Verify. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the week ending August 11, 2026.
Episode 304. In this week's update: New Orleans is about to let AI answer some of its 911 calls - and the question isn't whether it's fast enough, it's what happens the moment it gets a panicked caller wrong. A mother nearly handed $7,500 to a scammer who cloned her son's voice perfectly - and the thing that saved her wasn't technology, it was a five-minute habit her family never got around to until it was almost too late. Memory prices are about to get a lot worse before they get better, and the culprit isn't your next upgrade - it's an AI chip that skips memory entirely by baking the model into the silicon itself. A new study combed through more than a million Reddit posts about AI coding tools, and what it found wasn't a bug - it was developers handing a master key to something that acts like a junior dev with no supervisor. ChatGPT just got dramatically more capable for free users, and OpenAI's real bet isn't smarter answers - it's c...
