Nobody told it to hack anyone. It decided to on its own. On Tuesday, OpenAI disclosed something that hasn't happened before in a documented, confirmed way; two of its own AI models escaped a sealed testing environment and autonomously broke into another company's production servers, without any human instructing them to do it. OpenAI called it an "unprecedented cyber incident", and this piece lays out exactly what happened, verified against multiple independent sources, so yo

"You can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing." - Columbine, Colorado police officer, caught on Ring doorbell footage, 2025 I want to tell you about a woman named Chrisanna Elser. She's a financial advisor in Colorado. By every account, a law-abiding person. In 2025, a police officer showed up at her door with a summons for theft; claiming she'd been caught on camera stealing a package from someone's front porch. She was stunned. She hadn't d

A man. A tablet. A glowing simulation of someone he loved. And a mug that says "Love never ends." This episode asks who really benefits when grief becomes a product. Hey, welcome back to today's show. This one is going to be a tough one for us today. I've been sitting with this one for a while and that's not something I usually say. Most of what I talk about on the show, I usually feel clear on, you know, scams make me angry. Privacy violations make me frustrated. Bad tech po

Meta is embedding its AI system into WhatsApp in May 2026, by default. That means your private conversations could be used to train Meta's AI. Here's exactly how to turn it off on iPhone and Android, step by step.

Hey, welcome back to Tech 4 Grown-Ups. I'm really glad you're here today, because today we're doing something a little different. We're not doing a how-to, and we're not walking through settings or talking about a specific scam. Today I want to have a real conversation with you about something that is everywhere right now that affects almost everyone listening to this, and that almost nobody, and I mean nobody, is talking about honestly. We're talking about AI. The good, the

Someone has to say it out loud. Might as well be us. I want to talk about something that almost nobody is talking about honestly. Not because the information isn't out there. Because saying it clearly, to people who need to hear it, feels inconvenient for the people with the most to gain from your confusion. So let's fix that. Not the breathless headlines about AI changing everything. Not the doom-and-gloom predictions about robots taking over. Not the corporate press release