AI browsers may be the best thing that ever happened to scammers, Oracle will reportedly power a giant data center with gas generators, and Alaska Air will offer Starlink in-flight internet starting next year. episode artwork

EPISODE · Aug 21, 2025 · 11 MIN

AI browsers may be the best thing that ever happened to scammers, Oracle will reportedly power a giant data center with gas generators, and Alaska Air will offer Starlink in-flight internet starting next year.

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We've heard a lot this year about AI enabling new scams, from celebrity deepfakes on Facebook to hackers impersonating government officials. However, a new report suggests that AI also poses a fraud risk from the other direction — easily falling for scams that human users are much more likely to catch. The report, titled "Scamlexity," comes from a cybersecurity startup called Guardio, which produces a browser extension designed to catch scams in real time. In other news, Bloomberg has published a deep dive into operations at Oracle, chronicling the software giant's rise in cloud computing and current push into powering artificial intelligence projects. The publication reported that Oracle has promised to develop tens of billions of dollars in data centers, which have become a hot business. And more and more airlines think that Starlink is the solution. The latest company to sign with the SpaceX affiliate is Alaska Air Group, which announced that it will start offering Starlink Wi-Fi next year and expand the service to its entire fleet by 2027. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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