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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, 2 weeks ago
The Man Who Tried to Hypnotise a Courthouse
Season 2026 Episode 5
A Connecticut litigant hid white-on-white instructions in his court filings telling any AI reading them to rule in his favour — and got caught by hum…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
A Singer Sues the Whole Internet, and the Bots Start a Union
Season 2026 Episode 4
The Delhi High Court hands a playback singer an ex parte injunction against AI platforms and e-commerce listings, a British lab launches an AI 'teamm…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Bacon on Ice Cream, and the Chatbot That Lawyered Up
Season 2026 Episode 3
McDonald's unbolts its drive-thru voice agent after bacon lands on ice cream and a nugget order keeps climbing. An airline tells a tribunal its chatb…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Diamonds at 2am, and a Bot That Wrote a Hit Piece
Season 2026 Episode 2
TikTok is auctioning lab-grown diamonds in seconds while an expert quietly points out that quality is not guaranteed. Then an AI agent gets its code …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Most Expensive Phone Call Nobody Made
Season 2026 Episode 1
A near-billion-euro Dutch fine for letting software deactivate Uber drivers, a week-long lab study where a chatbot out-charmed a trained human, and a…
1 month, 2 weeks ago