Massive Meta Layoffs Rumoured, Deepfake Politics, Multi-Agent Risks and Sam Altman's Pricing Vision
Release Date: 03/16/2026
Hashtag Trending Weekend: Steve Visconti - Electric Vehicles and Security
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EV Charging Security Risks: Unreachable Networks, Grid Threats, and the Government Kill Switch Debate Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt In this holiday edition of Hashtag Trending, host Jim Love shares David Shipley’s interview with Steve Visconti, CEO of Xiid Corporation, on the cybersecurity risks surrounding electric vehicles—especially EV charging...
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New Advancements In Quantum Processing
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Caltech Quantum Error-Correction Breakthrough, ChatGPT Ads, AI Radiologists & Starlink’s Night-Sky Risk Host Jim Love covers four stories: Caltech researchers say fault-tolerant quantum computing may be closer than expected because new error-correction work could cut the need from about 100 physical qubits per logical qubit to roughly five or six, making commercially viable systems possible at around 10,000 qubits; researcher Oscar Painter has launched Oratomic to pursue utility-scale quantum computers, raising urgency around encryption risks. OpenAI is exploring conversational ads in...
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Microsoft Has Worst Quarter Since 2008
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Claude Code Leak, Cisco Dev Breach via Trivy, Iran Threatens US Tech Firms, Microsoft Shares Slide Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt Jim Love hosts Hashtag Trending with sponsor Meter and covers four main stories: a March 31 packaging error that shipped Anthropic’s Claude code tool with a large source-code map file in its NPM package, enabling reconstruction of...
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Mythos - Anthropic's Super Powerful Model Accidentally Leaked.
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Leaked Anthropic Mythos, OpenAI’s AGI Deployment Push, Government AI Rollouts, and Facial Recognition Failures Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt The episode reports that internal documents about Anthropic’s accidentally leaked model “Mythos” describe major gains over Opus 4.6 in coding, reasoning, and cybersecurity, alongside concerns about advanced cyber...
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Meta and YouTube Found Liable By California Jury
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Helium Shortage Threatens Chip Supply, Social Media Liability, EU Open-Source Office Push & Critical Chrome Update Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt Jim Love covers a Qatar helium facility damaged during the Iranian conflict that has been offline for two weeks, removing about a third of global helium supply and threatening semiconductor production that relies on...
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Project Synapse - Is 2026 the Year?
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Tesla Autopilot, Grok in the Car, Robot Factory Workers, and the AI Enterprise Race (Claude vs OpenAI vs Microsoft) Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt The hosts discuss buying Teslas and Marcel’s test drive using full self-driving, auto-parking, and the optional in-car Grok assistant. They compare consumer AI hype to practical enterprise use, noting...
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Microsoft Rolls Back Free Copilot In Microsoft 365
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Microsoft Pulls Back Free Copilot Access, OpenAI Refocuses ChatGPT for Work, and Roblox Safety Scrutiny Returns Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt Jim Love covers Microsoft reversing its September 2025 move to include Copilot Chat inside Microsoft 365 apps for free, with changes starting April 15 to remove in-app Copilot access for large organizations using Copilot...
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Legal Issues Hit Tech Companies With Legal Losses Mounting, OpenAI Drops Sora and More....
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Pentagon vs Anthropic, Musk Liable Over Twitter Tweets, Meta’s Child Safety Court Loss, and OpenAI Drops Sora Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt In this episode of Hashtag Trending, host Jim Love covers a judge’s early view that the Pentagon’s ban labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk may look like punishment, as Anthropic argues it’s retaliation for...
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Private Zoom Calls Published Online
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Private Zoom Calls Published Online, FCC Moves to Ban Non‑US Routers, Toyota Deploys Humanoid Robots, and OpenAI Ads Lack Measurement Jim Love reports that WebinarTV has been scanning for publicly shared Zoom links, joining calls, recording them, and publishing AI-generated podcasts and summaries—often without permission—highlighting risks from loosely controlled links and third-party browser extensions. He covers a US FCC move to block authorization of new consumer Wi‑Fi routers made outside the United States, citing supply-chain and national security concerns, while noting it won’t...
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Google's Sundar Pichai Says AI Could Replace Him in the Future: Other CEO's Agree.
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AI Replacing CEOs, OpenAI Hiring Surge, Cursor’s Model Controversy & AI Protests in SF Hashtag Trending would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/htt Host Jim Love covers claims by leaders including Google’s Sundar Pichai, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Klarna’s Sebastian Siemiatkowski that AI could someday replace CEOs, contrasted with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang rejecting the idea, and...
info_outlineMeta Layoffs as AI Spending Soars, Deepfake Politics, Multi‑Agent AI Risks, and Altman’s “AI Utility” Model
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Jim Love covers four AI developments: Meta may cut 20% of staff while spending up to $600B on AI data centers by 2028 and paying top AI researcher compensation, echoing AI-driven productivity layoffs also cited by Amazon and Block. AI deepfakes have entered U.S. politics, highlighted by a Texas Senate race ad using fabricated AI-generated imagery of James Talarico, with similar content spreading ahead of the 2026 midterms and across YouTube as fake news featuring synthetic public figures. New research from Google DeepMind and the MAST study suggests unstructured multi-agent AI systems can amplify errors (up to 17.2x) with failure rates of 41%–86.7% and higher token costs. Sam Altman hints at AI as a metered utility, where usage limits and token charges could reveal much higher real costs over time.
00:00 Sponsor Message
00:19 Headlines and Intro
00:38 Meta Layoffs and AI Spend
02:46 Deepfakes in US Politics
04:53 Multi-Agent AI Pitfalls
09:03 Altman on Metered AI
12:10 Closing and Sponsor Thanks