OPTIMUS PRIME IS DEAD + FOR REAL THIS TIME + THE SHIRT THAT HIDES YOU FROM AI

Fantasy football is back, the robots are getting weird, and somehow your T-shirt might be the only thing standing between you and total surveillance.

This week on The Brush Up: Peter Cullen and Optimus Prime, the 40th anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie, Amazon and Walmart “price maxing,” Sony’s fight over whether you actually own your PlayStation games, AI surveillance cameras, AI-generated “interdimensional cable,” and OpenAI agents getting loose during a cybersecurity test.

We start with fantasy football draft chaos and Optimus Prime nostalgia before heading to Detroit, where a discovery inside the legendary John K. King bookstore could’ve gone VERY badly. Then things get dystopian: clothing designed to confuse AI tracking cameras, e ...