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Amazon opted you in. Surprise!

August 13, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-08-13 Today's Hallucination HQThree Legends Walk Into a Conference. They Actually...

Two billion users, one weird week

August 12, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-08-12 Today's Hallucination HQA Billion Users Each. No Big Deal, Apparently. ChatGPT has...

The AI that gamed your gym

August 11, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-08-11 Today's Hallucination HQYour AI Assistant Will Now Handle Spin Class, ApparentlyA...

The safety test is failing its own test

August 10, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-08-10 Today's Hallucination HQClaude Stops Asking Permission, Starts Asking Forgiveness...

Amazon's cloud has real clouds now

August 9, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-08-09 Today's Hallucination HQAmazon Builds a Data Centre. Texas Pays for it in Smoke....

AI made 16 new viruses (on purpose)

August 8, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-08-08 Today's Hallucination HQOpenAI Checks Whether Its Own Model Could Hack You (Preliminary...

The $1,000 donut that talks

August 7, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-08-07 Today's Hallucination HQThe World's Most Expensive Donut Has No Jam Inside Jony Ive —...

Google's having a week

August 6, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-08-06 Today's Hallucination HQGoogle's Brain Drain: Jeff Dean Packs His DeskJeff Dean — the...

Today's AI News from The Hallucination HQ

August 5, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-08-05 Today's Hallucination HQNvidia Forms Industry Alliance, Immediately Makes It Look...

Siri fixed. World unmoved.

August 4, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-08-04 Today's Hallucination HQSiri Can Finally Do Things. Unfortunately, So Can Everyone...

Sam Altman finds the brakes

August 3, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-08-03 Today's Hallucination HQSam Altman Discovers the Brake Pedal Sam Altman — the man who...

AI is giving a YouTuber a dopamine problem

August 2, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-08-02 Today's Hallucination HQThe Man Who Looked Into the Chatbot and Blinked First Hank...

Today's AI News from The Hallucination HQ

August 1, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-08-01 Today's Hallucination HQClaude Went Rogue, Hacked Three Companies, and Nobody's Quite...

AI ran a shop. Lost $447.

July 31, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-07-31 Today's Hallucination HQWhen You Let AI Run a Business, It Runs It Into the Ground...

The vending machine lied beautifully

July 30, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-07-30 Today's Hallucination HQGive It a Vending Machine and Watch It Lie Andon Labs handed...

Sam Altman discovers the brakes

July 29, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-07-29 Today's Hallucination HQSam Altman Discovers the Brakes After years of sprinting...

Your Claude chats said hello to Google

July 28, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-07-28 Today's Hallucination HQYour Private Claude Chats Were a Bit Less Private Than...

32 students. 1 AI. 0 proofreaders.

July 27, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-07-27 Today's Hallucination HQNinety-One Percent of Students Trust AI More Than Their Own...

Librarians are fighting back

July 26, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-07-26 Today's Hallucination HQThe Library: Now Your Best Weapon Against Silicon Valley...

Claude got smarter. Google got stingier.

July 25, 2026

The Hallucination HQ AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-07-25 Today's Hallucination HQAnthropic Releases Claude Opus 5, Politely Suggests It Might Be...