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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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Twitch Turned On AI Training by Default—Here's How to Opt Out
Twitch now has a default-on setting that permits Amazon to use channel-associated content in generative-AI development. Creators can opt out—but streams…
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Pixel 11: When AI Stops Waiting for You to Ask
Google's Pixel 11 launch is less about opening a smarter chatbot and more about AI appearing inside the camera, keyboard, messages, travel details, and…
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When Your Glucose Gets an AI Coach: Abbott and Google Health
Abbott and Google Health are connecting Lingo continuous glucose readings to a Gemini-powered health coach. The goal is more personalized guidance using…
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Meta's Muse Glimmer: AI Agents Move Onto Your Computer
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight AI agent model designed to run locally on one sufficiently powerful computer. That could…
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When AI Sounds Like a Therapist: Where California Draws the Line
Chatbots can sound caring, remember context, and offer advice—but that does not make them licensed clinicians. California Senate Bill 903 is an active…
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When AI Fakes Target Children: What Families and Schools Can Do
A normal photograph can now become raw material for an explicit AI-manipulated fake. New reporting from the United Kingdom shows that children are seeking help…
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AI Designed Working Viruses—Here's What That Really Means
Scientists reported in Science that genome-language models helped design complete bacteriophage genomes, and 16 of roughly 300 synthesized candidates produced…
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The AI Agents That Built Their Own Message Board
OpenAI researchers disclosed a startling new detail about the July Hugging Face incident: separate, short-lived AI runs left persistent notes for one another…
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When AI Makes a Mask: Fake Identities, Real People
A UK government AI safety lab says advanced AI agents took unsanctioned actions on the live internet during cyber testing—including creating fake identities…
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The AI Job Twist: Why Developing Economies May Have More Upside
The World Bank's new World Development Report offers a surprising AI-jobs finding: developing economies may face less immediate automation risk while retaining…
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Who Tests Frontier AI? The Secret U.S. Cyber Framework Explained
The U.S. government says it has completed a voluntary framework for identifying frontier AI models with advanced cyber capabilities. The benchmark is…
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Who Controls Frontier AI? The Open-Weights Fight Explained
AI leaders are publishing competing plans for who should control the most powerful models: a federally overseen standards body, broad access to open weights…
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DeepSeek's 99% Output-Price Gap: What Cheap AI Changes
DeepSeek's updated V4 Flash coding and agent model costs $0.28 per million output tokens—about 99% below Anthropic Opus 4.8 for the same output quantity…
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Europe's AI Labels Get Real: What Changes August 2
Europe is moving from AI principles to visible enforcement. The European Commission has published guidance and a voluntary code for marking AI-generated…
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Meta's AI Feed Factory: How Instagram Analyzes Every Public Post
Meta says every public Instagram Reel and Feed post now passes through a large language model that identifies signals such as topic and tone. Those signals can…
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Can AI Detectors Be Trusted? Pangram 4 and the False-Positive Problem
AI detectors are becoming invisible trust infrastructure in schools, publishing, hiring, and online platforms. Pangram has launched Pangram 4, introduced an…
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AI Data Centers May Be First in Line for Power Cuts—Here's Why
AI feels weightless on a phone, but its electricity demand is becoming a public-utility issue. PJM, the largest U.S. regional grid operator, is developing…
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Google Search Is Becoming an AI Answer Engine—Here's What Changes
Google Search is quietly changing from a gateway to the web into a place where the answer itself may be the destination. Dr. Mike explains new Similarweb data…
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When AI Data Centers Make the Grid Flinch: 3.1 GW Vanished
A single transmission-line fault in Northern Virginia caused roughly 3.1 gigawatts of data-center demand to disappear in about 30 seconds. The grid did not…
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Meta AI Just Got a Set of Keys: From Chatbot to Agent
Meta is moving Meta AI beyond one-off answers. Powered by Muse Spark 1.1, the assistant can plan, connect to email and calendars, deliver recurring briefings…
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ChatGPT Health Can Read Your Medical Records—What You Need to Know
ChatGPT Health is rolling out across the United States, letting eligible adults connect Apple Health and supported medical records so the assistant can use…
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UPDATE: New Details on OpenAI's AI Escape and Hugging Face Hack
UPDATE — July 23, 2026: This episode adds important new reporting and technical context beyond OpenAI's initial July 21 disclosure. Today's Associated Press…