Smart Glasses Spy Scandal | Oscars Ban AI | Instagram Algorithm Shift | Ep 30

Your Ray-Ban glasses might be recording more than memories — and the people training Meta's AI were watching every second of it. This week we break down one of the most disturbing privacy stories of 2026, plus two more stories that show the tech world is finally starting to draw lines around what AI can and can't do.

We cover three stories that hit differently this week:

A Meta contractor in Kenya was fired after 1,108 workers blew the whistle on reviewing intimate footage captured through Ray-Ban smart glasses — sex, bathroom moments, banking screens — all to train AI. Meta's response? Cut the contract and call it a standards issue.

The Academy just banned AI-generated actors and AI-written scripts from Oscar eligibility. Hollywood drew a line. The question now is whether the rest of the creative world — including Bollywood and Kollywood — will follow.

Instagram quietly killed the copy-paste economy. Accounts that built millions of followers by reposting other people's content will no longer be recommended to new audiences. Original creators finally get their moment.

Plus quick briefs on Spotify's new human artist verification badge, DeepSeek V4's return, the Oppo-OnePlus-Realme mega merger, USB-C winning Europe, and Google Translate turning 20.

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