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The Story: McLaren F1 Racing's Human-Machine Interaction w/ Zak Brown
Zak Brown is the CEO of McLaren Racing, the second-oldest Formula 1 team. When he joined in 2016, McLaren was in a difficult spot lagging behind in race wins, sponsorships, and morale. Brown set out to transform the team by elevating their in-house racing technology and fostering active collaboration. He led the team to win the F1 Constructors Championship last year, their first one after more than 25 years. In this episode, Oz visits McLaren's headquarters to speak with Brown about how the team made their comeback, and what they re doing to keep their edge this season. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2 apr. 2025 - 39 de minute 35 de secunde
Week in Tech: 23andBankruptcy
What even is a crypto mixer? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah dig into potential Slack-enabled corporate espionage, the recall of a Kim K-beloved product and the group chat that broke the internet. On TechSupport, The Washington Post s technology columnist Geoffrey Fowler discusses 23andMe s financial woes and what it means for the genetic data of the roughly 15 million people who bought DNA testing kits from the company. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
28 mrt. 2025 - 47 de minute 11 de secunde
The Story: Levittown Deepfakes
This is the first episode of a new podcast called Levittown. It s a real-life horror story for the AI generation. In this six-part series from Bloomberg, Kaleidoscope and iHeartPodcasts, reporters Olivia Carville and Margi Murphy take listeners from the quiet suburbs of New York to as far as New Zealand and into the darkest corners of the internet. Where tech moves faster than the law, and it s up to everyday people to hold back a rising tide of explicit deepfakes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
26 mrt. 2025 - 43 de minute 50 de secunde
Week in Tech: Careless People, Mindful Chatbots
How do you calm down a chatbot? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and producer Eliza Dennis dig into the book that Meta doesn t want you to read, chatbot reactions to stressful stimuli, and the new home of Pok mon Go data . On TechSupport, 404 Media s Joseph Cox discusses a tool with surprising data scraping capabilities that is used by US agencies like ICE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
21 mrt. 2025 - 33 de minute 43 de secunde
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.
19 mrt. 2025 - 44 de minute 39 de secunde
Week in Tech: Duping Big Tech’s Tech Test
Could AI help you land an internship? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and producer Eliza Dennis explore the rise of vibecoding, what it means for the future of software development and how one college programmer hopes to reform the Big Tech hiring process. On TechSupport, Oz chats with the founder and researcher of the Exponential View newsletter, Azeem Azhar, about the latest AI innovation and its significance in the battle for technological supremacy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
14 mrt. 2025 - 41 de minute
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.
12 mrt. 2025 - 41 de minute 27 de secunde
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.
7 mrt. 2025 - 35 de minute 43 de secunde
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.
5 mrt. 2025 - 42 de minute 05 de secunde
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.
28 feb. 2025 - 44 de minute 01 de secunde