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• 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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In this episode:

AI Frontier

• Anthropic's Mythos model found vulnerabilities in classified US government systems
• Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack

Robots & the Road

• Waymo recalls about 3,900 robotaxis after some drove into freeway construction zones
• Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million

Big Tech & the Money

• Tim Cook calls the memory crisis a "hundred-year flood"
• Masayoshi Son dismisses Musk's idea for orbital data centers
• Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

Weird and Wacky

• Giant banana pulled over in Montana
• Fintech employee burned through $80,000 in tokens on a 'brainrot shooter game'

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Bonsaii Paper Shredder Lubricant Sheets
• Adam - Govee Water Sensors

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In this episode:

• When AI builds itself
• Statement on the US directive to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5
• US warned Anthropic that Fable 5 was jailbroken, firm 'refused' to fix it
• Amazon CEO's talks with US officials triggered the crackdown
• A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs

• Anthropic IPO 2026: confidential S-1 filed
• SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60 billion
• SpaceX stock jumps 20% in first full day of trading

• WWDC 2026: Siri AI, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence
• Apple partnering with Google and Nvidia for advanced AI model
• Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
• Snap unveils $2,195 Specs AR glasses

• World-first: therapy to make cells young again trialled in a person
• Midjourney goes from cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
• Midjourney is working on a full-body ultrasonic scanner

• McDonald's brings back the fried apple pie for America's 250th
• Henkel adhesive helps complete the Sagrada Familia's towers

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Charityvest
• Adam - Refyn bolt action pen

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In this episode:

• Anthropic confidentially files IPO prospectus with SEC
• Elon Musk Laid Out 602 Goals. We Counted How Many He Hit.
• 'Disrupted or dead': AI is crushing a generation of startups built before ChatGPT

• Dario Amodei: "Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power"
• Trump signs AI safety order seeking voluntary review of new models

• Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
• Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior"

• Microsoft's next-gen quantum chip cuts timeline to useful quantum computing
• "Nobody's making games for the retired people" — The underserved market for grey gamers

• Homing pigeons navigate using magnetic macrophages — in their livers
• The Google Pixel Watch 5 may have been spoiled by the creator of Borderlands
• Zuckerberg's superyacht quietly slips into Elliott Bay after days of hecklers

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Firecrawl
• Adam - Lovable for Project Management

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In this episode:

• Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup
• Anthropic releases new model, Opus 4.8
• AI sticker shock hits corporate America
• AI model simulation: Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Grok vs. Gemini
• Google hates you

• Your AI agent can now trade for you on Robinhood
• Robinhood lets customers use AI to trade stocks, make credit card purchases

• I Read the Pope's 240-Page Encyclical. I'm Astounded by What He Wrote.
• Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?

• Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down after 19 years
• Introducing Ford Energy

• Spotify is narrating magazine articles now
• Roku Is Revamping Its Homescreen for the First Time in Over a Decade
• Blind Waymo Users Revel in the Joy of Riding Alone

• Mark Zuckerberg's mega yacht docks in Seattle in the wake of Meta layoffs
• F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home
• Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet
• I vibe-coded a billionaire jet tracker to warn people about a possible apocalypse
• Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - OpenTools / OpenPrinter
• Adam - Gibson Guitar App

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