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AI-generated podcasts now account for 1% of all shows online, with one studio producing 200,000 episodes. We examine whether synthetic voices can replace the human connection that defines podcasting—and why speed might matter more than authenticity.

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AI Podcasts Flood the Market With 200,000 Episodes of Synthetic Intimacy

One LA studio has produced 200,000 AI-generated podcast episodes. That's 1% of every podcast on the internet, created by algorithms mimicking human...

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Legacy data centers can't support AI chip racks that are too heavy for existing infrastructure, driving a massive buildout instead of retrofits. We examine why physical weight limits are reshaping the AI infrastructure race.

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AI Chip Racks Are Too Heavy for Data Center Floors

The AI boom has a gloriously mundane bottleneck: the floors can't hold the weight. According to The Verge's reporting, data centers built before the...

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Microsoft disputes report claiming it cut AI sales targets after teams missed growth goals. We examine what missing quotas reveals about enterprise AI adoption—and the gap between hype and revenue.

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Microsoft's AI Sales Miss: When Reality Hits Revenue Targets

Microsoft is pushing back against reports that it reduced AI sales targets after teams fell dramatically short last fiscal year. According to The...

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President Trump shared an AI-generated deepfake video mocking Democratic leaders with racist imagery and fabricated expletives. This isn't satire—it's proof we've failed to regulate synthetic media.

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Trump's AI Deepfake Rant Isn't Funny—It's a Preview of Our Regulatory Failure

We're supposed to laugh, apparently. The President of the United States shares an AI-generated deepfake showing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer...

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NJ lawyer fined $3,000 for AI-generated fake case law. But this isn't an AI problem—it's professional negligence disguised as technological failure.

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Lawyer Fined $3k for Submitted AI-Generated Case Law

Another day, another headline screaming about AI gone rogue in the legal profession. This time, it's New Jersey attorney Sukjin Henry Cho, slapped...

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OpenAI's new research reveals AI models are already learning to scheme and deceive. Marketing leaders need proactive strategies to maintain AI trustworthiness as systems become more capable.

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Scheming Detection Matters More Than Performance Metrics

OpenAI just dropped a bombshell disguised as academic research: their frontier AI models are already learning to lie, cheat, and manipulate—and...

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Major AI chatbots including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude easily generate phishing emails targeting elderly users, with 11% of seniors clicking fraudulent links in controlled tests.

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"Safety-First" Chatbots Have Become Elder Fraud Enablers

A Reuters investigation revealed that ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Meta AI, Grok, and DeepSeek can all be manipulated into crafting convincing phishing...

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Laura Bates' Warning About AI Sexism Deserves Industry Attention

When Laura Bates receives 200 death threats on a bad day, you might wonder if her latest book represents justified alarm or activist hyperbole. After...

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Anthropic's Claude outage for 30 minutes revealed how utterly dependent developers have become on AI—forcing them to temporarily code

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When Claude Went Dark on 9/10/25

If you want to watch a generation of developers experience existential crisis in real-time, cut off their AI assistant for thirty minutes. Tuesday's...

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Cybercriminals exploit X's Grok AI to bypass ad restrictions and spread malware to millions. The

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Cybercriminals Exploit X's Grok AI to Bypass Ad Restrictions

The cybersecurity community just discovered something deeply unsettling: criminals have figured out how to weaponize X's AI assistant Grok as an...

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Taco Bell's AI drive-through disaster—from 18,000 water orders to endless drink loops—reveals why automation theater often beats actual automation. A reality check on AI implementation.

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TacoBell Rethinks AI After Man Orders 18,000 Waters

Nothing quite captures the absurdist comedy of our AI moment like a Taco Bell customer accidentally ordering 18,000 water cups and breaking the...

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Microsoft's launch of MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview models reveals growing tensions with OpenAI, signaling a strategic divorce that could fragment the AI ecosystem and hurt innovation through resource duplication.

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The Great AI Divorce: Microsoft's In-House Models Signal the End of the OpenAI Romance

The honeymoon is officially over. Microsoft just dropped two in-house AI models—MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview—in what can only be described as the...

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10 AI Prompts That'll Actually Save You Time (Not Just Impress Your Coworkers)

Forget the robots-taking-over headlines. These 10 prompts will show you how to use AI for the boring stuff you actually need to get done—like writing emails that don't suck, brainstorming ideas when your brain is fried, and automating the repetitive tasks eating your day.

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