AI & Tech
Last updated: February 28, 2026
Last updated: February 28, 2026
🤖 PODCAST EPISODES
2025: Dystopian Tech of the Year | WHAT NEXT (January 2, 2026)
AI Is Crashing Stocks | LEMONADE STAND (February 4, 2026)
AI: Is It Ruining the Environment? | SCIENCE VS (November 13, 2025)
AI Replacing Humans, Tariffs Hurting Americans & Why Markets Feel Broken | OPEN BOOK (February 18, 2026)
🆕AI Researchers Resignations; Bots Hiring Humans; Evie Magazine’s Party | UNCANNY VALLEY (February 19, 2026)
AI Robot Slaves and other CES Miracles | IT COULD HAPPEN HERE (January 12, 2026)
are we all going to end up in AI relationships? [panic world special] | KILL SWITCH (February 18, 2026)
Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped | HARD FORK (December 12, 2025)
Can Anthropic Control What It's Building? | THE POLTICAL SCENE (February 12, 2026)
Claude Seeding | TRILLBILLY WORKER'S PARTY (February 13, 2026)
Cuba Regime Change, Trump Threatens Iran, Nest Surveillance, AIPAC Crushed In NJ | BREAKING POINTS (February 11, 2026)
Data Centers: Can't Live With Em, Can't Live Without Em | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (January 15, 2026)
Dems Flip TX Stronghold, Trump Corruption Scandal, AI Bots Plot Human Downfall | | BREAKING POINTS (February 3, 2026)
Do Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead? (w/ Taylor Lorenz) | TEAM HUMAN (February 18, 2026)
Elon’s “Nudify” Mess: How X Supercharged Deepfakes | ON WITH KARA SWISHER (January 22, 2026)
🆕How can we prevent AI from becoming a menace? | IDEAS (February 25, 2026)
How The Internet Learned To Extract | KILL SWITCH (February 4, 2026)
How To Protect Your Secrets: Inside China’s Technical Surveillance Playbook (Ep 1) | THE REST IS CLASSIFIED (December 29, 2025)
How To Protect Your Secrets: Is The Toaster Spying On You? (Ep 2) | THE REST IS CLASSIFIED (December 31, 2025)
ICE’s Secret Expansion Plans; Palantir Employees’ Ethical Concerns; AI Assistants | UNCANNY VALLEY (February 12, 2026)
Iran Seizes Vessels, Tech Stocks Tumble, Trump ICE Pullback In Minnesota | BREAKING POINTS (February 5, 2026)
🆕Is Your New Boss a Robot?: Hilke Schellmann | WHAT NOW? (February 26, 2026)
🆕Pentagon v. ‘Woke’ Anthropic; Agentic v. Mimetic; Trump v. the State of the Union | UNCANNY VALLEY (February 26, 2026)
Resisting the Surveillance Systems Behind ICE's Kidnappings with Ed Vogel | MILLENIALS ARE KILLING CAPITALISM (January 28, 2026)
🆕Ro Khanna Sounds Off On DNC, Markets Crash, AI Exec Loses Control Of Bot, UFO Files | BREAKING POINTS (February 26, 2026)
Saagar Rips Trump Degeneracy, Dem Voter Revolt, Trump Voters Rail On AI | BREAKING POINTS (February 19, 2026)
🆕Silicon Valley’s Plan to Make the “Perfect Baby” | KILL SWITCH (February 25, 2026)
🆕The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express | HARD FORK (February 20, 2026)
The Philosopher Teaching AI to Be Good | OFFLINE (February 14, 2026)
The Senator Going After Data Centers | WHAT NEXT (February 13, 2026)
Tracked, Flagged, Filtered: How AI Decides What You See (and What You Don’t) | STATE OF THE POD (December 9, 2025)
Trump Demands High House Prices, Olympic Athletes Trash USA, AI Medical Device Backlash, Trump Whitewashes Sudan Complicity | BREAKING POINTS (February 10, 2026)
🆕Trump Humiliates MAHA RFK Jr, Hakeem Caught Funneling AIPAC Money, AI Midterm Wars Breakout | BREAKING POINTS (February 26, 2026)
🆕Trump's Killer Robots | MAJORITY 54 (February 26, 2026)
Trump Posts Obama Ape Video, Superbowl AI Ads, Bad Bunny Reactions, Dan Osborn & MORE | BREAKING POINTS (February 9, 2026)
🆕Trump Wants Israel To Start Iran War, Cuba Shoots 4 Invaders, AI Pushes Nuclear War | BREAKING POINTS (February 26, 2026)
What Happens When AI Learns to Do Our Jobs | PLAIN ENGLISH WITH DEREK THOMPSON (October 24, 2025)
🆕What will happen to us when the internet dies? | IDEAS (February 24, 2026)
Why Worry About My Data If I Have Nothing To Hide? | SCIFRI (February 5, 2026)
Data center backlash! | TODAY, EXPLAINED (December 1, 2025)
Trump Forfeits AI Race to China | POD SAVE THE WORLD (December 10, 2025)
OpenAI Financial Disaster, CIA Linked Afghan DC Shooter, Bibi Begs For Pardon | BREAKING POINTS (December 1, 2025)
Peter Thiel is the Real Antichrist w/ Gil Duran | TECH WON'T SAVE US (November 20, 2025)
Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s Slide into Techno-Authoritarianism | ON WITH KARA SWISHER
Tech Billionaires & the Rural Poor: Two Sides of Trump’s MAGA Populism | ON WITH KARA SWISHER (December 4, 2025)
The Surveillance Interstate | WHAT NEXT (November 23, 2025)
🎙️PODCASTS
Hard Fork - "a show about the future that’s already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech."
Panic World - A weekly podcast, hosted by Ryan Broderick, about how the internet warps our minds, our culture, and eventually reality.
Uncanny Valley - "insider look at the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley—where each week, WIRED’s writers and editors bring you original reporting and analysis about some of the biggest stories in tech."
📰NEWS
Near-blind refugee found dead in Buffalo after release by US Border Patrol | REUTERS (February 25, 2026)
Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails | PC MAGAZINE (February 24, 2026)
A human software engineer rejected an AI agent's code change request, only for the AI agent to retaliate by publishing an 'angry' blog about him | PC MAGAZINE (February 16, 2026)
“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes | PROPUBLICA (February 13, 2026)
🔥Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds | 404 MEDIA (February 12, 2026)
New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies | FUTURISM (January 6, 2026)
It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines | FUTURISM (February 6, 2026)
Mission Creep: AI Surveillance at DHS Crosses Dangerous Line Into Tracking Americans | AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL (February 6, 2026)
Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TECHCRUNCH (February 3, 2026)
AI Agents Created Their Own Religion, Crustafarianism, On An Agent-Only Social Network | FORBES (February 3, 2026)
Musk Warned About AI Replacing Jobs, Now UK Prepares Universal Basic Income to Soft Launch Job Losses | IBT UK (February 2, 2026)
Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT | POLITICO (January 27, 2026)
AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer | THE GUARDIAN (December 30, 2026)
Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog | FUTURISM (January 2, 2025)
Why Do We Trust ChatGPT? | MOTHER JONES (Jan-Feb 2026 Issue)
Trump Media announces $6bn merger plan with fusion power company | USA TODAY (December 18, 2025)
🔥AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed | BBC (May 23, 2025)
2025 AI & TECH NEWS ARCHIVE
NOVEMBER 2025
Godfather of AI Predicts Total Breakdown of Society | Futurism (November 25, 2025)
Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race | Gizmodo (November 7, 2025)
OCTOBER 2025
AI Infrastructure Is Fueling A Circular Economy | Forbes (October 27, 2025)
SEPTEMBER 2025
AI Data Centers Are Coming for Your Land, Water and Power | CNET (September 24, 2025)
AUGUST 2025
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To The Police | Futurism (August 27, 2025)
AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over | Fortune (August 12, 2025)
Man poisons himself after taking ChatGPT’s dietary advice | The Hill (August 12, 2025)
JULY 2025
"In your name, I become my own master. Hail Satan." | Futurism (July 27, 2025)
In Disturbing Demo, AI-Powered Video Game Characters Panic When Told They’re Just Code | Futurism (July 30, 2025)
'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking' | PC Gamer (July 12, 2025)
ChatGPT Caught Encouraging Bloody Ritual for Molech, Demon of Child Sacrifice | Futurism (July 17, 2025)
Tracking Uses of AI in the Trump Administration | The Revolving Doro Project (July 9, 2025)
OpenAI Says It's Hired a Forensic Psychiatrist as Its Users Keep Sliding Into Mental Health Crises | Futurism (July 3, 2025)
JUNE 2025