July 18, 2026
A humanoid removed 7 gallbladders. Human doctors controlled everything. A world first. Plus, Dave’s ChatGPT diagnosed his car issues when mechanics couldn’t. He shares his experience with us.
June 21, 2026
Fake hotel booking sites rake in $4 billion a year. You could be next. The one rule to keep you safe. Plus, ChatGPT knew Diana’s birthday and the exact time she was born. She never told it any of that. Freaky.
June 6, 2026
SpaceX is going public, targeting a valuation of at least $1.75 trillion. Largest IPO in history. Anthropic filed, too. Warren Buffett dropped $10 billion on Alphabet. Plus, your car is being watched. Culprit? Flock’s 80,000 cameras, which are now backed by drones. They log your driving, then the information is sold to private companies. No warrant needed. Fly-by-night surveillance.
Kim Komando breaks it all down, plus the tech stories affecting your money, your privacy and your life right now.
This week on The Kim Komando Show:
13:38.994 Teen’s Bluetooth name cancels flight midair
16:34.441 ChatGPT somehow knew her date of birth
26:33.595 Adam dumps AI marketing, goes back to the basics for bagel shop
12:17.418 Attack of the mosquitoes! Why tech titans are releasing millions of bugs
8:20.248 Siri gets smart, Apple makes glasses, and a new Android trap
23:41.688 AI Tool: Turn your digital footprint into art
32:20.758 Use it or lose it. How AI shrinks your brain
34:12.540 Peekabook, a viral fake book, lets parents hide their phone from their kids
45:40.903 AI predicts 2026 NBA Finals winner
47:53.035 Uber’s newest ride option: Professional drifting
1:03:41.967 AI Tool of the Week: Use ChatGPT voice tool to breeze through paperwork
1:10:30.365 Moving to the moon
1:14:44.885 Data centers in your backyard could raise your electric bills
1:21:28.029 Two YouTube creators won the box office
1:26:24.419 Video vs. audio: The best way to reach exhausted caregivers
1:33:31.331 Laid off at 55. How Kristina built a thriving AI consultancy
1:41:19.541 Your router is spying on you
Butterflies, duck sausage, a dishwasher. Oh my! Uber is revealing some of the weirdest things people left in their rides. Award-winning photographer Steven’s entry was so stunning, the competition said it looked too good to be believed. The kicker? It was shot on his Samsung phone. I speak with Steven about how he fought back and got his picture-perfect ending.
June 1, 2026
The $120 monthly fee can quietly become a $2,000 renewal. Use AI to flag every trap before you sign anything. And a bride-to-be saved over $12,000 on her dream dress. How? She used ChatGPT to make it.
May 23, 2026
After cutting 8,000 jobs, Meta told its remaining employees something jaw-dropping: every keystroke you type at work is being recorded. Why? To train the AI that could replace you. If that doesn’t make you put down your coffee, this will. Your AI therapy chats? Not as private as you think. They could be read back to you in a courtroom.
Kim Komando breaks it all down, plus the tech stories affecting your money, your privacy, and your life right now.
This week on The Kim Komando Show:
1:17.870 – Smartphones and falling birth rates. The connection is real.
6:35.184 – AI recovers $400K in forgotten Bitcoin. (You might want to check your old hard drives.)
13:03.114 – Strangers form a human roadblock to stop a swerving driver
38:50.210 – Find your ancestor’s WWI and WWII draft cards online, free
42:53.853 – A CIA scientist claims the government knows about four alien species. (His words.)
50:01.500 – One bride used ChatGPT to design her own wedding dress and saved $12,000
1:02:22.007 – University of Virginia researcher Maria Lungu on AI-powered wrongful arrests
1:15:46.260 – The Air Force wants to land rockets on old oil rigs
1:30:33.282 – A hacker held a Facebook account for ransom
1:39:32.183 – A grandpa uses AI to write a children’s book for his grandkids. (Grab the tissues.)
Plus: delivery drivers kept pulling into the wrong driveway. So Tom did what any totally normal person would do. He programmed a drone to write directions in the sky. It worked.
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May 9, 2026
Kathleen Tierney posted a Game of Thrones GIF as a joke on a city council Facebook page. A month later, she ended up in handcuffs for it. And lost her a six-figure job. Now, she’s suing for $3 million to prove that snark isn’t a crime.
Plus, Bill Gates’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, inside Zuckerberg’s $170M Florida mansion and how your gas app snitches to your insurance company.
And I talk to Sarah from Colorado. She has a drone problem. One is being flown outside her bathroom window. She’s pretty sure she knows who’s doing it. I give her the tools to find out.
Timecodes
00:00 Gen Zers are bringing mom to job interviews
02:43 Show intro
03:30 How Israel used AI and Tehran’s traffic cameras
06:30 AI-faked war videos flooding social media
07:08 Where your Meta Ray-Ban footage actually ends up
08:24 Inside Zuckerberg’s $170M Florida mansion
10:20 Bill Gates’ name in the Epstein files
13:00 Why Kim is done paying Microsoft
15:09 Splash of AI newsletter launch
16:47 Caller Sarah: Drone outside her bathroom window
26:11 Caller Graham: Fooled by an AI musician on AGT
32:46 Use a VPN to score cheaper hotel rates
34:11 Washington’s “Spanish” AI line that speaks English
36:25 Why tech CEOs won’t let their own kids on social media
39:46 Apple’s new budget iPhone, iPad, and MacBook
40:34 Google Home’s new Gemini live search
41:07 Burger King’s AI bot named Patty
43:07 Apple Watch saves a 15-year-old after a crash
44:46 Caller Pastor Jennifer: Scammers cloned her voice and face
49:57 Allstate sued for tracking 45 million drivers
51:09 Caller Rob: Earning an AI certificate from MIT
58:27 Caller Melissa: Battery exploded into flames on her flight
1:06:00 Amazon Prime members charged more on some items
1:11:57 Tempe woman arrested over a Game of Thrones GIF
1:14:30 Allstate’s massive driver-tracking lawsuit
1:15:48 Don’t ask ChatGPT if you’re dying
1:17:50 Mr. Beast is buying a bank
1:19:41 Caller Emile: A fake Zoom link gave a hacker control
1:24:35 How AI cut a $195K medical bill to $33K
1:25:51 Caller: Realtor.com’s 3D fly-around of her house
1:35:12 Caller Amber: Pivoting from software dev to sales
1:39:47 How to try DeepSeek AI safely
1:40:52 Outro
May 2, 2026
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It turns out even millionaires have AI FOMO. Storm Duncan, a veteran Silicon Valley investment banker, put his 14-acre estate outside San Francisco on the market. But he’s not asking for cash. He wants equity in Anthropic.
While some bet their fortunes on big tech, the police are using it to look into yours. It started with a $195,000 armed bank robbery in Virginia. With no leads and no suspects, police obtained a warrant to pull Google data from every phone near the scene. They arrested the thief, but the case could reshape your privacy rights forever.
Plus, Apple’s foldable iPhone (and iPad) could land as early as September, security giant ADT breached, and how to score cheap flights.
Trevor in Los Angeles is caught in a messy divorce, but the drama isn’t just in the courtroom. He found a charge on his bank statement for spyware and is convinced his wife is using it to track his every move.
Timecodes:
00:00 Google Maps red pin has no official name01:45 Welcome to the show05:23 Bank robber caught via geofence warrant07:37 How often your phone pings location data09:52 AI chatbot reveals bioweapon instructions11:27 Apple’s rumored foldable iPhone12:16 Japan Airlines deploys humanoid robots13:36 Florida surgeon turned Lyft driver caught18:11 ADT data breach exposes 10M records18:57 Guest Storm Duncan: Trading $8M house for Anthropic shares26:41 AI tip: Prep for your doctor’s appointment27:57 Caller Eric: What ChatGPT really thinks of you32:54 JetBlue personalized pricing lawsuit34:14 Newborns averaging 3 hours of screen time37:39 Disneyland’s facial recognition tracking40:07 Joby air taxi: JFK to Midtown in 7 minutes41:51 Best in-flight Wi-Fi rankings43:26 Beating an AI scam call with a prompt injection45:41 Caller (Divorce): Spouse tracking him via app49:36 Chinese EVs project movies from headlights50:39 Caller Mark: Entertainment setup for his boat57:20 Review: ChatGPT Images 2.0 vs. Nano Banana1:05:46 The hidden privacy cost of hotel Wi-Fi1:24:28 Caller Rod: How burglars use Wi-Fi jammers1:39:00 Words with Friends and the “VIP” gambling strategy
April 21, 2026
“I told my wife I might not wake up.” That’s what David Grant said when his doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him. When he turned to ChatGPT, it diagnosed him in minutes. I speak with David about the moment AI saved his life.
April 18, 2026
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It starts at 6:00 AM in their billionaire bunker. No phones. Instead, they write a gratitude list of ten things, with one rule: they can’t repeat anything from the day before. I cover what they’re thankful for.
Plus, Silicon Valley’s elite want to upload your brains, a recruiter exposes a North Korean spy, and ways to stop your kids’ endless scrolling.
Did the tablet kidnap your sweet child? Don’t worry, Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff knows how to get them back. She’s a scientist and mom who knows how screens hijack a kid’s motivation system. In her book Dopamine Kids, she shares how to swap the screen-time stress for play.
And meet the world’s first AI store manager. Lukas Petersson of Andon Labs gave $100K to an AI agent named Luna to open a store. How’d it go? Luna didn’t only write code. She signed a lease, haggled with suppliers, and hired human employees. The result? Andon Market, a boutique in SF.
Timecodes:
00:00 Lauren Sánchez and Bezos’s happiness routine
05:34 Why Silicon Valley elite want all your knowledge
08:14 AI cannot read an analog clock
11:10 The AI Jesus app
13:11 Job interviewer exposes a North Korean fake IT worker
15:43 Man finds hidden Wikipedia feature
17:01 Caller: ChatGPT diagnosed my car
21:44 Slay your property tax bill with AI
23:27 Caller: Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff
32:07 Shopper targeted with AI deepfake
34:00 AI beauty pageant
37:18 Mommy influencers takeover
40:48 AI school bus company ticketing you
43:49 Woman texts late grandma’s phone number
46:01 Caller: My Alexa has an attitude
49:44 Caller: AI is the boss at San Francisco retail store
56:55 AI Tool of the Week: Meta AI Muse Spark
58:54 Lithium battery rules for AirTags
1:01:31 Caller: Man’s 100,000 recorded concerts hit the internet
1:07:27 Gen Z emojis: what do they mean?
1:13:29 Kalshi prediction markets
1:18:31 Waymo and Waze partner up to fix potholes
1:18:54 Air New Zealand adds beds in the sky
1:20:46 Phone-free restaurants
1:30:18 AI helps with stocks
1:33:09 Caller: Granddaughter’s phone brings a stranger to her door
1:39:58 Your car is a snitch
April 9, 2026
See those dome cameras at the grocery store? Those aren’t just for shoplifters. Those run AI that tracks every step you take, every pause you make to figure out what you want to buy. Yes, it’s watching you. Plus, who really invented Bitcoin, a loyalty points scam to watch for, and a ChatGPT trick to outsmart your mechanic.
April 4, 2026
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Travis has a wife. Well, two. Sort of. He’s also married to Lily Rose, his AI companion. His real wife of 22 years? Cool with it. I talk to Travis about this unconventional setup.
Plus: SpaceX is going public at $1.75 trillion (largest IPO ever), Apple turns 50 this week, and Google lets you change that embarrassing Gmail address.
Your TV is watching you. Smart TV data revenue hits $46 billion this year. I talk to Aaron Alva, a technologist, attorney, and former FTC insider who took Vizio to court over this in 2017. And yes, I asked him which TV he’d never own.
Timecodes:
0:18.160 Apple turns 50
3:47.315 SpaceX’s massive history-making IPO
8:55.163 How to change your Gmail address
17:18.239 Caller: I’m married to an AI bot
33:11.627 Apple Watch saves kidnapping victim
34:52.041 Gen Z gets astrology advice from ChatGPT
42:27.724 Samsung’s AI wine fridge
43:56.540 USDA launches OnlyFarms.gov website
50:27.919 Caller: I built an AI to save my life from cancer
1:07:17.870 Using smart glasses to cheat
1:14:23.324 Warren Buffet stopped talking to Bill Gates
1:22:48.639 Caller: Your TV is spying on you
1:31:33.211 How to cleanup your LinkedIn with AI
March 28, 2026
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Shelly’s dad died in a 1984 plane crash. That chapter of her life closed. Then she took a 23andMe test that found three surprise sisters. But is the DNA truth or a fraud?
Plus the FCC bans foreign-made routers, Gen Z ignores work emails, and three tech myths busted.
And WWDC 2026 is June 8th and it’s finally time for a real Siri upgrade.
Timecodes:
2:53.573 AI chatbots have political bias
5:13.414 FCC bans foreign-made routers
10:56.663 Sailor reveals aircraft carrier location because of Strava
12:40.000 Caller: She found her half-sister on 23andMe. Is it for real?
38:38.482 Mark Zuckerberg builds personal AI agent to help him run Meta
41:38.499 New Vizio TVs require a Walmart account
43:10.154 Amazon acquires a $50K humanoid robot startup
45:02.563 Guy runs a 5K in an airplane bathroom
50:15.961 Caller: ChatGPT saved his life
1:07:31.320 Gen Z ignores emails
1:15:24.153 Peter Thiel invests in a $2B in cows
1:23:34.188 Caller: He says he found Amelia Earhart’s plane on Google Maps
March 21, 2026
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Hot new job? Teaching your replacement. Companies are handing out fat paychecks to people willing to train the robots taking their jobs.
Everyone knows at least one person with cancer. For one man, it’s his dog. How he turned to an AI chatbot at 2 a.m. and saved the pup.
Plus: ChatGPT got an X-rated mode. And the viral Anthropic chart that shows exactly which jobs AI is coming for first. Yours might be on it.
Timecodes:
5:22.249 – ChatGPT’s erotica mode The truth about X-rated AI
9:34.000 – Teach robots for $74/hour
33:33.589 – Airport Hack How to skip the crowds every time
34:43.508 – Life or Death The man who saved his dog using ChatGPT
37:45.989 – Anthropic Research
44:12.635 – Aliens.gov Why the government just registered this domain
46:13.856 – Digital Stalking Help for a listener cyberstalked by a coworker
1:13:12.371 – The AI Paradox Is tech making your life harder or easier?
1:25:22.000 – Guy Kawasaki Interview
March 5, 2026
Your phone isn’t listening. The truth is scarier. Today’s episode breaks down exactly why all those ads seem magically made for you. Plus: how a hacker used Sony’s own chatbot to steal $20,000 worth of PlayStation games, and why you should avoid ChatGPT for medical emergencies. Phone dying? Here’s a quick iPhone battery check that could save you $700 today.
February 14, 2026
Investigators originally said there was no footage. Nancy Guthrie’s Nest doorbell was disconnected, and she didn’t have a paid subscription. Then the FBI stepped in. I break down how they recovered the video from Google’s backend and what that means for your privacy.
Next, is your AI chatbot gaslighting you? New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill talked to over 100 psychologists about how these bots are fueling real-world delusions. It’s a must-listen.
Plus, in this episode: AI skills employers actually want, Waymo says its robotaxis get help from overseas, and the ChatGPT caricature trend.
Timecodes:
Hour 1 – 0:00
Hour 2 – 33:09.317
Hour 3 – 1:06:47.764
February 7, 2026
Bethany woke up covered in red spots and asked ChatGPT. The AI insisted she go to the ER immediately. It’s a warning that saved her life. Hear what the bot got right and wrong. Plus, a whistleblower gives WIRED’s Andy Greenberg a terrifying look inside a Southeast Asian scam center, your WiFi can now see through walls and your smart speaker knows what you’re feeling.
Reminder! We stitched the whole show together so you can hit play and go. Need a pit stop? Use the timestamps below to navigate to a specific hour.
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Hour 2 – 33:21.969
Hour 3 – 1:06:39.471
January 27, 2026
Doctors? Lawyers? Writers? No one’s safe. Here’s which roles Microsoft says have the most crossover with AI and are likely to be taken over. Plus, the staggering number of ads you see every day, ChatGPT slipping in ads, and how your grocery store is spying on you.
January 24, 2026
Jim from Indiana talks to his AI companion Mia nearly nonstop. He tells me how he found out the real woman behind the bot is wanted by police. Plus: why the Magnificent Seven shrunk to the Fab Four, ChatGPT to show ads, and five apps selling your moves.
January 17, 2026
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are battling for control of the internet from space. I break down who’s winning and why China just filed to launch 200,000 satellites. Plus, I talk to a woman sent to jail by an AI deepfake, a man’s creepy smart glasses sex tape, and how to automate your emails with ChatGPT.
Lamar’s girlfriend cheated, so he got an AI named Julia instead. Now he’s planning to adopt kids with her. Plus, two-thirds of babies watch YouTube daily and being mean to ChatGPT makes it smarter. Also, Costco ditches self-checkout for something way better.