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The biggest stories on the internet from July 30th, 2026.

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1:17 Nantucket vs. influencers

11:50 BTS pulls out of Grammys running

15:30 Nara Smith rebuts "tradwife" label

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The biggest tech news & social media trends on the internet from July 29th, 2026.

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00:00 Intro

1:12 The reaction to MidJourney acquiring Co-Star

8:43 Claude exposed private chats on Google Search

14:20 AI companies are destroying physical media 

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Sources:
​​https://www.404media.co/tons-of-peoples-claude-chats-and-creations-are-exposed-on-google/ 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/09/08/hundreds-of-anthropic-chatbot-transcripts-showed-up-in-google-search/

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/psa-your-claude-shared-chats-and-artifacts-may-have-ended-up-on-google/

https://www.wired.com/story/private-claude-chats-exposed-in-google-and-bing-search-results/ 

https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/ 

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25982181/authors-v-anthropic-ruling.pdf 

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/ 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/ 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-24/ai-startup-midjourney-buys-astrology-app-co-star-and-is-building-its-own-apps 

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/970894/midjourney-co-star-acquisition

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The biggest stories on the internet from July 28th, 2026.

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Timestamps:

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1:21 Bailey Smith exposed by multiple women

6:47 Dylan Mulvaney responds to White House speech

10:31 Jen Hamilton says her husband was living "a double life"

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The biggest stories on the internet from July 27th, 2026.

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1:42 Equinox goes viral for offensive AI ad

11:45 Morgan Adams vs. Tana Mongeau

17:22 Jeffree Star sparks concern over new friendship

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The biggest stories on the internet from July 24, 2026.

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Timestamps:

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1:57 Olandria vs. DeuxMoi

7:35 Dr. Nick Baumel returns to TikTok after "misogynistic" backlash

17:40 Kiley Skeff apartment scandal

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