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Podcast: These Companies Say They're Using Microphone Audio to Target Ads
On this week's episode we discuss how marketers might actually be listening to conversations through smart devices. Here's everything we know.

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Podcast: How Did a 'Russian Economist' Fly into LAX With No Ticket, No Passport, No Memory of How He Got There?
On this week's episode we discuss the bizarre case of Sergey Ochigava, who somehow flew from Denmark to the US with no ticket or passport. What happened? No one knows.

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Podcast: a16z Funded AI Platform Generated Images That “Could Be Categorized as Child Pornography,” Leaked Documents Show
On this week's episode we focus on Emanuel's new investigation into OctoML, the engine behind the a16z funded AI startup Civitai and how it generated images that “could be categorized as child pornography,” according to internal Slack chats.

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Podcast: Male Tech Conference Founder Runs Popular Woman-in-Tech Account (???)
In this week's episode, we talk about the bizarre tale of a tech conference founder who listed a fake, "auto-generated" woman as a speaker, and how he is also behind a popular woman-in-tech social media personality.

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Podcast: OpenAI, Harry Potter Fanfic, and Hackers Who Gamble
In this week's episode, we take a unique angle on the OpenAI drama, talk Twitter and sex work, then get into how hackers gamble away stolen Bitcoin at online casinos.

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Podcast: Venture Capitalists a16z Fund Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn
In this week's episode, we talk a16z's investment into AI platform Civitai, our investigation into working conditions at Labcorp, and how the "brand safety" industry is destroying media.

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Podcast: How AI-Powered Cameras Took Over One Small American Town
In this week's episode, we talk Fusus AI-powered surveillance cameras, how people lost their vision (literally) at an NFT conference, and how scammers are using malicious insiders at Walmart to conduct refund fraud.

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Podcast: We're shaking it up with a new format
We're introducing a subscribers-only segment to the weekly podcast, where we talk about even more stuff we've published.

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Podcast: OSINT, Twitter, and a $30 Million Bitcoin Ring
In this week's episode we talk about how Instagram is very, very sorry it auto-translated sentences containing "Palestinian" to add "terrorist." We also talk about the downward trend of OSINT on Twitter, and how the FBI cracked an alleged $30 million cash-for-Bitcoin ring.

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Podcast: AI is Muddying the Horrors of War, and a Film Community Implodes
In this week's episode we talk about how AI image detectors are making things worse in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and how a community of film photographers is dealing with a trademark issue.

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Why We Cover AI the Way We Do
We answer questions from readers about our coverage of AI, including Epic Games CEO and founder Tim Sweeney.

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Podcast: SpongeBob, AI, and a Crisis Among Ticket Resellers
In this week's episode we show that Microsoft's image AI isn't even following Microsoft's own guidelines. Plus, a shout-out to our subscribers-only episode all about our AI coverage.