Musk vs OpenAI, Meta's AI Privacy Fight, and an AI Frozen in 1930

Elon Musk's legal battle with OpenAI continues, Meta faces growing scrutiny over AI-powered age verification and privacy, and the team explores one of the strangest AI experiments yet — a model trained only on information available before 1930. In this weekend edition of Project Synapse, Jim Love, Marcel Gagné, and John Pinard break down the week's biggest AI stories and what they actually mean. This episode covers: • Elon Musk's escalating legal fight with Sam Altman and OpenAI • Meta's AI-based age estimation and growing privacy concerns around biometric verification • Canadian privacy regulators' findings against OpenAI • Apple Intelligence lawsuits and reports Apple may let users choose third-party AI models • South Africa pulling an AI policy document after fabricated citations were discovered • Musician Ashley MacIsaac's lawsuit over an allegedly inaccurate AI-generated summary • Anthropic's push into enterprise AI agents • Google's reportedly developing AI assistant project "Remy" • OpenAI's expanding memory features and transparency controls • How AI agents may reshape work, help desks, and personal assistants • Robots becoming part of everyday life faster than many expected • A fascinating demo of "Talkie," an AI model limited to pre-1930 knowledge If you work in technology, business, cybersecurity, or just want to understand where AI is actually heading, this episode gives you the context behind the headlines.

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Musk vs OpenAI, Meta's AI Privacy Fight, and an AI Frozen in 1930 is an episode from Hashtag Trending by James A Love.

This episode is 01:15:38 long.

This episode was published on May 9, 2026.

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