292: What Happens When Machines Become The Main Users Online, Big Tech Could Lose Legal Protection Over Addictive Social Apps, Toilet Broadband Plus Other April Fools Tech Lore, and Why Networks Are Shifting To AI Data Centers | Air Date: 3/31- 4/6/26
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The episode discusses the increasing role of AI in managing internet traffic and the implications for data centers and social apps.
AI is quietly taking the wheel of the internet, and the ride is getting weird. We’re seeing data centers merge with cloud platforms, edge computing, and telecom networks into one distributed machine that can predict failures, reroute traffic, and optimize energy in real time. That sounds amazing until you realize how much of today’s traffic is no longer humans, but machines talking to machines, and every company’s AI is fighting for the “best” path across the same shared pipes. Then we jump ...
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