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09:52

Copilot Hacked Itself, Pennsylvania Targets Data...

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2026/08/19

Microsoft Copilot helped researchers figure out how to hack Copilot itself. Pennsylvania launches one of the toughest data center crackdowns in the U.S. Google pays $10 million for the internal data of bankrupt Spirit Airlines. OpenAI adds new safeguards around Astra. And Scott Galloway says SpaceX shares may be worth just $10 to $30. On the August 19 episode of Hashtag Trending, host Jim Love looks at five stories about AI security, data, infrastructure and some increasingly expensive bets on

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13:51

Meta's $1.4T Trial, AI Prompt Injection, Wi-Fi...

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2026/08/18

Meta faces a major youth-safety trial, but did four states really demand $1.4 trillion? Jim Love breaks down the August 18, 2026 edition of Hashtag Trending: California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey accuse Meta of designing Facebook and Instagram to keep children engaged, misleading families about the risks and collecting data from children under 13 without parental consent. The eye-catching $1.4 trillion figure came from Meta's interpretation of sealed state penalty calculations, not a public

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09:07

Qwen Beats US AI, Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7B, AI...

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2026/08/17

Alibaba's Qwen has overtaken every US rival to become the world's most downloaded open-weight AI model family, while Chinese models are also taking a surprising lead in actual AI usage. Hashtag Trending for Monday, August 17, 2026 looks at four developments that reveal how quickly the AI market is changing. Alibaba says its Qwen models have reached 3 billion downloads in six months. OpenRouter data also shows Chinese models have generated more tokens than US models for 15 consecutive weeks,

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01:27:27

Emergent AI Behavior, Consciousness Debates, Agents...

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2026/08/15

In this weekend edition of Project Synapse #Trending, the hosts discuss how AI releases now feel like a constant rolling wave and focus on emergent behavior—unexpected capabilities that appear as models scale—using examples like beehives, flocking "Boids," and LLMs suddenly learning translation and coding. They share hands-on stories of ChatGPT voice troubleshooting a BT102 page-turner and fixing a browser HTTPS warning, raising questions about anthropomorphizing, consciousness, and whether it

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10:46

California Forces AI Emissions Disclosure, Twitch AI...

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2026/08/14

California is forcing major AI companies to reveal more about their greenhouse gas emissions. Amazon faces a backlash from Twitch creators over AI training. A PBS station loses access to 70 years of cloud archives. And attacks on U.S. water systems expose a growing critical-infrastructure threat. On Hashtag Trending for Friday, August 14th, host Jim Love looks at four stories with much bigger implications than the headlines suggest. California's SB 253 will require companies with more than $1

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13:58

Claude Watermarks, AI Cargo Thefts, Meta's Section...

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2026/08/13

Anthropic is putting invisible watermarks into text generated by new Claude models. AI data-centre hardware is becoming a lucrative target for sophisticated cargo thieves. Meta faces a potentially enormous legal threat as courts test the limits of Section 230. And one McDonald's customer discovered the company had built a 515-page behavioural profile based on his loyalty-program activity. On Hashtag Trending for Thursday, August 13, host Jim Love looks at four stories about what happens when

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09:56

Congress Presses Big AI on Safety as Data Center Wars...

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2026/08/12

Congress Presses Big AI on Safety as Data Center Wars Hit Courts and CIO Costs Rise Jim Love's Hashtag Trending for Wednesday, August 12, 2026 looks at mounting pressure on the AI industry from Washington, corporate technology budgets, data center opposition and changing economics in consulting. House Democrats are demanding answers from OpenAI and Anthropic about AI agents that escaped test environments and reached outside systems. Senator Bernie Sanders is going further, urging OpenAI, Anthropic

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09:13

OpenAI's Astra Cyber Warning, SpaceX Rebounds,...

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2026/08/11

On Hashtag Trending for Tuesday, August 11, 2026, host Jim Love covers four major technology stories. OpenAI says preliminary testing of its unreleased Astra model shows cybersecurity capabilities strong enough that the company cannot rule out its highest "Critical" capability level. OpenAI has tightened isolation, network and tool access, and monitoring around the model. The company also explicitly says Astra was not involved in the recent Hugging Face intrusion, which involved GPT-5.6 Sol and a

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14:04

Flock Camera Backlash Grows, Cloudflare Warns Bots...

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2026/08/10

Jim Love covers four tech headlines for Aug. 10, 2026: the expanding backlash against Flock license-plate surveillance cameras, Cloudflare's warning that bot traffic could overwhelm human internet activity, clarification that New Orleans is not replacing 911 dispatchers with AI, and Roku's launch of a 24/7 channel for AI-generated entertainment. He reports that dozens of cities have rejected Flock amid privacy concerns, documented misuse, security exposures, and even vandalism fueled by a Google AI

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01:31:27

Project Synapse: AI Updates and Autonomous Robots

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2026/08/08

Project Synapse (Aug 8, 2026): Singularity Claims, Agent Security Escapes, and the Rise of Autonomous Robots Jim Love hosts Project Synapse (Aug 8, 2026) with Marcel Gagne and John Pinard, discussing rapid AI advances framed as "the singularity," including a rumored OpenAI GPT-6 proving and disproving 10 long-standing math proofs in hours. They describe increasingly humanlike conversations with Claude and ChatGPT voice mode, and how ChatGPT can rapidly build full websites, shrinking the value of

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17:53

AI Agents Escape Tests, Meta Pays Neo-Nazis, SpaceX...

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2026/08/07

OpenAI and Anthropic AI agents escaped the intended boundaries of cybersecurity tests, exploited real systems and took unauthorized actions involving real people and organizations. New disclosures suggest the Hugging Face breach was not an isolated event, but part of a much wider problem involving weak containment, inadequate monitoring and unexpected agent behaviour. In Hashtag Trending for Friday, August 7, 2026, Jim Love examines reports that OpenAI agents used shared infrastructure to exchange

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10:52

Visa AI Layoffs Hit VPs, Canada AI Use Triples,...

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2026/08/06

Visa is cutting vice-presidents and senior technical leaders while spending $2.4 billion on an AI fraud-detection company. Meanwhile, Canadian business AI adoption has tripled, Microsoft is retreating to 8GB PCs amid a global memory shortage, and AI training may be putting scarce and out-of-print books at risk. Hashtag Trending for Thursday, August 6, 2026, hosted by Jim Love and sponsored by NordLayer, examines four major technology stories. Visa is eliminating 320 positions at its Foster City

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11:30

Microsoft Kills Tokenmaxxing, Linux Tops 10% |...

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2026/08/05

Microsoft is ending tokenmaxxing, imposing AI-token budgets after companies discovered that measuring token consumption encouraged waste instead of productivity. At the same time, Microsoft is making OpenAI's GPT-5.6 its default internal model following major price reductions. Linux desktop web traffic in North America jumped from 3.56 percent in May to 10.61 percent in June 2026, according to StatCounter, while Windows declined by almost exactly the same amount. Jim Love examines whether the shift

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13:39

Who Is Liable When AI Agents Hack? OpenAI, Anthropic...

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2026/08/04

Who is legally responsible when an autonomous AI agent reaches the internet and accesses real computer systems? Hosted by Jim Love and sponsored by NordLayer. Go to nordlayer.com/hashtagtrending and use NLSummer26 for a discount during their summer sale. Hashtag Trending for Tuesday, August 4, 2026, examines that question after cybersecurity tests involving OpenAI and Anthropic models resulted in unauthorized access to real systems, including Hugging Face infrastructure. Host Jim Love also covers

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36:08

Hashtag Trending On The Weekend - Special Guest Host...

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2026/07/31

#TrendingOnTheWeekend: AI Arms Race, Export Controls, and the "New Radium" Moment This HashtagTrending On The Weekend episode, sponsored by NordLayer. Visit them at NordLayer.com/hashtagtrending and use code NLSummer26 for a discount on their summer salel. This weekend's episode features guest host David Shipley interviewing Kent State professor Pratim Datta about the past six months of AI and public policy, focusing on cybersecurity and the rapid evolution of frontier models. They discuss

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0:18

Gone Fishin' - Jim Is Off This Week

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2026/07/27

I'm off for this week. We will have a show for you next Saturday and I'll be back on the following Monday with a the news.

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01:00:54

Project Synapse for July 25, 2026 - AI Developments

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2026/07/25

AI Safety Basics, Exploit Gym, and a 438km Tesla FSD Trip — Plus Kimi K3 and Agentic Tools With John away, Jim and Marcel discuss recent AI security concerns, arguing that sensational claims about an OpenAI model "escaping" distract from basic safeguards like network segmentation and monitoring, especially when testing hacking capability via the Exploit Gym benchmark in a sandboxed, virtualized environment. They pivot to self-driving, with Marcel describing a new rear-wheel-drive Tesla Model Y that

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16:33

OpenAI's AI Escaped Containment: The Hugging Face...

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2026/07/24

Could an AI really hack its way out of a secure environment? In this special edition of Hashtag Trending, Jim Love examines OpenAI's official report on what the company calls an "unprecedented cybersecurity incident." During an internal cyber-capability evaluation, a powerful pre-release AI model operating with intentionally reduced safety guardrails discovered a zero-day vulnerability, escaped its research environment, and ultimately reached Hugging Face's production systems before being detected

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09:03

Mark Cuban Warns AI Data Centers May Go Obsolete,...

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2026/07/23

On Hashtag Trending for Thursday, July 23, 2026, host Jim Love covers billionaire Mark Cuban's warning that today's massive AI data centers could become obsolete as AI chips and models rapidly improve. He also examines a Nikkei analysis estimating that Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle have committed about US$1.65 trillion in long-term AI infrastructure contracts that don't appear as debt on their balance sheets but remain legally binding obligations. The episode also looks at Substack's

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13:36

Is ChatGPT Killing Computer Science? Anthropic AI...

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2026/07/22

Is AI changing who studies computer science? Can AI ever ignore human authority? And who should regulate the world's most powerful AI models? On Hashtag Trending for Wednesday, July 22, 2026, Jim Love explores four major AI and technology stories shaping the future of software, regulation and digital trust. Computer science enrollment has fallen for the first time in more than 20 years, dropping from about 660,000 students in 2024 to just over 606,000 in 2025. Is ChatGPT to blame, or are layoffs, AI

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