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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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The future of social media according to Bluesky's COO & Trump 'saves' TikTok
Danny and Katie are joined by Rose Wang, COO of BlueSky, the decentralised social network born out of Twitter, to discuss how it’s rewriting the rules...
Equinix CEO Adaire Fox-Martin on AI’s growing demands on data centres
Danny and Katie look at California’s new AI safety law, OpenAI’s in-chat checkout, and the rise of AI “actors”, and how it all depends on one thing –...
'Smart thinking about energy and tech for small businesses'
In this bonus edition of the Times Tech Podcast we have teamed up with Smart Energy GB for a look at what smart meters can do for small businesses. Th...
Yahoo's CEO on the new challenges for the internet pioneer
Danny and Katie are joined by Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone to dive into the company’s journey — from its rise as an internet pioneer to its reinvention in th...
What the £31 billion UK-US tech deal really means
Is Britain in a "Goldilocks" moment for AI? US President Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain brought more than pomp and ceremony. American tech gian...
Vibe coding with Lovable's CEO Anton Osika
Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott sit down with Loveable AI CEO Anton Osika, fresh off a $200m raise at a $1.8bn valuation. They dig into “vibe coding,...
Sage CEO on the future of work & Stanford’s big study on AI and jobs
Danny and Katie tackle Google's antitrust win, TikTok job cuts and a new Stanford research on how AI is reshaping entry-level roles. Plus, Katie speak...
AMD CEO Lisa Su on the AI chip race and Nvidia
Katie and Danny unpack Nvidia's $47 billion second-quarter revenue – more than it made in all of 2023. But can anyone challenge its dominance? Danny i...
Perplexity CEO on Chrome, AI and challenging the tech giants
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas explains his bold $35 billon bid for Google Chrome and why he thinks the startup can take on tech giants. Was it a PR...
The race for quantum supremacy
Katie is joined by Niccolo de Masi, the CEO of US quantum computing firm IonQ, to chat about the future of quantum and their acquisition of the Britis...
Lawyers and the AI revolution
AI is coming to the legal world. Danny Fortson talks to Eleanor Lightbody, the chief executive of Luminance, a UK startup using artificial intelligenc...
The man behind the NHS mental health bot
AI chatbots are being used by millions. But are they safe? Danny Fortson speaks to Ross Harper, the co-founder and CEO of Limbic AI, a company which h...
How big does a supercomputer need to be really
Danny is joined by the Times' Technology correspondent Mark Sellman whio has been spending time with the UK's newest supercomputer, Isambard AI, which...
Can an AI scientist solve humanity's problems?
Danny goes solo this week, in old-school Danny in the Valley style. He speaks to Sam Rodriques, the founder and CEO of FutureHouse – a non-profit orga...
Linda Yaccarino’s X exit & Figma files for IPO
Katie speaks to Dylan Field - the CEO of Figma. The design software firm has filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange with Dylan calling it t...
Can a driverless car really cope with London traffic & is the big AI bromance over?
Katie joins the CEO of Wayve, Alex Kendall, for a journey round the busy 'higgledy-piggledy' roads of London in a driverless car, to see the tech in r...
Sometimes I look into your eyes
Danny meets up with Alex Blania, the CEO and one of the co-founders, alongside Sam Altman, of Tools for Humanity. Their project Worldcoin, aims to hel...
Mistral AI: Europe's answer to Silicon Valley?
Katie speaks to Arthur Mensch, the 32 year old co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI who believes European sovereignty will be under threat if it does not...
Tech's rising stars?
Katie is at 'Founders Forum' in the Oxfordshire countryside surrounded by titans from the world of tech as well as robots, flying cars, and a host of...
An AI-induced recession on the horizon? Klarna's CEO thinks so
Sebastian Siemiatkowski joins the pod from the SXSW festival in London to tell the story of Klarna, the "buy now, pay later" fintech company he co-fou...
OpenAI's iPhone moment & can AI teach?
Last week Sam Altman announced the acquisition of Sir Jony Ive's hardware startup, io, in order to create a new class of AI-native devices. This week,...
Can the UK invent the next internet?
The internet, GPS, autonomous vehicles... they all have one thing in common: they're existence is in large part down to the DARPA (the US Department o...
Inside the mind of Elon Musk & is the future of EV market Chinese?
Katie and Danny are joined for a conversation with Jon McNeil. For a pivotal 30 month period, Jon was President of Tesla and worked closely with Elon...
Deliveroo gets swallowed up, OpenAI gets purposeful & how not to get 'Tinder Swindled'
Sam Altman wrote a letter to staff at OpenAI explaining a new structure for the company. Katie and Danny react to that and the news this week that Del...
What satellite imaging reveals about the Earth & will Elon take us to Mars?
Danny's second obsession (after humanoid robots) is space, so he's been speaking to someone sending satellites into orbit. No, not Elon Musk - though...
Binance's new CEO makes the case for crypto (and forgiveness)
Finally, the crypto episode is here. And after a lowdown on the vibe shift towards the industry in Washington, Katie is joined by Binance's new CEO, R...
The global fallout from Trump's tariffs
Ryan Petersen is the CEO of Flexport, a company that plans and manages shipping globally. Perfectly positioned, then, to lay out the inside story on h...
A device that records your entire life? Yeah, sure great idea...
What if there was a device that could record every conversation, every interaction, and then transcribed your entire life? Well there is, the Pendant,...
Dropbox CEO drops in & Softbank's $40B OpenAI bet
It's been almost 20 years since Drew Houston founded Dropbox in an effort to solve the problem of forgotten USB sticks. But how is the company innovat...
Will your humanoid robot compliment you? And the end of 23andMe?
Danny has been delving deeper into his humanoid robot obsession as he interviews the CEO of Texas based company, Apptronik. Plus, what went wrong at 2...
Nvidia's 'Superbowl of AI' event, and a Silicon Valley dog longevity start up
Danny reports from the Nvidia GTC event. And he and Katie discuss whether some of the biggest tech companies in the US really are currently losing mon...
The algorithm says we’re soulmates… Now what?
Hinge CEO, Justin McLeod, joins the podcast to discuss how online dating Apps have changed dating (for good or bad) and how AI may change it even more...
Ocado's robotics, Crypto's rise and Skype's demise
Tim Steiner, the CEO of Ocado, drops by the studio to discuss in detail his expectations for the future of food deliveries with the use of robotics an...
Nuclear's big return, British creators revolt & Elon sends an email
Is nuclear power the answer to energy hungry Artificial Intelligence? Matt Loszak CEO & Cofounder of Aalo Atomics thinks so. Plus, British artists sen...
With Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce & owner of Time Magazine explains his vision of the future of work. Plus he talks President Trump, Elon Musk and has a...
Elon bids for OpenAI, and Sam says no
Katie and Danny explore Elon Musk's $97.4 billion bid to buy OpenAI, and Sam Altman's instant dismissal of the bid, as well as decoding the rest of th...
An interview with Sam Altman, Co-Founder & CEO of OpenAI
Ahead of the Paris AI Action Summit, Katie and Danny are together in London for a special interview with the man who is synonymous with Artificial Int...
Getty Images CEO, Craig Peters interview, plus ADPUs - really, Danny?
The CEO of Getty Images, Craig Peters, joins the podcast to make his case for the ongoing value of human creation in an AI world. Plus Danny updates o...
DeepSeek and you shall find? With Professor Neil Lawrence
The release of DeepSeek's R1 language model by a little known Chinese AI company sent Silicon Valley into turmoil this week - albeit temporarily. Who...
Trump's "broligarchy", writers' rights and TikTok returns?
A picture is worth a thousand words - it is said - and at President Trump's inauguration some of the biggest names in tech were very much in the pictu...