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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.
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- Who Benefits From Jensen Huang's Downfall? - Week in Tech · 39 minCould Jensen Huang’s sex scandal be AI’s death knell? Reed Albergotti (Semafor and Future Proof), Margaux MacColl (Vanity Fair), and Taylor Lorenz (User Mag) break down the spicy…
- Einstein Called Quantum ‘Spooky’ and Google Is Building It - The Story · 40 minCan quantum computing cure cancer? Charina Chou, Chief Operating Officer at Google Quantum AI, believes it just might. But what exactly is quantum computing, and how does it…
- Did America Just Vote Down AI? - Week in Tech · 42 minIs Silicon Valley's political honeymoon over? Reed Albergotti (Semafor and Future Proof), Kyle Chayka (The New Yorker), and Julia Black (Vanity Fair) unpack the midterms… and how…
- The Builders: Garry Tan · 40 minWe're excited to share the fifth episode of The Builders. In this series, bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson sits down with the most consequential names in AI and tech to…
- The ‘Bahamian Bill Gates’ Wants to Innovate - The Story · 37 minCan a small island nation own a slice of the AI race? Sebastian Bastian, the Bahamas’ Minister of Innovation and National Development, thinks so. Once dubbed the “Bahamian Bill…
- After The Builders: On Dario & Daniela Amodei and Mustafa Suleyman · 48 minEpisodes three and four of The Builders with Walter Isaacson explore two poles of the AI safety debate through interviews with Daniela and Dario Amodei, co-founders of Anthropic…
- The Builders: Mustafa Suleyman · 52 minWe're excited to share the fourth episode of The Builders. In this series, bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson sits down with the most consequential names in AI and tech to…
- The Builders: Dario & Daniela Amodei · 41 minWe're excited to share the third episode of The Builders. In this series, bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson sits down with the most consequential names in AI and tech to…
- The $5 Billion Effort to help Secure the World’s Shared Software · 33 minAI is changing cybersecurity and raising hard questions about how fast organizations can respond. Earlier this year, IBM and Red Hat launched Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative…
- After The Builders: On Musk and Thiel · 50 minYou’ve probably seen a few episodes of The Builders with Walter Isaacson in the TechStuff feed… today, we’re going to talk about them. Oz Woloshyn is joined by his Kaleidoscope…
- The Builders: Peter Thiel · 58 minNot too long ago we gave TechStuff listeners a sneak peek at a new podcast called The Builders, and today we're excited to share the second episode. In this series, bestselling…
- The Builders: Elon Musk · 40 minNot too long ago we gave TechStuff listeners a sneak peek at a new podcast called The Builders, and today we can finally share the first episode! In this series, bestselling…
- Introducing: Future Proof · 1 minTechStuff listeners! If you love the 'Week in Tech,' and want to hear more from Semafor's Reed Albergotti, look no further than Future Proof. Future Proof is Semafor's weekly…
- Hollywood’s Silicon Valley Obsession - Week in Tech · 35 minIs Silicon Valley worthy of the big screen? Reed Albergotti (Semafor and Future Proof), Kyle Chayka (The New Yorker), and Julia Black (Vanity Fair) debate two new films about…
- Who’s Liable If AI Commits a Crime? - The Story · 35 minAI agents are acting autonomously, but what happens if they break the law? Investigative journalist and Shell Game host Evan Ratliff joins Oz to explore how AI is already…
- Nuclear Space Junk Cleaners, Inc. - Week in Tech · 35 minWill Adobe survive the decompiling revolution? Reed Albergotti (Semafor and Future Proof), Kyle Chayka (Infinite Scroll, New Yorker), and Taylor Lorenz (User Mag) pull up to the…
- ‘The AI Labs Are Trying to Give Away Control’ w/ Kevin Roose - The Story · 41 minWhy are the people most afraid of artificial superintelligence racing to build it? After interviewing more than 150 AI insiders, former New York Times tech columnist and podcast…
- These Party People Want You to Love Your Data Center - Week in Tech · 40 minWill frontier AI labs really police themselves, or will the FTC pull rank? Reed Albergotti (Semafor), Margaux MacColl (Vanity Fair) and Nitasha Tiku (The Washington Post) dive…
- EXCLUSIVE: Peter Thiel on Why AI Can’t Afford to Hit the Pause Button · 19 minA sneak peek from The Builders with Walter Isaacson, the new podcast series from Kaleidoscope debuting on October 20. In this exclusive preview clip from Isaacson’s interview…
- Meta’s Muse Takes Center Stage - Week in Tech · 44 minIs Muse the AI agent we’ve been waiting for? Reed Albergotti (Semafor), Taylor Lorenz (User Mag), and Nitasha Tiku (The Washington Post) unpack the U.S.-China AI race and why…
- Lab-Grown Brain Organoids Are Playing Video Games - The Story · 40 minWhat if the computers of the future are alive? Scientists are growing tiny clusters of human cells called brain organoids, connecting them to electrodes, and training them to…
- Where Are The Rational Conversations About AI Extinction Scenarios - Week in Tech · 39 minWhy did a former Anthropic employee’s X post saying AI could kill us all get 170 million views while previous warnings didn’t break through? Reed Albergotti (Semafor), Taylor…
- Will 2026 Be The ‘ChatGPT Moment’ For The Brain-Computer Interface - The Story · 40 minControlling a computer with your thoughts may sound like science fiction, but it’s closer to reality than you might think. Just ask Precision Neuroscience. The company developed…
- Shell Game: Launch · 59 minHurumoAI finally sets sail in the Season 2 finale, and we find out how the world responds to a startup led by AI agents. The company explores new financing avenues and charts the…
- Tech Bros Try To Make Mining Sexy - Week in Tech · 42 minWhy are Silicon Valley investors pouring billions into mines? First, Reed Albergotti (Semafor) and Margaux MacColl (Vanity Fair) weigh in on the foldable iPhone: Did we need it…
- $17.1B Disappointed Haidt. Then He Realized the World Would Follow - The Story · 36 minAre kids finally going to be safer on social media? Jonathan Haidt thinks a landmark $17.1 billion settlement with Meta is a gigantic step. Not because of the money, but because…
- Shell Game: Welcome Aboard · 54 minHurumoAI’s AI-agent staff welcomes a new hire: Julia, a social media contract worker who is, most importantly, a human. How will a real person integrate into the company culture…
- The AI Uprising Will Be Anthropomorphized - Week in Tech · 48 minAre kids going to be any safer online after the Meta settlement? Our trio of contributors—Taylor Lorenz (User Mag), Reed Albergotti (Semafor), and Nitasha Tiku (The Washington…
- When She Lost Both Her Parents, She Turned to AI - The Story · 35 minDo you judge people who are emotionally attached to their chatbots? Bridget Todd used to read stories about people forming intimate relationships with AI and think, “That’s so…
- Shell Game: Keep 'Em Coming · 38 minAs HurumoAI prepares to bring on its first human employee, the team must wrestle with some difficult and timely questions about the role of AI in the hiring process. Meanwhile…
- TechStuff Redux: The Secret Stanford Off-Campus Class for Tech’s Next Titans · 42 minDid your college have a secret society? Well, Stanford has a secret off-campus class training the next generation of Silicon Valley billionaires. And it's literally called "How…
- TechStuff Redux: We've Been Sold a Bad Bill of Goods About the Future · 39 minWhat would it mean to be a "great ancestor"? Futurist Ari Wallach believes that's the question everyone, including our tech leaders, should be asking right now. Ari joins Oz to…
- Shell Game: Winners Win · 42 minOn this week’s episode, we enter the sensitive realm of intra-office politics and inter-founder dynamics—between agents and agents, and agents and people. While HurumoAI gears up…
- Everyone Is Saying Something Different About the AI Economy - The Story · 33 minIs the AI boom real… or are we watching a bubble get ready to burst? Billions of dollars are pouring into artificial intelligence, but figuring out where that money comes from…
- Let’s Imagine the Tech Without the Tech Companies - The Story · 31 minThe AI conversation has become a battle between utopian promises and apocalyptic warnings. But what happens when we stop asking what AI will do to the world and start asking what…
- Shell Game: The Startup Chronicles · 41 minEvan decides it’s time to give his AI agents a little more ... agency. After all, to make the one-person, agent-run startup feasible, they need to be able to do things on their…
- Anti-Surveillance Sentiment Is In Vogue, Some People Are Exploiting It - Week in Tech · 43 minWhat’s driving America’s growing backlash against surveillance tech? Taylor Lorenz (User Mag) unpacks the outcry over Flock cameras and why the company thinks they are being…
- Humanoid Robots Ship This Year, Here’s What To Expect - The Story · 36 minAs Oz predicted, 2026 may very well be the year of the robot. At least, that’s what the robotics companies are promising. Oz sits down with Stephen Witt, author and frequent…
- Shell Game: This is Law · 41 minAs Kyle, Megan, and the gang get to work ideating on the perfect product, Evan is left grappling with some uncomfortable questions about his AI collaborators — whose every…
- What the AI Backlash is Really About - Week in Tech · 49 minWhat is Silicon Valley missing about the data center backlash? Jasmine Sun traveled to Wisconsin and Michigan to find out what's driving the public's growing mistrust of tech…
- They Founded a Company as Teens. Now They’re Predicting the Future - The Story · 44 minBrands, political parties, and businesses all want to know what you think. But what if you're not telling the truth? Cameron Fink, Ned Koh, and John Kessler, the founders of…
- Shell Game: Outdoor Debugging · 37 minAs Evan gets Hurumo’s employees up and running as fully-functioning colleagues (with support from Maty), he learns what it’s really like to spend your days managing…
- Chinese Humanoid Robots Aren’t Welcome Here, US Says - Week in Tech · 42 minWhy is the US banning more Chinese technology? Reed Albergotti (Semafor) fills us in on the robot ban and what it means for American innovation. Then, new research on why Chinese…
- Cerebras Built a New Way to Make Sand Think - The Story · 34 minWhat does it take to power the AI boom? Steve Vassallo, a roboticist turned General Partner at Foundation Capital, helped semiconductor company Cerebras figure it out. Steve and…
- Trust Needs Proof: Who Really Controls Your AI? · 44 minAs AI adoption accelerates and global regulations evolve, digital sovereignty has shifted from policy concept to board-level priority. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM…
- Did the AI Catastrophe Just Happen? - Week in Tech · 44 minHow much can we actually trust AI to stay inside the lines? Nitasha Tiku (The Washington Post) on the OpenAI models that went rogue — and why this isn't necessarily a sign of the…
- What is Palantir’s Alex Karp Thinking? - The Story · 35 minWhat are we supposed to make of Palantir — a company whose software has helped organizations save lives, and end them? And what of CEO Alex Karp's warnings that AI could upend…
- Shell Game: Minimum Viable Company · 33 minIn Season 2 of Shell Game, journalist Evan Ratliff tells a story of entrepreneurship in the AI age; or, how he tried to build a real company, run by fake people. Meet Kyle Law…
- Are You Ready For A ‘Hot Surveillance Summer’? - Week in Tech · 37 minWho’s afraid of China’s open-source AI models? Nitasha Tiku (The Washington Post) breaks down the secret battle between Silicon Valley and Chinese AI labs, why Anthropic was…
- Skyline Drive: Organ Trail · 1 h 0 minDid you love TechStuff’s last episode, 'The Tech That Helps You Live Forever', and want to hear more from Mangesh Hattikudur? Check out Episode 5 of the podcast Skyline Drive…
