Six Bizarre Tech Stories You Might Have Missed - Video

Hot Mess Express returns to the station with this week’s collection of the weirdest, funniest and sometimes scariest A.I. stories.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Hot Mess Express Intro
00:00:23 Ring Cancels Its Partnership With Flock Safety
00:02:28 Toilet Maker an Undervalued A.I. Player
00:04:08 Meta Plans To Add Facial Recognition Tech to Smart Glasses
00:06:13 Uber Driver Charges $5 to Turn On Air Conditioning During Heatwave
00:08:23 Meta Patents A.I. That Let’s You Keep Posting Beyond the Grave
00:10:00 I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups

Additional Reading:
Ring Cancels Its Partnership With Flock Safety After Surveillance Backlash
https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html

Japan’s Largest Toilet Maker Is Undervalued A.I. Play, Says Activist Investor
https://www.ft.com/content/4252e45f-75fb-4dfc-aebe-72de48b7fb8e

‘It Is 35 Degrees’: Outrage as Aussie Uber Driver Charges $5 to Turn on Air Conditioning Unit During Heatwave
https://www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/trending/it-is-35-degrees-outrage-as-aussie-uber-driver-charges-5-to-turn-on-air-conditioning-unit-during-heatwave/news-story/a5f9b84f74b22c91f6e92d0d97f90a55

Meta Patented an A.I. That Lets You Keep Posting From Beyond the Grave
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-llm-bot-dead-paused-accounts-2026-2

I Tried RentAHuman, Where A.I. Agents Hired Me to Hype Their A.I. Start-Ups
https://www.wired.com/story/i-tried-rentahuman-ai-agents-hired-me-to-hype-their-ai-startups/