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In this episode:

• Anthropic orders AI tool Claude to stop remaking video games
• Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering
• Anthropic says you can't be mean to Claude. It's not about feelings
• OpenAI Wants to Change the Name of Data Centers to the Stupidest Thing You've Ever Heard in Your Life

• It Turns Out Binance's $6 Billion Hack Happened Because Its Employees Were Vibe Coding
• Belgian, Swedish supermarkets report new suspected freezer hack
• One of Google's Android partners turned 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet

• Unannounced Test by Controversial "Sunlight-as-a-Service" Space Startup Shocks Astronomers
• A Startup Tested "Space Mirrors" for Search and Rescue. Here's What Happened.

• Voyager 1: What Is a Light-Day?
• Scientists Just Found Dinosaur Blood

• Texas woman gets stuck in McDonald's drive-thru because her Tesla wouldn't move
• King of Queens Drive-Thru Scene
• This retired professor was arrested for blocking a delivery robot

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - JACO TreadPro Tire Tread Depth Gauge
• Adam - Badass Motivation

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In this episode:

• Introducing dots
• It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains
• Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month
• Utah will become first state to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication

• Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food
• OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room
• Norway plans temporary ban on smart glasses in some public places

• Google thinks SpaceX's Starship has to launch 1,800 times before space data centers get off the ground
• NASA "troubleshooting" transporter for space station's robotic arm

• Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
• Tesla wants to jump the Roadster across Snake River Canyon in Evel Knievel-inspired stunt

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Tweet
• Adam - Claude Code Custom Apps

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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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