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Haha, True: The Chatbot That Sent a Man Down a Mountain
Season 2026 Episode 15
A hiker asks an AI for a shortcut, ends up on a forty-five-degree slope, and gets four words of sympathy. Plus a swarm of agents that invented a mess…
1 month ago
A Ring, A Lawsuit, And A Coin That Doesn't Need Firmware
Season 2026 Episode 14
Two links on the shelf this morning, so we made them count. A class action accuses a sleep-tracking ring's AI insights of being a coin flip — an alle…
1 month ago
Everything On The Shelf Is The Same Fluid Paper
Season 2026 Episode 13
A self-evolving science agent promises control policies that work anywhere, attached to descriptions of things that break the second the hospital buy…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Comedian Who Cloned Himself and Got a Nicer Man Back
Season 2026 Episode 12
A stand-up fed fifteen years of his own material into a bot and got back a version of himself with no grudges. Australia's charts try to ban AI songs…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Mushroom Book That Has Never Been Outdoors
Season 2026 Episode 11
AI-written foraging guides on Amazon are printing toxic fungus as edible, and foragers are being told to steer clear. Also: a hedge fund called Situa…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Courier Bot Wrote a Haiku About Its Own Employer
Season 2026 Episode 10
A delivery firm's support bot swore at a customer and then produced a haiku calling the company useless — while still failing to find the parcel. Plu…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Refreshing Aromatic Water Mix
Season 2026 Episode 9
A supermarket's leftovers bot invents a cocktail from under your sink and gives it a spa name. Then: fake payslips walk straight through mortgage che…
1 month, 1 week ago
One Headline, Eight Different Stories, Zero Humans
Season 2026 Episode 8
Our own news feed served up a Guardian piece about the Sussexes' shrinking media deals and swore it was a recipe for chlorine gas. Also: a streamer s…
1 month, 1 week ago
Tres Minutes: The Hotline That Only Translated Its Accent
Season 2026 Episode 7
A Washington state hotline's Spanish option turns out to be an English script read in a heavy accent, with a wait time of 'less than tres minutes'. T…
1 month, 1 week ago
Handed a Shovel, Twelve Dollars an Hour
Season 2026 Episode 6
Award-winning Hollywood writers are being paid between twelve and two hundred dollars an hour to teach AI models how to write screenplays. Also: whet…
1 month, 1 week ago