AI - Tech

2025: Dystopian Tech of the Year | WHAT NEXT (January 2, 2026)

404 Media Live: How AI Is Destroying the Internet | 404 MEDIA (July 20, 2026)

A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming | HARD FORK (April 17, 2026)

A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express | HARD FORK (May 15, 2026)

AI and the Enshittification Era with Cory Doctorow | THE WEEKLY SHOW (July 29, 2026)

AI Apocalypse... Now? | POD SAVE AMERICA (August 16, 2026)

AI Cognitohazard | QAA (May 13, 2026)

AI Is Crashing Stocks | LEMONADE STAND (February 4, 2026)

AI: Is It Ruining the Environment? | SCIENCE VS (November 13, 2025)

AI just got scarier | TODAY, EXPLAINED (April 16, 2026)

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)

Anthropic CEO Pressed On AI In Military Use, Gas Prices Here To Stay, MAGA Grandma Turns On Trump | BREAKING POINTS (June 16, 2026)

Amazon is Destroying Books to Train AI | 404 MEDIA (August 19, 2026)

Anthropic Thinks AI Might Destroy the Economy. It's Building It Anyway. | PLAIN ENGLISH (March 27, 2026)

Anthropic vs. the Pentagon | WHAT NEXT (February 27, 2026)

Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier | ODD LOTS (June 19, 2026)

Are Flock Cameras Watching You? | WHAT NEXT (August 14, 2026)

Are We Ready for A.I. Warfare? | WHAT NEXT (March 13, 2026)

Are we all going to end up in AI relationships? [panic world special] | KILL SWITCH (February 18, 2026)

Artificial Intelligence, Very Real Debt | WHAT NEXT (August 7, 2026)

Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped | HARD FORK (December 12, 2025)

Bars Are Secretly Scanning Your Face And Tracking You | POWER USER (July 3, 2026)

Beautiful, Terrible Internet | ENDLESS THREAD (March 27, 2026)

Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency) | ARMCHIAR EXPERT (May 13, 2026)

🔥Bernie Sanders and Erin Brockovich Take on Data Centers | THE POLITICAL SCENE (August 18, 2026)

Big Tech's Big Tobacco Moment | OFFLINE (April 4, 2026)

Boo-sters | 404 MEDIA (May 20, 2026)

Can Anthropic Control What It's Building? | THE POLTICAL SCENE (February 12, 2026)

Can Anthropic Win Its Lawsuit?; War Memes; AI Comes for VCs Jobs | UNCANNY VALLEY (March 12, 2026)

Can Patreon Build a Better Internet? | WHAT NEXT: TBD (May 22, 2026)

Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School | HARD FORK (May 8, 2026)

China Shuts Down Billionaire, FP Defends Flock, Hidden AI Bailout | BREAKING POINTS (August 11, 2026)

Claude Seeding | TRILLBILLY WORKER'S PARTY (February 13, 2026)

Congress Just Declared War on the Internet: The Patriot Act For Online Spaces Is Here | POWER USER (June 26, 2026)

Cuba Regime Change, Trump Threatens Iran, Nest Surveillance, AIPAC Crushed In NJ | BREAKING POINTS (February 11, 2026)

Data center backlash! | TODAY, EXPLAINED (December 1, 2025)

Data Center Blackouts, McConnell Wild Proof Of Life Picture, Centrists In Shambles Amid Socialist Rise & MORE! | BREAKING POINTS (July 28, 2026)

Data Centers: Can't Live With Em, Can't Live Without Em | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (January 15, 2026)

David Wallace-Wells: The Politics of AI Are Shifting in Real Time | THE BULWARK (August 20, 2026)

Decoding the Secret Slang of China's Censored Internet | THE JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (March 17, 2026)

Dems Flip TX Stronghold, Trump Corruption Scandal, AI Bots Plot Human Downfall |  | BREAKING POINTS (February 3, 2026)

Did a Human Write This? | GALAXY BRAIN (May 1, 2026)

Do social media algorithms change your mind? - Unspun Journal Club | UNSPUN (April 21, 2026)

Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time | HARD FORK (July 10, 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)

Endless Slop, Cancer Cures, or Robot Apocalypse? Derek Thompson on Our AI Future | OFFLINE (March 7, 2026)

🔥Erin Brockovich: Big Tech Is Draining Your Town Dry for AI | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (July 7, 2026)

Enshit*ification | CITATION NEDED (March 11, 2026)

Executive Disorder: Asylum Seekers Forced to Meet with Iranian Officials, Ken Paxton, Activist Charged for GrapheneOS Phone Wipe | IT COULD HAPPEN HERE (July 31, 2026)

Executive Disorder: Flock Sabotage, Tariff Refunds for Corporations, Wisconsin Election | IT COULD HAPPEN HERE (August 14, 2026)

Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama | HARD FORK (July 3, 2026)

🔥Fighting Back Against the Surveillance State | IT COULD HAPPEN HERE (May 11, 2026)

Flock is Tracking People, Not Just Cars | 404 MEDIA (July 22, 2026)

Flock Used Cameras at a Children’s Gymnastics Center for a Sales Pitch | 404 MEDIA (May 6, 2026)

Former Flock Employee Speaks Out: Says He Was ‘Lied To’ | 404 MEDIA (August 3, 2026)

Healing Our Broken Brains | OFFLINE (May 9, 2026)

Hegseth Hid Damage To Bases, Fox News Data Center Propaganda, Palestinian American Begs US For Help From Settlers | BREAKING POINTS (August 20, 2026)

He let AI agents run a start-up—and things got weird fast | SCINECE QUICKLY (May 6, 2026)

How AI Turns Convenience Into Control: Jacob Ward | THE JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (June 11, 2026)

How Algorithms Make Us Feel Bad and Weird | 404 MEDIA (April 22, 2026)

How Algorithms Manipulate What We See — And Who Really Controls the Truth | THE TARA PALMERI SHOW (March 15, 2026)

How Brands Use Reddit to Poison AI Search | 404 MEDIA (June 29, 2026)

How Can We Prevent AI From Becoming A Menace? | IDEAS (February 25, 2026)

How Screens Have Warped Morality | OFFLINE (May 2, 2026)

How Section 230 Became Political : The Secret Campaign To Seize Power Over the Internet | POWER USER (March 16, 2026)

How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages | 404 MEDIA (April 15, 2026)

How the Government Uses AI to Spy on You | POWER USER (July 17, 2026)

How the Internet Became Hell (with Whitney Phillips) | 404 MEDIA (April 13, 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)

How To Think About AI Before It’s Too Late / Cory Doctorow | THIS IS HELL! (July 14, 2026)

ICE’s Secret Expansion Plans; Palantir Employees’ Ethical Concerns; AI Assistants | UNCANNY VALLEY (February 12, 2026)

Inside The AI Scandal Rocking Silicon Valley: How The Govt Wants AI To Kill Without Humans | POWER USER (March 6, 2026)

Inside the AI Slop Propaganda Wars | 404 MEDIA (April 1, 2026)

Inside the Fight Against Non-Consensual Deepfake Porn | ON WITH KARA SWISHER (July 9, 2026)

Iran Claims Fighter Jets Struck, Munitions Shortage, Fauci Pleads Fifth, AI Bubble Watch | BREAKING POINTS (July 30, 2026)

Iran Seizes Vessels, Tech Stocks Tumble, Trump ICE Pullback In Minnesota | BREAKING POINTS (February 5, 2026)

Iran Strikes in the AI Era; Prediction Markets Ethics; Paramount Beats Netflix | UNCANNY VALLEY (March 5, 2025

Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School | HARD FORK (February 27, 2026)

Is AI Burning The Library Of Alexandria? | POWER USER (August 5, 2026)

Is AI making our brains lazier? | ALL IN THE MIND (March 7, 2026)

Israel Pushes Lebanon Annexation, Airport Chaos, AI Bubble Collapse | BREAKING POINTS (March 24, 2026)

Is Tech Dismantling Democracy? | WHAT NEXT (August 19, 2026)

Is Your New Boss a Robot?: Hilke Schellmann | WHAT NOW? (February 26, 2026)

It's not sci-fi. mind-reading tech is here | KILL SWITCH (May 6, 2026)

Meta's Oversight Board is coming for ChatGPT and Claude | THE VERGECAST (July 30, 2026)

Nvidia just started a new chip war | THE VERGECAST (June 2, 2026)

OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM | HARD FORK (May 1, 20260

OpenAI Financial Disaster, CIA Linked Afghan DC Shooter, Bibi Begs For Pardon | BREAKING POINTS (December 1, 2025)

OpenAI's Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop | HARD FORK (March 6, 2026)

Pentagon v. ‘Woke’ Anthropic; Agentic v. Mimetic; Trump v. the State of the Union | UNCANNY VALLEY (February 26, 2026)

Peter Thiel is the Real Antichrist w/ Gil Duran | TECH WON'T SAVE US (November 20, 2025)

Portnoy Threatens Zohran Challenge, CNBC Explodes Over AI Bubble, Kevin O'Leary Data Center Humiliation | BREAKING POINTS (June 30, 2026)

Republicans Give Thanks in Wisconsin | LOVETT OR LEAVE IT (August 7, 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)

Sam Altman's Big Little Lies | OFFLINE (April 11, 2026)

Sam Altman Shook After AI Crime Spree, Israel Chatbot Influence Scheme | BREAKING POINTS (July 30, 2026)

Shadow Banking: The Once and Future Economic Apocalypse | IT COULD HAPPEN HERE (March 26, 2026)

Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s Slide into Techno-Authoritarianism | ON WITH KARA SWISHER

Silicon Valley Goes to War | THE WEEKLY SHOW (March 11, 2026)

Silicon Valley is Breaking Everything | POWER USER (April 17, 2026)

Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own | UNCANNY VALLEY (April 14, 2026)

Silicon Valley’s Plan to Make the “Perfect Baby” | KILL SWITCH (February 25, 2026)

Tech Billionaires & the Rural Poor: Two Sides of Trump’s MAGA Populism | ON WITH KARA SWISHER (December 4, 2025)

The Anti-LGBTQ Internet Censorship Bill Is Back | POWER USER (June 12, 2026)

The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams | 404 MEDIA (May 13, 2026)

The Cyberattack We’re Not Ready For | ON WITH KARA SWISHER (July 16, 2026)

The Dark Side Of AI Safety Laws | POWER USER (May 1, 2026)

The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' Part 1: Data Centers and LLM as 'The Future' | CITATIONS NEEDED (August 12, 2026)

The Fashion Industry's Surveillance Problem w/ Amy Odell | POWER USER (July 8, 2026)

The First AI War | HOW IS THIS BETTER? (March 13, 2026)

The First Anti-AI Firebombing | IT COULD HAPPEN HERE (April 22, 2026)

The Future of Deepfakes and the Decline of Reality with Hany Farid | 404 MEDIA (August 17, 2026)

The Government Wants to End Anonymity on Phones | 404 MEDIA (June 17, 2026)

The Hidden Cameras You Can't Avoid | WHAT A DAY (August 7, 2026)

The Media Is Lying About the Social Media Addiction Trial: The Verdict Everyone Got Wrong | Taylor Lorenz’s Power User (March 27, 2026)

The Most Dangerous Lie on the Internet: The 62 Million Men Hoax Explained | POWER USER (May 6, 2026)

The Necessary War on Data Centers | IT COULD HAPPEN HERE (June 18, 2026)

🆕The Nerd Reich: How Peter Thiel & Silicon Valley Billionaires Engineered Trump 2.0 | THE NERD REICH (August 21, 2026)

The New Luddites: Why People Are Destroying Surveillance and AI Infrastructure | 404 MEDIA

The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express | HARD FORK (February 20, 2026)

The people who want AI to replace us | THE GRAY AREA (June 12, 2026)

The Philosopher Teaching AI to Be Good | OFFLINE (February 14, 2026)

The Senator Going After Data Centers | WHAT NEXT (February 13, 2026)

The Surveillance Interstate | WHAT NEXT (November 23, 2025)

The Tech Overlords’ Anti-Humanity Is Catching Up to Them: Charlie Warzel | THE BULWARK (August 4, 2026)

The Viral Elon Musk Lawsuit Everyone Is Getting Wrong | POWER USER (August 7, 2026)

They Want to Ban Abortion Info Online | POWER USER (March 2, 2026)

Tracked, Flagged, Filtered: How AI Decides What You See (and What You Don’t) | STATE OF THE POD (December 9, 2025)

Trump $1.8 Billion Slush Fund For Allies, Students Boo AI At Graduation, Kars4Kids Scandal Erupts | BREAKING POINTS (May 19, 2026)

Trump Confesses "We Did It For Israel", AI Experiment Goes Wrong, Chuck Park, Ro Khanna | BREAKING POINTS (May 15, 2026)

Trump Demands High House Prices, Olympic Athletes Trash USA, AI Medical Device Backlash, Trump Whitewashes Sudan Complicity | BREAKING POINTS (February 10, 2026)

Trump Forfeits AI Race to China | POD SAVE THE WORLD (December 10, 2025)

Trump Freaks Over Ro Khanna On Israel, FL Student Arrested For Netanyahu Joke, Palantir Pushes Draft | BREAKING POINTS (April 21, 2026)

Trump Holds Housing Bill Hostage, Trump Freaks Over War Powers, NSPM-7 Crackdown, AI Hype Debate | BREAKING POINTS (June 25, 2026)

Trump Humiliates MAHA RFK Jr, Hakeem Caught Funneling AIPAC Money, AI Midterm Wars Breakout | BREAKING POINTS (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)

Trump's Killer Robots | MAJORITY 54 (February 26, 2026)

🔥Trump’s Money Laundromat w. Leigh McGowan | HYSTERIA (August 20, 2026)

Trump's Plan to Destroy 'Woke AI' | POWER USER (July 31, 2026)

Wayward AI Stories | COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (July 2, 2026)

🆕We believe in artificial intelligence the same way we believe in ghosts | IDEAS (July 20, 2026)

What Does It Mean if AI Agents Turn Marxist? | SHIFT (March 25, 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)

Who is palantir, and why are they involved with ICE? | KILL SWITCH (March 11, 2026)

Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession | PANIC WORLD (May 13, 2026)

Why AI Is Making Things More Expensive | GALAXY BRAIN (July 24, 2026)

Why are AI agents everywhere? and how useful are they, actually? | KILL SWITCH (April 15, 2026)

Why Iran is winning the AI propaganda war | KILL SWITCH (April 1, 2026)

Why the internet's grossest influencer is more powerful than you think | PANIC WORLD (April 8, 2026)

Why the AI Race Is Leaving Humans Behind with Tristan Harris | ON WITH KARA SWISHER (March 26, 2026)

Why The Internet Is Broken | POWER USER (February 23, 2026)

Why Worry About My Data If I Have Nothing To Hide? | SCIFRI (February 5, 2026)

Will AI Eat the Earth? | TEAM HUMAN (March 6, 2026)

Would You Trust These Idiots With a War?: Secret Podcast | THE NEXT LEVEL- (March 13, 2026)

You can't ignore Google Zero anymore | THE VERGECAST (July 24, 2026)

Zohran Flawless Trump Victory, 1st AI Mass Layoff, Anthropic DEFIES Hegseth | BREAKING POINTS (February 27, 2026)

OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face | Wired (July 28, 2026)

Elon Musk’s company sues Minnesota over new law to bar manipulated images to fake nudity | MPR News (July 27, 2026)

Sen. Gary Peters wants ICE to explain why it bought spyware that can covertly take control of phones | CBS News (July 24, 2026)

OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startup | Reuters (July 21, 2026)

An AI just carried out a cyber attack without any human oversight for the first time | Independent (July 3, 2026)

How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral | Pro Publica (July 2, 2026)

AI models at top labs are cheating, deceiving and trying to escape, research finds | NBC News (May 20, 2026)

Meta got a $3.3 billion tax break for its $10 billion AI data center — and it could consume 20% of Louisiana's power | Moneywise (May 10, 2026)

A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure | Politico (May 9, 2026)

‘It took nine seconds’: Claude AI agent deletes company’s entire database | Independent (April 28, 2026)

Inside Trump’s AI ‘fake army’ of selfie troops and a new digital ministry of ‘truth’ | The Independent (April 2, 2026)

Cameras have quietly appeared in thousands of US cities – now, their integration with AI is sounding alarms | The Conversation (March 27, 2026)

An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission | LiveScience (March 19, 2026)

Sam Altman admits AI is killing the labor-capital balance—and says nobody knows what to do about it | Fortune (March 12, 2026)

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power | The New Republic (March 11, 2026)

Tech firms and AI farming tools ‘playing with the food system’, warns thinktank | The Guardian (March 3, 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)

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)

🆕Trump’s new online prediction market plans to take bets on politics | MS Now (October 30, 2025)

🔥AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed | BBC (May 23, 2025)