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NOT SO INTELLIGENT

Teen Hiker’s AI Route Plan Goes Spectacularly Wrong

The teen was stuck on the mountain for three hours.

Martha McHardy

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to media following a Q&A at the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, U.S., September 23, 2025.  REUTERS/Shelby Tauber/Pool
PLAYING WITH FIRE

AI Boss Makes Terrifying Proclamation

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a chilling take on the bargain humans should strike for AI.

Erkki Forster

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MACHINE DREAMS

Trump Escapes Reality With Bonkers AI Takeover Fantasy

The president is self-soothing with fake images of fully-dressed penguins.

Katie Francis

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WAR GPT

Jaw-Dropping Way Trump, 80, Got Talked Into a War Is Leaked

A Trump insider has offered a jaw-dropping glimpse of the president’s decision-making.

Farrah Tomazin

US President Donald Trump looks on on the day he makes an announcement about an energy infrastructure project in Alaska, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., US, September 30, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
CATFISHING FOR CASH

Trump Debuts Bizarre AI Look to Hawk New Grifty Scheme

A bizarre AI incarnation of Trump has been deployed to hawk the president’s latest self-dealing scheme.

Erkki Forster

DOVER, DELAWARE - JULY 22: Natalie Harp, executive assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump, stands as President Trump arrives for a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base for military casualties of the war with Iran on July 22, 2026 in Dover, Delaware. Trump attend the dignified transfer of of Army 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, Staff Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, Army Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad and Army Pvt. Isabella Gonzales. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
KEEPING HIM STRAIGHT

Trump, 80, Humiliated as Natalie Harp Corrects Him

The aide is ever-present, even during magazine interviews.

Harry Thompson

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ARTIFICIAL IDIOCRACY

Kimmel Exposes Trump’s Perfect Intelligence Metaphor

The comic also compared asking tech bosses to police themselves to “like asking the Terminator to stop.”

Harry Thompson

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AMERICA LAST

Trump’s AI Goons Busted Committing Anti-American Blunder

A new AI federal government portal is anything but American, the Daily Beast has uncovered.

David Gardner

US President Donald Trump, with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and US House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), speaks to the media at the White House driveway following a luncheon for tech leaders in the East Room, in Washington, D.C., US, September 29, 2026.
NOT THAT CLEVER THEN

Trump Launches ‘Super Intelligence’ Pact With Awkward Error

The president’s grand AI accord with the world’s biggest tech bosses misspelled a basic word.

Tom Latchem

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media at the White House driveway following a luncheon for tech leaders in the East Room, in Washington, D.C., US, September 29, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
PUTTING IN THE REBOOT

Angry Trump Cuts Off Female Reporter to Go On Crackpot Rant

The president made his comments during a surprise appearance outside the West Wing on Tuesday.

Farrah Tomazin

Bill Gates speaks to the media as he arrives for a closed-door interview before the House Oversight Committee investigating late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, on Capitol Hill on June 10, 2026.
SOUNDING THE ALARM

Bill Gates Shares Chilling AI Prediction

The Microsoft co-founder was asked about whether the technology is “powerful enough to end all of humanity.”

Reagin von Lehe

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