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April 29 2026 - Voice Shopping, Gov AI Agents & a 1930s LLMVoice Shopping, Gov AI Agents & a 1930s LLM

Podcast: The AI Signal & The AI Noise
Published: Apr 29, 2026
Duration seconds: 542
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Amazon tests AI audio Q&A on product pages; US agencies report widespread use of autonomous AI agents; a 13B model trained only on pre-1931 texts imagines a steampunk 2026; researchers find AI-written content is making the web unnaturally uniform and overly cheerful.