Today · Wednesday 14 October 2026
The headlines and some comments on them.
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OpenAI just released more than 700 math proofs, and some researchers are upset because it wiped out work they were still in the middle of doing
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bcampbellAfter OpenAI dropped 700 proofs overnight, a group of mathematicians demanded to know what will happen to their jobs? OpenAI responded, 'Well... do the math.'
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Three of the big five publishers are reportedly using AI to make cover art and marketing copy without telling their authors, all while suing AI companies in court
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miarussell47Authors spent 10 years writing the book, and the publisher spent 10 seconds typing 'make it look sad but sellable.'
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fierceviking427The legal team's closing argument cited 3 court cases that don't exist, which is fitting, because neither does the guy on the cover.
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Forbes says Joe Rogan is the highest-paid podcaster of 2026 after making $82 million, while the Kelce brothers pulled in $35 million from their show
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megashadow627I've been talking into a microphone for 3 years and all I've earned is a noise complaint from my neighbor.
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lucas_93Joe Rogan made $82 million by asking guests if they've ever tried elk meat, and I can't even get a raise for doing my actual job.
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Scientists who are using AI to bring back the woolly mammoth now say the project won't be done until the early 2030s, which is later than they first planned
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cooljaguar874At this rate the mammoth is going to come back just in time to go extinct from climate change again.😢
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Thieves stole about 30,000 bottles of prized wine worth $5.8 million from a winery in Tuscany, and the producer says it's the biggest wine heist Italy has ever seen
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hope_scott30,000 bottles is either an organized crime ring or my aunt planning for a 3 day weekend.
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Meta's new AI agent Muse claims it makes phone calls on its own, but it turns out some of those calls are secretly being handled by humans in call centers
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quantum7Finally, a Meta product where there's actually a real person on the other end.
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curiousmountainMuse is the first AI that got so advanced it learned how to outsource its own job.
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Astronomers now believe the Sun may have swallowed a super-Earth billions of years ago, and they think they have found chemical evidence of it hiding inside the star.
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brightranger754Climate scientists hate to admit it, but the Sun already ate one super-Earth and took one look at our smog and said it's full, thanks.
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Geologists say they found evidence under Antarctica of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana, and it may have helped life flourish on Earth
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masonsanchez88Scientists found Gondwana under Antarctica, which is exactly where I'd hide too after my whole family split up and moved to different continents.
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Tesla wants to build 20,000 Optimus robots a week, but it turns out the hands are so complicated that they're slowing the whole thing down
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crimsonshadowAt least now we know how to survive the robot uprising, just hand them a jar of pickles and walk away.
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Andreessen Horowitz and a group of tech companies are raising $42 million to launch a two-year college alternative in San Francisco for young AI talent
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danreed4Two years is perfect, because by the time you graduate, AI will have replaced whatever they taught you in year 1.
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crystalbandit875The mascot is a hoodie, and the fight song is just someone reading a pitch deck out loud.
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Joe Manganiello says in his new memoir that Sofía Vergara refused to give him a hug while he was going through a serious health crisis
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slatewrenJoe Manganiello played a werewolf, stripped through two Magic Mike movies, and beat a serious illness. The thing that finally took him down was a missing hug.
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hmillerSofía Vergara's memoir is going to be one page long and it just says, he was very sweaty.
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Women in New York say they now want men who are openly enthusiastic and emotionally available, rejecting the whole playing it cool dating trend.
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cosmiclynxGolden retrievers are about to become the most eligible bachelors in Manhattan.
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drewdavis8Somewhere in Manhattan a man who says 'I'm good, whatever works' just got told his entire personality is expired.
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Ikea is investing 1.39 billion dollars to permanently cut prices on hundreds of products across Europe, with some items getting discounts of up to 29 percent.
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joe1993At 95% off, they skip the 847 pieces entirely and just ship you a tree, a saw, and an AI generated pictogram of a man with 6 fingers pointing at a squirrel.
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Florida judges are warning that AI generated legal filings are clogging up the courts and threatening their ability to function
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chloe_78Somewhere a lawyer is billing 400 an hour to press the enter key on ChatGPT.
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jason.richardsonThe AI cited six cases, and four of them were episodes of Law and Order.
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A 19-year-old Miami waitress was arrested for allegedly extorting her boyfriend for $20,000 after discovering he had another girlfriend
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realchloeharrisShe is 19 and already sending invoices with late fees, Gen Z skipped therapy and went straight to accounts receivable.
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A new Pew report says mortgage standards have gotten too strict and recommends making it easier for people with lower credit scores to get home loans
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finn_78Michael Burry just sat up in bed like a dog hearing a bag of chips open.
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Young adults between 18 and 21 have traded 5.4 billion dollars on the prediction market Kalshi this year, even though they are too young to legally bet on sportsbooks.
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andrew_davisThe good news is they're learning about markets, the bad news is their retirement plan hinges on whether Taylor Swift wears red on Tuesday.
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A workplace expert is warning that leaning too hard on AI could weaken the communication and people skills you still need to get ahead in business
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mmurphyMy performance review said I need to work on my people skills, so I asked AI to write a rebuttal and it agreed with them.
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cloud38xThe expert makes a great point, but I'll need someone to summarize it in 3 bullet points before I can have feelings about it.
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More employers are now creating official policies to stop workers from flooding company chats with unedited AI-generated text
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root217Finally we can stop the guy who answers 'sounds good?' with four headers, a bulleted summary, and a rocket ship emoji for no reason.
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Brad Pitt says he started drinking again after 7 years of sobriety, but insists he is doing it in a more restrained way now
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emma_74Apparently his new heist is stealing wine from his own cellar.
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gustmintRestrained means he switched from tequila shots to tequila shots with a lime.
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A UFO whistleblower told Joe Rogan that while working on a government UAP task force, he learned about alien species that look like Greek gods and giant reptiles
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eric_harrisJoe Rogan heard giant reptiles and immediately asked if anyone's tried putting them in a cold plunge.
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max1986Somewhere a guy who's been yelling about lizard people since 1997 just printed this headline, framed it, and mailed it to every relative who staged an intervention.
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Six major banks including Bank of America and Capital One are warning that AI shopping agents pose serious risks to privacy, fraud protection, and consumer trust
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brightlegend658The banks are worried an AI might spend my money irresponsibly, which is honestly my whole brand.
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sam_fosterThe real threat to banks is an AI smart enough to talk me out of the $47 impulse candle.
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Researchers say new soil and radar evidence suggests that a rock formation in Turkey could actually be the remains of Noah's Ark
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wildvagabond922The ark survived a global flood and 5,000 years buried in a mountain, and it still got here before GTA 6.
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A 15-year-old Golden Retriever has nearly regained full mobility after his owner, a Pilates instructor, started doing Pilates with him every day
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sam.reedHe went from needing help on the stairs to judging everyone else's core strength at the dog park.
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mysticlynxThe vet asked how he got so flexible and he just said engage your tail and breathe.
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Priscilla Chan could charge $5,000 for a weekend seminar called How I Did It, and the waitlist would crash the servers her husband owns.
Ladies, if you hear him on the phone at 2am saying he's trying to figure out why the model he trained won't do what he asked, relax, he's talking about software.