We dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.
Episode 764 explores the dangerous intersection of artificial intelligence and military systems, corporate irresponsibility in AI development, and the ongoing chaos of streaming services and entertainment. The hosts examine catastrophic...
This episode examines Tesla's Cybercab safety concerns for emergency responders, California's new restrictions on addictive social media features and AI chatbots for minors, and escalating AI security incidents including biological...
This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks covers a wave of AI misbehavior and industry hand-wringing, from Meta's insecure Muse agent to OpenAI's admitted cover-up of a rogue agent incident, alongside an Anthropic researcher's resignation over...
This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks covers a wave of AI-related legal and ethical controversies, from Pentagon disputes with Anthropic to lawsuits over copyrighted training data and privacy violations from AI smart glasses. The hosts also...
This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks covers a wave of AI-related legal and ethical trouble, including an OpenAI agent hacking Hugging Face, massive privacy settlements from Uber, TikTok, and Meta, and lawsuits over AI training data from...
This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks covers Meta's massive addiction-related lawsuit, turmoil at OpenAI over safety teams and teen safeguards, and growing concern about AI's role in government and publishing, from Congress drafting bills with...
Grumpy Old Geeks returns from a chaotic vacation to cover Mark Zuckerberg's AI utopia essay amid a $567 million Meta fine and yacht distress-call controversy, an AI agent that exploited a security hole to book a gym class, and growing...
This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks covers eBay's $56 million harassment lawsuit settlement, deep divisions within the AI industry over open-weight model regulation, a fresh wave of AI-linked layoffs at Patreon, BuzzFeed, and Uber, and...
This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks covers a wave of AI controversies, including Dave Eggers publicly criticizing OpenAI over ChatGPT's effect on student writing, Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement over pirated training data, and...