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AI Doom Headlines vs Real Risks + Figure's Helix 2.5 Robots Learn Household Tasks in New Homes On Project Synapse, Marcel Gagne and Jon Pina...
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When the conversation turns to technology, Hashtag Trending makes sure you’re in the know. We review the top trending tech topics from across the web - Twitter, Reddit, Google, Product Hunt...
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Dad Says 9-Year-Old Spent $118K on YouTube Ads | Cohere AI Privacy | AI Extinction Risks
A $20 YouTube promotion becomes a reported $118,000 company credit card bill. Canada's Cohere tackles a gap in AI data security. And could r...
Hashtag Trending 2,500th Episode: Tech Trends 2027, Trustworthy AI ROI, and the Attention Economy (with Brian Jackson & Alex Coop)
On the 2,500th episode of Hashtag Trending (Thursday, September 17), host Jim Love welcomes former hosts and tech journalists Brian Jackson...
AI Panic: The $750B Spending Gamble & Who Benefits From a Slowdown?
Who pays if the AI investment boom falls short—and who benefits if development slows down? Jim Love examines the money, motives and economic...
AI Safety Fears Grow—Who Writes the Rules? | Database Risks, Microsoft Exit & a Canadian Teen's AI to Help Homeless
AI safety concerns are growing, but agreement on what to do remains elusive. Can governments establish effective oversight amid U.S.–China r...
Altman & Amodei Call for AI Slowdown | Microsoft Adds Grok, Flock Arrests
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei back slowing AI development as researchers raise fresh safety concerns. Microsoft brings Grok to Copilot, and a...
Who Is Paying People To Say AI Will Kill Us All?
Project Synapse (Sept 12): Tesla FSD, AI Agents, OpenAI Image 2.5, and the "AI Doom" PR Timeline Join us on our Discord at https://discord.g...
Hashtag Trending for Friday, September 11, 2026.
Jim Love begins by marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, remembering those who were lost, those whose lives were changed...
Apple's $1,999 iPhone Duo Debuts as AI Safety Warnings Escalate | Hashtag Trending
YouTube Title Apple begins the John Ternus era with its biggest iPhone redesign in years. Jim Love hosts Hashtag Trending for Thursday, Sept...
OpenAI's Math Breakthrough Marred by Controversy, Australia Takes On the Algorithm
OpenAI says an unreleased AI model has produced a proposed solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem in just 88 hours, using ro...
GPT-6 Astra Launches Amid ChatGPT Outage | NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face | Meta Cuts AI Costs
OpenAI calls GPT-6 Astra a generational leap, with company president Greg Brockman declaring, "Welcome to the AGI era." But OpenAI chief sci...
Project Synapse: Astra, AGI Hype, Model Costs, and AI's Real-World Utility (Plus Education & Safety)
Jim Love hosts Project Synapse with John Pinard and University of Waterloo professor Doug Sparks, reviewing a week of intense AI model relea...
GPT-6 Astra Launches Amid ChatGPT Outage | NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face | Meta Cuts AI Costs
OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra on the same day ChatGPT and Codex suffered a widespread outage lasting just over two hours. There is no evidence...
Google Dodges Antitrust Breakup, Florida Pulls Flock Cameras, Meta Tests Data Center Robots
im Love covers the biggest tech stories for Thursday, September 3. Google has again avoided a court-ordered breakup. A federal judge rejecte...
Microsoft 365 Outage Spreads as AI Bug Reports Overwhelm Linux
A Microsoft 365 outage that began with Exchange Online spread across Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Copilot, Purview, Defender XDR and adminis...
Apple's AI Surprise, OpenAI's $1B Ads, OpenClaw 2.0 & MapQuest's Lake Ontario Stand
Tim Cook leaves Apple with an unexpected AI success story as OpenAI reportedly buys tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios to train...
OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor Before Astra | IBM Quantum Claim Challenged
OpenAI is cutting off Cursor's direct model access ahead of Astra, while IBM's claimed quantum advantage already faces a classical challenge...
Project Synapse - August 28th 2026 Robots!
AI Hardware Arms Race & Humanoid Robot Olympics: Apple Chips, OpenAI 'Jalapeno,' Meta Models, and Robot Prices Plummet Jim Love, Marcel Gagn...
OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Challenges Nvidia as Meta's AI Plan Backfires
OpenAI has unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom AI inference chip, and the early results could challenge one of Nvidia's biggest advantages....
Meta Pays Up to $17.1B as Altman Says OpenAI Could Reach AGI This Year
Meta will pay at least $12.1 billion—and potentially as much as $17.1 billion over ten years—to settle claims that Facebook and Instagram ha...