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Which of these actually happened? A) A robot chef made 400 tacos an hour, B) NASA tested soft taco shells in zero gravity, C) Someone 3D-printed a taco, using ground cricket protein or D) All of the above? Take your best bite at it, the answer is tucked at the end.

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You’ve been telling ChatGPT things. Your job. Your health questions. Your money stress. Your relationship stuff. Maybe your kids’ names. Your city. Your age. And ChatGPT has been writing it all down. 

OpenAI’s memory feature isn’t hidden. But most people have no idea it’s been running in the background this whole time, no idea what it’s saved and no idea how to check. That’s the problem. 

Memory works across all your chats automatically. Every conversation, ChatGPT can flag details it thinks are worth keeping about you: your title at work, where you live, physical conditions you’ve casually mentioned. It takes note of your communication style, family situation, political leanings and financial picture. 

Over time, it builds a personal profile that travels with you from conversation to conversation. Not a short one, either. I checked mine. It knew things I’d completely forgotten I’d told it. Go look at yours. 

👉 Open ChatGPT on your phone or computer. Click your profile picture in the bottom left on desktop, or the menu on mobile. Go to Settings > Personalization > Memory. 

You’ll see a running list of everything it has stored. Some entries will be totally harmless. Others will make you do a double-take. Seriously.

You’ve got options. 

OpenAI trains its AI models on your conversations unless you tell it not to. Memory data included. 

👉 To opt out, go to Settings > Data Controls and turn off Improve the model for everyone. One toggle. Thirty seconds. Done. 

Deleting a memory from your list doesn’t scrub it from OpenAI’s servers. For a full data removal, submit a deletion request at privacy.openai.com. And if you’re on a ChatGPT Team or Enterprise plan, memory is off by default. Lucky you.

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🧯 Microsoft whiplash: Oops, Windows did it again. It’s getting to the point where you see Windows error code and immediately start browsing laptops like you’re leaving a bad relationship. This weekend, Microsoft pushed Windows 11 preview update KB5079391, some PCs got stuck failing with error 0x80073712, and Microsoft pulled it after about two hours. The company says your PC is fine, the install belly-flopped. Small victory for those renegades hitting “Remind me tomorrow” as a spiritual practice.

Bot blackmail got worse: There’s a new scam in town: castfishing. Not to be confused with catfishing, it’s a combo of romance scam and sextortion pressure tactics. Scammers use AI to make fake identities of actors and celebs, build intimate connections with their victim, then demand money or explicit content under threat of exposure. If someone impossibly attractive slides into your messages and things move unusually fast, slow down. That manufactured warmth is the red flag. Brad Pitt isn’t in your DMs asking for $200 on Cash App.

 🧢 Out! Robots win again: A robot ump drew its first blood. A Minnesota Twins manager became the first guy tossed thanks to robot ump tech after the automated ball-strike system made a call and he barked back anyway. Baseball’s oldest tradition was yelling at a guy in black. For 150 years, managers could at least get in an ump’s face. Now? They’re basically screaming at a spreadsheet in cleats. I’ll miss the dirt-kicking finales. 

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📱 Scroll, wrinkle, repeat: Ever catch your reflection mid-scroll and think oof? There’s a name for that. Dermatologists call it tech neck (paywall link), and a skin doc says staring down at your phone for hours can deepen the horizontal lines across your throat over time. Skin care companies heard of the problem and immediately thought money. There are creams, silicone patches and LED collars designed to fix what your posture broke. I miss when slouching got you a lecture from your mom. Now it gets you a $90 serum.

Have you ever been in a meeting and had no idea what anyone was saying? Been there, done that. AI is jumping in to translate irritating corporate buzzwords. I’ll break down the most annoying ones and what they actually mean.

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🎙️ Google has been keeping a diary on you: Go to myactivity.google.com and sign in. Every search you’ve typed, every YouTube video you’ve watched, every place Maps took you, time-stamped, going back years. Click Voice and Audio under the filter and you can hear recordings of your own voice from past Google searches. I pulled mine up and found audio going back to 2019. There’s no polite way to describe what that felt like. Go look. The file on you is bigger than you think.

Your new favorite artist doesn’t exist. AI creator Dallas Little put three songs in the iTunes top five under a fake singer named Eddie Dalton, who has never drawn a breath, missed a rehearsal or signed a bad record deal. 

Completely legal. Platforms don’t care. 

😱 A CISAC study says musicians could lose 24% of their income to AI by 2028. That’s not simply a prediction. Deezer already flags 10,000 AI-generated tracks every day. Real artists getting ghosted by actual ghosts. 

I should have more sympathy. My parents gave me piano lesson money every week, and I walked straight to the 7-Eleven instead. Came home playing “Twinkle, Twinkle” for a year. Dad finally said, “Piano is not your thing. And no more 7-Eleven.” At least I was honest about my talent. Eddie Dalton isn’t. Give it a listen.

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🔜 Tomorrow: One engineer built Gmail as a side project. Four executives laughed at tech and lost everything. And those robot CAPTCHA tests? You weren't proving you're human. This is the story nobody tells and it will be in your inbox tomorrow morning. 

 The answer: D) All of the above. Yes, really. A robot chef (named Flippy) did crank out 400 tacos an hour, NASA floated soft taco shells in microgravity because bread leaves crumbs, and someone 3D-printed a cricket taco because techies don’t believe in limits (or normal lunches).

🌮 So if you ever feel weird about your life choices, remember: Somewhere, there’s a bug-based space taco orbiting Earth, probably made by a robot. And today, Taco Bell is providing more value than ever. Where else can you get gas for $1.19? (You’ll use that one, I know it!)

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