Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, we want to cover the Q1

2026 venture funding numbers. They've just dropped. They're pretty eye-watering. There's about

$300 billion that has been invested into startups in this single quarter, and 80% of that is going

straight into AI startups. So I want to break down all the numbers of who's getting money,

why it's going where. We also have to cover

Meta's rogue AI agent incident. It triggered a really serious security alert internally. And I want to

talk about a very cool story when it comes to AI in healthcare. One of my favorite topics,

there's something called NOAA Labs. It just got FDA breakthrough, which is basically a designation for

an AI that can detect heart failures from a five second voice recording. Very cool. And then we also

are going to Georgia, where they are sending three AI related bills to the governor's desk today,

including a chatbot child safety bill, which is interesting. And we're starting kind of to see this

broader wave of AI chatbot regulations that are going through state legislatures right now.

There's 78 bills across 27 states. So there's a lot to get into. Before we jump in, quick

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And it builds the workflow for you. So I've been using it for a bunch of my own content production stuff. And it has been incredibly useful. If you want to try it out, there's a link in the description. It's my own startup, AIbox.a.i. All right, let's get into the episode. So I think something that's been building quietly over the last few months is that there's a massive

wave of AI chatbot regulation at the state level.

According to the Future of Privacy Forum, 2026 tracker, there's now 78 different chatbot

safety bills that are introduced across 27 different states.

And I think a lot of those follow a very similar playbook. They're kind of focused on disclosure requirements. There's a bunch of stuff that, you know, plays towards child safety protection. There's limits on what chatbots can do when they're interacting with minors. I think the common thread across basically all of these bills is that if you're talking to an AI, you should know you're talking to an AI. I think a lot of people are concerned, you know, particularly when you're doing something like customer support or sales and they're like, look, if I'm talking to a customer support bot, like let me know it's not a, you know, not a real human. And of course, they want a lot of safety for children using AI chatbot. So states like Oregon, Hawaii, Colorado, Arizona, and Nebraska

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