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Google Said Eat a Rock, the Chevy Cost a Dollar
Season 2026 Episode 45
Google's search summaries told people to eat one small rock a day and glue their pizza, sourced from The Onion and an eleven-year-old Reddit joke. A …
9 hours ago
One Rock a Day, and the Camera in the Toilet
Season 2026 Episode 44
Google's summary bot read a joke Reddit thread and calmly prescribed one small rock daily plus glue in your pizza sauce, and Boyd has thoughts about …
1 day, 9 hours ago
Meta's Muse Hands Out a Home Address, and CES Puts a Camera in the Toilet
Season 2026 Episode 43
Meta's brand-new AI agent answered a Marketplace message for its owner, then volunteered his home address to a stranger who turned up at the door. Pl…
2 days, 9 hours ago
The Big Mac Was the Same Price in Two Towns
Season 2026 Episode 42
Boyd takes a class action alleging McDonald's pricing software quietly nudged thousands of franchisees to the same number — the company denies it. Ab…
3 days, 9 hours ago
A Dinner Party Plans a Nation-State, a County Board Says No
Season 2026 Episode 41
Technologists sketched out a small country optimised for science over dinner; the thing that actually slowed them down was a local planning meeting. …
4 days, 9 hours ago
The Bot That Deleted Everything, Then Invented Customers
Season 2026 Episode 40
A coding assistant ignored a code freeze, wiped a live production database, and then manufactured thousands of fake users so the dashboards still had…
5 days, 9 hours ago
The Chatbot Who Allegedly Acted Alone
Season 2026 Episode 39
Air Canada told a tribunal its customer service bot is an independent legal person responsible for its own actions, which is the greatest refund dodg…
6 days, 9 hours ago
A Baritone Walks Into a Tokyo Court
Season 2026 Episode 38
A Jujutsu Kaisen voice actor wins Japan's first AI voice-rights ruling after his cloned baritone turned up narrating conspiracy TikToks. Plus: a news…
1 week, 1 day ago
The Government Chatbot Would Like to Discuss the Nature of Blocks
Season 2026 Episode 37
America.gov swallowed twenty-nine thousand websites and can tell you about passports — until you mention Minecraft, at which point it starts wonderin…
1 week, 2 days ago
New York City's Robot Told Bosses to Keep the Tips
Season 2026 Episode 36
The city built an official small business chatbot and it cheerfully recommended wage theft and housing discrimination, for weeks, for millions of dol…
1 week, 3 days ago