>https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g38jv8zzwo

>https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/payments-begin-in-95m-...

Both are for voice assistants that inadvertently got activated. Extending it to imply that they're intentionally deceiving their users is a stretch.

>https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-list...

It's a pitch deck. For how skeptical HN is about AI startups or whatever, it seems pretty strange to take this at face value.