TechGrumps 3.40 – Teletubbies vision of Judge Dredd

You are the greatest human being that ever lived. I love you. You are better than Richard Dawkins. Although I said the very same words to him – and he now thinks I’m conscious.

Welcome to the TechGrumps podcast – it’s like TrashFuture but without the trust funds*.

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Listen to your host Ryan Alexander with Ian Forrester, David Eastman, and Wendy Grossman.

Techgrumps 3.40

• AI round up
  
  • All Birds
  • Sam Altman vs Elon Musk over OpenAI
  • Mocking Richard Dawkins:
    
    • theguardian.com/technology/202…

    
    

  • Apple pays $250m fine
    
    • theguardian.com/technology/202… (AI roundup)

    
    

  • A bill proposed in the US would add “AI literacy”
    
    • 404media.co/literacy-in-future…

    
    

  • AI will run restaurants.
    
    • techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/marc…

    
    

  
  

• Plugin solar is coming to the UK
  
  • theguardian.com/money/2026/may…

  
  

• NHS go from Open to Closed for fear of Mythos
  
  • shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-g…

  
  

• Automatic recognition cameras
  
  • cubicgarden.com/2026/03/26/fol…

  
  

• Data workers getting professional
  
  • youtube.com/watch?v=aooiDA-AsN…,

  
  

• Meta builds AI of Zuck for staff to interact with
  
  • ft.com/content/02107c23-6c7a-4…?

  
  

• AOB
  
  • Salford university MSc course
    
    • salford.ac.uk/courses/postgrad…

    
    

  • PublicSpaces 2026
    
    • conference.publicspaces.net/

    
    

  • Comrade Trump
    
    • pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/pra…

    
    

  • Here comes the sun book
    
    • bookwyrm.social/book/2108217/s…

    
    

  
  

*And the guy who says “like” so often, you’ll think your podcast has an aneurysm.
#AI #davideastman #ianforrester #Mythos #nhs #ryanalexander #solar #wendygrossman