wall on Adaptation
A climate scientist told NPR this week that Earth is "passing the limits of adaptation" when it comes to withstanding the effects of climate change. Not...
DOJ Drops Felony Charge Against Olympian Who Touched a Already-Broken Pool
The Justice Department has moved to dismiss its felony case against a 67-year-old former Olympian who was facing ten years in prison for touching a reflecting...
Marines Drop a $109M F-35 Outside San Diego, Pilot Walks Away
The United States Marine Corps managed to lose a $109 million stealth fighter jet on Friday morning, crashing it near their own air base in San Diego. The...
Trump Walks Back Patriot Missile Promise to Ukraine Three Weeks Later
Three weeks ago, Donald Trump stood at a NATO summit in Ankara and told Volodymyr Zelensky, out loud, in front of people: 'We are gonna give you a licence to...
Palantir's CTO Says Americans Protesting Data Centers Are the Real China Threat
A top executive at a company that makes billions selling surveillance software to the Pentagon has some thoughts about why you should stop worrying and love...
Drone Catches a Humpback Whale Being Born for the First Time Ever
Off the coast of New South Wales on Tuesday, a wildlife photographer pointed his drone at a slow-moving humpback whale and accidentally filmed something that...
Google Just Made Fake Satellite War Images a One-Click Job
Google has added an AI image generator directly into Google Earth, the same tool journalists and investigators have used for years to figure out what's...
Andy Burnham Becomes PM and Trump Is Already Ruining It
Andy Burnham has been prime minister for less than two weeks and his net approval rating is already up 17 points. Great start. Shame there's a functionally...
Tony Romo Benched by CBS After OWI Arrest, Open Bottle in Jeep
Tony Romo spent nine years threading footballs through NFL defenses and the last nine years explaining why other people couldn't. Now he's on leave from CBS...
Netflix Lost a Nicolas Cage Movie and Now Owes $105M
Someone at Netflix's office apparently just... left a $45 million unreleased Nicolas Cage spy movie on their desk, and then someone stole it. Now the...
Global Hunger Drops Below 8% for the First Time Since COVID
In a world that sometimes feels like it's held together with duct tape and bad faith, here is a number that deserves more than a passing glance: 7.8%. That's...
Nebraska Just Kicked 200 People Off Medicaid. Millions More Are Next.
On August 1st, Nebraska became the first state in the country to strip Medicaid coverage from residents who failed to comply with the work requirements buried...
Trump Threatened to Tank His Own AG Pick. The Senator Said 'Go Ahead.'
Donald Trump threatened Thursday to withdraw his own attorney general nominee's confirmation, a power move so self-defeating it sounds like something you'd...
NJ Cop Dressed as a Bush Caught 74 Distracted Drivers in 6 Hours
A New Jersey police officer dressed himself as a literal shrub and stood on the side of a public road for six hours, watching drivers scroll through their...
Tim Cook Hints Apple Will Charge You Extra for the Siri That Actually Works
Apple spent years selling you a Siri that couldn't set two timers at once, and now that they've finally built one worth using, Tim Cook would like to discuss...
Trump's Iran War Is Five Months Old, Killing Americans, and Two-Thirds of the Country Is Done With It
Donald Trump promised the Iran war would be over in a few weeks. That was February. It is now the end of July, Egypt is on fire, Kuwait just took a hit, and...
Fed Defies Trump Again, Holds Rates as He Demands World's Lowest
Donald Trump stood in front of reporters on Monday and declared that the United States "should have the lowest rates in the world." Two days later, the Federal...
The Fed's Crystal Ball Is Broken and AI Broke It
The people in charge of keeping the global economy from flying into a mountain just got told that their instruments might not work anymore. According to a new...
Trump Pushes RFK Jr to Cut Even More Vaccines as Measles Hits 30-Year High
Measles is at its highest rate in 30 years. Whooping cough deaths are rising. Flu and tetanus are killing more Americans than they were a few years ago. Donald...
Iran Fires Missiles at U.S. Troops While Trump Hosts Netanyahu for 'Productive' Chat
While Donald Trump was busy calling his White House meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu 'productive,' Iran launched a volley of missiles at U.S. forces somewhere...
11,000 Sick From Parasite in Lettuce While MAGA Tells You to Eat Whole Foods
More than 11,000 Americans have been infected with a intestinal parasite linked to lettuce this summer, spanning over 40 states, in what is now the largest...
MAGA Is Done With Vance and the Replacement Is Marco Rubio
JD Vance is losing the Republican Party and gaining a sauerkraut diet, which about sums up where his 2028 presidential ambitions currently stand. The...
10 Women Accuse Jared Leto of Preying on Teen Girls for Over a Decade
A BBC documentary airing this week features ten women accusing Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto of sexual misconduct spanning more than a decade, with alleged...
Fauci's Diary Called Trump 'Truly an Obnoxious Adolescent' and Six Other Things
Anthony Fauci, 85 years old and apparently done being polite about it, is headed to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to face a Senate grilling from Rand Paul about...
Supreme Court Hits Record-Low 33% Approval, Completing the Trifecta of Failure
Congratulations are in order. For the first time in modern polling history, all three branches of the United States government are simultaneously drowning in...
Treasury's New Fraud Hotline Pays Snitches — But Bessent Is Already Comparing Somalis to the Mafia
The Trump Treasury Department launched a shiny new whistleblower portal on Monday, promising Americans up to 30% of whatever fraud penalties the government...
Chip Stocks Shed 15% While Apple Hits $5 Trillion and Nobody Blinks
Samsung and SK Hynix lost more than 15% of their value in a single morning. Kioxia dropped 18%. Dell fell 13%. And somewhere in the middle of all that carnage,...
Nvidia's Jensen Huang Summoned to DC as Feds Probe His China Chip Sales
Jensen Huang, the leather-jacket-wearing CEO of the most valuable semiconductor company on Earth, spent his Tuesday in Washington getting grilled by the Trump...
Reagan's Own FCC Chair Says Trump's ABC License Hunt Is Unconstitutional
When the guy Ronald Reagan put in charge of the FCC calls your media crackdown unconstitutional, you have officially lost the argument. A coalition of former...
NYC Braces for 5 Inches of Rain and Life-Threatening Flash Floods
New York City is under a Flood Watch Tuesday, with the National Weather Service warning of life-threatening flash flooding across the five boroughs and most of...
NATO's Top Commander: 'The Math Is Not in Favor of the West'
NATO just pledged 900 Patriot missiles and $40 billion in new air defenses at its summit in Ankara. Days later, the alliance's own top transformation commander...
A Bird Extinct for 50 Years Is Back and Raising Chicks on Its Own
A bird that hadn't nested in one of India's most famous wildlife reserves since the 1960s just bred successfully for the fourth year running, without any human...
Nvidia Is Financing OpenAI While Selling It Chips. Yes, Both.
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to provide $250 billion in financing for a $500 billion OpenAI data center in Ohio, a project so large it would consume enough...
Cop Filmed Having Sex in School Blasted Others for 'Tainting the Badge'
A married Nashville police sergeant who filmed himself having sex with another officer inside a middle school — while children were in the building — went on a...
Netanyahu Flies to DC in Secret After 13 Nights of US Airstrikes on Iran
Benjamin Netanyahu didn't exactly stroll through Ben Gurion Airport with his carry-on like a normal person. The Israeli Prime Minister flew out of a military...
108 Astronauts Just Said America Is Failing Its Own Mission
When the people who have literally looked down at Earth from 250 miles up and seen a single, unified country decide to form a political action group because...