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M3GAN 2.0

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Published
Mon 30 Jun 2025
Episode Link
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/04/1255224490/m3gan-2-reboots-a-horror-comedy-gem-with-add-ons

The horror comedy M3GAN spawned memes, made a fortune, and even taught us a lesson about the dangers of outsourcing our humanity to AI. The sequel, M3GAN 2.0, pans out to tell a bigger story about an even deadlier AI killing machine — and brings back the original M3GAN for some hi-tech robot-on-robot violence. Though M3GAN was defeated at the end of the original film, her tech remains — and it's found its way into a rogue AI assassin named Amelia.

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