The Week Everybody Started Talking About AI Doomsday - WSJ

The Vergecast's October 15, 2026 episode is mostly a conversation about the etiquette and psychology of always-recording wearables, not a product review. The title's "everything's recording everybody" framing is fair, but the substance is narrower and more interesting: Verge reporter Victoria Song argues that tech companies are litigating the definition of a recording — claiming that if audio is transcribed and deleted, or if a camera is omitted entirely, nothing has been "recorded" — while the public's discomfort is about being listened to at all, not about what is stored. Song, who covers wearables for The Verge and was wearing four devices during the taping (Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses, a Dexcom G7 CGM, an Apple Watch Series 12, and a Fitbit Edge, with an Oura Ring on the charger), walks host David Pierce through Meta's new camera-less glasses, Amazon's revived Bee wearable, and the consent problem that arrives when one person's device captures everyone else's data. The episode's most useful contribution is a framework, not a scoop: the shift from "my data" to "everyone else's data.