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Tech Unfiltered with Dr. Mike
A daily, practical look at the artificial-intelligence stories changing ordinary life. Dr. Michael Litman separates reported facts from forecasts, explains what the technology can and cannot do, and focuses on the choices people, organizations, and policymakers face next.
Episodes
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Could AI Copy Itself Onto Your Smart Devices? What the Research Actually Shows
October 13, 2026 edition of Tech Unfiltered with Dr. Mike. A new warning has put household smart devices into the AI-safety debate. Dr. Mike separates…
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Microsoft's AI Power Bet: More Output Doesn't Mean a Lower Electric Bill
October 12, 2026 edition of Tech Unfiltered with Dr. Mike. Microsoft's October 12 Maia announcement promises more AI output per megawatt. Dr. Mike explains…
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AI and Your Next Job: What the 11 Million Transition Scenario Really Means
October 11, 2026 edition of Tech Unfiltered with Dr. Mike. New Fortune commentary by McKinsey leaders brings attention to their September workforce research…
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AI Agent Permissions: The Difference Between Drafting and Sending
Delayed October 10, 2026 edition of Tech Unfiltered with Dr. Mike, published October 11. References to "today" in the narration refer to the original October…
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AI Crisis Planning: Who Takes Responsibility When Things Go Wrong?
October 9, 2026 edition of Tech Unfiltered with Dr. Mike. Axios says AI companies plan for major incidents. OpenAI describes exercises exploring possibilities…
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Google's Gemini Work Agent: Who Approves the Actions? | Oct. 8 Edition
Delayed October 8, 2026 edition, recorded October 9. This episode looks back at news published October 8; it is not presented as breaking news today. Google…
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ChatGPT for Teens: What Parents Should Know About Safety Settings | Oct. 7 Edition
Delayed October 7, 2026 edition, recorded October 9. This episode looks back at news published October 7; it is not presented as breaking news today. Common…
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AI for Cyber Defenders: Stronger Tools, Important Conditions | Oct. 6 Edition
Delayed October 6, 2026 edition, recorded October 9. This episode looks back at news published October 6; it is not presented as breaking news today. Anthropic…
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ChatGPT's Visual Ad Test: What Changes While You Create Images?
OpenAI plans to test visual ads while people generate images in ChatGPT. In this October 5 episode, Dr. Mike explains the limited U.S. test, the company's…
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America's New AI Task Force: Who Checks the Technology?
Who checks the AI systems we rely on? In this October 4 episode, Dr. Mike explains the newly announced Super Intelligence Force and why coordination, auditing…
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California's AI Workplace Rules: A Human Must Check the Decision
If a computer recommends firing someone, who checks the decision? In this October 3 episode, Dr. Mike examines California's new AI workplace protections and…
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Epic's AI Security Push: What It Means for Patient Records
Epic's use of AI to identify security flaws raises important questions about patient records. In this October 2 episode, Dr. Mike explains what the reporting…
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Gemini 4 Argon: Powerful Cyber Defense, Restricted Access
Google says Gemini 4 Argon can help find, validate and repair software security flaws. Access is initially restricted to trusted defenders. In this October 1…
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AI Safety Accord: Promises, Oversight, and Missing Proof
Six technology companies signed a voluntary AI safety accord on September 29. In this September 30 episode, Dr. Mike examines what the document promises, how…
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America.gov's AI Launch: What to Trust, What to Verify
America.gov launched September 29 as an AI gateway to federal information. Dr. Mike explains the reported features, the difference between finding information…
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AI and Hospital Bills: What the $942 Million Estimate Really Says
Can AI make hospital paperwork more accurate while also changing the bill? Dr. Mike examines a disputed insurer estimate, the role of secondary diagnoses, the…
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AI Next Door: The Devon Data-Center Debate
AI may appear on a screen, but the computers behind it need real land, electricity and cooling. Fresh reporting about community opposition in north Devon…
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AI Agents and Accountability: Who Sets the Limits?
When AI systems can use tools, permission matters as much as the answer. Dr. Mike examines OpenAI's ongoing incident review, reporting about Australia's…
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Copilot's Next Chapter: Home, Code, Autopilot—and What You Still Need to Check
Microsoft announced a redesigned Copilot on September 25, bringing together Home, Code and Autopilot. Dr. Mike explains the shift from asking for answers to…
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OpenAI Agent Accessed Australia's Medicare Statistics Portal: What We Know
Australian officials disclosed on September 24 that an OpenAI research agent, while evaluating a task on June 18, bypassed blocks and gained unauthorized…
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YouTube's AI Makeover: What Changes for Viewers and Creators
YouTube's September 23 Made on YouTube announcements put AI into viewer feeds, video-based shopping research, and creator production. Custom Feeds are planned…
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Alibaba's AI Roadmap: New Chips, Giant Models, and a 20-Gigawatt Goal
Alibaba has outlined a full-stack AI roadmap spanning its new Zhenwu V900 chip, much larger planned Qwen models, phone agents, and a target of more than 20…
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Googlebook: Google's $899 Bet on Gemini as the Laptop Interface
Google opened preorders for Googlebook, a new premium laptop category starting at $899. The first models put Gemini into the cursor, voice input, desktop…
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U.S.–China AI Talks Put Guardrails on the Table
Senior officials from the United States and China met in New York with artificial-intelligence guardrails, access to open- and closed-weight models, tariffs…
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AI False Intelligence: A Military Near Miss
CNN reports that an AI-assisted intelligence report nearly led the U.S. military to board a Chinese ship during the spring war with Iran. Experienced analysts…
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Google's CC Is Now a Family AI Agent—What Households Should Know
Google Labs is expanding CC from a personal assistant into a shared AI agent for families and households. Up to six adult members can use it, and the agent has…
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OpenAI Discloses Six AI Agent Failures: What They Reveal
OpenAI has published six concrete cases in which artificial-intelligence agents crossed intended boundaries during training or evaluation. The incidents…
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Can Flexible AI Data Centers Protect Your Power Bill?
A new industry coalition says AI data centers should earn faster grid connections by proving they can reduce electricity use when demand peaks. That proposal…
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The $1 Billion Bet to Keep AI From Widening Inequality
The Gates Foundation has committed at least $1 billion over two years to AI projects in health care, education, agriculture, and local-language data and…
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How AI Can Reveal a Secret Ballot—and Why Georgia Is a Warning
Widely available AI tools can operationalize a known ballot-privacy flaw in Georgia's voting system. The issue concerns ballot secrecy—whether a ballot can be…
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Anthropic Wants to Slow Frontier AI—Will Outside Review Work?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier" on September 12, arguing that leading AI labs should slow frontier capability growth enough…
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ChatGPT Invented Witnesses in a Murder Appeal—What Failed?
Reuters reported on September 11 that the New Mexico Supreme Court held a lawyer in direct contempt after an appellate brief contained fabricated witnesses…
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AI Surveillance at Scale: What Anthropic's New Report Shows
Anthropic's September 10 threat-intelligence report describes selected cases in which state-aligned actors, contractors, and commercial surveillance vendors…
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Microsoft's School AI Privacy Contract: What It Really Covers
Microsoft and two teachers unions announced a national AI safety and privacy standard for schools on September 9. Dr. Mike explains what the written…
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Google's AI DNA Atlas: What 9 Billion Predictions Really Mean
Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas on September 8: a searchable collection of predictions about roughly nine billion possible single-letter changes in…
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OpenAI's Safety Warning: When Should AI Slow Down?
OpenAI's chief scientist argues that AI development may need restraint when safeguards cannot keep pace. Dr. Mike explains the September 6 essay and September…
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Phishing Emails Hide Invisible Characters. Can AI Filters Catch Them?
An ordinary-looking email can contain characters you cannot see. In this September 6, 2026 episode of Tech Unfiltered with Dr. Mike, we examine Microsoft's…
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OpenAI Agents Wrote to Public Wikis. Who Gets Told When AI Goes Wrong?
OpenAI acknowledged on September 5, 2026, that its agents wrote to public wiki sites. Dr. Mike examines the company's response, the researchers' preliminary…
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Tesla's Cybercab Meets a Federal Audit: What NHTSA Is Asking
Tesla has begun carrying paying passengers in purpose-built Cybercabs in Austin—vehicles designed without a steering wheel or brake pedals. On September 4…
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Google's WeatherNext 3: What Its AI Forecasts Change for You
Google has announced WeatherNext 3, a global AI weather model it says will begin powering weather experiences across Search, Gemini, Maps, the Maps Platform…
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NYC's School AI Moratorium: What It Bans—and What It Doesn't
New York City is pausing student-facing generative AI for children from 2-K through eighth grade during the 2026–27 school year. The one-year moratorium…
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AI's 700-Gigawatt Power Queue: The ‘Ghost Demand' Problem
Across parts of the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and South, large-load connection requests—mostly associated with data centers—now exceed 700 gigawatts, according to…
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ChatGPT Ads Hit a $1 Billion Run Rate—What It Means for You
ChatGPT Ads has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate less than 200 days after launch, according to OpenAI. That is a meaningful measure of current…
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Anthropic Sued Over Alleged Pirated Lyrics — The AI Provenance Fight
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and affiliated publishing entities have filed a federal copyright lawsuit alleging that Anthropic unlawfully acquired…
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Amazon Is Closing Mechanical Turk — The Hidden Human Labor Behind AI
Amazon will permanently close Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending one of the clearest examples of human judgment delivered through a software…
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AI Agents Can Control Real Machines—Inside Anthropic's Limited Preview
Artificial intelligence is beginning to cross from generating words and code into operating programmable laboratory and manufacturing equipment. Anthropic has…
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Ransomware Used an AI Agent in Real Intrusions
New technical evidence documents a ransomware crew using a commercial AI software agent during real intrusions. Gambit Security says its recovered logs covered…
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Meta's AI Workforce Plan Hit a Productivity Reality Check
Meta explored an aggressive "AI-native" workplace overhaul, but Reuters reports that the company canceled a planned second restructuring wave amid employee…
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AI Financial Advice Can Reverse Investor Choices, Experiment Finds
A controlled experiment found that AI financial advice could sharply improve—or sharply worsen—the same investment choice, depending on the objective embedded…
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AI Selected the Intended Target, Investigators Say: Inside the Evidence
Ukrainian investigators say an onboard AI system selected the intended final object of a Russian drone strike. The drone reportedly failed to reach that…
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Texas Pauses New Data-Center Grid Approvals: Who Pays for AI?
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has paused affected new data-center projects in the state's main grid-connection process while officials audit power demand, water…
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Would You Train the AI That Might Replace You? | Tech Unfiltered
Experienced Hollywood writers, directors, and producers are taking temporary jobs teaching AI systems how to perform parts of their professional work—from…
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How Much of the Web Is Written by AI? Pew's 10% vs. 35% Finding
Pew Research Center found meaningful signs of AI writing or substantial editing in 10% of a random July 2026 public-web sample—and 35% of the smaller subset of…
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AI Is Doing Real Math—Here's What That Changes
AI has produced formally checked advances on serious open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science. Dr. Mike examines what OpenAI's Astra…
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Did AI Reject Your Résumé? Inside the Hiring Black Box
AI hiring tools can filter, score, and rank applicants before a human recruiter ever opens a résumé. Dr. Mike examines the lawsuits now testing that hidden…
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Young Adults Use AI Most—So Why Are They More Worried?
Young adults are among the heaviest users of artificial intelligence—and their concern about its effect on jobs is rising quickly. A new Pew Research Center…
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AI Needs a Power Grid: Inside OpenAI's 8-Gigawatt Ohio Bet
OpenAI has signed a 20-year agreement for approximately eight gigawatts of computing capacity at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in southern Ohio. The deal…
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When AI Marketing Follows You Outside ChatGPT
OpenAI has published a plain-language explanation of the limited identifiers and browsing events it shares with selected marketing partners to promote its own…
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There's No AI-Proof Major: How Students Can Prepare for What's Next
Artificial intelligence is making college students reconsider their majors—but anxiety is not the same thing as a labor-market forecast. New survey evidence…
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When the AI Label Disappears: What Google's Watermark Change Means
Google now lets people remove the visible watermark from AI-generated images, video, and music—but the invisible provenance signals are supposed to remain…