The Times Tech Podcast

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 pop at Microsoft's AI too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 the exclusive interview earlier in the week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Intelligence - Sam Altman. He is the studio talking all things OpenAI, President Trump, DeepSeek and the future of life and work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 on how Tech is embracing President Trump's new administration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, how, why and what is DeepSeek? Professor Neil Lawrence joins the pod to help Katie and Danny answer those questions and a few more besides. Clip: AI House Davos Jan 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 picture. TikTok banned; then unbanned. And Trip Adler, founder of Scribd, joins the show to talk about a new venture and a potential Spotify moment for AI and humans (or at least the authors among us!). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, joins the pod to discuss the British Government's 'AI Opportunities Action Plan' (and Elon Musk). Plus, a new guide the UK's fastest growing tech companies is revealed by The Times and Sunday Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is AGI right around the corner? Sam Altman thinks so. Mark Zuckerberg decides to get rid of fact-checkers at Meta, at least for the USA. And what does it take to put data centres in space? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy New Year! If 2025 is half as fascinating as 2024, we're in for wild ride. So, to predict the future, Katie and Danny are joined by two venture capitalists who spend their days checking out where tech goes next. Interplanetary overdrive anyone? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drones! Guys and St. Thomas' Hospital in London have started a pioneering trial using drones to deliver blood samples between the two sites. Sound simple, but this is one of the most regulated airspaces on the planet so how did they do it? Plus Katie and Danny get nostalgic for Christmas Tech past. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dario Amodei imagines that "powerful AI" will bring a golden future which people "will be literally moved to tears by". He talks about his grand vision and his grave concerns; and why he left OpenAI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will an Oura ring change the health industry as we know it? The company's CEO Tom Hale is this week's guest. Plus, why GM have pulled the plug on their robotaxi and has Google come closer to achieving the dream of quantum computing? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can we trust the news in a world with artificially created content? Thomson Reuters CEO, Steve Hasker, joins the podcast to discuss the use of their information, and the future of journalism. Plus a look at Intel as the battle for chip supremacy goes on. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's the point of quantum computing now we have generative AI? Will quantum computing change the world? And just what is quantum computing anyway? Raj Hazra, CEO of Quantinuum, joins the show to explain. Plus the Bluesky debate continues, and should we use Google to find out what a monopolist is? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Danny and Katie take on two big issues of the week - finding out from social media analyst Dan Whitmarsh just how big new social media platforms need to be. And software security expert Joe Levy talks about where crypto is taking us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The future might finally be here! Danny visits the headquarters of Joby Aviation, the company possibly furthest along in commercialising "flying cars" - just don't call them that! Plus, more on how the tech world is reacting to Donald Trump's victory and Elon Musk's new job. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Danny and Katie look at the implications for Tech with the return of President-elect Donald Trump to the Whitehouse. And media analyst, Renée DiResta joins Danny and Katie to talk about how the new digital media has changed politics - and what you can do to be heard. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If we made robots think more like animals, how clever could they be? This week we hear from David Rajan, CEO of Opteran, a pioneering AI company which is reverse engineering biological brains to create a "radical new scientific approach to doing AI". And, Danny, the cat and the Tesla. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Satya Nadella is only the third boss in the tech giant's 50 year history, but he has pivoted Microsoft towards accelerating technology, and forging partnerships with leading companies including OpenAI. On a whistle-stop AI tour of the world and in his only UK interview this year - this exclusive conversation with Satya Nadella covers the dangers, pitfalls and growth of AI. What better time to sit down with the Microsoft supremo than almost two years after the public launch of ChatGPT? He tells Katie that his major worry is that nations miss the opportunity to take advantage of AI and technological innovation for economic growth "ultimately the benefits of it being much more broad spread are, I think... the real dream." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Katie and Danny are joined by Al Gore for big thoughts on how to take on the big challenges. Outside of AI, there is one area that is still getting a good amount of venture capital dollars and that's tackling climate change. But what's the right way to invest and will it work? Who decides the way forward, the investors, the tech giants or the politicians? And who better to answer these questions than Al Gore, former US Vice-President and now guru to climate campaigners worldwide. He's our guest this week. Follow us now for more big interviews coming up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.