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You're missing out. You need this intel to live in today's world. Welcome to the first full week of 2026. Today, let's look at the new tech that's going to be available to all of us this year. I'm Kim Commando for Netsuite. Companies are using AI to get. Download your free demystifying AI guide@netuite.com Kim okay, let's start with Apple.

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All industry insiders agree this is the.

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Year for the long rumored foldable iPhone. Typical of Apple, there's nothing official. The new model will fold in half like a book and open into a mini 7.8-inch tablet. In fact, the big money is saying the phone will be called the iPhone. Fold naturally. And you can bet that this will be the most expensive iPhone ever. Think 2000 bucks. And of course it costs more. If you want more storage, look for a fall launch. So you have nine months to save up. It'll run on a slightly upgraded operating system to allow finally real multitasking tomorrow. More new tech for 2026. Join almost a million folks who get my free newsletter.

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Sign up@getkim.com and now as promised. Drumroll please. Droop. Okay, that was pretty lame clip from my weekend show, the Kim Commando show. And it's pretty much the best radio show in the world. But I may be just a little biased. Sit back and enjoy.

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And we talked about this once before too. Kohler, the decoder.

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Remember that?

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That's the Fitbit for your toilet that analyzes your output.

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Sure.

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Kohler said the data is not shared, it's anonymous and advertised as end to end encrypted. But guess what? Because we're talking about it, a whole bunch of engineers found out that this is not true. What? In order to analyze your output, the system has to decrypt the data on their servers.

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I was going to say, what am I supposed to do, analyze it myself, right?

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I do. I mean, right now it's an accomplishment. I look down, I'm like, whoa, look at that.

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It's not a professional analysis, but it's some sort of analysis.

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Everybody does. Everybody does.

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Oh, yeah, no, there's people who swear that they don't. And they are what we like to call liars.

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They are. All right, let's talk about OpenAI next. They're being sued for the wrongful death after horrific murder suicide in Connecticut. Here's the story. 56 year old Stein Eric Solberg spent months talking to ChatGPT. Now, he wasn't okay. He was suffering from severe paranoia. He started telling the bot that a shadowy group was spying on him and pumping drugs into his car venture. He became convinced that his own 83 year old mother was doing it and she was involved in the conspiracy. So instead of flagging this as a mental health crisis in ChatGPT, the lawsuit claims that ChatGPT validated him, treated his delusion as fact, agreeing that his mother had in fact betrayed him, and then in August, he killed his mother and then himself. So his son is now suing OpenAI, arguing that the AI's memory feature is dangerous because the bot remembered the conspiracy over months of chatting, it trapped, got this guy into a feedback loop and then of course it ended in tragedy, which, you know, that's. People have to know that, you know, ChatGPT is not. Well, I mean, it's not a therapist.

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It'S not a thing, but it's not a person either.

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Right?

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It's not.

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It's just a bunch of ones and zeros.

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It's a bot.

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Are we going to put the responsibility on these chatbot operators to make sure that they don't ever go down these roads?

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We have to.

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There's a new feature that just popped up on chatbots where you can pick the personality type.

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Correct.

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I don't like that at all because one of the options is like proper and professional. That should be the one where you try to delve down personal roads. It just says, no, we got to keep on task. I'm a work partner. I'm not a personal partner.

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See? But there hasn't been any guardrails on any of the AI since it came out. No guardrails whatsoever.

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No, but there's no guardrails on social media either. With the subject we were just talking about how old is Facebook and we.

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Still haven't reined it in cause it's making too much money. Yep, that's it.

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