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In this episode:

• Anthropic Is Testing 'Mythos,' Its Most Powerful AI Model Yet
• Anthropic Leaked 500,000 Lines of Its Own Source Code
• OpenAI Raises Record $122B at $852B Valuation
• Google Employees Have a New AI Tool Called 'Agent Smith'
• Meta Is Running Intensive AI Training Weeks for Employees

• Trump Administration Unveils National AI Policy Framework
• Super Micro Computer Co-Founder Charged With Diverting $2.5B in Nvidia AI Chips to China
• Philadelphia Courts Will Ban All Smart Eyeglasses
• AI and Bots Have Officially Taken Over the Internet

• Fannie Mae to Accept Crypto-Backed Mortgages for the First Time
• Order Sunlight Whenever and Wherever You Want on Demand
• Humanoid Robotics Maker Sunday Reaches $1.15B Valuation

• A Man Used AI to Call 3,000 Irish Bartenders to Track the Cost of Guinness
• YouTuber Resolves Fraternal Disagreement With Excavator and Hilariously Large Sword
• High-Tech Olaf Animatronic Collapses Mid-Performance at Disneyland Paris
• April Fool's 2026: The Most Ridiculous Tech Pranks of the Year

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Parachord
• Adam - CoPilot budgeting app

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In this episode:

• OpenAI Is Shutting Down Its Sora Video App Just Months After Launch
• New Ways to Create Faster with Gemini in Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive
• Mozilla to Launch Free Built-In VPN in Upcoming Firefox 149

• SpaceX to File for US IPO as Soon as This Week
• Claude AI Maker Anthropic Said to Weigh IPO as Soon as October
• Google AI Breakthrough TurboQuant Is Pressuring Memory Chip Stocks

• Jury Finds Meta and YouTube Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial
• Judge Dismisses X Corp Lawsuit Accusing Advertisers of Illegal Boycott

• Is DC Power the Future of AI Data Centers?
• Sodium-Ion EV Battery Delivers 11-Minute Charging and 450 km Range

• 'StravaLeaks': France's Aircraft Carrier Located in Real Time by Fitness App
• Meta Buys Moltbook, a 'Social Media Network for AI'

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Unfolded Circle Remote 3
• Adam - Claude Code to build apps

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• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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In this episode:

1. US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes despite Trump calling Anthropic a 'Radical Left AI company' — The Guardian
2. Hundreds of Google and OpenAI employees sign open letter urging limits on military AI — TechRadar
3. ChatGPT Uninstalls Surge 295% After OpenAI Accepts Pentagon Contract — eWeek

1. Block CFO confirms AI caused mass layoffs: What to know — Yahoo Finance
2. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Software industry is going to radically expand in capability and scale — CNBC
3. Sam Altman says AI isn't very popular in the US right now — Business Insider
4. Musk's latest interview: AI has entered a self-evolutionary cycle — MEXC
5. Netflix is buying Ben Affleck's AI startup — The Verge
6. Val Kilmer Resurrected by AI to Star in 'As Deep as the Grave' — Variety
7. Venture dollars to female founders doubled to a record $73 billion — Fortune

1. Grammarly is using our identities without permission — The Verge
2. Grammarly says it will stop using AI to clone experts without permission — The Verge
3. AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case — Grand Forks Herald
4. Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom — Ars Technica
5. FBI Is Buying Data to Track People — Politico

1. Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3 is designed to hold up to years of drops, debuts on Razr Fold — 9to5Google
2. Apple launches $599 MacBook Neo powered by an iPhone chip — The Verge
3. Anthropic's Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals — The Verge
4. Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bots — The Verge
5. Digg — Thanks for being part of our beta. Stay tuned for what comes next. — Digg
6. NASA's DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun — NASA

1. Germany Built AI-Powered Cyborg Cockroaches and NATO Is Testing Them — TechNow
2. DJI will pay $30K to the man who accidentally hacked 7,000 Romo robots — The Verge
3. How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world — MIT Technology Review
4. Superheat — Redefining Energy Infrastructure — Superheat
5. United Airlines can permanently ban passengers who don't wear headphones — The Verge

Tech Rec:

1. Sanjay - DoNotNotify
2. Adam - Claude Cowork

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1. sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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In this episode:

1. Several Meta employees have started calling themselves 'AI builders'
2. Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users, researcher claims
3. Forget solid-state batteries – researchers have made a lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and drastically lower costs
4. Uber acquiring parking app SpotHero as it moves beyond ride-hailing and food delivery
5. How a doomsday AI blog post wiped out billions
6. This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
7. Hands on: I’m super impressed with the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s new Privacy Display
8. Tesla touts California robotaxis but does nothing to get permits
9. FedEx will refund customers for Trump’s tariffs — if there ever are any refunds
10. Android’s Find Hub adds iPhone-like luggage tracking links
11. Another Oracle outage is messing up US TikTok

Tech Rec:

1. Sanjay - TogetherLetters
2. Adam - Wisper Flow

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1. sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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In this episode:

1. The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remotely accessed thousands of them
2. WordPress.com adds an AI Assistant that can edit, adjust styles, create images, and more
3. OpenClaw founder Steinberger joins OpenAI, open-source bot becomes foundation
4. Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
5. 'If someone can inject instructions or spurious facts into your AI’s memory, they gain persistent influence over your future interactions': Microsoft warns AI recommendations are being "poisoned" to serve up malicious results
6. New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles

Weird and Wacky:

1. This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy
2. Kévin: "Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"
3. In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

Tech Rec:

1. Sanjay - Nextmug Plus
2. Adam - https://eventpromokit.enablegood.io/

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1. sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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In this episode:

1. Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
2. Amazon Ring’s lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
3. How did the FBI get Nancy Guthrie's Google Nest camera footage if it was disabled — and what does it mean for your privacy?
4. Ring and Flock Safety cancel partnership amidst surveillance criticism
5. Waymo admits that its autopilot is often just guys from the Philippines
6. Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars
7. Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage
8. Google is expanding AirDrop support to more Android devices ‘very soon’
9. Google says attackers used 100,000+ prompts to try to clone AI chatbot Gemini
10. It took two years, but Google released a YouTube app on Vision Pro
11. Anthropic raises another $30B in Series G, with a new value of $380B

Weird and Wacky:

1. Watch: YouTuber-built ‘world’s most efficient’ drone flies for 3.5 hours straight
2. The Most Expensive Party Balloon in History
3. For $1M, you can pay Bryan Johnson (or BryanAI?) to teach you how to live longer

Tech Rec:

1. Sanjay - Pdfwithlove
2. Adam - Anker USB C Charger with Foldable Plug, 20W USB C Charger Block

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1. sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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In this episode:

1. Ikea’s next cheap Bluetooth speaker is a playful purple mouse
2. How does Lemonade Autonomous Car insurance work?
3. Elon Musk's SpaceX to merge with xAI
4. Musk's SpaceX and xAI merge to make world's most valuable private company
5. China bans all retractable car door handles, starting next year
6. Revolutionary Cryogenic Coolant Uses Abundant Elements, Eliminates Need for Rare-Earths in MRI and Quantum Cooling
7. Meta Quest 3 Gets A Futuristic New Feature
8. Spotify Just Added Three New Lyrics Features, Including One I've Been Dying For

Weird and Wacky:

1. NASA will finally allow astronauts to bring their iPhones to space

Tech Rec:

1. Sanjay - Grayl
2. Adam - Reading Refresh

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1. sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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In this episode:

1. Iran’s internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only
2. Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw
3. FBI says it's investigating Signal. Should users worry?
4. TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
5. Samsung confirms Galaxy S26's insane 'pixel level' privacy feature
6. Amazon shutters all of its physical Go and Fresh stores
7. Thermodynamic Computing Slashes AI-Image Energy Use Heat may be 10 billion times as efficient for randomization
8. Tesla is committing automotive suicide
9. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI in talks to merge, according to reports
10. Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest $50B in OpenAI

Weird and Wacky:

1. Behold, the Lego x Crocs footwear collab that dreams are made of

Tech Rec:

1. Sanjay - AnythingLLM
2. Adam - Substack

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1. sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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In this episode:

1. I can tell you personally that we are not getting out of VR," says Meta Developer Advocate just one week after the brand laid off more than 1,000 Reality Labs employees
2. Report: Apple plans to launch AI-powered wearable pin device as soon as 2027
3. NexDock is building a new Windows phone that you can buy in 2026 — Meet the NexPhone with Windows 11
4. Google now offers free SAT practice exams, powered by Gemini
5. How bad was the Verizon outage? Really bad.
6. Spotify is no longer running ICE recruitment ads
7. Spotify launches AI-driven 'prompted playlist' for premium users in US, Canada
8. Sesame Street finds a new home on YouTube with over 100 classic episode
9. ChatGPT to start showing users ads based on their conversations
10. Device that may be tied to Havana Syndrome obtained by U.S. government
11. Ikea’s $10 Kallsup speakers are tiny, colorful, and surprisingly loud
12. Waymo passenger flees after car drives on Phoenix light rail tracks
13. Waymo resumes service in San Francisco after robotaxis stall during blackout
14. Miami, Your Waymo Ride Is Ready
15. Netflix is acquiring an avatar company as it moves into party games
16. New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas
17. TikTok deal finalized before Trump app ban kicks in

Weird and Wacky:

1. Elizabeth Holmes asks Trump to let her out of prison early
2. Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record
3. 4,000 tons of potatoes to be given away for free
4. NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks

Tech Rec:

1. Sanjay - JetBack App
2. Adam - Deepstash

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1. sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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In this episode: 

• Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it
• Disney making $1 billion investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI video generator
• Disney Inks Blockbuster $1B Deal With OpenAI, Handing Characters Over To Sora
• OpenAI launches GPT-5.2 after 'code red' push to counter Google's Gemini 3
• OpenAI Hires Slack CEO as New Chief Revenue Officer
• Claude and Slack
• Instacart and OpenAI partner on AI shopping experiences
• ‘ONE RULE’: Trump says he’ll sign an executive order blocking state AI laws despite bipartisan pushback
• Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing for Autopilot and Full Self-Driving, judge rules
• Rivian Will Add Lidar in 2026, Says Tesla’s Cameras Aren’t Enough
• Stellantis to bring tiny Fiat car to U.S. following Trump remarks
• ICEBlock app sues Trump administration for censorship and 'unlawful threats'
• Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $800 Billion, as It Prepares to Go Public
• SpaceX to Pursue 2026 IPO Raising Far Above $30 Billion
• YouTube TV to Launch More Than 10 Cheaper Genre-Specific Plans, Including a Sports Tier With ESPN Unlimited
• We Made $75 External Memory For Your Brain!
• Meta reportedly delays mixed reality glasses until 2027

Weird and Wacky: 

• This major cruise line just banned Meta Ray-Ban and other smart glasses — is this category already doomed?
• Tesla made a $350 pickleball paddle
• Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
• How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Affinity 
• Adam - Manus.ai for Social Media Image Creation

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• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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