The'Great Meme Reset' Is Coming From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? Memes are getting a reboot. The Great Meme Reset of 2026, as it's being called on TikTok, demands that on January 1 all memes revert to their 2010s glory days. Bland " brain rot " and AI -looking memes are out; Big Chungus is in.

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Booth is a reporter at TIME. When Sam Altman arrived at Helion Energy's small Redmond, Wash., office in early 2014, nuclear-fusion textbooks tucked under his arm, the company was focusing its efforts on research and development. By the time he left, several days later, he had persuaded the fusion-energy startup to chart a more aggressive path toward deployment, CEO David Kirtley recalls. A year later, Altman, who was co-founding OpenAI around the same time, invested $9.5 million in Helion, taking the role of chairman.

It's late morning on a Monday in March and I am, for reasons I will explain momentarily, in a private bowling alley deep in the bowels of a 65 million mansion in Utah. Jesse Armstrong, the showrunner of HBO's hit series Succession, approaches me, monitor headphones around his neck and a wide grin on his face. "I take it you've seen the news," he says, flashing his phone and what appears to be his X feed in my direction. Everyone had: An hour earlier, my boss Jeffrey Goldberg had published a story revealing that U.S. national-security leaders had accidentally added him to a Signal group chat where they discussed their plans to conduct then-upcoming military strikes in Yemen. "Incredibly fucking depressing," Armstrong said.

Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content since January 2024, the foundation said in an update. But it's not because human readers have suddenly developed a voracious appetite for consuming Wikipedia articles and for watching videos or downloading files from Wikimedia Commons. No, the spike in usage came from AI crawlers, or automated programs scraping Wikimedia's openly licensed images, videos, articles and other files to train generative artificial intelligence models. This sudden increase in traffic from bots could slow down access to Wikimedia's pages and assets, especially during high-interest events. When Jimmy Carter died in December, for instance, people's heightened interest in the video of his presidential debate with Ronald Reagan caused slow page load times for some users.

Dr. Ronny Jackson joins'Sunday Morning Futures' to discuss his five letters asking President Biden to submit to a cognitive test and his next letter addressed to Biden's physician and the Cabinet. EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Earl "Buddy" Carter, R-Ga., wrote a letter to the White House on Monday calling on President Biden to take a cognitive assessment over concerns about his "fragile mental state" and ability to uphold his duties. In a letter obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital, Carter, who is also a pharmacist, wrote to White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients expressing "serious concern" with Biden's cognitive state and "ability to execute the duties of the Presidency." "After numerous examples of the President's declining mental acuity, it is imperative that the White House remains transparent about the President of the United States' honest ability to uphold the duties of the office to which he swore an oath," Carter wrote. This comes after a recent report from The Wall Street Journal stating that the 81-year-old president was showing signs of poor cognitive performance in private meetings with congressional lawmakers, including by closing his eyes for extended periods, speaking so softly at times that people struggled to hear him and forgetting details about his own energy policy.

There was something strange about her voice, they thought. It was not unfamiliar but, after a while, it started to go all over the place. Science presenter Liz Bonnin's accent, as regular BBC viewers know, is Irish. But this voice message, ostensibly granting permission to use her likeness in an ad campaign, seemed to place her on the other side of the world. The message, it turns out, was a fake – AI-generated to mimic Bonnin's voice.

If you listened to Stephen Fry's recent podcast, it might have left you puzzled. The recording of MS Singh's The Missing Lines cut off after just two minutes and 48 seconds – leaving the next nine chapters in silence. But this was no mistake; it was a trick to raise awareness for the people who go missing every 90 seconds. This isn't the first time a podcast has been used as a stunt. Joe Lycett recently announced Turdcast – a podcast in which celebrities talk about their poo, such as Gary Lineker and his great pitch poo at the 1990 World Cup.

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the problems with issue polling and issues with political journalism; the chaos and conflict of Sam Altman and OpenAI; and the failure of the Oslo Accords and perpetual struggle between Israel and Palestine. Send us your Conundrums: submit them at slate.com/conundrum. And join us in-person or online with our special guest – The Late Show's Steven Colbert – for Gabfest Live: The Conundrums Edition! December 7 at The 92nd Street Y, New York City. Here are some notes and references from this week's show: Nate Cohn for The New York Times: The Crisis in Issue Polling, and What We're Doing About It and We Did an Experiment to See How Much Democracy and Abortion Matter to Voters Eli Saslow for The New York Times: A Jan. 6 Defendant Pleads His Case to the Son Who Turned Him In John Dickerson and Jo Ling Kent for CBS News Prime Time: What Sam Altman's ouster from OpenAI could mean for the tech world Emily Bazelon for The New York Times Magazine: Was Peace Ever Possible? Ezra Klein for The New York Times's The Ezra Klein Show podcast: The Best Primer I've Heard on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Efforts John Dickerson for CBS Mornings: Former President Jimmy Carter: "America will learn from its mistakes" Here are this week's chatters: John: Julia Simon for NPR: 'It feels like I'm not crazy.'

While dating apps like Tinder, Bumble and Hinge might remain the largest pools for wholesale, bulk swiping, there's a long tail of niche options for daters who already know exactly what they're looking for. So, whether you can't live without a partner who loves death metal or desperately need to marry a fellow millionaire, there's a dating app or site out there catering to your own, very specific community of singles. Here are ten of the most unusual dating services online right now. A dinner date with an attractive stranger can be stressful enough without having to consider life-threatening dietary restrictions. Enter ' Singles with Food Allergies,' a $14.95-per-month subscription dating site for finding a soulmate who shares your same food allergy A dinner date with an attractive stranger can be stressful enough without having to consider anyone's life-threatening dietary restrictions.

Gorillaz may be the most famous example of a virtual band, at least in the west. Elsewhere, virtual idol Hatsune Miku is omnipresent, her personality projected on to her by fans. Four-piece outfit OFK are different: before you've heard a note of their music, you're going to find out exactly who they are. The band itself is not real – it is an invention of the songwriters, composers and game designers working together at LA developer Team OFK – but the music is, and this is a novel and intriguing way to experience it. We Are OFK is a band biopic delivered over five animated episodes.