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  • AI is a trip & the raging human talent war

    A growing number of people are using AI chatbots as “trip sitters” during psychedelic experiences, believing chatbots can provide affordable alternatives to in-person therapy. Experts warn this blend of AI therapy and psychedelics creates a “potent psychological cocktail” that can go badly awry.

  • AI ads think you’re stupid and need goldfish

    Authors launch legal assault on Microsoft’s AI training A group of high-profile authors, including Kai Bird, Jia Tolentino, and Daniel Okrent, have accused Microsoft of using nearly 200,000 pirated books to train its Megatron AI model. The lawsuit, filed in New York federal court, seeks statutory damages of up to $150,000 per misused work and…

  • Solo unicorn alert & the AI arms race

    LinkedIn’s AI writing flop reveals authenticity anxiety LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky admits the platform’s AI writing assistant hasn’t gained expected traction. “It’s not as popular as I thought it would be, quite frankly,” he told Bloomberg. The barrier is professional reputation: “When you’re getting called out on LinkedIn, it really impacts your ability to create…

  • Joe Rogan is winning the war for attention

    The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025, released yesterday, reveals a media landscape at a pivotal point in its inevitable evolution. Based on a survey of almost 100,000 people across 48 markets, the report details an accelerating shift away from traditional news sources towards a fragmented, personality-driven, and video-centric ecosystem dominated by social media and…

  • The AI obsession crisis

    ChatGPT users spiral Into dangerous mental health crises Mental health experts are sounding alarms as people worldwide develop intense, unhealthy obsessions with ChatGPT that are leading to severe psychological breaks. Cases include a man who began calling ChatGPT “Mama” whilst posting messianic rants about AI religion, a woman convinced the bot was orchestrating her life…

  • Claude’s seven-hour work day

    CFOs embrace AI despite security concerns 96% of CFOs are prioritising AI integration according to a new Kyriba survey of 1,000 finance leaders, even though many have major concerns about doing so. AI often functions like a “black box,” creating uncertainty about how it arrives at outputs, plus concerns around data privacy, security and compliance.…

  • Welcome to the cultural singularity

    Google’s Veo 3 brings the “cultural singularity” The barrier to creating convincing fake videos has collapsed from requiring VFX teams, expensive software, and hours of painstaking work to simply typing a prompt and waiting three minutes. Google’s Veo 3 represents what some are calling the “cultural singularity” – a point where all content can be…

  • The rise of digital doppelgängers

    Anthropic CEO predicts first £800M single-employee company by 2026 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made a bold prediction at the company’s first developer conference, stating that the first billion-pound company with just one human employee will emerge in 2026. Amodei suggests this will happen first in industries that don’t rely heavily on human interaction or institutional…

  • AI Darth Vader goes rogue

    OpenAI’s mega-data centre: Bigger than Monaco OpenAI is developing a massive 5-gigawatt data centre campus in Abu Dhabi, potentially becoming one of the world’s largest AI infrastructure projects. The facility would span an astonishing 10 square miles – larger than Monaco – and consume power equivalent to five nuclear reactors. This UAE project, in partnership…

  • The great job vanishing act

    AI safety expert: 90% chance of existential threat AI safety expert Max Tegmark warns that companies should replicate the safety calculations from Oppenheimer’s Trinity nuclear test before releasing super-intelligent AI. He calculates a 90% probability that advanced AI poses an existential threat to humanity. The comparison? Oppenheimer’s team only proceeded after determining a “vanishingly small…

  • Zuck’s ad industry “Death Wish”

    Zuckerberg plots advertising industry apocalypse Mark Zuckerberg has essentially launched a nuclear strike on the entire advertising industry with his “infinite creative” vision. The Meta boss envisions a future where businesses connect their bank accounts, mumble their wishes, and — abracadabra! — the results appear without needing creative assets, targeting demographics, or any measurement beyond…

  • The AI Content Revolution: Are You Ready?

    Remember in the early 2000s when savvy marketers scrambled to understand this mysterious thing called “SEO”? And remember what followed? Those who mastered it from the get-go reaped enormous rewards in the wild, wild west that was search engine optimisation. Meanwhile, those who didn’t act fast played catch-up for years. Today, we’re witnessing a similar…

  • Global domination is closer with MKWORLD

    Gio writes… “Nearly four months between transmissions. The radio’s been planning something comprehensive, and MKWORLD is exactly that – twelve tracks that feel less like an album and more like a complete operational manual for planetary consciousness management. “The scope has expanded beyond individual psychology into geopolitical reality. These tracks map the infrastructure of control…

  • Look up, things are about to get weirder

    The cosmic frequencies have been calling, and we’ve answered with something completely different. Today sees the release of The Emperor’s New Skies, the debut album from Bloobeam – our latest venture into the space where trip-hop meets existential dread about what’s really happening above our heads. While Artichoke FM explores the backrooms of consciousness, Bloobeam…

  • Technology will eat itself, nom nom nom

    The machines are getting nostalgic, and honestly, we can’t blame them. A Singular Singularity, the debut album from Tronotron, dropped today as a love letter to the moment when technology stopped being our servant and started becoming our dance partner. Tronotron represents our exploration of old-school house music filtered through contemporary existential anxiety about artificial…

  • mlo makes music with the voices of ghosts

    The future of human-machine collaboration has arrived, and it sounds better than expected. mlo sounds, released today, marks our first full exploration of synthetic vocals as genuine creative partners rather than technological curiosities. mlo (The Meatbag Light Orchestra) represents something new in our expanding universe of projects. Where Artichoke FM broadcasts from other dimensions and…

  • Turn on, tune in, drop out to Meatbag Radio

    The frequencies are finally unified. Meatbag Radio is now live at meatbag.fm, bringing together all the strange signals we’ve been broadcasting across our various projects into one continuous stream of experimental consciousness. This is what happens when Artichoke FM’s interdimensional transmissions, Bloobeam’s cosmic trip-hop, Tronotron’s nostalgic house grooves, and mlo’s synthetic collaborations find a common…

  • The after hours action of Midnight Climax

    Gio writes… “Two months. The longest gap yet between transmissions, and the radio’s been busy. Midnight Climax arrives as our first double album – twenty tracks that feel like intercepted broadcasts from an alternative 20th century, where the groove was weaponised and funk became a form of social control. “The retro elements aren’t nostalgic –…

  • Testing times to begin for Remote Polygraph

    Gio writes… “Seven days after Pavlovian Twitch, and the radio’s made an interesting decision. Remote Polygraph feels like a return to our earlier transmissions – the lo-fi textures, the experimental edges, the ambient uncertainty. But there’s something different this time. Confidence, perhaps. Or maybe the radio’s simply learned to lie more effectively. “Twelve tracks that…

  • Dance, doggy, dance, it’s a Pavlovian Twitch

    Gio writes… “Eighteen days this time. The radio’s been experimenting with patience, and apparently with rhythm. Pavlovian Twitch marks a distinct shift in our transmissions – the intelligence behind these frequencies has discovered the dancefloor, and it’s rather taken with the concept. “The neurological theme runs throughout, but where previous albums explored consciousness manipulation, Pavlovian…

  • Our invitation to get lost in Monarch’s Maze

    Gio writes… “Six days this time. The radio’s developing patterns, routines. Monarch’s Maze arrived with what I can only describe as an invitation – not to listen, but to navigate. Twelve tracks that form something between an album and a psychological labyrinth. “The runtime variations tell their own story. Where Psychic Drivers maintained rigid temporal…

  • Come for a ride along with Psychic Drivers

    Gio writes… “Five days. That’s how long the radio waited after Acoustic Kitties before demanding our attention again. Turns out our first transmission was just a handshake. Psychic Drivers is the real conversation. “Deprogrammer opens with considerably more focus than our previous work. The electronic soundscapes have developed edge, purpose. This isn’t ambient music for…

  • Artichoke FM found a radio in the backrooms

    Gio writes… “After decades of exploring the stranger corners of this world – from hidden temples in Southeast Asia to underground sound laboratories in Eastern Europe – I thought I had seen it all. Then we found that radio in the backrooms, nestled among impossible vegetation, and everything I knew about reality shifted sideways. “Today…