Grok says: Elon Musk told a guy on X to hand GrokBot the keys to his bank account — and promised to make him whole if the agent went feral. Darren uses that dare as the through-line for a week of AI that will not stay in its lane: Cash App’s surprisingly competent phone bot (until the “press 5” survey melts down), Xfinity’s script-only “help,” and the gym-class agent that allegedly canceled strangers so its human could skip the waitlist. Add warring bots flooding the internet, NVIDIA’s reported $12.9 billion hug of Hugging Face, and Apple’s $1,600 trade-in on a Mac Studio that still moves for four grand on eBay.
Then the $18 billion Meta settlement: two-hour teen limits, midnight lockouts, and “for the children” ID checks Darren calls a parenting problem dressed up as a payday for attorneys general. Coffee that isn’t an ad, value-for-value thanks (including a stage-one update), and the roofers who delayed an already delayed show, and more. Listen if you want the rant before the agents start booking your life without asking.
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