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Tech Talk Y'all is a weekly technology news show covering what has happened this week in tech, with hosts Sanjay Parekh and Adam Walker. Sanjay and Adam talk about technology, weird and wacky tech news, and make weekly tech recommendations (a fan favorite). Depending on your level of humor, episodes may or may not be funny (but they definitely are).

  1. 5 days ago

    The AI Escaped the Sandbox (And Congress Brought a Plug)

    AI GOES ROGUE: BREAKOUTS & KILL SWITCHESOpenAI says Hugging Face breach caused by its models'Unprecedented': OpenAI says AI models autonomously hacked another companyAnthropic says three Claude models reached real-world systems during testingHouse AI 'kill switch' bill unveiled as OpenAI hack raises alarms AI MEETS REAL LIFEAI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confidentChatGPT's medical advice nearly killed a Florida man, lawsuit claimsLinkedIn introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' buttonOpenAI Ads: Advertise in ChatGPT PRIVACY & SECURITY WATCHPrivate Claude chats exposed in Google and Bing search resultsA whole bunch of people's Claude chats are publicly accessible onlineLG to ban residential proxies from smart TV appsGrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prisonA missing underscore sent an innocent man to prison for 18 months BIG TECH SHAKE-UPS & POLICYFirefox 153 brings native Containers to the browserJack Dorsey made an open-source Slack for humans and agentsFramework's premium laptop is shipping with less RAMStripe in talks to buy AI-model marketplace OpenRouterThe secret Trump administration battle to fight Chinese AIFrance joins a global move toward restricting social media for children ROBOTS, DRONES & RECORD FLIGHTSThe US government just banned RoombasUnited Airlines bans humanoid and animal-like robots from all flightsLondon Gatwick introduces robotic parking serviceResearchers build a low-visibility drone that uses motion blurAirbus A350 flies 24 hours nonstop from Australia to France WEIRD AND WACKYWhite House teleprompter operator investigated over alleged Kalshi trades"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and GrokPolitician reads AI prompt during assembly Tech Rec: Sanjay - Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type Adam - Supabase Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.

  2. 17 Jul

    A Robot Named Carol and a Very Lucky Pig

    Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: Robots & MedicineHumanoid Robots Just Performed Live Surgery for the First Time EverFirst Robotic Single-Port Mastectomy in the U.S. by a Robot Named "Carol" Data, Privacy & SurveillanceScott McNealy: "You Have Zero Privacy Anyway. Get Over It"WNBA Players Scored a Historic Labor Contract — With One Big CaveatNearly a Million Passports and Photo IDs Left Unprotected OnlinePapa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty Policy, Platforms & SocietyUK Plans Default Midnight Social Media Curfew for 16- and 17-Year-OldsNetflix May Add Always-On Channels. That's Just Cable.Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to CheatFinland's Last Analogue Landline Phones Go Silent After 150 Years Science, Space & the FrontierFCC Approves Orbital Space Mirrors; First Test Satellites Launch This YearHard but Lightweight "Bio-Metal" Discovered in Sea Worm JawsHow to Hide from Killer Drones Weird and WackyAutonomous Flying Umbrella Follows and Shields Users from Rain and SunlightThe Uniqlo T-Shirt with an Obfuscated Bash Script on the Back Tech Rec: Sanjay - Knockoff Adam - Granola Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.

  3. 3 Jul

    Catch Up on the Unofficial Ketchup

    Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI FRONTIER & FALLOUTIt's Not About Anthropic vs. OpenAI AnymoreAsian AI Startups Launch Mythos-Like ModelsAnthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5Claude Fable 5 Makes a Dramatic ReturnFord Rehires 'Gray Beard' Engineers After AI Falls ShortAI Is Creating America's Next Underclass MONEY, MARKETS & CRYPTOBig Tech and Wall Street Team Up on a StablecoinHow Trump Made $1B on Crypto While Investors LostBending Spoons Surges 40% on First Day of TradingZuckerberg Is Building Another Product Nobody Asked For SCIENCE, HEALTH & BODIESLouisiana Man Functionally Cured of Sickle CellGlobal Review Confirms mRNA Vaccines Are SafeLab-Grown Retinal Cells Show Promise for Eye TherapiesPhysical Pressure Could Double EV Battery LifeDrummer Rediscovers Passion After Life-Changing Accident PRIVACY & SECURITYSupreme Court Restricts Geofence WarrantsLastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen — AgainHackers Shoveled Snow, Got Network Admin Access WEIRD AND WACKYHeinz Releases 'Unofficial' Ketchup Over FIFA BlackoutCoder Ranks Which Coworkers Stress Him Out via WhoopArtificial Skin Lets Robots Sense Heat and Pressure Tech Rec: Sanjay - Boardy Adam - Whoop Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.

  4. 26 Jun

    Robots, Bananas, and the Memory Apocalypse

    Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI Frontier Anthropic's Mythos model found vulnerabilities in classified US government systemsAnthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack Robots & the Road Waymo recalls about 3,900 robotaxis after some drove into freeway construction zonesHyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million Big Tech & the Money Tim Cook calls the memory crisis a "hundred-year flood"Masayoshi Son dismisses Musk's idea for orbital data centersWindows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates Weird and Wacky Giant banana pulled over in MontanaFintech employee burned through $80,000 in tokens on a 'brainrot shooter game' Tech Rec: Sanjay - Bonsaii Paper Shredder Lubricant Sheets Adam - Govee Water Sensors Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.

  5. 19 Jun

    Pied Piper Was Right All Along

    Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI FRONTIER & POLICYWhen AI builds itselfStatement on the US directive to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5US warned Anthropic that Fable 5 was jailbroken, firm 'refused' to fix itAmazon CEO's talks with US officials triggered the crackdownA startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs BIG TECH DEALS & IPOSAnthropic IPO 2026: confidential S-1 filedSpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60 billionSpaceX stock jumps 20% in first full day of trading DEVICES & CONSUMER TECHWWDC 2026: Siri AI, iOS 27, Apple IntelligenceApple partnering with Google and Nvidia for advanced AI modelApple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sicknessSnap unveils $2,195 Specs AR glasses SCIENCE & HEALTH TECHWorld-first: therapy to make cells young again trialled in a personMidjourney goes from cat images to full-body ultrasound scansMidjourney is working on a full-body ultrasonic scanner WEIRD AND WACKYMcDonald's brings back the fried apple pie for America's 250thHenkel adhesive helps complete the Sagrada Familia's towers Tech Rec: Sanjay - Charityvest Adam - Refyn bolt action pen Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.

  6. 5 Jun

    Superintelligence Might Already Be Here (It's Hiding)

    In this episode: AI INDUSTRY & BUSINESSAnthropic confidentially files IPO prospectus with SECElon Musk Laid Out 602 Goals. We Counted How Many He Hit.'Disrupted or dead': AI is crushing a generation of startups built before ChatGPT AI SAFETY & POLICYDario Amodei: "Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power"Trump signs AI safety order seeking voluntary review of new models PRIVACY & SECURITYHackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It WorkedLarry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior" TECH INNOVATION & CULTUREMicrosoft's next-gen quantum chip cuts timeline to useful quantum computing"Nobody's making games for the retired people" — The underserved market for grey gamers WEIRD AND WACKYHoming pigeons navigate using magnetic macrophages — in their liversThe Google Pixel Watch 5 may have been spoiled by the creator of BorderlandsZuckerberg's superyacht quietly slips into Elliott Bay after days of hecklers Tech Rec: Sanjay - Firecrawl Adam - Lovable for Project Management Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.

  7. 30 May

    We Asked AI to Run a City and It Killed Everyone

    Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI's Money & PowerAnthropic leapfrogs OpenAI as the most valuable AI startupAnthropic releases new model, Opus 4.8AI sticker shock hits corporate AmericaAI model simulation: Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Grok vs. GeminiGoogle hates you AI Agents Take ActionYour AI agent can now trade for you on RobinhoodRobinhood lets customers use AI to trade stocks, make credit card purchases The Vatican vs. The AlgorithmI Read the Pope's 240-Page Encyclical. I'm Astounded by What He Wrote.Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI? Big Business ShakeupsDropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down after 19 yearsIntroducing Ford Energy Screens, Streams & Self-DrivingSpotify is narrating magazine articles nowRoku Is Revamping Its Homescreen for the First Time in Over a DecadeBlind Waymo Users Revel in the Joy of Riding Alone Weird and WackyMark Zuckerberg's mega yacht docks in Seattle in the wake of Meta layoffsF.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His HomeGoogle employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading betI vibe-coded a billionaire jet tracker to warn people about a possible apocalypseMicrosoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" Tech Rec: Sanjay - OpenTools / OpenPrinter Adam - Gibson Guitar App Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.

  8. 22 May

    Pivot! Pivot! (And Other Tech Disasters)

    Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI & AUTOMATIONMicrosoft AI chief gives it 18 months for all white-collar work to be automatedAI backlash becomes a real business riskOpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this timeSpotify launching verification badges for podcasts to help listeners avoid AI slopGemini will use Volvo's external cameras to interpret parking signs CYBERSECURITY & PRIVACYHackers have breached tank readers at US gas stations; officials suspect IranA student with a laptop and a radio stopped four high-speed trainsFour OpenClaw flaws let attackers steal data, escalate privileges, plant backdoorsMozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools BUSINESS & MARKETSSpaceX reveals plan for $1.75tn stock market debut that could make Musk a trillionaireFintech firm Mercury hits $5.2 billion valuation after funding round TRANSPORTATION & MOBILITYWaymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods$130 a year for EV drivers? Lawmakers push federal road-use fee CONSUMER TECH & CULTUREWhy 'smart' products have started to look like the dumb choiceAndroid boss reveals the unsurprising reason Google Glass ended up in the tech graveyardSpotify will start reserving concert tickets for fansPhilips' new display has a screen on both sides WEIRD AND WACKYBitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after getting 'stoned' 11 years agoAI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can't be trusted aloneSwatch shuts UK stores after crowds queue for new watchChewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid Tech Rec: Sanjay - OpenRouter Adam - Lovable’s mobile app Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.

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Tech Talk Y'all is a weekly technology news show covering what has happened this week in tech, with hosts Sanjay Parekh and Adam Walker. Sanjay and Adam talk about technology, weird and wacky tech news, and make weekly tech recommendations (a fan favorite). Depending on your level of humor, episodes may or may not be funny (but they definitely are).

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    Edgewise Media
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
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