Jim Love hosts Hashtag Trending for Friday, June 12, 2026, with a special look at a week of technology stories that range from bizarre to genuinely concerning.
It starts with a personal experience involving a Bose warranty that appeared to vanish after being successfully registered, raising questions about what happens when automated systems become the final authority and no one seems empowered to challenge them. That leads into a discussion of a recent German court ruling holding Google responsible for inaccurate AI-generated summaries and the growing push in Europe toward liability for software mistakes.
Other stories include reports that Meta is housing AI infrastructure in giant tent-like structures to get computing capacity online faster, a North Carolina software engineer who reportedly received a religious exemption from using AI at work, the NSA’s reported use of Anthropic’s Mythos cybersecurity AI despite tensions elsewhere in Washington, the UK’s decision to help workers worried about AI-driven job losses with yet another AI tool, and a courtroom drama where lawyers on both sides submitted AI-generated legal citations so flawed that a judge cancelled the trial.
Chapters
00:00 Weekly Weirdness Intro
00:32 Bose Warranty Vanishes
06:00 Google AI Liability Ruling
08:20 Meta AI Tent Cities
10:32 Religious Exemption From AI
12:43 Anthropic And The NSA
15:02 UK Jobseekers Get More AI
16:08 Lawyers Caught By Hallucinations
18:21 Wrap Up And Weekend Plug
