Tech Skepticism, AI and Why China's Innovations Matter - w/ Wired’s Katie Drummond
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Oz is at the Web Summit in Qatar this week, and he’s taking you with him. This episode was recorded live on stage with Wired’s global editorial director Katie Drummond. Katie and Oz talk about what it’s like to cover this moment, from DOGE and tech titans in the White House to AI’s rapid ubiquity. Katie also shares why Americans need to wake up to what is happening outside the US to discover the future of technology.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:19.3 | Welcome to Tech Stuff. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm Osvaloshan and this week I've been in Doha, Qatar, attending the Web Summit. |
| 0:26.2 | I had the opportunity to have a conversation on stage with Katie Drummond, who is the global |
| 0:31.3 | editorial director of Wired, and is widely admired for having made the brand more essential and more relevant than ever. |
| 0:39.0 | So instead of the week in tech, I wanted to share my conversation with Katie. |
| 0:44.2 | We get into all my favorite topics, humanoid robotics, world models disrupting LLMs, |
| 0:50.5 | how Claude Code shook the AI industry, what US audiences are missing about tech in China, |
| 0:56.9 | and Katie also shared how Wired owned the story of the tumultuous implementation |
| 1:03.1 | and subsequent implosion of Doge in the White House. |
| 1:10.6 | Katie Drummond, very nice to see you. |
| 1:12.7 | Very nice to see you too. |
| 1:14.1 | You are the global editorial director of Wyatt. |
| 1:17.2 | Correct. |
| 1:18.1 | The kind of phrase to me that sums up what you've been able to do at Wyatt is meeting the |
| 1:23.6 | moment. |
| 1:24.6 | How do you do that? |
| 1:27.1 | Oh my gosh. How do you? Well, first of all, that's very nice of you to say. |
| 1:30.7 | How do we do that in this moment? I think particularly in the context of artificial intelligence, right? |
| 1:36.2 | I mean, there's so much changing so quickly. We move as quickly as the story does. I think that we |
| 1:41.7 | have a newsroom of really excited, hardworking, animated |
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