1116 - Meet the Grads Grappling With AI and Their Futures
Ever wonder where the internet stops and IRL begins? Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor. From internet trends to AI slop to the politics of memes, Close All Tabs covers it all.
How will AI change our jobs and lives? Is the government watching what I post? Is there life beyond TikTok? Host Morgan Sung pulls from experts, the audience, and history to add context to the trends and depth to the memes. And she’ll wrestle with as many browser tabs as it takes to explain the cultural moment we’re all collectively living.
Morgan Sung is a tech journalist whose work covers the range of absurdity and brilliance that is the internet. Her beat has evolved into an exploration of social platforms and how they shape real-world culture. She has written for TechCrunch, NBC News, Mashable, BuzzFeed News and more.
We love listening to shows about technology and culture like Power User with Taylor Lorenz, ICYMI, Wow If True, Hard Fork, There Are No Girls On the Internet, Endless Thread, Uncanny Valley from Wired, It’s Been a Minute, and You’re Wrong About. If you like them too, then trust us–you’ll like Close All Tabs.
1116 - Meet the Grads Grappling With AI and Their Futures
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Ever wonder where the internet stops and IRL begins? Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor. From internet trends to AI slop to the politics of memes, Close All Tabs covers it all.
How will AI change our jobs and lives? Is the government watching what I post? Is there life beyond TikTok? Host Morgan Sung pulls from experts, the audience, and history to add context to the trends and depth to the memes. And she’ll wrestle with as many browser tabs as it takes to explain the cultural moment we’re all collectively living.
Morgan Sung is a tech journalist whose work covers the range of absurdity and brilliance that is the internet. Her beat has evolved into an exploration of social platforms and how they shape real-world culture. She has written for TechCrunch, NBC News, Mashable, BuzzFeed News and more.
We love listening to shows about technology and culture like Power User with Taylor Lorenz, ICYMI, Wow If True, Hard Fork, There Are No Girls On the Internet, Endless Thread, Uncanny Valley from Wired, It’s Been a Minute, and You’re Wrong About. If you like them too, then trust us–you’ll like Close All Tabs.
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Published01 Jul 2026
Duration23:38
Episodes
1116-
Meet the Grads Grappling With AI and Their Futures
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01 Jul 2026
1115-
The $55B Deal That Has Sims Players Worried
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24 Jun 2026
1114-
A Queer History of The Sims
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17 Jun 2026
1113-
How To Prove You're Not AI
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10 Jun 2026
1112-
Escaping the Surveillance Pricing Trap
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03 Jun 2026
1111-
Musk v. Altman Was Peak Silicon Valley Theatrics
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27 May 2026
1110-
Iran Is Winning The Slopaganda War
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20 May 2026
1109-
How an OnlyFans Model and a Cosplayer Are Fighting Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn
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13 May 2026
1108-
My Therapist Is a Chatbot (Reload)
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06 May 2026
1107-
Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware
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29 Apr 2026
1106-
The H-1B Visa Process But Make It a Video Game
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22 Apr 2026
1105-
Save or Scroll: Looksmaxxing, AI Fruit Love Island, BTS Arirang, and Meta Lawsuits
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15 Apr 2026
1104-
The Secret Lives of Mormon Momfluencers
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08 Apr 2026
1103-
Bee Movie, "We Are Charlie Kirk," and the Enduring Bait-and-Switch Meme
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01 Apr 2026
1102-
To Hack a Tractor: How Farmers Won the Right to Repair
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25 Mar 2026
1101-
The Fight for Your Right to Repair
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18 Mar 2026
1100-
'Twitter on a Vape' and The Great E-Waste Crisis
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11 Mar 2026
1099-
Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws
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04 Mar 2026
1098-
Send Pics? Roblox Wants to Know Your Age
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26 Feb 2026
1097-
Lessons for U.S. Netizens from Behind China’s Great Firewall
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18 Feb 2026
1096-
Love In The Time Of Doom Scrolling
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11 Feb 2026
1095-
How the AI Data Center Boom Impacts Black Communities
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04 Feb 2026
1094-
The Real Cost of AI Slop
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28 Jan 2026
1093-
Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think
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21 Jan 2026
1092-
Are You Allowed to Record ICE?
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14 Jan 2026
1091-
Save or Scroll: OpenAI’s Head of Preparedness, Global RAM Shortage, AI Artists, and a Manosphere Antidote
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07 Jan 2026
1090-
Death, Robotaxis, and a Cat Named KitKat
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17 Dec 2025
1089-
One Year Later, The Internet’s Still Talking About Luigi Mangione
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10 Dec 2025
1088-
What Happened to Purple Moon Games for Girls?
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03 Dec 2025
1087-
Meet Ukraine’s ‘Geeks of War’
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19 Nov 2025
1086-
Where Do Games Go When They Die?
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12 Nov 2025
1085-
Alice Bucknell on How Virtual Spaces Help Us Cope With Reality
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05 Nov 2025
1084-
A Political Reckoning for Twitch?
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29 Oct 2025
1083-
Satanic Panic in the Age of the Internet
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22 Oct 2025
1082-
Beyond the AI Hype Machine
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15 Oct 2025
1081-
The All-Seeing Eyes of Modern Dating
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08 Oct 2025
1080-
In Search of Thock: The Quest for the Perfect Keyboard
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01 Oct 2025
1079-
AI Prophets and Spiritual Delusions
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24 Sep 2025
1078-
Groypers, Doxxing and Charlie Kirk’s Death as a S***post
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17 Sep 2025
1077-
23andMe (andGeneticPrivacy)
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10 Sep 2025
1076-
From MIT’s TeachLab: The Homework Machine
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03 Sep 2025
1075-
Teachers Strike Back Against AI Cheating
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27 Aug 2025
1074-
Before ChatGPT, There Were 'Shadow Scholars'
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20 Aug 2025
1073-
Does Gen Z Have A Staring Problem?
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13 Aug 2025
1072-
Is Algospeak Coming for Us?
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06 Aug 2025
1071-
Save or Scroll: ICE + Influencers, Data Hygiene on Grindr, and Labubu Desserts