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An AI company just bought Co-Star | Private Claude chats on Google & Big Tech is destroying books

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Show Notes

The biggest tech news & social media trends on the internet from July 29th, 2026.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

1:12 The reaction to MidJourney acquiring Co-Star

8:43 Claude exposed private chats on Google Search

14:20 AI companies are destroying physical media

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Sources: ​​https://www.404media.co/tons-of-peoples-claude-chats-and-creations-are-exposed-on-google/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/09/08/hundreds-of-anthropic-chatbot-transcripts-showed-up-in-google-search/

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/psa-your-claude-shared-chats-and-artifacts-may-have-ended-up-on-google/

https://www.wired.com/story/private-claude-chats-exposed-in-google-and-bing-search-results/

https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25982181/authors-v-anthropic-ruling.pdf

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-24/ai-startup-midjourney-buys-astrology-app-co-star-and-is-building-its-own-apps

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/970894/midjourney-co-star-acquisition

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