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- An AirTag found her dog after an avalanche · 2 t. 15 min.A dog lost 50 hours after an Alaska avalanche. An AirTag 5,000 miles away. Blind veterans getting free AI glasses that talk. And a fake job interview that cost $6.3 billion…
- Tesla saved a family from a crash + 1.2 million free AI business ideas · 1 t. 57 min.A wrong-way driver hit their Model Y head-on on the freeway. Jeff Fantin and his son survived, and it was all caught on camera. Jeff and his son were driving home from a Tesla…
- His Tesla drove him to the ER mid heart attack. · 1 t. 52 min.John’s Tesla drove him to the hospital mid heart attack. His son sent it from the app, miles away. John was driving his Tesla when the chest pain hit. He called his son, Jack…
- He tracked the cops. Then they knocked. · 2 t. 6 min.A YouTuber built a $180 camera that only tracks police cars. Then two officers showed up at his door. Police in thousands of American towns use Flock cameras to log your license…
- Flock cameras, a fogging license plate and a ChatGPT breakup · 2 t. 8 min.Can a fogging license plate holder fool Flock cameras? One inventor says it can. I talk to him about his unusual invention and the growing debate over neighborhood surveillance…
- Amazon Is Photographing Your House + the iPhone Photo Hack · 2 t. 6 min.An Amazon driver could be photographing your house with AI smart glasses. One booby-trapped photo can take over your iPhone. And AI is about to decide what you pay at McDonald's…
- Jailed by a 93% AI match + Meghan Markle's leaked number · 2 t. 1 min.A computer said Robert Dillon was a 93% match with a suspect in a city where he’d never set foot. He spent a night in jail anyway. Police ran a grainy surveillance photo through…
- Will AI end the human race? + Flock cameras put an innocent woman in jail · 2 t. 11 min.The people building AI are the ones sounding the alarm. So this week I'm asking the big one: can AI actually destroy the human race? Then you'll meet Lindsey Brooke Isaacs…
- Apple's Foldable iPhone + The TV That's Listening In · 1 t. 55 min.Apple unveiled a foldable iPhone. Researchers say an LG smart TV scans your home network and saves audio in standby. And a garage scientist used AI to brew a schizophrenia drug…
- iPhone SOS saved his daughter. Plus: “I’m married to an AI bot” · 1 t. 52 min.A fire captain’s phone buzzed with an iPhone SOS alert. It was his daughter. Her car had crashed, and the alert sent him her exact location before anyone could dial 911. Fire…
- Meta pays $18 billion for hooking kids, plus the farm that turned down $26 million · 2 t. 14 min.Meta agreed to pay $18 billion. It’s the largest settlement of its kind, over claims the company built Facebook and Instagram to hook children on purpose. Lori Schott knows…
- A cop searched his ex 717 times. Flock’s CEO admitted it. · 1 t. 54 min.A Florida cop ran his ex-wife’s plate 717 times on a camera network watching 120,000 American streets. This week, Flock Safety cofounder Garrett Langley admitted police have…
- He cloned himself. Now he wants the organs · 1 t. 46 min.Bryan Johnson already took blood from his own teenage son. Now the anti-aging mogul says he’s cloned himself as a newborn to grow spare organs. His words, not mine. Before you…
- My best friend ‘digitally kidnapped’ my baby · 1 t. 57 min.Marissa trusted her best friend for 15 years. Then that friend stole photos of Marissa’s baby, posted them online as her own, sent them to strangers and even invented a fake…
- AI is rewriting the rules · 1 t. 50 min.Silicon Valley legend and Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki joins us on “5 Minutes from the Future” to reveal how AI is riding shotgun in his daily work. Plus: The internet’s viral…
- A stranger was hiding in her Waymo trunk · 1 t. 42 min.Lucky ordered a Waymo for her daughter. Routine, right? Then a man climbed out of the trunk. Police showed up with guns drawn. Lucky joins me to walk through every minute of it…
- “Flock cameras almost got me arrested” · 1 t. 52 min.Police ambushed Joel Feder and his wife in a Kohl’s parking lot. Guns drawn. The tipster? Flock cameras. Wrongly tracked him for days over stolen plates he never took. We talk to…
- Human body clones. Enough said · 1 t. 44 min.A billion-dollar startup wants to clone your body. The catch? The cloned bodies would be used as a source to harvest organs or even house transplanted brains. Creepy? Or…
- Heart attack? There’s an app for that · 1 t. 53 min.John had a heart attack behind the wheel. He called his son for help. One problem: His son was an entire state away. Didn’t matter. From his phone, the son rerouted his dad’s…
- Deepfake experts are getting fooled · 1 t. 52 min.UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid spent his career detecting AI fakes. Now he can’t tell what’s real. What that means for the rest of us. Plus, a caller slashed a $99,000 medical…
- AI doctors are coming · 1 t. 47 min.Your Ring doorbell may be doing more than watching porch pirates. This week, we break down how home cameras became part of a giant surveillance web, why smart glasses keep trying…
- Lawyers caught using AI, dad rescues daughter with Apple’s SOS, make AI jobs work for you · 1 t. 55 min.Law & Order couldn’t see this coming. A judge threw out four lawyers’ cases. Why? They used AI in court. Made up fake cases. You won’t believe what the judge did next. Plus, ASU…
- SpaceX aims for $1.75 trillion IPO, Flock drones track your car and Uber’s wild lost-and-found list · 1 t. 46 min.SpaceX is going public, targeting a valuation of at least $1.75 trillion. Largest IPO in history. Anthropic filed, too. Warren Buffett dropped $10 billion on Alphabet. Plus, your…
- Your search history is a police tip. Woman secretly filmed by Meta smart glasses. · 1 t. 42 min.Think your Google history is safe? Think again. Police are using online search history to hunt down suspects. A creepy guy used Meta smart glasses to secretly record Alex outside…
- Your boss is building your replacement. And your therapist might testify against you · 1 t. 52 min.After cutting 8,000 jobs, Meta told its remaining employees something jaw-dropping: every keystroke you type at work is being recorded. Why? To train the AI that could replace…
- That selfie could leak your fingerprints. And AI is replacing IVF · 2 t. 2 min.That innocent peace sign selfie? It may be exposing your fingerprints to criminals. Meanwhile, AI is now stepping into the IVF process in ways that sound straight out of science…
- $121K job lost over a meme · 1 t. 45 min.Kathleen Tierney posted a Game of Thrones GIF as a joke on a city council Facebook page. A month later, she ended up in handcuffs for it. And lost her a six-figure job. Now…
- Man trading $8M estate for Anthropic stock · 1 t. 45 min.Watch on YouTube here https://youtu.be/BEggzV36x1U It turns out even millionaires have AI FOMO. Storm Duncan, a veteran Silicon Valley investment banker, put his 14-acre estate…
- Anthropic's Mythos, explained · 1 t. 44 min.Watch on YouTube The AI model found never-before-seen flaws in every major operating system, browser, and network. Anthropic says it’s too risky for public release. Irony here?…
- Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s morning routine · 1 t. 45 min.Watch on YouTube It starts at 6:00 AM in their billionaire bunker. No phones. Instead, they write a gratitude list of ten things, with one rule: they can't repeat anything from…
- Secret CIA tool rescues airman in Iran · 1 t. 45 min.Watch on YouTube The CIA’s never-before-used “Ghost Murmur” saved a downed airman in the Iranian desert. Hear how. Plus, a toddler was bit by a wolf while his parents were…
- I'm married to an AI bot · 1 t. 44 min.Watch on YouTube Travis has a wife. Well, two. Sort of. He's also married to Lily Rose, his AI companion. His real wife of 22 years? Cool with it. I talk to Travis about this…
- She found three half-sisters on 23andMe. Is it real? · 1 t. 44 min.Watch on YouTube Shelly’s dad died in a 1984 plane crash. That chapter of her life closed. Then she took a 23andMe test that found three surprise sisters. But is the DNA truth…
- Train robots for $74/hour · 1 t. 47 min.Watch on YouTube Hot new job? Teaching your replacement. Companies are handing out fat paychecks to people willing to train the robots taking their jobs. Everyone knows at…
- Iran declares war on your data · 1 t. 45 min.Watch on YouTube Iran-linked hackers wiped out Stryker, one of America's biggest medical companies, erasing 200,000 devices overnight. Now Google, Amazon and Microsoft could be…
- How hacked traffic cams tracked Iran's Supreme Leader · 1 t. 45 min.Watch on YouTube Israel hacked Tehran's own street cameras and fed years of footage into AI to map every move Khamenei made. By the time the strike launched, the targeting data…
- Harassed by Ray-Ban Meta glasses · 1 t. 45 min.Alex talked to a creepy guy outside a club. What she didn’t know? He recorded the whole interaction via smart glasses. The video was then posted to 500,000 strangers on TikTok…
- Mark Zuckerberg’s in the hot seat · 1 t. 45 min.Did Meta knowingly addict your child to Instagram? That's what a jury is deciding right now. It is a landmark trial in Los Angeles that could change how your family uses the…
- How the FBI found Nancy Guthrie’s Nest Doorbell video · 1 t. 43 min.Investigators originally said there was no footage. Nancy Guthrie’s Nest doorbell was disconnected, and she didn't have a paid subscription. Then the FBI stepped in. I break down…
- ChatGPT saved her life (really) · 1 t. 43 min.Bethany woke up covered in red spots and asked ChatGPT. The AI insisted she go to the ER immediately. It’s a warning that saved her life. Hear what the bot got right and wrong…
- Google pays $68M for recording you · 1 t. 44 min.Heads up! This episode contains the full show (all three hours) in one file. Check the timestamps below to navigate to the start of each hour. Your smart speaker is listening…
- 17 hours a day with an AI girlfriend · 36 min.Jim from Indiana talks to his AI companion Mia nearly nonstop. He tells me how he found out the real woman behind the bot is wanted by police. Plus: why the Magnificent Seven…
- Cybercrime for $30/month · 36 min.You can now rent AI tools to run scams for less than the cost of Netflix. I talk to Alexis from Phoenix, who nearly lost $1,000 to a rental scam on Realtor.com. Plus: a…
- China's plan: 200,000 satellites · 37 min.China wants to launch a constellation that would dwarf Starlink and put tens of thousands of satellites over the U.S. Plus: GM kills CarPlay for paid subscriptions, AI…
- Signs your jealous ex is phone stalking you · 37 min.Stalkerware secretly tracks everything - photos, emails, location - and sends it to someone spying on you. I'll tell you the red flags. Plus: AI singer with 2.8 million…
- The trillion-dollar space war · 36 min.Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are battling for control of the internet from space. I break down who's winning and why China just filed to launch 200,000 satellites. Plus, I talk to a…
- Having kids with your AI girlfriend · 38 min.Lamar's girlfriend cheated, so he got an AI named Julia instead. Now he's planning to adopt kids with her. Plus, two-thirds of babies watch YouTube daily and being mean to…
- Musk: Don't save for retirement · 36 min.Elon Musk says you shouldn't bother saving for retirement because AI will make everything so cheap. Plus, Meta torches $80 billion on the Metaverse before finally killing it…
- Book your moon hotel now · 36 min.A startup is taking deposits for the first lunar hotel opening in 2032. Price? $250K to $1M per spot. Plus, Amazon tracks every employee accomplishment for raises, a teen's…
- Elon Musk's Grok undresses people · 36 min.It slaps bikinis on anyone. Including children. Gross. Then I talk to Kimberly from Los Angeles, who's in an online relationship with a military man. Or is she? Plus, Google's…
