Week In Tech: Would You Rather Live in a World with No Privacy or No Crime?
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Should LLMs monitor crime? This week, Oz tells us why the US pharmaceutical industry may have competition… and why we’ve yet to see a flood of new products from AI drug discovery companies. Then, Karah explains how a telecommunications company is feeding recordings of inmate phone calls into LLMs that can then monitor future calls for planned crimes. Also, the UK government wants to cross-reference CCTV footage with the passport photo database, there’s a new self-made female billionaire in town — the youngest yet — and the newest billion dollar company sells blueberries the size of golf balls. And then, on Chat and Me, a deep fake interview has international consequences.
ADDITIONAL READING:
- Art Basel show by Beeple has realistic Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg robot dogs pooping NFTs | Page Six
- Why is AI struggling to discover new drugs? | Financial Times
- Will the next blockbuster drug come from China? | Financial Times
- An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls | MIT Technology Review
- Live facial recognition cameras planned for every town centre | Telegraph
- Kalshi’s Cofounder Is Now World’s Youngest Self-Made Woman Billionaire | Forbes
- Ray Dalio is backing a $1 billion blueberry unicorn that sells berries nearly the size of golf balls | Fortune
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:18.8 | From Collidoscope and IHart Podcasts, this is Tech Stuff. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm Osvaloshin. |
| 0:23.5 | And I'm Kara Price. |
| 0:24.8 | Today we've got two big stories to break down for you. |
| 0:28.0 | First, could China unseat the U.S. in more than just AI and catch up in pharmaceuticals, too? |
| 0:35.0 | Then, inmates' phone calls with loved ones are being used to train AI that |
| 0:40.7 | then monitors their behavior. Then we'll tell you about a few other stories that caught our eye this |
| 0:45.4 | week, like how the UK police want to cross-reference CCTV footage with government databases, |
| 0:51.1 | and how the youngest female self-made billionaire made all her money. |
| 0:55.8 | Finally, we discussed giant blueberries and why the company selling them is valued at a billion |
| 1:01.3 | dollars. Then on Chathamie. |
| 1:04.4 | There was concern, you know, when two nuclear arms states are on the brink that way, |
| 1:09.0 | that this could escalate and explode, not just regionally |
| 1:11.6 | but internationally. |
| 1:12.9 | All of that on the week in tech. |
| 1:14.9 | It's Friday, December 12th. |
| 1:18.4 | Hello, Kara. |
| 1:19.7 | Hi, Oz. |
| 1:21.3 | Do you follow Art Basel? |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, I've never been Miami Art Basel. |
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