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Behind every innovation is a new kind of power. TechStuff unpacks how technology reshapes influence, creativity, and control, from Silicon Valley’s rising moguls to the cultural forces they create. Because tech is the new religion, economy, and entertainment, all at once.
Each week, Oz Woloshyn and the brightest minds covering tech dig into the weird, funny, and sometimes unsettling ways technology, AI, and the internet shape our daily lives. From AI and social media to privacy, digital burnout, and the creator economy, they ask how all this innovation is changing who we are, how we work, love, and make meaning.
Smart talk, strange stories, and the questions everyone’s Googling: whether AI will replace us, how social media is affecting our kids, and what it all says about us.
Get in touch here: techstuffpodcast@gmail.com
Each week, Oz Woloshyn and the brightest minds covering tech dig into the weird, funny, and sometimes unsettling ways technology, AI, and the internet shape our daily lives. From AI and social media to privacy, digital burnout, and the creator economy, they ask how all this innovation is changing who we are, how we work, love, and make meaning.
Smart talk, strange stories, and the questions everyone’s Googling: whether AI will replace us, how social media is affecting our kids, and what it all says about us.
Get in touch here: techstuffpodcast@gmail.com
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Mar 27, 2026 • 42min
Jury Blames Meta and YouTube, Goodbye Sora Videos, Weather Apps That Don't Suck - Week in Tech
Nitasha Tiku, investigative technology reporter at The Washington Post, breaks down a Los Angeles verdict against Meta and YouTube. Reed Albergotti, Semafor tech editor, explains why OpenAI killed Sora and how compute scarcity reshapes AI economics. Kyle Chayka, New Yorker writer, praises Acme Weather and talks about why most weather apps fail. Multiple short, punchy conversations about law, AI resources, and app design.
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Mar 25, 2026 • 32min
Is Software Dead? Finance and Tech Bros Clash - The Story
Isabelle Bousquette, technology and enterprise AI reporter for The Wall Street Journal, breaks down a LinkedIn feud over recreating the Bloomberg Terminal and why finance pros reacted so fiercely. She also reports from NVIDIA’s GTC, explaining the shift to inference, the rise of OpenClaw claws, and the security and practical challenges of AI-driven tooling.
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Mar 20, 2026 • 47min
Did Nvidia Give OpenClaw Its ChatGPT Moment? - Week in Tech
Reed Albergotti, Semafor tech reporter who covered NVIDIA GTC. Taylor Lorenz, User Mag tech journalist focused on online speech and policy. Kyle Chayka, New Yorker cultural writer on tech aesthetics. They discuss NVIDIA’s GTC and OpenClaw’s apparent ChatGPT moment. They debate agentic AI risks, NemoClaw security, Section 230’s future, and why Silicon Valley is suddenly obsessed with ‘taste’.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 33min
$30K Drones vs $4M Missiles: Can the US Win This War? - The Story
Ben C. Solomon, Pulitzer-winning journalist and frontline filmmaker, breaks down the economics of $30K Shahed drones versus multimillion-dollar missiles. He explores how Iran perfected swarm tactics, Ukraine’s battlefield-honed drone countermeasures, and the hard choices defenders face when intercept costs dwarf incoming threats.
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Mar 13, 2026 • 46min
Did Anthropic Have the Best Week in Tech?
Stephen Witt, journalist and author covering AI and hardware. Nitasha Tiku, reporter tracking AI policy and tech power. Taylor Lorenz, social media reporter exploring online culture. They debate Anthropic’s legal fight with the Pentagon, a tragic case tied to chatbot delusion, and the risks of age-verification laws that could enable surveillance and censorship.
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Mar 11, 2026 • 45min
What Do EMDR, Tony Robbins, and NXIVM Have in Common? NLP - The Story
Zoë Lescaze, science journalist exploring NLP origins and evidence. Alice Hines, investigative reporter on wellness scams and cults. They trace NLP from 1970s California to therapy, cults like NXIVM, Tony Robbins’ use, links with EMDR, hypnosis origins, self-experiments, military interest, and which techniques survive scrutiny.
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Mar 6, 2026 • 34min
What Happens When You Deepfake the CEO of OpenAI? - The Story
Adam Bhala Lough, documentary filmmaker who made Deepfaking Sam Altman, discusses creating a chatbot replica called Sam Bot. He narrates building and casting the deepfake, the eerie realism and emotional responses it provoked. He explores legal precautions, debates about empathy for code and robot rights, and how AI may reshape relationships and media access.
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Mar 4, 2026 • 52min
No Such Thing: Why Do Tesla Door Handles Suck?
Ariane Marshall, transportation and tech writer at Wired, breaks down Tesla door-handle design, safety tradeoffs, and regulatory pressure. She explains why hidden handles existed, how interior mechanics like trimless windows behave, and what legal and engineering changes are pushing Tesla to add combined mechanical and electronic releases.
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Feb 27, 2026 • 25min
Hollywood’s Afraid of Tilly Norwood. Should They Be? - The Story
Eline Van der Velden, actor-producer and founder of Particle 6 who created AI performer Tilly Norwood. She explains crafting Tilly’s look and teaching her to act. They discuss motion capture, surprising AI behavior, Hollywood backlash and labeling issues. Plans for a Tilly-centric TV show and a larger AI character universe are also explored.
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Feb 25, 2026 • 35min
How Soon Until AI Out-Diagnoses Your Doctor? - The Story
Dr. Dhruv Khullar, a physician-journalist who writes on medicine and AI, explores how chatbots can both catch elusive diagnoses and make dangerous errors. He contrasts dramatic diagnostic wins with routine, long-term care challenges. The conversation covers hallucination risks, clinician-AI workflows, equity of access, and how doctors can shape AI’s role in healthcare.
