Hello and welcome to the Times Tech podcast. I am Danny Forts and Danny in the Valley, the Silicon Valley. And I am Katie Prescott, Katie, in the city, the city of London.

So on this pod, as you know, we try our very best to explain AI and everything new in tech.

And each week we hear from many of the people who are really leading this AI revolution.

So we thought for this special edition of the podcast, part two of our holiday extravagancer.

And if you haven't listened to last weeks, do have a listen, go back and do that.

But we're going to pick up where we left off and look at the highlights of 2025. And what we learned about the impact of tech on the real

world and maybe get a glimpse of what we can expect in the year ahead.

That's right. So just like last week, we're going to dive and do four big themes that emerged

from all of these kind of mind-bending

conversations we've had over the past year.

Now, what are the four?

You ask, one is the first one is physical AI.

What does it actually look like out in the world?

Well, spoiler alert, looks like, you know know maybe robotaxies or a little weird

plastic pendant thing that you wear around your neck and wants to be your friend strange but we

dive into that one of my favorite things i think of the last year and secondly we're going to look

at software moving away from hardware and where AI is already moving the needle in the real

world speaking to the heads of AI startups who are seeing massive growth and demand for

their products. Exactly, which leads neatly on to the third big area. Jobs, will we have any?

Where are they already kind of getting eaten up by this new technology

and where will the jobs of the future be? Just to really cheer you up for the start of

2026. But to round out, we're going to finish with some of the stranger uses of AI, digital

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