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Gamers Fight AI Art, For Now - Week in Tech

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🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

How do you feel about AI in your art, your music, and your video games? Oz is joined by Kill Switch host, Dexter Thomas, to discuss Switchbot's AI Art Frame and the video gamers who are holding developers to account. But will the anti-AI outrage continue to make change? Then, Oz updates us on last week’s World Economic Forum — one Davos attendee spent the night in jail and Canada’s PM says there’s a rupture in the world order. Europe is listening and threatening to part ways with American tech companies.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed human.

0:17.6

From Collidoscope and IHartart podcasts, this is tech stuff.

0:21.2

I'm Osvalosian.

0:22.3

And I'm Dexter Thomas, filling in for Kara Price.

0:24.8

Today we've got two big stories to dive into.

0:27.9

First, a growing movement in Europe to prepare for a world without access to U.S. technology.

0:34.5

And then can art lovers really complain away AI? Gammers are doing a pretty good job so

0:41.3

far. All of that on the weekend tech. It's Friday, January 30th. Dexter, welcome to Texter.

0:50.5

Excited to have you back. Hey, I'm happy to be back. And congratulations on the good work over at Kill Switch.

0:56.2

One of my favorite text of episodes of the last year was you coming on to tell us about

0:59.9

the history of Nintendo and the gangbusters launch of Nintendo Switch.

1:05.2

Yeah, I feel like I'm becoming quickly the video game person, even though I very rarely

1:10.2

have enough time to play

1:11.4

video games in my personal life but hey listen i i'm into it i love talking about this stuff all day

1:16.8

so i was very happy to be able to you know add a little bit in nintendo into the tech stuff universe

1:21.8

while you've been following the world of video games without playing i've been following the world of video games without playing. I've been following the world of Davos without going.

1:32.7

So President Trump dropped some bombshells, luckily not real ones, not yet on Europe, which we want to talk about.

1:41.3

But before we get there, actually, there was a thankfully very comedic real-life

1:47.8

bombs scare at Davos that I want to tell you all about. Please enlighten me. I've been too busy not

1:52.5

playing video games. So here's the story. A 31-year-old entrepreneur called Sebastian was at Davos for the

1:59.2

first time. And he was at a hotel party hosted by a conference called DLD. And Sebastian was at Davos for the first time. And he was at a hotel party hosted by a conference

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