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Today on Braun & Brains, we get into how the FBI’s latest subpoena could expose one of the internet’s most secretive founders, why new research suggests AI progress might be overstated, how “AI slop” is reshaping podcasts and TikTok ads, and two new pieces of hardware that hint at where tech is heading next.

Highlights include:
• The FBI’s secret request for a full year of user data, IP logs, and payment records from Tucows, the Canadian registrar behind Archive.today
• Only 16% of AI benchmarks meet scientific standards, according to the Oxford Internet Institute
• AI completed just 2.5% of real freelance tasks correctly (Scale AI study)
• TikTok Shop removed 70 million listings and banned 700,000 sellers tied to AI scams
• The Sandbar Stream Ring and Posha robot chef show how smart hardware is evolving from novelty to utility

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00:00 START
01:20 The FBI Subpoenaed Archive.today’s Domain Registrar
08:52 AI's Real Capabilities: Oxford Internet Institute & Scale AI Research
15:37 AI Slop: Podcasts and TikTok ads
19:41 Cool Gadgets: The Sandbar Stream Ring & Posha the Robot Chef

Sources:

https://x.com/archiveis/status/198409...

https://www.theverge.com/news/815691/...

https://scale.com/blog/rli

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/ar...

https://www.businessinsider.com/tikto...

https://puck.news/inside-the-1500-ai-...