Week in Tech: Who’s Behind the First Hit AI Artist?
TechStuff
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Do school cell phone bans actually work? This week, Oz tells us why Europe is investing so heavily in defense tech and why one company is investing in cockroaches… Karah introduces us to Billboard’s first charting AI musician, Xania Monet — and the humans that make her possible. Google dreams of data centers in space, school phone bans are making libraries more popular, and France’s DNA database catches the Louvre thieves. Then on Chat and Me, the National Women’s Soccer League gets comfortable with ChatGPT.
Additional Reading:
- The Science Behind the “Bird Theory”
- Drone start-up backed by Peter Thiel crashed and burned in armed forces trials
- AI Artist Xania Monet Debuts on Adult R&B Airplay — a Radio Chart Breakthrough
- Google wants to build solar-powered data centers — in space
- After schools banned phones, students checked out more library books: 'We're reclaiming attention'
- Arrests in Louvre Heist Show Power of DNA Databases in Solving Crimes
- Seattle Reign coach Laura Harvey says she used ChatGPT for team tactics
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| 0:52.3 | From Kaleidoscope and IHart podcasts, this is Tech Stuff. I'm Ospholoshian. And And I'm Caraprice. Today we get into spy cockroaches |
| 0:56.7 | and why Europe is getting armed with a bunch of sci-fi weapons and a revealing conversation |
| 1:03.3 | with the human team behind a viral AI artist. Then on Chat and Me. And then I put in what formation should you play to beat NWSL teams? |
| 1:15.2 | All of that on the Week in Tech. It's Friday, November 7th. |
| 1:22.3 | Oz. Kara? I want to tell you about this bird that I saw on the way to work today. Birds can be very symbolic. It was a brown and white pigeon. Or feral dove, as us ornithologists like to call them. A feral dove. So do you know why I'm telling you about a bird? No. I have no idea. No, I have no idea. You had passed. What's the test? |
| 1:46.5 | You just experienced something called bird theory. |
| 1:57.8 | It's this relationship test that I saw on TikTok, and a lot of TikTokers are using it to test their partners by secretly filming their partner's reactions when they point out a bird. |
| 2:02.5 | If their partner reacts enthusiastically... like I did, good sign. |
| 2:10.9 | They're a keeper. If not, some say bird watch out. What's behind this? It's actually from this theory developed by the Gottman's who are prominent couples therapists. And this test is used to evaluate |
| 2:17.3 | how a partner responds to what |
| 2:19.7 | the Gottman's call a bid for connection. So just now, had we been together and you were like, |
| 2:27.5 | babe, I can't. Yeah. In the studio, I'm by definition forced to pay attention to what you're |
| 2:33.2 | telling me. In real life, |
| 2:34.6 | if you're like, there's a bird over there. I would have just been on my phone. I wouldn't even |
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