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The Invisible Word Was Madagascar
Season 2026 Episode 18
A history professor hides a word in white font on an exam paper and thirty-two students hand back essays about the Industrial Revolution in Madagasca…
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The Hiring Robot That Invents Your CV
Season 2026 Episode 17
A screening model doesn't just rank candidates — it makes up job titles they never held, and the pipeline downstream treats the invention as a fact a…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Cat in the Hat Is Not Outside Your School, Say Police
Season 2026 Episode 16
Police in more than one country have officially confirmed the whereabouts of a Dr. Seuss character, thanks to grainy AI videos and a very bored inter…
1 month, 1 week ago
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, 1 week 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, 1 week 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