https://www.meatwareafterdark.com 2026-10-20T00:00:00.000Z daily 1 https://www.meatwareafterdark.com/episodes 2026-10-20T00:00:00.000Z daily 0.9 https://www.meatwareafterdark.com/anchors 2026-10-20T23:14:45.969Z monthly 0.7 https://www.meatwareafterdark.com/about 2026-10-20T23:14:45.969Z monthly 0.7 https://www.meatwareafterdark.com/be-a-guest 2026-10-20T23:14:45.969Z monthly 0.6 https://www.meatwareafterdark.com/episodes/ep-01-ultra-silent 2026-08-31T00:00:00.000Z monthly 0.6 https://www.meatwareafterdark.com/art/ep-01-poster.jpg EP 01 — Ultra-Silent A Colombian wearable sells out with no published decibel rating, four market-research firms can't agree on the industry's size within a hundred billion dollars, an unlocked server exposes 43 million private AI-girlfriend messages, Apple and Google keep "removed" nudify apps up until a city attorney makes them take them down, and a sex-toy CEO threatens the researchers who fixed his security bugs for free. https://www.youtube.com/embed/R64peZRtjO0 835 2026-09-02T20:00:00.000Z no https://www.meatwareafterdark.com/episodes/ep-02-human-like-cognition 2026-09-05T00:00:00.000Z monthly 0.6 https://www.meatwareafterdark.com/art/ep-02-poster.jpg EP 02 — Human-Like Cognition Nothing on this beat closed this week, so the running order is the open threads. Lovense announces a four-to-eight-thousand-dollar AI companion doll that ships next year and remembers your conversations; a fourth analyst puts the market nineteen billion dollars away from the third on the same year; a wrongful-death suit against an AI-companion maker settles with terms undisclosed, leaving no record; the FTC's companion-chatbot orders pass a year with no report; San Francisco's twenty-eight-day deadline for the app stores lapses with no follow-up anyone published; Texas starts carding every app-store user at the door; and a sex-toy maker tells six hundred customers a hacker read their inbox, then declines to say whether MFA was on before. https://www.youtube.com/embed/BWw1YJhkFmk 1019 2026-09-06T20:00:00.000Z no https://www.meatwareafterdark.com/episodes/ep-03-proof-of-age 2026-09-14T00:00:00.000Z monthly 0.6 https://www.meatwareafterdark.com/art/ep-03-poster.jpg EP 03 — Proof of Age Everyone on this beat is being told to check your age, and somebody has to keep the picture. Womanizer moves pleasure tech into the beauty hall at IFA; an AI couples "concierge" that talks privately to both partners out-raises a veteran sexual wellness brand's entire history; the GUARD Act would card every AI-companion account; OpenAI shelves the adult mode it promised verified adults; Ofcom fines a porn site £730,000 and makes clear that geoblocking late does not close the file; and 153 million scanned driver's licenses turn up for sale from an ID-verification vendor whose breach notice was set to hide from search engines. https://www.youtube.com/embed/f_603ly5ckM 867 2026-09-15T23:30:00.000Z no https://www.meatwareafterdark.com/episodes/ep-04-nobody-holds-the-picture 2026-09-21T00:00:00.000Z monthly 0.6 https://www.meatwareafterdark.com/art/ep-04-poster.jpg EP 04 — Nobody Holds the Picture Last week ended on the question nobody had answered: every law says check the age, and none of them says who gets to keep the picture. On 17 September the European Commission proposed an answer — a certified third party issues a yes-or-no attestation and the platform never sees the document. The hosts read the rest of it: AI companions are named in scope by definition, and the Act writes no penalties of its own at all — it borrows the DSA's for platforms, the AI Act's Chapter IX for companions and chatbots (where the 6% of worldwide turnover actually lives), and data protection law's for the age checks. None of it applies before 2028. Plus an AI agent that drives the toy and also holds the card, Meta's $18 billion settlement with a third of the money waiting on two rival companies, and $500,000 an image in Minnesota after two motions were denied. https://www.youtube.com/embed/ynre2y2tun4 1084 2026-09-23T16:23:00.000Z no https://www.meatwareafterdark.com/episodes/ep-05-the-users-arent-in-the-box 2026-10-20T00:00:00.000Z monthly 0.6 https://www.meatwareafterdark.com/art/ep-05-poster.jpg EP 05 — The Users Aren't in the Box Back after four weeks, which the hosts explain as a decommissioning ticket nobody was left to approve. The week's lead is Character.ai's Chapter 11: Disney's $20 million stalking-horse licence covers the code and the engineers and leaves out the app, the brand, the user data and the conversations, and forty attorneys general filed nine conditions for whoever buys the chats. OnlyFans tells Fortune it wants to be a bank for creators the banks reject, in the week the OCC's final debanking report dropped the adult industry its draft named and the platform's rewritten terms lowered the bar for holding earnings. Eight states sue OpenAI and the FTC sends fifty-page demands the same day. The Eleventh Circuit lets Florida and Georgia enforce their minors' laws, Georgia because NetChoice never listed its members. Utah and Aylo agree to wait for the 2027 session. And one Halcyon device still reports in: a pet feeder, and a cat named Binky. https://www.youtube.com/embed/-zW_36DK_9Q 1206 2026-10-20T23:03:00.000Z no