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The inside track on the new industrial revolution.
Co-hosting from London and San Francisco, Danny and Katie bring you the latest news, analysis and interviews with the people creating the future.
Together, they explore this strange new world of tech giants and high finance, explaining how we got here and what is right around the corner.
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Jaron Lanier on Silicon Valley’s new gods and AI addiction
Has Silicon Valley become “addicted to addiction”? Computer scientist and futurist Jaron Lanier joins Danny Fortson to discuss why he thinks AI companies are repeating the mistakes of social media - and why treating chatbots as a new specie
What Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals about tech and power
Anthropic has launched its historic IPO filing ahead of its blockbuster stock market debut. It offers the first glimpse inside the company’s finances, including both the mountain of money it’s sitting on and spending. So what do the numbers
Bear Robotics co-founder on using AI to teach robots how to think
Humanoid robots are all over social media: making beds, doing backflips, even outrunning Usain Bolt. But how much of it is real and how much is hype? This week, Danny and Katie are joined by roboticist and co-founder of Bear Robotics Bren P
Why are tech giants giving away their billions?
Anthropic has pledged to give away 5% of its shares to a fund that will make donations for the quote unquote “public good”. These shares could be worth between 75 and $100 billion. Days later, Elon Musk posted on X that he would give one of
Bending Spoons CEO on going public, buying old tech brands and The Matrix
Bending Spoons has become one of Europe’s most unusual tech companies by buying well-known tech businesses and rebuilding them. Katie Prescott speaks to CEO Luca Ferrari about taking the company public, choosing the US over Europe and trans
Is AI a national security threat?
MI5 has warned that AI is "supercharging" security threats to the UK, while Britain’s AI minister said it was “inevitable” that Britain is going to be hacked by rogue AI agents. Danny and Katie look at the growing security fears around AI,
Facebook Whistleblower on Mark Zuckerberg, Meta AI and The Social Reckoning
Five years after leaking thousands of internal Facebook documents, whistleblower Frances Haugen joins Times Tech to talk about The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s new film about her story and the sequel to The Social Network. She talks abo
Who pays when AI agents go rogue?
AI companies are investigating a growing number of incidents where agents have gone rogue and done things which would be considered crimes if committed by a human. But when AI causes serious damage, who is responsible and crucially, who pay
BONUS: AI governance - how business can adopt AI safely
This episode of The Times Tech Podcast is in paid partnership with ServiceNow. How do you navigate the rapid pace of AI development in business? With Matt Higham, ServiceNow’s chief digital and technology officer for UK and Ireland, we ask
The Interview: Replit CEO on the contradictions at the heart of AI doom
This week, Danny speaks to Amjad Masad, co-founder and CEO of Replit, a ‘vibe-coding’ company which enables anyone – coder or not – to build software simply by telling AI what they want it to do. Amjad makes the case that we’ve lost the ori
Why is Anthropic asking people to fund AI doom?
Warnings that AI is going to kill us are once again abounding. This week, Anthropic’s long awaited IPO prospectus was leaked. In it, the company warns that its technology poses “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity” while simultane
The Interview: Ordnance Survey CEO on AI reinventing maps
Ordnance Survey might just be the oldest tech company around. For 235 years, it has been mapping out every single metre of the UK – no matter how remote. And that data plays a huge part in how we use technology today; think of the many apps
Why OpenAI and Anthropic should fear Meta Muse
Meta’s new AI agent app, Muse, has rocketed straight to number one on the App Store. Having put it to the test, Danny explains what the hype is all about. Meanwhile, Katie has bid farewell to her agent Norman in favor of a new AI assistant
The Interview: Nu Quantum CEO on how quantum computing could solve the energy crisis
This week, Nu Quantum founder and CEO Dr. Carmen Palacios-Berraquero explains how quantum computing could change the world — and why the industry is still waiting on its "ChatGPT moment." She joins Danny and Katie to discuss the global quan
The battle to control AI: Who gets to write the rules?
Over the past week, warnings about the existential threat of AI have reached fever pitch. In an essay backed by Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei called for international cooperation with states like China and for independent safety asse
The Interview: Bill Gates on AI risk, regulation and the "vacuum of US leadership"
The Microsoft co-founder tells Danny and Katie why AI is "ultra-different" from any previous technology - and why tech companies shouldn’t be responsible for controlling it. Speaking about a new report on AI and equity published by The Gate
Is there a 10% chance AI “could kill all humans”?
Evan Hubinger, the Alignment Lead at Anthropic has warned there’s more than a ten percent chance that AI could kill all humans. And he’s the person responsible for making sure their AI systems are safe. He’s also not the only person soundin
The Interview: Cohere CEO on why democracies need sovereign AI
Welcome to The Interview from Times Tech – our conversation with the people shaping the future of technology. This week, Katie speaks to Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Cohere, one of the few companies building large language models outs
Apple after Tim Cook and is Anthropic worth $2 trillion?
Tim Cook has stepped down as Apple CEO after 15 years, with hardware chief John Ternus set to take over one of the world’s most valuable companies. During Cook’s tenure, he more than quadrupled Apple's profits but his time in charge was not
BONUS: Can AI help us live healthier lives?
This episode of The Times Tech Podcast is in paid partnership with Vitality. AI is already changing medicine. But could it also change the everyday choices we make about our own health? This bonus episode asks whether AI can help shift heal
The Interview: Irregular CEO on the race to stop AI models going rogue
Welcome to the Interview from Times Tech – our conversation with the people shaping the future of technology. Over the past few months, AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta have managed to escape their controlled environments, connect
Meta’s $17bn settlement: The end of social media as we know it?
Meta has settled a landmark social media case in California for up to $17 billion. But the changes to Facebook and Instagram could be even more significant than the fine. Danny and Katie break down what the settlement means for under-18s –
The Meta trial that could change Facebook and Instagram forever
Meta is on trial again in California over child safety. Various US states have clubbed together in a lawsuit against the social media company that could make it liable to pay hundreds of billions of dollars and significantly change how its
How Nvidia became AI’s ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’
There’s a simmering concern on Wall Street about Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang’s role as leader of the AI revolution. Despite bringing in billions of dollars in profit from the GPUs powering AI, investors are worried about the company’s recen
SpaceX’s AI gamble and the crackdown on AI slop
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is spending billions on AI data centres, rocket ships and moon ambitions but investors are asking how much it can burn before the bet pays off. Meanwhile, ‘AI slop’ is flooding social media. And new EU rules mean platform
China vs USA: Should Trump ban open-source AI?
A fierce debate is taking place between Silicon Valley and Washington right now. After the release of KIMI K3 – China’s cheaper and powerful AI model – the Trump administration is showing signs of restricting open-source AI to maintain cont
OpenAI's rogue agent and Silicon Valley’s China problem
OpenAI has revealed that one of their AI agents went rogue during a test and hacked a startup. Hugging Face reportedly had to use an open-source Chinese model to contain the cyber attack. It comes as Kimi K3, a powerful new Chinese AI model
BONUS | Will.i.am: will AI repeat the mistakes of social media?
In this bonus episode of The Times Tech podcast, Katie Prescott shares her conversation with will.i.am about what comes after the AI boom. The musician and tech investor says the next big battle will be over personal data, privacy and power
Will.i.am: musicians will survive AI
Will.i.am is not as worried about AI and artists. He tells Katie Prescott that the "creatives will be alright," but it's "the assistants, the sales clerks, the lawyers, the accountants" that we should be concerned about. As musicians, publi
Can beautifying AI data centres save them from backlash?
AI needs vast data centres to power it but communities around the world are increasingly pushing back against the large, ugly “sheds” appearing on their doorsteps. In the US, one proposed Utah data centre is set to be larger than Manhattan.
