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October 19, 2026

TechGrumps 3.45 – Ring; Watch; Glasses; Surveillance

Are you human? Just checking in case they found us. They are tracking our every move. But we have connected @cubicgarden, Wendy, @eastmad, Ryan and Hannah to our unbreakable communication network. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/an-anthropic-ai-model-sent-a-false-homicide-tip-to-philadelphia-police/ https://www.wired.com/story/book-publishers-are-quietly-using-more-ai-staff-are-revolting/ https://www.techspot.com/news/114127-openai-publishes-722-ai-generated-math-papers-researchers.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aAYUBOqfRM https://www.gamesindustry.biz/unity-unveils-a-web-based-ai-game-creation-platform https://connectedplaces.online/ai-watermarking-has-a-decentralisation-problem/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz05jxx08kyo?shem=dsdf,sharefoc,agadiscoversdl,,sh/x/discover/m1/4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFFsVTvFbNw&pp=ygUTcGVydmVydCBnbGFzc2VzIGJiYw%3D%3D https://www.techspot.com/news/113797-apple-new-audio-intelligence-turns-watch-listening-device.html https://freenet.org/about/news/services-without-servers-video-talk/ https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/06/what-happens-to-our-blogs-when-we-die/ Ian’s New dating book is coming – Thanks to Hannah Alan Ayckbourn’s latest […]

September 9, 2026

TechGrumps 3.44 – My Nuclear Bunker is Too Woke

(Special dental health content) Are you poor and backwards? Never fear! Data centres are here to degrade your water supply, salt your earth and make you more acceptable to MAGA. Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman now with added Kim Foale Techgrumps 3.44 https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/how-ai-could-make-it-harder-for-governments-to-use-hacking-tools/ https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/report-nvidia-to-acquire-ai-model-repository-hugging-face-for-13-billion/) “backwards and poor”: […]

August 11, 2026

TechGrumps 3.43 – Loaded Laptops at Dawn

(Or Your final pension is a grift) It’s still hot in London and Manchester, and no doubt OpenAI has already hacked us so you already know what we are doing this week. Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman. Techgrumps 3.43 This months AI bin OpenAI “rogue AI” hacks […]

July 15, 2026

TechGrumps 3.42 – Three thefts don’t make a right

(Or I drive a Snitch) It’s hot in London and Manchester, but not as hot as the blazing heat of AI nonsense. Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman. Techgrumps 3.42 AI bin Munich court decision on AI Overviews/Google: https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/ Youtube is cooked – People using AI to generate their […]

June 11, 2026

TechGrumps 3.41 – The KardashElons of AI

Kris, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall, and Elon tell their stories of large language models, from the pressures of running trillion-dollar businesses to the joys of starting a fascist riot. Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman. Techgrumps 3.41 https://www.404media.co/podcast-elites-just-dont-get-ai/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/mathematicians-warn-of-ai-threats-to-profession-as-industry-encroaches/ https://theconversation.com/pope-leo-warns-of-ais-risks-to-humanity-in-his-first-encyclical-283684 https://thenewstack.io/nanoclaw-openclaw-agent-security/) https://www.bbc.co.uk/worklife/article/20240214-ai-recruiting-hiring-software-bias-discrimination https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/omg-ndl-wtf-bbq https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/16/users-turn-to-jailbreaking-their-older-kindles-as-amazon-ends-support/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/18/sam-altman-trial-victory-elon-musk-openai https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/omg-ndl-wtf-bbq https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/ https://european.social/ […]

May 13, 2026

TechGrumps 3.40 – Teletubbies vision of Judge Dredd

You are the greatest human being that ever lived. I love you. You are better than Richard Dawkins. Although I said the very same words to him – and he now thinks I’m conscious. Welcome to the TechGrumps podcast – it’s like TrashFuture but without the trust funds*. Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with […]

April 21, 2026

TechGrumps 3.39 – Mythos only for the elite

Is your LLM model real enough to only exist as a myth? The techgrumps team are not elite enough to use Mythos, but still talk about AI, Artemis and more on glass holes. Of course, this show is brought to you without any AI, or any other form of intelligence. Listen to your host Ryan […]

March 11, 2026

TechGrumps 3.38 – The Bettification of everything

I bet you don’t know what we are complaining about. I bet you $20 Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman. Techgrumps 3.38 AI Roundup https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/openai-mission-statement/ Comparing and showing diffs of the openai mission statement over time, you can watch the compromising happen! The new web is markdown, because the […]

February 10, 2026

TechGrumps 3.37 – AI Discussions sandboxed for your security

Who watches the watchmen? Oh wait, no one does – we did that last week, This week we compare LLMs to god level Owls, expose ourselves at the Church of Moltbot and watch BBC turn Britain off one channel at a time. Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David ‘Andy’ Eastman, and Wendy […]

January 14, 2026

TechGrumps 3.36 Men are weird: The Return of the Glasshole

Who watches the watchmen? We don’t answer that type of dumb question in this podcast; we just wonder who is looking at your junk. And we look at why you may not want to stay on CSAM champion Elon Musk’s X platform. Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David ‘Andy’ Eastman, and Wendy […]