0077: Year-End Tech, Culture, And Sports Highlights

#TheTechHustle Podcast 🎙 · Dec 31, 2025 · 1h 12m · transcript

What a year. We went from “AI is the headline” to “AI is the workflow,” and that shift powered everything we talked about. We open with the honest state of play: OpenAI’s relentless pace, Google’s late surge into the front of the pack, and Apple’s awkward stall that has us eyeing a possible Gemini tie-up. Along the way we show, not tell—the tools we actually used on mic, from vibe-coding assistants to knowledge systems that feel like a usable second brain. The takeaway is practical: it’s not AI that replaces people, it’s people who use AI well.

Then we press into the streets. Waymo glides…