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00:57 "Poor shamed" Community Goods college students

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1:06 Google Search moves to AI

9:39 Facebook soft-launches Reddit-competitor, Forum 

14:13 A single-person AI company, Polsai raises millions in investment (but is it legit?)

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https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/#powerful-ai 

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/google-seach-bar-ai-gemini.html 

https://www.garbageday.email/p/an-internet-after-search-engines? 

https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54762-most-americans-say-artificial-intelligence-ai-development-moving-too-fast-twice-as-many-ai-pessimists-as-ai-optimists-may-9-11-2026-economist-yougov-poll 

https://x.com/MattNavarra/status/2057606654594560495?s=20 

https://x.com/MattNavarra/status/2057621584249053591?s=20 

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mark-zuckerberg-blames-slower-sales-on-war-layoffs-on-ai-costs-in-meeting-2e9f8cac 

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mark-zuckerberg-blames-slower-sales-on-war-layoffs-on-ai-costs-in-meeting-2e9f8cac 

https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Agents/comments/1tm5n18/a_solo_founder_just_raised_30m_series_a_and_let/

https://schneida.substack.com/p/the-closest-thing-yet-to-sam-altmans 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/01/ai-agents-could-birth-the-first-one-person-unicorn-but-at-what-societal-cost/

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1:46 Patrick Ta vs. Painted by Esther

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1:18 AI vs. literary community

10:30 Mikayla Nogueira "divorce court" GRWM scrutiny

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0:53 Breakdown of the “Clip Economy” discourse online

10:44 Ground News is facing backlash on TikTok for AI usage

18:35 Elon Musk loses legal battle against Sam Altman and OpenAI

20:58 YouTube is expanding Deepfake protection to creators over 18

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Sources: 

https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html 

https://www.theverge.com/report/920005/social-media-clipping-podcasts-clavicular-marketing-mrbeast 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-short-form-clips-took-over-the-internet/id1378618386?i=1000763360734 

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/12/nx-s1-5794670-e1/the-clipping-economy-how-short-form-video-clippers-are-overrunningthe-internet 

https://clipping.net/blog/how-much-do-clippers-make#understanding-campaign-rates 

https://x.com/DevinNash/status/2044218558993813559 

https://shityoushouldcareabout.substack.com/p/the-clipping-economy-explained 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/musk-loses-open-ai/106695072 

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2056474896641782077 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/youtube-expands-its-likeness-detection-technology-which-detects-ai-fakes-to-a-handful-of-top-creators/

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/434105667 

https://www.tiktok.com/@k_osherman/video/7638624044161535246?_r=1&_t=ZS-96VTy0suigO 

https://www.tiktok.com/@totalhypocrisy/video/7637214699276307725?_r=1&_t=ZS-96VTvSa9Y5U