The biggest stories on the internet from July 30th, 2026.

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1:17 Nantucket vs. influencers

11:50 BTS pulls out of Grammys running

15:30 Nara Smith rebuts "tradwife" label

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The biggest tech news & social media trends on the internet from July 29th, 2026.

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1:12 The reaction to MidJourney acquiring Co-Star

8:43 Claude exposed private chats on Google Search

14:20 AI companies are destroying physical media 

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Sources:

​​https://www.404media.co/tons-of-peoples-claude-chats-and-creations-are-exposed-on-google/ 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/09/08/hundreds-of-anthropic-chatbot-transcripts-showed-up-in-google-search/

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/psa-your-claude-shared-chats-and-artifacts-may-have-ended-up-on-google/

https://www.wired.com/story/private-claude-chats-exposed-in-google-and-bing-search-results/ 

https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/ 

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25982181/authors-v-anthropic-ruling.pdf 

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/ 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/ 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-24/ai-startup-midjourney-buys-astrology-app-co-star-and-is-building-its-own-apps 

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/970894/midjourney-co-star-acquisition 

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The biggest stories on the internet from July 28th, 2026.

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1:21 Bailey Smith exposed by multiple women

6:47 Dylan Mulvaney responds to White House speech

10:31 Jen Hamilton says her husband was living "a double life"

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The biggest stories on the internet from July 27th, 2026.

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1:42 Equinox goes viral for offensive AI ad

11:45 Morgan Adams vs. Tana Mongeau

17:22 Jeffree Star sparks concern over new friendship

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The biggest stories on the internet from July 24, 2026.

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1:57 Olandria vs. DeuxMoi

7:35 Dr. Nick Baumel returns to TikTok after "misogynistic" backlash

17:40 Kiley Skeff apartment scandal

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The biggest stories on the internet from July 23, 2026.

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1:05 Estranged sister-in-law goes viral for wedding confrontation

9:55 Olivia Rodrigo's rumoured man in finance

12:22 MrBeast is married

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The biggest tech news & social media trends on the internet from July 22nd, 2026.

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00:00 Intro

00:44 Madison Square Garden files defamation lawsuit against WIRED

10:00 Lorde calls out Spotify for AI features 

17:10 AI companion crackdown + AI updates  

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Sources:

https://www.wired.com/story/madison-square-garden-celebrity-database-surveillance/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/business/media/msg-entertainment-sues-wired-magazine.html  

https://www.wired.com/story/madison-square-garden-jim-dolan-surveillance-machine/ 

https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/msg-vs-ny-the-clash-over-facial-recognition-and-the-need-for-regulation/GLTR-03-2023/ 

https://i-d.co/article/sza-i-d-cover-interview-2026/ 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/lorde-calls-out-spotifys-ai-about-the-song-feature-1236650571/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1uzaedg/lorde_calls_out_spotifys_ai_about_the_song/ 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lorde-slams-spotify-ai-generated-song-descriptions-1235594882/ 

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-02-06/about-the-song-beta/ 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-16/spotify-making-ai-music-easier-to-detect/106919814 

https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/ai-credits/ 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-19/china-cracks-down-on-artificial-intelligence-companions/106925352 

https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2026/china/china's-new-regulations-on-ai-anthropomorphic-interactive-services 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-19/china-cracks-down-on-artificial-intelligence-companions/106925352 

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2026/02/china-is-worried-about-ai-companions-heres-what-its-doing-about-them 

https://mattsheehan.substack.com/p/chinas-ai-companion-reg-and-the-growing

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2026/789299/EPRS_BRI(2026)789299_EN.pdf 

 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/technology/openai-attack-hugging-face.html

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/ 

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The biggest stories on the internet from July 21st, 2026.

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1:41Kenny Rodriguez comes for JaNa Craig in new podcast interview

10:21Jimothy the raccoon

12:15 Chris Olsen breakup update

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The biggest stories on the internet from July 20, 2026.

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1:45 Undone by Kate vs. creator's "wedding dress from hell"

15:44 American Airlines delayed flight viral backlash

22:00 Chris Olsen claims he was cheated on amid breakup

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The biggest stories on the internet from July 17th, 2026.

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1:38 TikTok's "glow-up" debate

8:01 Interview: Amelia Seselja, the Scientific Affairs and Public Health Manager for Colgate South Pacific

17:28 Rare Beauty taps Ella Bright as first celebrity ambassador

19:38 Viral wedding invite Twitter thread 

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