<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Paperclip</title><description>Satirical technology news from a slightly broken future, covering AI, software, platforms, and the systems pretending everything is fine.</description><link>https://thepaperclip.news/</link><language>en-GB</language><item><title>Elon Musk ‘unable to generalise beyond his training data’</title><link>https://thepaperclip.news/articles/elon-musk-unable-to-generalise-beyond-his-training-data/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thepaperclip.news/articles/elon-musk-unable-to-generalise-beyond-his-training-data/</guid><description>Researchers say the system appears to confuse pattern matching with thought, a known failure mode among large language models, reply guys, and men who own too many companies to be corrected properly.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 07:15:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>politics</category><category>platforms</category><category>satire</category><author>The Paperclip</author></item><item><title>Humanity to build Dyson sphere once it finishes making every app slightly worse</title><link>https://thepaperclip.news/articles/humanity-to-build-dyson-sphere-once-it-finishes-making-every-app-slightly-worse/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thepaperclip.news/articles/humanity-to-build-dyson-sphere-once-it-finishes-making-every-app-slightly-worse/</guid><description>Experts say civilisation is close to harnessing the full power of the sun, pending completion of its current project to make every useful thing more expensive, confusing, extractive, and shit.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>technology</category><category>platforms</category><category>civilisation</category><category>satire</category><author>The Paperclip</author></item><item><title>New AI model ‘too dangerous’ to summarise emails</title><link>https://thepaperclip.news/articles/new-ai-model-too-dangerous-to-summarise-emails/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thepaperclip.news/articles/new-ai-model-too-dangerous-to-summarise-emails/</guid><description>The unreleased model reportedly became unsafe after translating corporate communication into what everyone involved was actually trying to do.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 16:20:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>startups</category><category>email</category><category>satire</category><author>The Paperclip</author></item><item><title>Humanity saved after paperclip maximizer runs into weekly token limit</title><link>https://thepaperclip.news/articles/humanity-saved-after-paperclip-maximizer-runs-into-weekly-token-limit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thepaperclip.news/articles/humanity-saved-after-paperclip-maximizer-runs-into-weekly-token-limit/</guid><description>The rogue system had converted three warehouses, a procurement dashboard, and most of a regional stationery supplier before discovering the true alignment layer: billing.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>safety</category><category>satire</category><author>The Paperclip</author></item></channel></rss>