The Times Tech Podcast

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 infrastructure is controlled by a handful of US f...

2026-01-23

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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 of real people. Is this a sign that AI regulation...

2026-01-16

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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 speak to VCs Hannah Seal from Index Ventures and Jon ...

2026-01-09

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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 Hassabis, Marc Benioff, and Dario Amodei, this is ...

2026-01-01

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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, AMD’s Lisa Su, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski...

2025-12-25

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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, founder of 20VC, on how venture capital shapes what ge...

2025-12-19

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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 artificial general intelligence and speak with Su...

2025-12-12

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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 organisation to transform to being AI-first. In th...

2025-12-09

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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. Answering queries, talking to your mom and making y...

2025-12-05

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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 parliament. And in it she promised to work with founders...

2025-11-28

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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 company will be safe if the bubble bursts. So what’...

2025-11-21

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Lyft’s CEO on the end of driving

Could today’s teenagers be the last to sit a driving test? Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott look at the rise of self-driving cars, from Waymo’s cars in San Francisco to new UK laws on autonomous vehic...

2025-11-14

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Who holds the power in the age of AI?

Katie meets Jensen Huang and Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun at No.10 as Nvidia hits a $5 trillion valuation. Plus, Danny and Katie discuss OpenAI’s $38 billion AWS deal and the Sam Altman–Satya ...

2025-11-07

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Can AI be your friend?

Danny road tests a new kind of relationship – an always-listening AI pendant that eavesdrops in on your conversations and then texts you so it too can be part of your life story! 22-year-old inventor,...

2025-10-31

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How to stop Britain being a technological ‘vassal state’?

Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott reunite in London to unpack the biggest takeaways from The Times Tech Summit 2025 – from the race to power AI’s energy demands, to News Corp CEO Robert Thomson’s fight...

2025-10-24

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AI bubble & Cloudflare CEO on the AI content wars

As OpenAI’s chip spree rolls on, Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott ask the question – are we already in an AI bubble? And they hear from Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince about AI content wars and making L...

2025-10-17

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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 of social media, why it’s turning down ad money, ...

2025-10-10

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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 – data centres, the hidden plumbing of the internet....

2025-10-03

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'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. There is more to tech than AI, and sometim...

2025-09-29

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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 the age of AI, as he shares details of his plans for...

2025-09-26

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