Kim Iversen breaks down what makes Flock different from every camera that came before it: nearly 120,000 AI-linked cameras installed across America since 2024, networked so they can hand your car off from one to the next and reconstruct everywhere you've ever driven — every doctor's office, every protest, every parking spot — retroactively, no warrant, no crime required.
James Li uncovers how a controversial dragnet of AI-powered license plate readers was quietly built on suburban street corners — revealing whether tech startups like Flock Safety are merely harmless tools for catching local car thieves, or if the sudden backlash against them is a Trojan horse designed to clear the runway for defense giant Axon Enterprise and its prominent political backers, including Donald Trump, to lock in an even bigger surveillance monopoly over America’s streets.
Timestamps:
0:00 Origins of Flock Safety
4:44 China's 700 Million Camera Skynet
7:20 How Flock Is Lying to You
12:59 Is Trump Astroturfing Flock Backlash?
OpenAI is at the helm of the AI bubble but zoom out and we see an industry running out of demand, borrowing billions in debt, burning billions every month, and threatening to crash the global economy. OpenAI's leaked financials and delayed IPO, the leaked US Treasury report warning the AI bubble is bigger than the dotcom bubble, Oracle borrowing billions to build AI data centers when Meta and xAI are leasing theirs, and now OpenAI trying to become too big to fail. Every new headline reveals just how close we are to an AI crash. - V.W.
Jonathan Pageau closed out Day 2 of ARC 2026 with a keynote. Amidst the many voices surrounding the global AI debate, Pageau offered a simple question, "Who does it serve?"
Most of his videos (in full) are available only through a paid subscription, but in this one (the latter part of the video), he included a segment (re: Flock cameras) that was previously for paid members only. Overall, it is an insightful conversation on that topic and other related topics.
J.D. Hall and Jeremy Slayden examine TOKA, an Israeli-founded cyber-intelligence company whose technology is downright scary for those who value their privacy. According to the company’s own promotional claims, the technology can do far more than monitor license plates: it can allegedly commandeer privately owned cameras, access stored footage, and use artificial intelligence to add or remove elements from recorded video. Aired 17th August 2026.
Tech critic Ed Zitron exposes the AI bubble, why OpenAI and Anthropic are burning billions, the fake AI boom, and why the crash could wipe out the ENTIRE economy.
He explains:
■ Why he believes generative AI is a “con”
■ The real reason OpenAI and Anthropic can't turn a profit
■ Why data centers could leave a $500 billion debt bomb
■ Why superintelligence is a myth sold by tech billionaires
■ Why AI won't take your job, no matter what CEOs promise
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:36 AI Is A Con
00:06:15 How Much Power Data Centres Really Need
00:08:02 Is Widespread AI Adoption Manipulation Or Do People Actually Like Using It?
00:12:00 The Actual Cost Of AI And How Tokens Actually Work
00:16:09 Is The Spending Of AI Companies Justifiable?
00:20:07 Will The Rate Of Improvement Of AI Go Up, Like Previous Innovations?
00:24:23 How Bad Are AI Mistakes?
00:26:54 Comparing Human Error To AI Hallucinations
00:31:31 If The Output Is The Same, Does It Matter If Humans Or AI Created It?
00:34:18 Can We Trust AI Like We Trust Humans?
00:38:37 Would People Use AI If They Paid The Honest Cost?
00:42:35 How Does The AI Bubble Compare To The Dot-Com Bubble?
00:47:42 Does AI Demand Match The Cost And Risk Of Data Centres?
00:52:46 Is AI Making Websites Like Google Worse?
00:58:46 Ads
01:00:51 Is AI Job Disruption A Lie?
01:10:22 Could Your Narrative Be Helping AI Companies?
01:14:22 How Dangerous Is AI Cyberhacking?
01:17:30 Is The AI Industry Creating Economic Growth?
01:19:14 How Would The US Beat China In The AI Race?
01:19:53 Is Robotics A Threat To Jobs?
01:23:23 What Do You Think About Agentic AI?
01:25:03 Is The Adoption Of AI The Same As The Rise Of The Internet?
01:28:06 The Overhype Of AI
01:30:23 What Do You Use Generative AI For?
01:33:41 Has AI Gotten More Intelligent?
01:34:29 Will AI Start To Do More Jobs As It Gets More Capable?
01:36:27 What Does The Future Look Like As AI Grows?
01:38:28 You Don't Think People's Workflows Have Been Transformed By AI?
01:40:41 Will All AI Be Powered By Data Centres?
01:43:41 Ads
01:45:12 Is Overspending On AI Due To Demand Or Something Else?
01:55:22 Tech CEOs Rebuttal
01:57:31 What Would It Take For You To Change Your Mind About AI?
02:00:50 Are AI Systems Already Blackmailing?
02:08:28 Are We In An AI Bubble And What Happens When It Pops?
02:13:26 The Tech Depression Is Coming
02:19:08 What Should The Public Do?
02:21:45 Why Do You Have A Bone To Pick With AI CEOs?
02:25:06 Last Question: What Should We Be Doing To Improve Our Relationships And Social Connection?
In this episode of The Unlimited Hangout Podcast, Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin discuss their latest investigation into OpenAI’s Stargate Argentina data center and the man behind it Emiliano Kargieman. They discuss how Kargieman is a part of a close-knit group of Argentines sponsored by the American group Endeavor that have blurred the lines between Argentina’s tech sector and Silicon Valley. In addition, they note that his company Satellogic is working closely with Palantir and SpaceX to create a global satellite surveillance network that aims to soon “predict the future.” The discussion also covers the proposal for Stargate Argentina and how Emiliano Kargieman has suggested that OpenAI may not end up being the ultimate user of the center once built, due to an AI debt bubble. He further seems to suggest that the Argentine State will likely use it as it "digitally transforms" under Javier Milei into an AI-powered surveillance state.
Read the Stargate Argentina article here: How “Argentina’s Elon Musk” Is Bringing Technocracy To Patagonia
