Week in Tech: Chips are the New Oil
TechStuff
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
How will we send memes when the world ends? This week, Oz and Karah recap the first ever World Humanoid Robot Games – the Olympics for Androids. Then, Oz explains why the US might be putting secret tracking devices inside shipments of advanced microchips. Karah explains a texting network built for the Apocalypse. And finally, on Chat and Me, how TikTokers are using ChatGPT to inspire their makeovers.
Also, we want to hear from you: If you’ve used a chatbot in a surprising or delightful (or deranged) way, send us a 1–2 minute voice note at techstuffpodcast@gmail.com.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:06.6 | There's a vile sickness in Abbas town. |
| 0:10.4 | You must excise it. |
| 0:12.8 | Dig into the deep earth and cut it out. |
| 0:16.7 | From IHeart podcasts and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky, |
| 0:20.0 | this is Havoc Town, |
| 0:21.9 | a new fiction podcast set in the Bridgewater Audio Universe, starring Jules State and Ray Wise. |
| 0:29.1 | Listen to Havoc Town on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:34.2 | Music your podcasts. |
| 0:51.3 | From Collideroscope and IHart Podcasts, this is Tech Stuff. |
| 0:52.2 | I'm Osvaloshin. |
| 0:53.2 | And I'm Kara Price. |
| 0:58.1 | Today we're going to get into a communications network built for the end of the world and why the US is placing tracking devices in AI chip shipments. |
| 1:04.3 | Then on Chat and Me, your next makeover. |
| 1:06.9 | Brought to you by AI. |
| 1:09.1 | All of that on the Weekend Tag. |
| 1:11.2 | It's Friday, August 22nd. |
| 1:21.2 | Hello, hello, Kara. |
| 1:22.6 | Hi, Oz. |
| 1:24.2 | Do you remember when we talked about the half marathon between humans and robots? |
| 1:29.0 | The one in China? |
| 1:30.9 | That's absolutely right. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.