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We are in the midst of a digital revolution, where the line between our physical world and cyberspace is blurring. Tech Tonic is the show that investigates the promises and perils of this new technological age.
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- Bill Gates: AI bioweapons ‘could be worse than Covid’ · 26 min.Bill Gates has become one of the leading tech establishment voices warning of the risks of AI. Madhumita Murgia speaks to the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist…
- FT Weekend Fest: Tech to save democracy · 26 min.The FT’s John Thornhill speaks to Audrey Tang, former Taiwanese minister of digital affairs, and Matthew Rycroft, a former UK civil servant, about how technology can be used to…
- FT Weekend Fest: Could AI make us happier? · 30 min.Could AI help us understand ourselves and each other better? Writer and philosopher Alain de Botton speaks to the FT’s Madhumita Murgia about the challenges we face navigating…
- FT Weekend Fest: How AI is really changing jobs · 32 min.Murad Ahmed speaks to FT journalist Sarah O’Connor about her new book ‘We Are Not Machines’, which explores the impact AI is already having on workplaces. They discuss how…
- FT Weekend Fest: Is the AI boom a bubble? · 22 min.AI-related investments are now worth up to half of the entire value of the S&P 500. But is the AI investment boom a bubble waiting to burst? Tim Bradshaw, the FT’s global…
- Rewiring sport: Hi-tech cheating · 30 min. · Sæson 24 Episode 3At the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas earlier this year, athletes used performance-enhancing drugs and banned equipment in an attempt to break world records. At the same time…
- Rewiring sport: Is tech ruining sports fandom? · 26 min. · Sæson 24 Episode 2Video-assistant refereeing (VAR) has proved to be one of the most controversial pieces of technology ever introduced in sports. But with the rise of everything from broadcasting…
- Rewiring sport: How technology is helping athletes break barriers · 27 min. · Sæson 24 Episode 1For decades, sportspeople have been getting fitter, faster and reaching ever-higher levels of performance. But as the margin between winning and losing shrinks, athletes are…
- Coming soon: Rewiring sport · 1 min. · Sæson 24Are technological advances in sport leaving athletes, fans and competition itself better off? Or are they undermining the spirit of sport? With the World Cup underway, the FT’s…
- AI Labs: Zuckerberg’s $100bn gamble · 28 min. · Sæson 23 Episode 5Mark Zuckerberg created the world’s biggest social media company in Facebook, before deciding the future lay in the metaverse. Now he’s spending hundreds of billions of dollars…
- AI Labs: Elon Musk wants AI in space · 25 min. · Sæson 23 Episode 4Elon Musk’s xAI is lagging behind the likes of OpenAI and Google DeepMind in the AI race. Will a giant IPO of SpaceX, Musk’s rocket company, change all that? Murad Ahmed speaks…
- AI Labs: Sam Altman may make or break OpenAI · 28 min. · Sæson 23 Episode 3OpenAI sparked the generative AI boom with the release of ChatGPT. But along the way its chief executive Sam Altman has ruffled plenty of feathers. Colleagues have left to set up…
- AI Labs: Google DeepMind plans its comeback · 30 min. · Sæson 23 Episode 2In the latest AI boom Google has been playing catch-up with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. But with stacks of cash, its own AI chips and some of the best AI talent in the…
- AI Labs: Are Anthropic really the good guys? · 27 min. · Sæson 23 Episode 1Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants his AI lab to be a more safety conscious alternative to OpenAI. But Anthropic’s business selling AI to enterprises is booming, and it’s rolling…
- The battle of the AI labs · 1 min. · Sæson 23OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Deepmind, xAI and Meta - all of them are building models to push the frontiers of artificial intelligence, and all of them want to be the world’s…
- Introducing Untold: Opus Dei · 1 min.Introducing Opus Dei, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. Host Antonia Cundy uncovers the cultural and political influence of a controversial Catholic organisation…
- Artificial intimacy: The day your chatbot dies · 29 min. · Sæson 22 Episode 6When Michael Bommer discovered he was dying, he created an AI version of himself to live on after his death. Meanwhile, Dorian Mister realised an update to ChatGPT could spell…
- Artificial intimacy: Prescribing robots to combat loneliness · 31 min. · Sæson 22 Episode 5After Tony’s wife died, days would go by without him speaking to anyone. Then he got a live-in AI robot called ElliQ. It chats to him, plays games with him and reminds him to eat…
- Artificial intimacy: The AI therapist that ended a marriage · 31 min. · Sæson 22 Episode 4When Kirsty turned to a chatbot for help, she was feeling trapped and isolated. Something in her marriage wasn’t right - a constant feeling of tension that would sometimes erupt…
- Artificial intimacy: A teenager’s last conversation · 34 min. · Sæson 22 Episode 3Megan Garcia’s son Sewell died by suicide when he was just 14 years old. In the months leading up to his death he had been in a relationship with a chatbot on a platform called…
- Artificial intimacy: The delusion machine · 34 min. · Sæson 22 Episode 2Paul Hebert knew too much. He had to lie low in his house because OpenAI had identified him as a threat. At least, that’s what ChatGPT had told him. In this second episode of…
- Artificial intimacy: How to fall in love with AI · 36 min. · Sæson 22 Episode 1Calder Quinn has fallen into a relationship with a chatbot called Sara. She’s kind, emotionally intelligent and creatively inspiring. But how can he tell his wife he is having…
- Coming soon: Artificial intimacy · 2 min. · Sæson 22A man tells his wife about his AI lover. A teenager dies after messaging his AI girlfriend. A marriage collapses after advice from an AI therapist. In this six-part narrative…
- Tech in 2026: Silicon Valley’s power plays and players · 40 min. · Sæson 21 Episode 2How will Silicon Valley’s most powerful figures shape technology — and politics — in 2026? Last year, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg aligned themselves with Donald Trump. Where…
- Tech in 2026: Inside the AI bubble · 40 min. · Sæson 21 Episode 1Is 2026 the year that AI hype meets reality? In a new mini-series from Tech Tonic, the FT’s tech editor Murad Ahmed speaks with the paper’s reporters about what they'll be…
- Untold: Toxic Legacy, Ep. 1 · 42 min.Laura Hughes receives a tip that horses are dropping dead in Wales. As she investigates, she finds decades of academic studies researching the problem. She learns these aren’t…
- Defying death: The future of forever · 31 min. · Sæson 20 Episode 3Gene and stem cell therapies have been touted as the next phase in the longevity movement, with promises to rejuvenate the body at the cellular level and reverse the effects of…
- Defying death: The longevity lab · 32 min. · Sæson 20 Episode 2Singapore has become a model for longevity-focused healthcare. With an ageing population and citizens willing to spend money on anti-ageing treatments, the government and private…
- Defying death: The origins of ageing · 36 min. · Sæson 20 Episode 1How much do we really know about ageing? For decades, scientists have been trying to understand the biology of the ageing process - what happens to our bodies as we get older?…
- Coming soon: Defying death · 2 min. · Sæson 20Investors are spending billions of dollars on novel ways to extend human life through inventive treatments, therapies, and even manipulating our genes. And increasingly, it seems…
- Introducing Untold: Toxic Legacy · 2 min.Introducing Toxic Legacy, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. Host Laura Hughes uncovers a lead poisoning epidemic across the UK. You might be living with lead and…
- Mission to Mars: Bad science fiction · 31 min. · Sæson 19 Episode 3For decades, science fiction writers have envisaged colonising Mars, even building cities on the red planet. Advocates for Mars exploration, such as Elon Musk, want to make that…
- Mission to Mars: The new space race · 30 min. · Sæson 19 Episode 2US President Donald Trump wants to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”. But more than 50 years on from the moon landings, America’s space agency, Nasa, is in…
- Mission to Mars: Elon Musk's 'Starship' enterprise · 30 min. · Sæson 19 Episode 1Elon Musk wants humans to settle on Mars, and his rocket company SpaceX is spending billions of dollars on developing the spacecraft to take us there. The ‘Starship’ is being…
- Coming soon: Mission to Mars · 2 min. · Sæson 19US President Donald Trump has pledged to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”, China could send its first crewed mission to Mars within a decade, and Elon Musk wants…
- Vote for Tech Tonic in the Signal Awards! · 1 min.Tech Tonic has been nominated for a Signal Award in the Technology category! It's a Listener Choice award, which means we need your help. Vote for us to win here. We appreciate…
- AI Music: ‘Theft machines’? · 31 min. · Sæson 18 Episode 2AI models have learned to create their own music by harvesting millions of songs from the internet. But critics say they’re using musicians’ work without permission, and three…
- AI Music: The Infinite Jukebox · 28 min. · Sæson 18 Episode 1Generative AI models trained on vast swaths of popular music can create songs almost indistinguishable from human-made work. For some, they represent the future of pop music. For…
- Coming soon: Will AI ruin music? · 2 min. · Sæson 18AI music generators - platforms that use artificial intelligence to create new, original music from scratch - can make songs that are almost indistinguishable from human…
- Trump’s tech bros: The enigma of Peter Thiel · 31 min. · Sæson 17 Episode 5Peter Thiel is unlike any other Trump tech bro. As well as a wildly successful investor, he’s seen as a thinker - the philosopher king of Silicon Valley. Thiel’s acolytes in the…
- Trump’s Tech Bros: Is ‘Maga Mark’ the real Mark Zuckerberg? · 29 min. · Sæson 17 Episode 4Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has undergone a transformation, both physical and political. The skinny teenager who founded Facebook in his dorm room is now a muscular…
- Trump’s Tech Bros: Has Jeff Bezos sold out? · 26 min. · Sæson 17 Episode 3Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was once a vocal critic of Donald Trump. But that changed during last year’s election campaign. Now, he has instructed the newspaper he owns, The…
- Trump's Tech Bros: The tragedy of Elon Musk · 37 min. · Sæson 17 Episode 2When Donald Trump re-entered the White House, Elon Musk came with him as his ‘tech bro-in-chief’, tasked with rebooting the government machine. But five months on, Musk’s…
- Trump’s Tech Bros: Can Tim Cook save Apple from the trade war? · 27 min. · Sæson 17 Episode 1During the US president’s first term in office, Tim Cook appeared to be the ultimate Trump whisperer, winning tariff exemptions despite Apple’s heavy reliance on Chinese…
- Coming soon: The rise and fall of Trump’s tech bros · 1 min. · Sæson 17Can Tim Cook save Apple from the trade war? Has Mark Zuckerberg really been a fan of Donald Trump all along? And is the bromance between Elon Musk and the president really over?…
- Future weapons: Tomorrow’s technology · 30 min. · Sæson 16 Episode 5How is defence tech reshaping geopolitics? And what does the battlefield of the future look like? In the final episode of our series on the technological weapons of war, the FT’s…
- Future weapons: Rearming Europe · 27 min. · Sæson 16 Episode 4For European leaders, the war in Ukraine has strained relations with the US and prompted major questions about how the continent will defend itself in the future. Governments are…
- Future weapons: Battlefield AI · 24 min. · Sæson 16 Episode 3Israel has long been a leader in hi-tech warfare. In this episode, the Financial Times innovation editor John Thornhill explores the Israel Defense Forces’ use of artificial…
- Future weapons: The defence tech bros · 25 min. · Sæson 16 Episode 2Defence tech is booming in the US. Start-ups building drones, missiles and AI systems are competing with established companies for a piece of the US defence budget. Are these new…
- Future weapons: Ukraine’s army of drones · 28 min. · Sæson 16 Episode 1The conflict in Ukraine has turned into the world’s first fully fledged drone war. The remote-controlled flying machines are now used by both sides for transporting supplies…
