AI IS TRYING TO KILL US + STAR TREK TURNS 60 + IS YOUR TV SPYING ON YOU?

You bought the TV. So why does LG say it owns the glass?

This week on The Brush Up, Mike and Dunbar dig into the Gamers Nexus investigation into LG smart TVs, allegations of household surveillance, and LG’s denial. What does your television collect, who profits from it, and why does watching something on your couch suddenly require a privacy strategy? The conversation gets a little more personal when Dunbar realizes what brand of monitor he’s sitting in front of.

Then it’s another round of Knock It Off, Robots: an Anthropic researcher quits with a warning that AI companies are “gambling with our lives.” We unpack the alarm coming from inside the industry before Dunbar offers his own extremely unofficial theory: what if AI is already running ...