Big week in AI: Google drops a wild 3D video chat platform, SAG-AFTRA’s got beef with Fortnite over a certain Sith Lord’s synthetic voice, and traffic cops might be losing their jobs to algorithms (for good reason). We’re decoding deep brain science, reconstructing broken QR codes with AI magic, and asking what Algernon would think of Neuralink. Yep, it’s one of those episodes — part tech dive, part existential spiral. Let’s get into it.