
The Story: Can Tech Make Me A Better Person?
What’s your New Year’s Resolution? We want to help you keep it. The Verge’s senior tech reviewer, Victoria Song, joins the pod to tell us what tech can help you develop better habits, which wearable i...
7 Jan 26min

Year In Tech: Will There Be An AI Catastrophe In 2026?
What was your tech takeaway in 2025? And what is going to be the big story in 2026? Oz sits down with the author of The Running Ground and The Atlantic’s CEO, Nicholas Thompson, to discuss the odd int...
2 Jan 30min

TechStuff Redux: Inside a Couples Retreat for AI Companions
Could you resist falling for an AI companion? We’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes of 2025: author and journalist Sam Apple takes us on romantic getaway for people who are in love with their ...
31 Dec 202530min

TechStuff Redux: Will NVIDIA Save or Ruin The World?
One of the companies you couldn’t ignore this year was NVIDIA, so we’re re-airing a conversation Oz had with Stephen Witt, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and author of The Thinking Machine: ...
26 Dec 202536min

The Year in Brainrot
What was your internet obsession this year? Karah is joined by writer and podcast host, Aminatou Sow, to talk about what they watched — and what rotted their brains — in 2025. They talk about niche in...
24 Dec 202525min

Happy Gadget Season To All Who Celebrate!
Are you a gift go-getter, or a holiday procrastinator? This week, Karah spoke with Kyle Chayka, tech writer for The New Yorker and author of the book “Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture”. T...
19 Dec 202527min

The Story: Will Nuclear Fusion Save the World?
Is nuclear fusion the clean energy we need? Oz speaks with Commonwealth Fusion Systems' scientist and engineer Alex Creely and fashion designer Gabriela Hearst about why the public should get excited ...
17 Dec 202529min

Week In Tech: Would You Rather Live in a World with No Privacy or No Crime?
Should LLMs monitor crime? This week, Oz tells us why the US pharmaceutical industry may have competition… and why we’ve yet to see a flood of new products from AI drug discovery companies. Then, Kara...
12 Dec 202531min



















