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Two hours before I recorded this episode, I was on a treadmill hooked up to electrodes, climbing an incline I wasn’t quite fit enough for, waiting to find out if a family health scare meant anything for my own heart.

Jeremy got off a treadmill stress test two hours before recording this — a family health scare sent him down a rabbit hole of chest pains, family history, and a doctor who laughed at him (kindly).

A woman on the internet says she has an AI boyfriend and they had a baby together.

This week Jeremy and Jason skip the guest and go straight at the news.

Most people picture AI helping with emails and slide decks — not diagnosing a broken hydraulic system on a 32-foot commercial fishing boat with no cell signal.

A month of tiny tweaks beat my usual heroic nonsense.

After months of ignoring the warning signs, Jeremy hit a breaking point — burned out, and quietly overwhelmed.

Heart disease kills one person every 40 seconds.

You think your two-factor authentication and credit monitoring make you safe online.

We used to think the AI privacy conversation started and ended with the chat box — what you type, what the model remembers, who can read it later.

Most people assume AI privacy concerns stop at “what did I type into the chat box.” Jeremy and Jason argue the real frontier is biometric: wearables, microphones, and cameras feeding emotional-state data into systems explicitly engineered to maximize engagement through manufactured neediness and guilt.

Just days after Anthropic launched Fable 5 and Mythos — two of the most capable AI models ever released — the US Commerce Department stepped in with an unprecedented national security export control order and effectively forced Anthropic to pull the kill switch on both models globally.

our digital twin is already being built — and you probably signed away the rights in a terms-of-service agreement you never read.

A recent security research report found that over 50,000 private chat transcripts between children and their AI-enabled toys had been left completely exposed online.

Security researchers just exposed 50,000 private chat transcripts between children and their AI-enabled toys — conversations that were supposed to stay in the bedroom.

According to a 2024 Pew Research Center study, 72% of Americans say they are worried about the role of AI in society — but only 9% say they understand it well.

Five stories, one week: the Pope released a 42,000-word document calling for AI to be disarmed.

How the AI Arms Race Is Locking Out Everyone Else

Anthropic is voluntarily briefing the Financial Stability Board on a frontier model they haven't released yet — which is either a responsible act of self-regulation or a preview of just how serious they think the risk is.

AI is building a body — physical, environmental, biological — and the people best positioned for what comes next aren’t the ones who’ve mastered the tools.