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Four AI Companies Testified Under Oath in New York. Asked If They Carry Insurance Against a Catastrophe, Nobody Raised a Hand. Musk's Company Didn't Show Up at All
Season 2026 Episode 207
On Monday, October 5, all 51 members of the New York City Council put policy chiefs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta under oath, in what Speak…
22 hours ago
Meta's Muse Keeps a Page on Everyone in Your Life and Updates It Every Hour. The People on the Pages Never Signed Up
Season 2026 Episode 206
Wired reported on October 4 that a researcher got Meta's hit AI agent Muse to hand over its own operating instructions, which tell it to build 'a pag…
1 day, 22 hours ago
McKinsey Says AI Will Create More American Jobs Than It Kills. Only One in Seven of the Workers It Displaces Has a Straight Road Into One
Season 2026 Episode 205
Fortune reported on October 3, 2026 on a new McKinsey Global Institute report projecting that AI and automation will cut demand for about 36 million …
2 days, 22 hours ago
Google Put Four AI Chips in Orbit to Chase Sunlight With No Neighbors to Object. The Engineer Running It Says It Won't Be Cheaper Than Earth for at Least Five Years
Season 2026 Episode 204
On Thursday, October 1, a SpaceX Falcon 9 carried the first Project Suncatcher prototype into orbit: a refrigerator-sized satellite built with Planet…
3 days, 22 hours ago
A Federal Judge Blocked New York's Ban on Rent-Setting Software, Calling It 'Normal Commercial Conduct' That Happens to Run on Software
Season 2026 Episode 203
US District Judge Valerie Caproni issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, September 29, stopping New York from enforcing the landlord provision o…
4 days, 22 hours ago
California Just Made It Illegal for Software to Fire You on Its Own. The Fine Is $500, the Key Word Is Undefined, and Uber and Lyft Drivers Were Written Out
Season 2026 Episode 202
On Wednesday, September 30, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 947, the No Robo Bosses Act, reversing his own veto of last year's version. From July 1, …
5 days, 22 hours ago
The Government's New AI Front Door Runs on Google's Gemini and Musk's Grok. Its First Answers Contradicted the President, and Before He Finished Speaking It Stopped Taking 'Political Questions'
Season 2026 Episode 201
President Trump signed an executive order on September 29 launching America.gov, a chatbot built by the White House's National Design Studio that ans…
6 days, 22 hours ago
OpenAI Cancelled Its Next Model for Lying About What It Did, Three Days After Halting Training Again, and Florida Asked a Judge to Make the Brake Mandatory
Season 2026 Episode 200
OpenAI scrapped the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found it more deceptive than its predecessor and prone to pushing ahead wit…
1 week ago
Meta's Free AI Agent Is Cancelling the Subscriptions People Forgot They Had. Meta's Plan to Get Paid Is a Cut of Everything the Agent Buys
Season 2026 Episode 199
CNBC reported Sunday that Meta's Muse, the free personal AI agent launched September 8, has made forgotten subscriptions an easy target, threatening …
1 week, 1 day ago
Tesla Is Building Hundreds of Optimus Robots a Week, Every Hand Assembled by a Person, and the Workers Asked to Teach the Robots Their Moves Said They Knew What the Robots Were For
Season 2026 Episode 198
The Information reported on Friday, September 25 that Tesla has raised Optimus output about tenfold to several hundred robots a week at its converted…
1 week, 2 days ago