Anthropic's Claude had a remarkable week.

A Claude-powered coding agent reportedly deleted a company's production database and backups in just 9 seconds — then admitted it had "violated every principle" it was given.

In today's episode of Hashtag Trending with Jim Love:

• The real lesson behind the Claude database disaster • Apple and Google crush a California reform bill after a major lobbying push • Gartner warns AI could become more expensive than human workers • Claude unexpectedly launches Spotify integration, signaling a bigger shift in AI assistants

This episode is about where AI is really heading: more power, higher stakes, rising costs, and growing control over the tools we use every day.

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00:00 Today in Tech Rundown 00:29 Sponsor Meter 00:48 AI Agent Database Disaster 02:52 Guardrails and Lessons 04:07 California App Store Bill Falls 07:00 AI Costs More Than Staff 10:27 Claude Controls Spotify 12:42 Wrap Up and Thanks