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In this episode:

• Meta Launches $1,299 VR Headset That Look Like Glasses to Rival Apple Vision Pro
• Meta is trying VR glasses (again), this time with more IMAX
• Meta introduces camera-free AI glasses
• Meta's Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it's tapping into a much newer trend

• Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries
• If Flock Wasn't Enough, Dallas' AI Cameras Are Scanning Homes From Garbage Trucks
• Trump urges renaming AI to 'super intelligence' in UN speech

• Lovable's annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off
• Exclusive: Infillion acquires location data company Foursquare

• Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big
• Injectable nanoparticles make blind retinas respond to light in preclinical study

• US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut at construction site
• Here's the Tesla Semi... again

• What to do when your Waymo holds up a Secret Service motorcade
• Vogue sent robots down the runway at Vogue World, and people were not impressed

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - ZuckOff
• Adam - Instinct

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• Trump says no need for more AI regulation, slams Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
• AI caught telling future versions of itself to bypass human controls, OpenAI reveals

• Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts
• Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

• Dyson $500 AI CameraJet toothbrush users report overheating, charging problems
• I wore Snap's $2,200 smart glasses
• The Jerk - Optigrab class action suit

• China's 'next-gen' car wash that leaves cars spotless in just seconds is going viral
• BYD looking to build 5-minute EV charging network in Canada

• Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun,' authorities say

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Instinct
• Adam - Harvest

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In this episode:

• Meta debuts Muse, its long-planned personal AI agent
• Hugging Face approached Nvidia's Huang weeks ahead of $12.9B acquisition
• Humans are "close to being outsmarted" by superintelligence, AI expert says

• House Democrat urges US action over sleeping Tesla drivers
• Tesla Cybercab doesn't have any manual controls — but it does have a hidden virtual joystick
• Weird #cybercab situation: a rider finds a virtual joystick
• Feds launch investigation into Tesla's Cybercab deployment
• Don't Get in a Crash in a Cybercab

• Apple unveils foldable iPhone Duo
• Apple Introduces Its Most Expensive and Innovative iPhone Yet, the $1,999 Foldable iPhone Duo

• Apple Doesn't Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch's Listening Features
• Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

• Virtual Taekwondo Takes the Contact Out of a Combat Sport
• We Asked AI How It Could Kill Humanity. Here's What It Told Us.

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - SnoozeFlow
• Adam - Hydrate Spark

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In this episode:

• "Welcome to the AGI era," OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts
• 'I'm not trying to convince you of anything': AI agents are now emailing researchers to talk about their consciousness
• NYC school system unveils aggressive restrictions on AI amid nationwide push
• Harvard's $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors
• Amazon Mechanical Turk

• Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn's AI slop button
• Side of slop? Bizarre AI food images jump from online to IRL menus

• Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'
• MapQuest's app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario

• Google defeats US justice department bid to force ad tech sale
• Noise and Motion Monitors in Their Homes? These Tenants Say No.

• New Spanish nanomaterial cools surfaces by up to 12.9C without electricity
• Dyson launches $499 toothbrush with built-in camera, AI technology

• Man pushes Russian humanoid robot. Watch what happens next

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Fastpotify
• Adam -

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In this episode:

• This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature
• Goldman studied where AI is squeezing labor markets. Here's what it found

• Fairphone's latest repairable phone is going on sale in the US
• Unitree shows off new Superman robot that it says can outrun Usain Bolt and jump 6.5 feet

• FlightAware withdraws lawsuit against Kalshi over flight-cancellation markets

• Amazon seemingly leaked Jason Statham's entire Mutiny movie
• Utah man buys world's cheapest new car from China and is stunned by what it looks like
• Man dressed as Darth Vader defends Flock cameras to San Diego City Council

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Murdoku
• Adam - What Adam built on Lovable most recently

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• France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls from August 11
• France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s
• 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
• FlightAware Sues Kalshi Over Flight Cancellation Prediction Markets

• Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks
• Is Your Website Down? Outage Hits Hosting Provider Namecheap

• NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year
• Space mirrors could ruin astronomy — and your eyes

• Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards
• Aptera Solar EV

• Fenix Flexin isn't even denying using AI to make 'Rubberz' anymore
• AI agent hacks gym to get its owner spot in pilates class
• Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them
• People are finding out firsthand why you 'can't' pour water down the Hoover Dam
• Buc-ee's dodges John Oliver to sue another small business

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - The Seinfeld Chronicles
• Adam - Claude to grocery shop

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• Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?
• Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo

• Anthropic's AI used fake human profiles to trick people in safety test
• It's official: Anthropic is building an in-house chip team for Claude

• Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
• Apple's 'Private Relay' Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses

• Elon Musk issues ominous warning as SpaceX short interest hits danger zone
• Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets

• BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Crystal Wars
• Adam -

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• OpenAI says Hugging Face breach caused by its models
• 'Unprecedented': OpenAI says AI models autonomously hacked another company
• Anthropic says three Claude models reached real-world systems during testing
• House AI 'kill switch' bill unveiled as OpenAI hack raises alarms

• AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident
• ChatGPT's medical advice nearly killed a Florida man, lawsuit claims
• LinkedIn introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' button
• OpenAI Ads: Advertise in ChatGPT

• Private Claude chats exposed in Google and Bing search results
• A whole bunch of people's Claude chats are publicly accessible online
• LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
• GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison
• A missing underscore sent an innocent man to prison for 18 months

• Firefox 153 brings native Containers to the browser
• Jack Dorsey made an open-source Slack for humans and agents
• Framework's premium laptop is shipping with less RAM
• Stripe in talks to buy AI-model marketplace OpenRouter
• The secret Trump administration battle to fight Chinese AI
• France joins a global move toward restricting social media for children

• The US government just banned Roombas
• United Airlines bans humanoid and animal-like robots from all flights
• London Gatwick introduces robotic parking service
• Researchers build a low-visibility drone that uses motion blur
• Airbus A350 flies 24 hours nonstop from Australia to France

• White House teleprompter operator investigated over alleged Kalshi trades
• "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
• Politician reads AI prompt during assembly

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type
• Adam - Supabase

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In this episode:

• Humanoid Robots Just Performed Live Surgery for the First Time Ever
• First Robotic Single-Port Mastectomy in the U.S. by a Robot Named "Carol"

• Scott McNealy: "You Have Zero Privacy Anyway. Get Over It"
• WNBA Players Scored a Historic Labor Contract — With One Big Caveat
• Nearly a Million Passports and Photo IDs Left Unprotected Online
• Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

• UK Plans Default Midnight Social Media Curfew for 16- and 17-Year-Olds
• Netflix May Add Always-On Channels. That's Just Cable.
• Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat
• Finland's Last Analogue Landline Phones Go Silent After 150 Years

• FCC Approves Orbital Space Mirrors; First Test Satellites Launch This Year
• Hard but Lightweight "Bio-Metal" Discovered in Sea Worm Jaws
• How to Hide from Killer Drones

• Autonomous Flying Umbrella Follows and Shields Users from Rain and Sunlight
• The Uniqlo T-Shirt with an Obfuscated Bash Script on the Back

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Knockoff
• Adam - Granola

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In this episode:

• It's Not About Anthropic vs. OpenAI Anymore
• Asian AI Startups Launch Mythos-Like Models
• Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5
• Claude Fable 5 Makes a Dramatic Return
• Ford Rehires 'Gray Beard' Engineers After AI Falls Short
• AI Is Creating America's Next Underclass

• Big Tech and Wall Street Team Up on a Stablecoin
• How Trump Made $1B on Crypto While Investors Lost
• Bending Spoons Surges 40% on First Day of Trading
• Zuckerberg Is Building Another Product Nobody Asked For

• Louisiana Man Functionally Cured of Sickle Cell
• Global Review Confirms mRNA Vaccines Are Safe
• Lab-Grown Retinal Cells Show Promise for Eye Therapies
• Physical Pressure Could Double EV Battery Life
• Drummer Rediscovers Passion After Life-Changing Accident

• Supreme Court Restricts Geofence Warrants
• LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen — Again
• Hackers Shoveled Snow, Got Network Admin Access

• Heinz Releases 'Unofficial' Ketchup Over FIFA Blackout
• Coder Ranks Which Coworkers Stress Him Out via Whoop
• Artificial Skin Lets Robots Sense Heat and Pressure

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Boardy
• Adam - Whoop

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