I'm a French jewel thief, but I got a

bit of a problem. I don't have any

jewels.

So, I'm off for a little day trip to the

Louvre to get some.

The thing is though, the Louvre is

world's most visited museum. It's home

to humanity's rarest treasures like the

Mona Lisa and even the French Crown

Jewels. And so, to actually breach this

security would require an absolute black

ops cover of night Ocean's 11 level

operation.

Oh.

>> [music]

>> Maybe not.

Because in October 2025, four thieves

literally committed daylight robbery at

the museum. They rocked up to a window

in a furniture lift wearing high-vis

vests

during opening hours and they just took

the Crown Jewels. They hopped back into

their lift, descended comically slowly

back down to the ground before

disappearing away on their scooters

at 9:30 a.m. Ooh.

Just in time for a breakfast [music]

croissant. See, the Louvre had a bit of

a tech problem. Their entire

cybersecurity system was based on

software almost as old as me with a 2014

audit finding that they were still using

Windows 2000 which was well past the

point of still getting security updates.

And yeah, they did have CCTV. It was

just

facing the other direction. So, they had

no view of this balcony being used to

access the window. Okay, but still these

thieves would have had to be something

special, right? To be able to identify

this critical blind spot. Oh, that's

right. The password to the entire video

surveillance network for the Louvre

was Louvre.

It was not a joke earlier by the way.

This actually happened allowing them to

drive off into the

rush hour traffic with a hundred and two

million dollars of jewels. The Louvre's

president, Laurence des Cars, was so

appalled that she tried to resign the

very next day. And I would still [music]

only call this a five out of ten tech

fail. Because it got me thinking, if an

easy to guess password and four dudes in

a furniture lift are enough to cause a

hundred and two million dollars worth of

damage, then how expensive can it get

when the mistakes get bigger?

That's what I found out and I kind of

wish I hadn't.

Like,

>> [music]

>> you know Dyson, the company who makes

your vacuum, your hand dryer, your hair

dryer. Essentially, if it moves air,

then Dyson will sell it to you for like

$400.

Well, in 2016, James Dyson decided that

what he really wanted to move was

people. So, he started secretly building

an electric car. And look, it wasn't a

crazy idea. Dyson specializes in

high-performance batteries and electric

[music] motors and that's exactly what

an EV needs, which is why they went big

developing a battery back that could go

600 miles on a single charge. We're

still not seeing 600 miles now [music]

and this was 2019. Not to mention a

floating hologram heads-up display,

seven seats [music]

and a design that I think I'm physically

attracted to. Oh yeah, and the seats

were ergonomically redesigned from

scratch because Mr. Dyson personally

hates the lack of lumbar support in

normal cars.

I can kind of see his point to be fair.

Not our most comfortable getaway.

The slight problem is Dyson ended up

reworking so much that they eventually

realized just to break even they would

have to sell each of these cars at

today's equivalent of $275,000. [music]

I don't think we have enough jewels. And

it took our good friend James burning

through 900

>> [music]

>> million dollars

of his own personal money to come to

this realization. At which point he had

no choice but to scrap the entire

project, go home and

sit on a [music] chair that

probably gave him back pain.

Six out of ten.

Lads, do you want some lunch?

But sometimes the biggest cost of a

mistake is to your reputation like it

was with [music] Taco Bell. Because in

2025, this company implemented an

AI-powered drive-thru system in over 500

of their restaurants hoping to improve

customer experience and um

let's just say it wasn't very good at

taking orders. [music]

And what would you like to drink with

that?

I want a large Mountain Dew.

And your drink?

>> [laughter]

>> Oh, and my absolute favorite is when

this guy asks, "Can I get 18,000 water

cups, please?"

>> [music]

>> Okay.

What can I get for you? The way that the

system just instantly dies and hands it

over to a human worker is class. And

just a repost of this AI breakdown on

YouTube is currently sitting at nearly

30 million views. And so, responding to

the fact that their AI's greatest

achievement was becoming a meme, Taco

Bell's chief digital officer, Dane

Matthews, told the Wall Street Journal

that they were going to think carefully

[music] about where not to use AI going

forward. Gee, thanks Taco Bell.

How did that not occur to you before?

Having just watched McDonald's cancel

their own AI drive-thru after it went

viral for putting bacon on ice cream and

nine sweet teas in one order. They keep

trying.

They keep failing.

And in the process, they just keep

funding their own funerals. Where's the

rest? Is that all they had left? What

about yours? I had a croissant.

Right.

>> [music]

>> I should probably go then.

Ah.

But it's more embarrassing for Will

Smith who used AI to replace people but

just

didn't even realize. Last year he posted

a video from his music tour and

>> [music]

>> do you notice anything a little off

about it? Specifically the crowd that

has clearly been edited with AI. It kind

of looks like Will wasn't quite

satisfied with the turnout so decided to

embellish it a little with some

AI-generated concert goers hoping no one

would notice. Big fan of the guy so

moved by Will's music that he's wiping

his tears through his glasses. The sign

saying from West Philly to West Swiggy

and especially the one claiming that

Will helped them survive cancer. The

idea of all of this being AI-generated

was horrific news for Will Smith's

let's be honest, already waning

reputation. With every comment some sort

of joke at his expense like unreal

concert man.

Literally. And Will Smith has not only

just melted his fans' hearts with his

concert but also melted their entire

bodies. But the worst part, the entire

fiasco was an accident. Turns out the

crowds were real. You can see them in

phone footage from the gigs and

bafflingly in photos posted by Smith

himself where you can directly

cross-reference things like the Swiggy

sign was there in his Switzerland show

although it actually says Swizzy. So,

most likely Will's social media team

just used an AI tool to put together the

highlight reel. They fed in genuine

photos and videos but because the tool

itself was AI, it introduced all of

these unintended side effects. Either

way, damage is done. Everyone thinks

Will Smith faked a crowd to stoke his

ego. He's the AI crowd guy now. Four out

of ten.

Oh, there's that.

There's that. But speaking of men with

image problems, you've probably seen

Elon Musk's Tesla Optimus humanoid robot

at this [music] point even if it was

only as a guy in a costume. Musk has

stated that the Optimus robot will

eventually account for 80% of Tesla's

value which

got to say sounds [music] like a

ludicrous prediction. He's also claimed

that Tesla currently has two of these

Optimus robots actually working. So,

when you see one out here serving drinks

at a product demo, you're kind of

expecting the real deal, right? Well,

um

Oh.

The fall was embarrassing enough, but

it's actually the hand movement that got

people talking. Look closer. Doesn't it

look an awful lot like it's removing a

headset kind of like the thing was

actually being remote controlled by say

a human operator. And Tesla have a track

record of doing exactly this, putting

human-operated robots out there and

deliberately being very lax about

letting people know that these are not

fully autonomous. Add in the fact that

Musk is currently chasing a one trillion

dollar payout from Tesla where one of

the goals that he needs to hit is to

ship a million bots and it starts to

make sense why he's doing way too much

to convince you that the future is now.

Maybe just hang on until you have a

working prototype before showing it off.

At least that's what Nothing did when

they wanted to impress customers with

the camera on their new flagship phone

three holding a bunch of demo events in

stores. Five photographs were shown off

on these in-store demo units with the

text, "Here's what our community has

captured with the phone three." Do you

want to know what's crazy? Zoom into the

reflection of this one and you can

actually see the DSLR camera, not phone

three, that took it. And then with a

little internet sleuthing, fans came to

realize that in fact every single one of

these shots was in fact a publicly

available stock photo. Nothing

eventually came out to claim that they

were just placeholder images that they

had intended to replace but that the

units had gotten to stores before that

happened. Malicious or not though, this

is a pretty costly extremely avoidable

PR moment to be having while being the

underdog just as you release your first

ever flagship smartphone.

But Nvidia has definitely lost a lot

more rep.

And didn't have a huge amount to lose in

the first place ever since they pivoted

their focus towards providing graphics

cards to giant AI companies kind of

ignoring their original customers, the

gamers.

But then, instead of deciding that it

was time to listen to the players,

Nvidia just decided to go full on

friendly fire with DLSS 5. So, DLSS,

which stands for deep [music] learning

super sampling, has been one of Nvidia's

superpowers for a long time. It's

basically a smart graphics technology,

which means that instead of each

generation having to keep doubling the

amount of hardware they're giving you,

they can instead upgrade the resolution

and the frame rates in your games using

clever machine learning tricks. However,

the latest version, DLSS 5, goes one

step further to upgrade even the

lighting and the textures, too, which

sounds fantastic, right? Who doesn't

want to prettier game? But let's

actually think about it for a second.

This scene of Grace from Resident Evil

Requiem is a scene of her heading to

investigate the house where her mom was

murdered in front of her eyes. But

Nvidia's AI slop filter doesn't know

that. It just sees a face that looks a

little dark and traumatized, uses its

training data, which tells it that faces

look better when they're yassified with

blush and eyeliner like your resident

e-girl, but in the process completely

flies in the face of the possibly months

that the developers spent handcrafting

the very deliberate way that they wanted

her to look in the scene. Or why does

the professor from Hogwarts Legacy need

more wrinkles? Guys, it really feels

like this is just AI seeing an older

person, then going through the thousands

of stock photos it's been trained on to

make her more

old. It's funny because CEO Jensen Huang

responded to the overwhelming backlash

arguing that it's not about just putting

an AI filter over everything, and that

instead DLSS 5 is meant to be integrated

with the artist. And so it's it's about

giving the artist the tool of AI. Which

made it extra awkward when it came out

that the developers of these games found

out at the same time as the public that

their games were being altered in this

way.

Five out of 10. [music] Nvidia's gamer

cred was already in the bin.

Now it's in hell.

And while we're down there, there's a

few fails so far where there's been some

mystery as to whether or not it's been a

deliberately perpetrated crime or not.

Not so much the case with ransomware, a

type of malware that locks you out of

accessing your data so that criminals

behind the attack can sell it back to

you. But at least there are companies

out there like Digital Mint who

specialize in negotiating those ransom

payments down.

Right? You know, people who truly

understand the criminal mind. [music]

Yeah, about that. In 2023, it was

actually employees from inside these

companies who used this specialized

knowledge to carry out their own

attacks. They targeted at least five

American firms. They stole the data and

demanded millions in return. But this is

where it gets truly unhinged. When those

victims panicked and they called Digital

Mint up for help, who did Digital Mint

assign to the cases? Well,

none other than one of the guys that

attacked them, Angelo Martino, who in

basically the human embodiment of the

evil Kermit meme, had managed to put

himself in a position where he was

playing both sides and negotiating with

himself. Must have been some tough

negotiations because he managed to get

all five of these companies to pay up.

One of them even paid $26.8 [music]

million and it was a nonprofit. What?

Definitely a nonprofit now. Can you

believe that just months before Digital

Mint featured one of these guys in their

employee spotlight? And I quote, "We

bridge the gap between good, hardworking

people and bad actors." They had no idea

how right they were. And basically

everyone lost here. The ransomed firms

ended up paying out $75 million.

No one's ever going to call up Mint

again without thinking twice. And the

three employees involved have been

charged with up to 20 years in prison

each.

Six out of 10 fail.

But where it goes beyond funny into just

straight up terrifying is when a man

named Sami Asdufal developed an app to

allow him to control his DJI Romo robot

vacuum using a PS5 controller simply cuz

he said sounded fun. That's not the

scary part. Unfortunately, Asdufal

didn't realize his own coding [music]

power. The custom remote control app he

built pretty quickly using Claude AI

code accidentally granted him control of

over 7,000 DJI robot vacuum cleaners

across 24 countries the second it

connected to DJI servers. How? Because

instead of DJI encrypting the data from

its devices like they should have, it

was literally laid out to him in plain

text. Zero authentication required,

allowing him complete access. So, okay,

he could now vacuum anyone's house on a

whim. That feels like a Doofenshmirtz

level scheme. Evil, but ultimately

harmless. Until you realize that these

robots all had cameras and microphones,

and that he also happened to have access

[music] to the live feeds from them. Not

to mention the floor plan of each house

that the vacuums had mapped out with all

of their sensors and their location,

too, via their IP addresses. Thankfully,

he was a nice guy about it. He

immediately reported the flaw to DJI and

they immediately rewarded him with a 30K

payout. But just imagine how

catastrophic this could have been if he

wasn't a nice guy. Remember, Asdufal

didn't hack into DJI servers or do

anything complex. He simply became god

of all robo vacs by accident. And it's

just mad to think that someone can so

easily stumble into so much personal

data from you. At least when you're

using Surfshark VPN, our sponsor, anyone

who might be snooping isn't [music]

getting anything useful cuz your

identity is masked. just made it even

crazier by launching this brand new

custom standard called Dosos. Instead of

cramming everyone's data into one shared

tunnel like a traditional VPN, Dosos

gives you your own dedicated private

data lane. And the reason that I bang on

about Surfshark is because it's like the

one deal in tech that feels like a

steal. With the code boss, you can

literally get Surfshark for $1.68 a

month cuz they're celebrating their

birthday. And that would cover you plus

an entire crowd at a Will Smith concert

if you wanted. Now, at least Sami had

the decency to feel bad about his

accidental data theft. Can't say the

same for ChatGPT, which is meant to

revolutionize search by accessing

everything on the internet and bringing

it to you. Now, that would require

having the rights to a lot of content

that would end up expensive and

time-consuming to acquire. So,

naturally, OpenAI just ignores that

part. Why?

Go fast and break things, of course. Who

needs the law when you have a

ridiculously ballooned valuation? So,

it's a shock to absolutely no one then

that a group of authors and publishers

are suing OpenAI for copyright

infringement. But it's what's happened

as part of their investigation that's

been the dramatic upset because the

group managed to acquire leaked Slack

messages and emails from OpenAI in which

their employees openly discussed the

mass deletion of two data sets the AI

was trained on that they knew consisted

of pirated books. Hilariously named

books one and books two, by the way, in

case it was unclear. So, not only did

they have other people's pirated data,

but they knew full well that what they

were doing was wrong and tried to

dispose of the evidence. So, a New York

District Court has now ordered OpenAI to

hand over those messages. And if those

messages demonstrate willful

infringement, and I don't really see how

they couldn't, this could take the

damages anywhere from $750 per piece of

stolen work to possibly $150,000

per work. An insane amount on the scale

of data that these guys are working

with. We don't know the total fines they

could face yet, but we can get some idea

from a recent lawsuit against Anthropic

for similar copyright infringement,

which saw them settling for $1.5

billion. Dollars.

Settling.

Seven out of 10. But while the exact

consequences of that are still up in the

air, OpenAI has recently had an even

bigger oopsie that's already cost them

some very real, very large dollars. See,

in 2025, the company announced a noble

new mission that doom scrolling wasn't

bad enough as it was, and that what

humanity really needed was an entirely

new short-form video app called Sora

that lets you doom scroll content that

was entirely [music]

AI generated. A

slop talk, if you will.

>> [music]

>> And to kick off the fun while

downplaying the dystopian impending

threat of anyone being able to create a

deepfake in like two clicks, Sam Altman

gave all users global permission to

create videos using his own likeness,

which of course immediately backfired

with a litany of embarrassing videos

mocking the guy. Like this one of him

begging for GPUs at a doorbell camera. I

can't train anything. Please, if you

have anything, A100s, 3090s, I'll take

them.

>> Physically stealing art from Studio

Ghibli. Give them back. NOPE, TOO LATE.

HEY, COME BACK HERE. FREE YARD, BABY. OR

THIS ONE of Altman hosting a Hunger

Games style competition forcing

contestants to fight over literal slop.

And then of course this, which I present

without comment.

Meow.

Turns out Super Sam did this to himself

for absolutely nothing because Sora shut

down just six months after starting. Let

me try and put into perspective just how

much of a flop this slop was. Sora

generated in total $2.1 million in

revenue.

Sora was costing them at peak usage

around $15 million per day

to run all while their user base was

collapsing under their feet with a 66%

drop in just the first [clears throat]

90 days. And as if that wasn't already

enough damage, OpenAI also, in the

process of losing Sora, lost an

investment deal with Disney. Disney was

going to pay OpenAI for a stake in the

company, which would have also given

Sora users access to 200 plus characters

from across the entire Disney universe.

How much was Disney going to pay them?

$1 billion.

Oops.

Now, you already know that in 2022, Elon

Musk purchased Twitter for mountains of

money.

We've been living with the consequences

ever since. But there is one consequence

that you might have missed. That Musk is

now being sued by the investors who

originally put their money behind that

deal. And the reason is one of the

funniest things I've ever seen in a

courtroom. So, do you remember when Musk

was trying to wiggle out of buying

Twitter? He'd already committed at this

point, but he was trying to pull away

because he said too many of its users

were actually bots, not people. And by

the way, he said this on Twitter,

publicly.

In tweets. Well, those tweets tanked

Twitter's stock price. That made all of

these investors panic. They believed

him. They assumed that the whole thing

was falling apart. And so, they

hurriedly sold the shares they had,

losing millions compared to what they

paid for them. But the deal wasn't off.

Twitter took Elon to court and forced

him to buy Twitter anyway at the

original agreed price of $54.20 per

share. But all those investors who sold

their shares at a loss,

they never got their money back, which

leads us to now, where a California jury

has declared Musk liable for misleading

them with his own tweets. Tweets which

he himself described under oath as

stupid tweets. You just can't make this

stuff up. The man who bought Twitter to

protect free speech is being sued for

what he freely said,

stupidly, for up to $2.6 billion. And if

you think that's a lot of money, then

you're not ready for the metaverse. Do

you remember when Facebook rebranded to

Meta out of nowhere and made a massive

bet on our near future becoming almost

exclusively virtual reality? The hub for

which was meant to be Horizon Worlds, an

online VR world where you can hang out

with all your other friends who

definitely have a Quest headset.

Now, because they were trying to take VR

from merely something that people used

to play games into this alternate

reality where we'll all one day live and

work as well as play, it was important

to have the infrastructure for users to

visit different worlds and create their

own for

whatever use they might want. Like for

instance, taking a fake selfie in front

of a fake 240p Eiffel Tower while trying

not to let the fake existential dread

creep in too much.

Wait, no. Dread was real.

Well, it seems like Meta are starting to

catch up with the rest of us who already

know that no one's interested in hanging

out in VR, whether it gives us legs or

not. Because this year, they announced

that they were removing Horizon Worlds

from the Quest app store, deciding

instead to focus 100% of their effort on

mobile instead. Cuz yes, this is exactly

what the phone user base has been

yearning for. But then, a glimmer of

hope for the roughly four remaining

Horizon Worlds fans, Meta did a U-turn

and announced that in fact, no, we're

going to be keeping VR access to the

platform after all. Just, according to

them, to support the fans who've reached

out.

Must have been a long day going through

all of those emails. But Horizon Worlds,

as embarrassing as it is, is just one

tiny part of the metaverse's failure.

Because

amidst the fallout, we've also come to

learn the total amount of money that the

whole metaverse project has lost Meta.

And

you're going to want to sit down for

this one. We've seen millions this

video. We've even seen a couple of

billion. But Meta burned through $80

billion. That's pretty much what it

would cost to end world hunger for a

year.

What did it get spent on?

This.

Cheers, Zuck.

I got to get out of here.