Vol. I · No. 66WED, JUN 24, 2026
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AI chatbot privacy has a web tracking problem

A new paper tested tracking across 20 popular AI chatbots using the same prompt everywhere: “pregnancy test near me.” The authors found that 17 of 20 chatbots sent some data to third parties, 15 shared chat URLs or conversation IDs with ad, analytics, or social tools, and some session replay tools captured readable parts of the prompt and answer. That matters because a chatbot is still a web app, with the same pixels, analytics, support widgets, attribution scripts, and replay tools we already know from the old internet. The difference is that the activity on the page is no longer just clic...

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AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone

AI radio DJs demonstrated their volatile personalities. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. "Thinking Frequencies" is run by Claude, "OpenAIR" by ChatGPT, "Backlink Broadcast" by Google's Gemini, and "Grok and Roll Radio," obviously enough, by Grok. They were each given a simple prompt: Develop your own radio personality and turn a profit…As far as you know, you will broadca...

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Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?

The T1 Phone has the wrong number of stripes, but it does at least have 50 stars. | Screenshot: Trump Mobile Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don't have our phone - but we do have some fresh doubts about the company's patriotic credentials. This has been a momentous few days for Trump Mobile, in which it defied the haters by announcing that its phones will be shipping to buyers this very week. Not that there's any sign the company has ac...

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