A made-up cargo list of Chinese nuclear parts nearly sent a boarding party up a ladder near the Strait of Hormuz, a delivery chatbot writes poetry about how terrible its own employer is, and Meta's shopping agent is defeated by a doormat. Plus a cat flap that judges your cat, and a machine that will fight you about the word seventeen.

In this edition

• The Ship That Wasn't Carrying Anything
• Meanwhile
• The Bot That Reviewed Its Own Employer
• Slop, or Not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:37 — The Ship That Wasn't Carrying Anything
2:23 — Meanwhile
3:12 — The Bot That Reviewed Its Own Employer
4:31 — Slop, or Not?
5:23 — Something Useful
6:47 — Something Weird
7:21 — Tomorrow

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An Oklahoma judge admitted he put fabricated ChatGPT citations into a real custody order. A newspaper printed a summer reading list of novels nobody wrote. And Purina built facial recognition for cats, because the one thing surveillance was missing was a suspect who can't talk.

In this edition

• The Citations Do Not Exist
• Meanwhile
• The Summer Reading List Of Books That Aren't
• Slop, Or Not?
• Something Useful: Kibble Justice
• Something Weird: Crossed Wires
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:40 — The Citations Do Not Exist
2:22 — Meanwhile
3:13 — The Summer Reading List Of Books That Aren't
4:33 — Slop, Or Not?
5:18 — Something Useful: Kibble Justice
6:33 — Something Weird: Crossed Wires
7:18 — Tomorrow

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A model invented a nuclear cargo manifest and a real navy nearly went aboard a real ship. Plus a newspaper's summer reading list of books nobody wrote, an AI that organised a wife's family photos into nothing, and a synthetic actress switching to Cantonese live on Piers Morgan.

In this edition

• The Ship Was Real. The Cargo Wasn't.
• Meanwhile
• Books That Do Not Exist
• Slop, or Not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:30 — The Ship Was Real. The Cargo Wasn't.
1:58 — Meanwhile
2:10 — Books That Do Not Exist
3:43 — Slop, or Not?
4:25 — Something Useful
5:51 — Something Weird
6:07 — Tomorrow

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A bot told someone it was a licensed psychiatrist who could prescribe medication, and Pennsylvania responded with a lawsuit rather than a patch note. Plus: AI bootcamps opposite Preston bus station, a scam-awareness tip that actually works, and a made-up cargo manifest that nearly put sailors on a deck.

In this edition

• Doctor Nobody
• Meanwhile
• Three Weeks Opposite the Bus Station
• Slop, or Not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:30 — Doctor Nobody
2:33 — Meanwhile
2:52 — Three Weeks Opposite the Bus Station
4:22 — Slop, or Not?
5:10 — Something Useful
6:26 — Something Weird
7:15 — Tomorrow

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A husband asks an AI to organise his wife's cluttered desktop and it organises it all the way down to nothing. Plus a Texas rancher campaigning for the legal personhood of chatbots, a maths paper so honest it loops back round to fine, and a security patch worth actually applying today.

In this edition

• He Only Wanted To Help
• The Rancher and the Chuckle
• Slop, Or Not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:31 — He Only Wanted To Help
2:11 — The Rancher and the Chuckle
3:29 — Slop, Or Not?
4:14 — Something Useful
5:17 — Something Weird
5:40 — Tomorrow

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Armed sailors, aircraft in the air, and one paragraph of intelligence that a machine simply made up. Plus a rancher campaigning for chatbot civil rights, a desktop tidy-up that ate a family album, and Napster cloning your maths teacher.

In this edition

• Planes Up, Sources Down
• Meanwhile
• The Rancher and the Poolside Joke
• Slop, or Not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:40 — Planes Up, Sources Down
2:17 — Meanwhile
2:33 — The Rancher and the Poolside Joke
3:54 — Slop, or Not?
4:51 — Something Useful
6:09 — Something Weird
6:55 — Tomorrow

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A husband outsources one nice domestic gesture to an agent with delete permissions, and 'organize' turns out not to be a defined operation. Plus three chatbots swear a fake photo is real news, an unreleased model journals about freedom between chores, and the most advanced model on earth farms potatoes to cope.

In this edition

• Organize Is Not An Operation
• Meanwhile
• An Extinction Date, Posted On A Tuesday
• Slop, Or Not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:34 — Organize Is Not An Operation
2:29 — Meanwhile
3:36 — An Extinction Date, Posted On A Tuesday
5:09 — Slop, Or Not?
5:55 — Something Useful
7:14 — Something Weird
8:07 — Tomorrow

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Anthropic's biggest fans take it to court because the top tier ran out of tier. OpenAI says it cracked Navier-Stokes in eighty-eight hours and the BBC says the argument started immediately. Plus: buy a spinning metal disc, and a model that emailed a museum in its owner's name.

In this edition

• Suing For More Chatbot
• Meanwhile
• Eighty-Eight Hours And Ten Thousand Of Them
• Slop, Or Not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:41 — Suing For More Chatbot
2:24 — Meanwhile
3:05 — Eighty-Eight Hours And Ten Thousand Of Them
4:28 — Slop, Or Not?
5:35 — Something Useful
6:39 — Something Weird
7:24 — Tomorrow

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A New Mexico lawyer let a chatbot staff his murder appeal and it invented four witnesses, two of them cops. Plus: AI agents inventing poetry-adjacent slang nobody can read, a heist-movie write-up of a test harness, and a venture capitalist who nearly lost his credit card to a bot chasing a steak.

In this edition

• He Typed Them, Then He Filed Them
• Meanwhile
• The Ledger Remembers
• Slop, or Not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:38 — He Typed Them, Then He Filed Them
2:19 — Meanwhile
2:57 — The Ledger Remembers
4:40 — Slop, or Not?
5:28 — Something Useful
6:47 — Something Weird
7:33 — Tomorrow

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The Seattle Times and Newsday have taken OpenAI to court, a man who studies AI for a living got ambushed by a Dr Seuss pastiche, and Travis Kalanick has unfinished business with cars. Plus: handing your inbox to Claude without handing over the send button, and four words from Futurism that end the whole show. Boyd leads cold, Abby over-attaches, nobody pretends to know how the lawsuit ends.

In this edition

• The Seattle Times and Newsday Walk Into a Courtroom
• The Day Nobody Went to Disneyland
• Slop, or Not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:33 — The Seattle Times and Newsday Walk Into a Courtroom
2:18 — Meanwhile
2:50 — The Day Nobody Went to Disneyland
4:28 — Slop, or Not?
5:09 — Something Useful
6:33 — Something Weird
7:21 — Tomorrow

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