About this podcast
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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Episodes
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- Will Europe be swallowed by US tech? · 25 min · Season 3Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott reunite in London to unpack the biggest takeaways from The Times Tech Summit 2026, with the issue of tech sovereignty taking centre stage…
- Tinder and Hinge safety boss on finding love with AI · 26 min · Season 3Is AI making it easier to find love? Two-thirds of UK singles say they’ve used AI in their dating lives, according to Match Group research. Yoel Roth, head of trust and safety at…
- The US midterms: A Silicon Valley nightmare? · 18 min · Season 3What do the US midterms mean for Big Tech? While the elections have been dubbed a referendum on President Trump, in many states, tech bosses and AI were also on the ballot. Elon…
- Jaron Lanier on Silicon Valley’s new gods and AI addiction · 29 min · Season 3Has 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…
- What Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals about tech and power · 22 min · Season 3Anthropic 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…
- Bear Robotics co-founder on using AI to teach robots how to think · 33 min · Season 3Humanoid 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…
- Why are tech giants giving away their billions? · 12 min · Season 3Anthropic 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…
- Bending Spoons CEO on going public, buying old tech brands and The Matrix · 29 min · Season 3Bending 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…
- Is AI a national security threat? · 22 min · Season 3MI5 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…
- Facebook Whistleblower on Mark Zuckerberg, Meta AI and The Social Reckoning · 27 min · Season 3Five 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…
- Who pays when AI agents go rogue? · 23 min · Season 3AI 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…
- BONUS: AI governance - how business can adopt AI safely · 16 minThis 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…
- The Interview: Replit CEO on the contradictions at the heart of AI doom · 32 min · Season 3This 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…
- Why is Anthropic asking people to fund AI doom? · 25 min · Season 3Warnings 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…
- The Interview: Ordnance Survey CEO on AI reinventing maps · 28 min · Season 3Ordnance 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…
- Why OpenAI and Anthropic should fear Meta Muse · 22 min · Season 3Meta’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…
- The Interview: Nu Quantum CEO on how quantum computing could solve the energy crisis · 19 min · Season 3This 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…
- The battle to control AI: Who gets to write the rules? · 22 min · Season 3Over 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…
- The Interview: Bill Gates on AI risk, regulation and the "vacuum of US leadership" · 28 min · Season 3The 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…
- Is there a 10% chance AI “could kill all humans”? · 21 min · Season 3Evan 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…
- The Interview: Cohere CEO on why democracies need sovereign AI · 26 min · Season 3Welcome 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…
- Apple after Tim Cook and is Anthropic worth $2 trillion? · 24 min · Season 3Tim 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…
- BONUS: Can AI help us live healthier lives? · 17 minThis 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…
- The Interview: Irregular CEO on the race to stop AI models going rogue · 18 min · Season 3Welcome 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…
- Meta’s $17bn settlement: The end of social media as we know it? · 24 min · Season 3Meta 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…
- The Meta trial that could change Facebook and Instagram forever · 27 min · Season 3Meta 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…
- How Nvidia became AI’s ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ · 23 min · Season 3There’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…
- SpaceX’s AI gamble and the crackdown on AI slop · 43 min · Season 3Elon 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…
- China vs USA: Should Trump ban open-source AI? · 36 min · Season 3A 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…
- OpenAI's rogue agent and Silicon Valley’s China problem · 38 min · Season 3OpenAI 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…
- BONUS | Will.i.am: will AI repeat the mistakes of social media? · 17 min · Season 3In 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…
- Will.i.am: musicians will survive AI · 38 min · Season 3Will.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…
- Can beautifying AI data centres save them from backlash? · 40 min · Season 3AI 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…
- BONUS: The hidden technology behind Wimbledon · 13 min · Season 3This 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 behind the tennis is a vast…
- PayPal’s Max Levchin on Donald Trump, Elon Musk and mega-IPOs · 46 min · Season 3Affirm CEO, PayPal co-founder, original member of the 'PayPal Mafia' Max Levchin joins Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott to talk about moral moneylending, Elon Musk, mega-IPOs and…
- Why Europe fears America’s AI power · 40 min · Season 3Who really controls the future of AI? A rare warning from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance says powerful AI models capable of devastating cyberattacks on governments and…
- Keir Starmer vs Big Tech - the UK's under-16s social media ban · 34 min · Season 3Prime 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 will be enforced, and whether…
- Anthropic's warning: AI will start building itself · 37 min · Season 3Anthropic has warned about the next phase of 'recursive AI', where agents could become capable enough to build and train models themselves without human intervention. The idea is…
- BONUS: How to turn AI pilots into real business value · 23 min · Season 3This episode of The Times Tech Podcast is sponsored by KPMG. Businesses are spending heavily on AI, but is it actually changing how they work? Katie Prescott is joined by Paul…
- Move over Harvey Specter! The rise of AI lawyers · 47 min · Season 3A 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 act on our behalf. In the…
- Why the Pope is taking on Silicon Valley and AI · 34 min · Season 3Pope 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 why Anthropic was at the…
- Inside Elon Musk’s trillion dollar mission to colonise Mars · 36 min · Season 3Two 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 testimony. But while this…
- The incredible stakes of Elon Musk's trial against OpenAI · 38 min · Season 3Sam 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 the biggest names in Silicon…
- Elon Musk vs OpenAI and the Met Gala tech takeover · 40 min · Season 3The 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 billionaires try to win over…
- AI in security and defence: is tech making us safer? · 43 min · Season 3Alphabet, 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 recent deals between Silicon…
- How to build your AI agent · 41 min · Season 3Meet 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 Nvidia. But as these agents…
- Is AI anxiety fuelling real world hostility? · 39 min · Season 3The 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 at the centre of the debate…
- Why data centres became a target in the Iran war · 41 min · Season 3Iran has been bombing US owned data centres in the Persian Gulf, damaging physical infrastructure and disrupting cloud services across the region. Meanwhile in the UK, the…
- Social media ban for children and Big Tech’s Big Tobacco moment · 42 min · Season 3Should under-16s be banned from social media? After landmark US rulings against Meta and YouTube over addictive design features, pressure is building on Big Tech. Danny Fortson…
- Forget your employees – how hard is your AI agent working? · 42 min · Season 3A 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 reportedly being linked to…
