The Times Tech Podcast
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The Times Tech Podcast
From Silicon Valley to The City, tech journalists Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott bring you the inside track on the new industrial revolution.Co-hosted from San Francisco and London, this weekly podcast delivers the latest news and freshest interviews with the people creating the future.As Wes...
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Can beautifying 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 the...
BONUS: The hidden technology behind Wimbledon
This episode of The Times Tech Podcast is in paid partnership with IBM.
Wimbledon may be one of the most familiar events in British sport, but b...
PayPal’s Max Levchin on Donald Trump, Elon Musk and mega-IPOs
Affirm CEO, PayPal co-founder, original member of the 'PayPal Mafia' Max Levchin joins Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott to talk about moral moneylendi...
Why Europe fears America’s AI power
Who really controls the future of AI? A rare warning from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance says powerful AI models capable of devastating cyberatta...
How will the UK's under-16s social media ban actually work?
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced a ban on social media for under-16s, due to come into effect next year. But questions remain over how it wil...
Anthropic's warning: AI will start building itself
Anthropic has warned about the next phase of 'recursive AI', where agents could become capable enough to build and train models themselves without hum...
How to turn AI pilots into real business value
This episode of The Times Tech Podcast is sponsored by KPMG.
Businesses are spending heavily on AI, but is it actually changing how they work? K...
Move over Harvey Specter! The rise of AI lawyers
A strange new experiment where AI agents run their own societies free from humans has raised questions about whether we can really trust these bots to...
Why the Pope is taking on Silicon Valley and AI
Pope Leo has warned that Big Tech has too much power over humanity’s future. Danny Fortson and Mark Sellman discuss what his warning on AI means and w...
Inside Elon Musk’s trillion dollar empire to colonize Mars
Two big events have put Elon Musk in the spotlight. First, a jury has dismissed Elon Musk’s case against Sam Altman and OpenAI after three weeks of te...
The incredible stakes of Elon Musk's trial against OpenAI
Sam Altman took the stand this week to defend himself and his company against a lawsuit by Elon Musk. The three-week long trial has featured some of t...
Elon Musk vs OpenAI and the Met Gala tech takeover
The Met Gala has been dubbed the “Tech Gala” after a heavy Silicon Valley presence and sponsorship from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez. But as tech bil...
AI in security and defence: is tech making us safer?
Alphabet, Google's parent company, has reportedly signed a deal allowing the Pentagon use of its AI for classified purposes. It's just one of many rec...
How to build your AI agent
Meet Norman: the launch of the OpenClaw AI agent has "opened the next frontier of AI to everyone" says Jensen Huang, chief exec of the tech giant Nvid...
Is AI anxiety fuelling real world hostility?
The race among top AI companies to build ever more powerful systems is accelerating, and so are fears about losing control. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a...
Why data centres became a target in the Iran war
Iran has been bombing US owned data centres in the Persian Gulf, damaging physical infrastructure and disrupting cloud services across the region. Mea...
Social media ban for children and Big Tech’s Big Tobacco moment
Should under-16s be banned from social media? After landmark US rulings against Meta and YouTube over addictive design features, pressure is building...
Forget your employees – how hard is your AI agent working?
A new trend is emerging in Silicon Valley – engineers are using more and more of AI agents to do their jobs. At some companies like Meta, AI usage is...
Will this AI actress be the next Oscar winner?
Conan O’Brien joked at the Oscars that he might be the last human to host the Academy Awards. It got Danny and Katie thinking about AI's influence on...
Nscale, Nvidia and neoclouds: How to become Silicon Valley's next CEO
British AI data-center company NScale has hit a $14.6 billion valuation after raising another $2 billion but its rapid rise is raising eyebrows. Danny...
Bonus episode: Will quantum computing change everything?
Quantum computing has been called the next big technological revolution, potentially as transformative as AI. Governments are investing billions, bank...
Anthropic vs Pentagon: How AI is changing war
An explosive fallout between AI giant Anthropic, OpenAI and the US Department of War has ignited a fierce debate in Silicon Valley about who gets to d...
Inside Nvidia: The company powering the AI gold rush
Do Nvidia’s latest results confirm a tech boom or signal the makings of a bubble? Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott ask how a once-niche graphics chipm...
Bonus episode: Agentic AI explained – The next phase of artificial intelligence
This episode of The Times Tech podcast is sponsored by PwC.
Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. It’s no longer just about chatbots...
AI safety meets OpenClaw – what India’s AI summit tells us
As world leaders and tech bosses gather for India’s AI Impact Summit, Danny Fortson and Mark Sellman ask if these global summits are shaping AI or str...
Nikola Mrksic on PolyAI, Gordon Ramsay, and the future of voice AI
Nikola Mrksic, CEO of Nvidia-backed London startup PolyAI, joins Danny and Katie to talk about AI voice assistants transforming customer service. He e...
Bonus episode: The ‘secret sauce’ of success - With Octopus Energy CEO, Greg Jackson
Today’s episode is from The Business – The Times’ flagship podcasts covering business, finance and the economy.
Octopus Energy has gone from mar...
Is OpenClaw about to burst the AI bubble?
A new open-source AI agent called OpenClaw has set Silicon Valley buzzing and with a single line of code, anyone can use it. Does this free tool threa...
Is AI growing too fast for humanity?
Are we heading for the next ChatGPT moment? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, has sparked debate about the growth of AI and its acceleration into a risky ne...
Can Europe rely on Silicon Valley in the age of Trump tariffs?
World leaders in Davos are talking about 'tech sovereignty', but can Europe or the UK really achieve digital autonomy when so much of the AI and cloud...
Grok, deepfakes and who should police AI
What happens when AI gets it wrong? After a backlash over the misuse of Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok, new restrictions have been imposed on editing images...
Tech in 2026 – AI winners, losers and what happens next
What will tech look like in 2026 and are we heading for an AI bubble, or a boom? To gaze into the crystal ball for the year ahead, Katie and Danny spe...
Holiday Special! Part 2: Has AI already taken your job?
Continuing our big name-dropping look-back with Sam Altman, Lisa Su, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Satya Nadella, Matthew Prince, Arthur Mensch, Sir Demis...
Holiday Special! Part 1 - AI Hope vs Hype!
In the biggest, most shameless holiday name-drop of the year, Katie and Danny bring you – in no particular order – insights from Sam Altman of OpenAI,...
Are venture capitalists the new power brokers?
Who has power in the tech world now – governments, big tech, or the investors writing the cheques? Danny and Katie are joined by Harry Stebbings, foun...
The humans training AI to be better
What is Artificial General Intelligence? How close are we to achieving it? And who exactly is building it? Danny and Katie look at the global race for...
Realising the AI advantage for the UK
What does AI truly mean for productivity, growth, and innovation? Tech giants IBM are well placed to assess the impact of AI and what it takes for an...
Can AI be you? (Or will the ‘bubble’ burst first?)
Danny talks to Dara Ladjevardian, co-founder of Delphi - a company that creates digital AI versions of... well, you! So, you can be you, more often. A...
The Budget and the battle for tech entrepreneurs
The British Chancellor, Rachel Reeves has delivered her now annual Budget Statement - a sort of economic State of the United Kingdom address to parlia...
Nvidia and the AI Bubble? What bubble?!
Nvidia says AI demand is “off the charts”, and Jeff Bezos has launched a new $6.2 billion AI start-up, but Google’s Sundar Pichai is warning that no c...