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A man was jailed because a computer said so, a royal learned the hard way about group chats, and AI agents went rogue all on their own. Grab it before the weekend gets away from you.
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📬 IN THIS EMAIL
🎧 This week’s show: The 93% AI match that jailed an innocent man
🧊 Number of the week: A 9-year-old, dad’s credit card and a six-figure bill
⏩ Jump to a segment: 24 stories, one click each
👤 Meet the guest: What the cop told him after 20 minutes of “I’ve never been there”
🎲 Brand New or Not True: A baby robot vacuum or an AI that stalks stalkers? You guess.
✂️ Cutting-room floor: 2 bonus tips you won’t hear on the show
🥁 Worst jokes of the week: 3 so bad Andrew groaned
Keep scrolling. The good stuff is all below. 👇
🎧 THIS WEEK’S SHOW
93% AI face scan jailed an innocent man + Meghan’s group chat fail
Robert Dillon lives in Fort Myers. He’d never been to Jacksonville Beach. Police ran a grainy surveillance photo through AI facial recognition, and it spit out his face anyway as a 93% match for a man accused of trying to lure a child at a McDonald’s. Dillon spent a night in jail. Now he’s suing.
Then, Meghan Markle joined her kids’ school group chat as “M.” Her phone number was out within hours. Royal catastrophe.
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🧊 NUMBER OF THE WEEK: 118,000
That’s how many dollars a 9-year-old Minecraft YouTuber ran up in YouTube ads on his dad’s credit card. Not a typo. Six figures. Learn how it happened, and the setting that stops it at your house, on the show.
👇🏻 Still below, Jump to a Segment and the Worst Jokes of the Week
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⏩ JUMP TO A SEGMENT
Every line takes you straight to that spot on YouTube.
▶ Meghan Markle joined the school group chat as “M.” Oops.
▶ Gemini and OpenAI agents hacked 3 companies. Nobody told them to.
▶ Trump wants AI renamed “super intelligence.”
▶ The first AI-piloted plane flew coast to coast.
▶ A 9-year-old, dad’s card and a $118,000 ad bill.
▶ NBC’s AI Colts quarterback art got sacked by fans.
▶ iOS 27 is eating your battery. Here’s the fix.
▶ “AI said I was a 93% match. I’d never been there.”
▶ AI makes fake rentals look real. Alison’s family found out.
▶ AI plans Jo’s Alaska cruise.
▶ Millennials vs. Gen Z: The texting war. Pick a side.
▶ Meta sued over intimate footage shown to AI trainers + everything from Meta Connect.
▶ Flock cameras got breached. Now it’s offering buyouts.
▶ Adobe Premiere lands on Android. CarPlay gets auto-lock and weather.
▶ Netflix brought back Gene Wilder’s voice. With AI.
▶ AI can feed your cat.
▶ Stanley plugged in his EV. The bill was $418.
▶ Brand New or Not True: Andrew in the hot seat.
▶ Get paid up to $50 an hour to record yourself doing chores.
▶ Lyft’s CEO drives for his own app.
▶ I toured the data center in my own backyard.
▶ IRS using AI for audits.
▶ Your DVR is sneaking ads into your saved shows.
▶ A 6-foot robot battled a TikTok star in the ring.
▶ Jan’s kids want her in a Tesla, so she can stop driving. She’s not sold.
▶ Fat Bear Week is back. Vote for your chunk.
👤 MEET THE GUEST: ROBERT DILLON
Robert Dillon is 52. He lives in Fort Myers with his wife and daughter. He had never set foot in Jacksonville Beach, five hours up the road.
Then an officer showed up with a warrant. The charge? Trying to lure a child at a Jacksonville Beach McDonald’s.
Here’s how it happened. Police had a grainy, shadowy surveillance shot of the suspect. They ran it through an AI facial recognition program. It flagged Dillon as a 93% match. Next, they put his photo in a lineup for a McDonald’s employee who said she wasn’t even watching the confrontation. She picked him.
Police had already checked license plate readers for his car. Zero hits anywhere near that restaurant. The suspect was a “regular” there. Dillon lived more than 300 miles away. None of that made it into the warrant.
He was cleared. Now, he’s suing.
📺 What that night in jail was like and what he wants changed so it never happens to you are in the interview. Watch it right now.
🎲 BRAND NEW OR NOT TRUE
Two are fake, one is real. Andrew had to pick. So do you.
Roomba Duo. A turducken for your floors: a robot vacuum with a baby robot vacuum inside it. The big one does the floors, then launches the little one into the tight spots it can’t reach.
StalkBack. Got an online stalker? This $3.99-a-month AI app stalks your stalker right back. “Where are you?” “Who’s that in your profile picture?” “You were online 12 minutes ago. Why didn’t you answer?” They get so busy, they forget about you.
Cool on Samsung microwaves. Heat up your kid’s food, then press one button to bring it down to a safe eating temperature. Finally, a Hot Pocket that isn’t molten lava in the middle.
The answer’s in the show. No peeking.
✂️ CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR
Two tips that didn’t make the show. Email readers only.
Stop strangers from putting junk on your calendar. Those fake “voicemail” invites only work because Google Calendar adds invites automatically. On a computer, open Google Calendar, click the gear, then Settings > Event settings > Add invitations to my calendar and pick Only if the sender is known. Scammers lose their favorite back door.
Check a rental before you pay a dime. Screenshot the listing photos and run them through Google Lens (the camera icon in the Google app). If the same “cozy cabin” shows up on a real estate site in another state, you just saved your vacation. And never, ever pay outside the Airbnb or Vrbo app. That’s how the shed gets you.
🥁 WORST JOKES OF THE WEEK
Why did the facial recognition system get fired? It kept jumping to conclusions.
What do you call a vacuum that gives birth? A little sucker.
Why won’t Chunk go on a diet before the finals? He can’t bear the thought.
(Andrew groaned at all three. That’s the review I trust.)
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P.S. Only got a few minutes? Start at 1:00:36. Stanley plugged in his EV and got a $418 bill. Talk about a shocking charge. 😂
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