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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 19, 2025 • 34min
The Story: An Innovation Playground w/ Astro Teller
Astro Teller is Alphabet’s Captain of Moonshots. He oversees projects at X – the moonshot factory behind innovations like Waymo and Google Brain. To celebrate X’s 15 years of pushing boundaries, Astro Teller decided to take listeners inside the factory. On The Moonshot Podcast, inventors and entrepreneurs behind breakthrough technologies reflect on their projects, both the highs and the lows. Teller sits down with Oz to discuss the process of experimentation, the importance of accepting failure and the future of innovation at Alphabet’s X.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 14, 2025 • 32min
Week in Tech: Duping Big Tech’s Tech Test
Eliza Dennis, a producer of the show and tech trends expert, joins Azim Azhar, founder of the Exponential View newsletter, to discuss the exciting rise of 'vibecoding' and its implications for software development and hiring in Big Tech. They explore how AI can transform recruitment, enhancing candidate interactions through innovative tools like Interview Coda. The conversation also touches on the intense competition in AGI development between the U.S. and China, emphasizing the rapid advancements that could redefine the tech landscape.
Mar 12, 2025 • 30min
The Story: What is AI Love? w/ David Eagleman
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, author, entrepreneur and host of the podcast Inner Cosmos. In his podcast, he explores how our brains interpret the world and construct reality. Eagleman sits down with Oz to discuss AI relationships, the human urge to anthropomorphize chatbots and the benefits of living on the exponential curve.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 7, 2025 • 30min
Week in Tech: Can a Woolly Mouse Make a Mammoth?
What if AI could read your mind? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and producer Eliza Dennis explore the latest tech investment in the US, Meta’s brain-to-text breakthrough and the creation of the woolly mouse. On TechSupport, 404 Media’s Jason Koebler takes us to an AI-generated film festival… spoiler: the tech isn’t there yet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 5, 2025 • 32min
The Story: A Spymaster Sheikh’s AI Ambitions w/ Bradley Hope
Bradley Hope is a journalist, author and co-founder of Project Brazen, a narrative non-fiction production studio. His piece in Wired, ‘A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI,’ outlines how one Gulf royal – Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan – came to control vast sums of sovereign wealth. Hope sits down with Oz to discuss Sheikh Tahnoun’s early obsession with AI, his path to becoming the UAE’s national security advisor and the country's role in the global AI race. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 28, 2025 • 39min
What the Tech? w/ Jonathan Strickland in Doha
This week, Oz is on the road, at the Web Summit Qatar, and he’s not alone. Joining him from the iHeart pop-up studio in Doha is a very familiar figure, Jonathan Strickland. Oz and Jonathan sit down to discuss some of the highlights of the Web Summit, including the future of the AI chip race, advances in augmented reality and how news organizations are grappling with AI.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 26, 2025 • 32min
The Story: Russia’s Espionage ‘Laboratory’ w/ Ben Taub
Ben Taub is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker. His piece, “Russia’s Espionage War in the Arctic,” covers tensions at the Russian border with Norway, an area Russia uses as a testing ground for future intelligence operations. Taub sits down with Oz to discuss the technology being used for survival and for espionage, as the war in Ukraine has escalated tensions with NATO.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 21, 2025 • 44min
TechStuff x Part-Time Genius: Redefining ‘Luddite’ w/ Brian Merchant
This week, TechStuff teams up with Part-Time Genius for a special crossover episode. Oz and Mangesh Hattikudur, host of Part-Time Genius, discuss a largely misunderstood group of machine destroyers. The Luddites. Joining them is tech journalist Brian Merchant, author of Blood in the Machine, to dig into the history of humans fighting against job automation, why we equate Luddites with technophobes and what we can learn from these 19th century rebels in the age of AI.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Feb 19, 2025 • 29min
The Story: Liar, Liar, Deepfakes on Fire w/ Hany Farid
Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley professor and expert in digital forensics, discusses the critical battle against digital misinformation. He shares his journey into the field and highlights the alarming rise of deepfakes, emphasizing their impact on public trust and societal norms. The conversation tackles the ethical concerns around digital immortality and AI likenesses, questioning the implications of consent in these technologies. Farid also offers insight into navigating today's misinformation landscape, advocating for caution around social media.
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Feb 14, 2025 • 29min
Week in Tech: Musk and Federal Money–A Love Story
Emanuel Maiberg, a writer for 404 Media, joins the discussion focusing on a thought-provoking study about AI's impact on our critical thinking skills. The conversation tackles the complexities of outsourcing cognitive tasks to technology and how this might affect our mental abilities. Additionally, the podcast dives into the UK government's controversial request for Apple to create a backdoor for iPhones. The hosts also explore Elon Musk's relationship with government funding and its implications for innovation and taxpayer risk.
