Defying death: The longevity lab
03 Dec 2025
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Singapore has become a model for longevity-focused healthcare. With an ageing population and citizen...
Defying death: The origins of ageing
26 Nov 2025
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How much do we really know about ageing? For decades, scientists have been trying to understand the ...
Coming soon: Defying death
19 Nov 2025
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Investors are spending billions of dollars on novel ways to extend human life through inventive trea...
Introducing Untold: Toxic Legacy
23 Oct 2025
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Introducing Toxic Legacy, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. Host Laura Hughes uncover...
Mission to Mars: Bad science fiction
22 Oct 2025
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For decades, science fiction writers have envisaged colonising Mars, even building cities on the red...
Mission to Mars: The new space race
15 Oct 2025
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US President Donald Trump wants to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”. But more th...
Mission to Mars: Elon Musk's 'Starship' enterprise
08 Oct 2025
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Elon Musk wants humans to settle on Mars, and his rocket company SpaceX is spending billions of doll...
Coming soon: Mission to Mars
01 Oct 2025
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US President Donald Trump has pledged to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”, China...
Vote for Tech Tonic in the Signal Awards!
30 Sep 2025
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Tech Tonic has been nominated for a Signal Award in the Technology category! It's a Listener Choice ...
AI Music: ‘Theft machines’?
10 Sep 2025
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AI models have learned to create their own music by harvesting millions of songs from the internet. ...
AI Music: The Infinite Jukebox
03 Sep 2025
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Generative AI models trained on vast swaths of popular music can create songs almost indistinguishab...
Coming soon: Will AI ruin music?
27 Aug 2025
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AI music generators - platforms that use artificial intelligence to create new, original music from ...
Trump’s tech bros: The enigma of Peter Thiel
08 Jul 2025
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Peter Thiel is unlike any other Trump tech bro. As well as a wildly successful investor, he’s seen...
Trump’s Tech Bros: Is ‘Maga Mark’ the real Mark Zuckerberg?
01 Jul 2025
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Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has undergone a transformation, both physical and political. Th...
Trump’s Tech Bros: Has Jeff Bezos sold out?
24 Jun 2025
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was once a vocal critic of Donald Trump. But that changed during last year...
Trump's Tech Bros: The tragedy of Elon Musk
17 Jun 2025
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When Donald Trump re-entered the White House, Elon Musk came with him as his ‘tech bro-in-chief’...
Trump’s Tech Bros: Can Tim Cook save Apple from the trade war?
10 Jun 2025
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During the US president’s first term in office, Tim Cook appeared to be the ultimate Trump whisper...
Coming soon: The rise and fall of Trump’s tech bros
09 Jun 2025
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Can Tim Cook save Apple from the trade war? Has Mark Zuckerberg really been a fan of Donald Trump al...
Future weapons: Tomorrow’s technology
13 May 2025
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How is defence tech reshaping geopolitics? And what does the battlefield of the future look like? In...
Future weapons: Rearming Europe
06 May 2025
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For European leaders, the war in Ukraine has strained relations with the US and prompted major quest...
Future weapons: Battlefield AI
29 Apr 2025
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Israel has long been a leader in hi-tech warfare. In this episode, the Financial Times innovation ed...
Future weapons: The defence tech bros
22 Apr 2025
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Defence tech is booming in the US. Start-ups building drones, missiles and AI systems are competing ...
Future weapons: Ukraine’s army of drones
22 Apr 2025
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The conflict in Ukraine has turned into the world’s first fully fledged drone war. The remote-cont...
Coming soon: The future weapons of war
15 Apr 2025
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New technologies such as drones, robots and AI systems are finding their way into conflict zones aro...
Making money from AI: After DeepSeek
18 Feb 2025
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The biggest companies in tech are fighting to be the leader in generative AI - even as the path to p...
Making money from AI: Searching for a ‘killer app’
11 Feb 2025
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Is generative AI over-valued? At the heart of the generative AI boom has been the premise that a ‘...
Coming soon: Will AI ever make any money?
07 Feb 2025
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Generative AI is impressive, but can it be profitable? Since the emergence of ChatGPT in 2022, Silic...
Tech in 2025: The EU vs Big Tech
04 Feb 2025
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The past two years have seen the EU bring in landmark legislation to curb the power of big tech comp...
Tech in 2025: China’s AI ‘Sputnik moment’
28 Jan 2025
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The Chinese company DeepSeek has shocked the world with an AI model that could rival those built by ...
Tech in 2025: All hail the AI revolution
28 Jan 2025
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Murad Ahmed interviews Reid Hoffman - billionaire founder of LinkedIn, venture capitalist, self-proc...
Tech in 2025: Trump and the tech bros
21 Jan 2025
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Incoming president Donald Trump has shown he’s ready to act decisively on tech, giving a stay of e...
Tech in 2025: Hi, I’m your AI-powered assistant
14 Jan 2025
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Since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, generative AI tools have been helping us answer questions, ...
Coming soon: How will technology shape the world in 2025?
07 Jan 2025
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In a new season of Tech Tonic, the FT’s technology editor Murad Ahmed asks some of the big questio...
The geopolitics of chips: Nvidia and the AI boom
03 Dec 2024
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Amid the artificial intelligence boom, demand for AI chips has exploded. But this push for chips als...
The geopolitics of chips: Taiwan’s ‘Silicon Shield’
26 Nov 2024
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The global tech industry depends on Taiwan’s semiconductor chips and many believe the sector plays...
The geopolitics of chips: A manufacturing miracle
19 Nov 2024
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Semiconductors are one of the most complex and technically difficult pieces of hardware to make in t...
The geopolitics of chips: Chips in the USA
12 Nov 2024
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The next superpower will be a tech superpower, and to be that superpower you need to have some contr...
Coming soon: The fight for the future of chips
07 Nov 2024
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There's a battle going on for control of the global semiconductor industry – the chips that a...
The Telegram case: Privacy vs security
10 Sep 2024
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What are the limits of privacy when it comes to our online lives? If authorities are investigating a...
The Telegram case: Pavel Durov
03 Sep 2024
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The FT’s Innovation editor John Thornhill and San Francisco tech correspondent Hannah Murphy have ...
The trouble with deepfakes: Beyond control?
29 Aug 2024
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Anita was scrolling on Twitter when she found someone had made deepfake porn of her, without her per...
The trouble with deepfakes: Liar’s dividend
22 Aug 2024
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A new breed of AI generated fake pictures, videos and audio clips is spreading across the internet -...
China's race to tech supremacy: New frontiers
18 Jun 2024
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China is pushing the frontiers of scientific research, launching missions to the Moon and exploring ...
China's race to tech supremacy: Chatbots & chips
11 Jun 2024
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Since the emergence of chatbots like ChatGPT, China has made building its own advanced AI a priority...
China’s race to tech supremacy: Robot generation
04 Jun 2024
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In China, you can find robots serving food in restaurants, delivering room service in hotels, and cl...
Introducing Untold: Power for Sale
30 May 2024
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Introducing Power for Sale, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. In Untold: Power for Sa...
China's race to tech supremacy: Embracing Africa
28 May 2024
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In this episode, long-time FT China correspondent James Kynge travels to Lagos to hear about the suc...
China's race to tech supremacy: Driving into Europe
21 May 2024
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China’s BYD has become one of the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturers, thanks to its ...
China's race to tech supremacy: Shenzhen speed
14 May 2024
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How did China go from tech imitator to innovator? The FT’s James Kynge reports from Shenzhen, know...
Coming soon: China, the new tech superpower
07 May 2024
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In a new season of Tech Tonic, longtime FT China reporter James Kynge travels around the world to se...
Introducing: Swamp Notes from The FT News Briefing
05 Feb 2024
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If you have questions about this year's US presidential election, we have answers.Swamp Notes is a n...
Introducing Untold: The Retreat
12 Jan 2024
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Introducing Untold, a new podcast from the special investigations team at the Financial Times. In it...
Superintelligent AI: Conscious Machines
12 Dec 2023
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As the race to human-level AI accelerates, researchers are increasingly confronted with the question...
Superintelligent AI: Transhumanism etc.
05 Dec 2023
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What are the ideas driving the pursuit of human-level AI? In the penultimate episode of this Tech To...
Superintelligent AI: can chatbots think?
28 Nov 2023
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Are generative AI systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT really intelligent? Large language models such ...
Superintelligent AI: The Utopians
21 Nov 2023
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If even AI companies are fretting about the existential threat that human-level AI poses, why are th...
Superintelligent AI: The Doomers
14 Nov 2023
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In the first episode of a new, five-part series of Tech Tonic, FT journalists Madhumita Murgia and J...
Coming soon: Superintelligent AI
31 Oct 2023
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In a new series of Tech Tonic, FT journalists Madhumita Murgia and John Thornhill look at the ...
Can AI help us speak to animals? Part two
19 Sep 2023
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A hardware revolution in recording devices and a software revolution in artificial intelligence has ...
Can AI help us speak to animals? Part one
19 Sep 2023
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A hardware revolution in recording devices and a software revolution in artificial intelligence is e...
Can AI help us speak to animals? Karen Bakker interview
19 Sep 2023
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The Canadian scientist and author Karen Bakker, who died unexpectedly in August this year, was a lea...
Coming soon: Can AI help us speak to animals?
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Some scientists believe that rapid advances in artificial intelligence may also hold the key to deco...
The quantum revolution: Live at Founders Forum
22 Aug 2023
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A bonus episode to go with our Quantum Revolution season. The FT’s John Thornhill and Madhumita Mu...
Introducing: The Russian Banker
18 Aug 2023
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Who is Sergei Leontiev? To the US asylum system, he’s an exiled Russian banker who was persecuted ...
Peak social media: The future
01 Aug 2023
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In the final episode of this Tech Tonic season, FT correspondents weigh in on the trends that will d...
Peak social media: Building better platforms
25 Jul 2023
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Can we get rid of the bad bits of social media and keep the good? Is it possible to create...
Peak social media: The power of influencers
18 Jul 2023
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Social media today is less about making friends and more about following popular content creators. W...
Peak social media: The debate over young users’ mental health
11 Jul 2023
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There’s a growing feeling that social media is bad for us: bad for society and bad for our wellbei...
Peak social media: The ads machine
04 Jul 2023
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Mark Zuckerberg used advertising to turn Facebook into the first global social media giant, boasting...
Peak social media: Trouble at Twitter
27 Jun 2023
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Elon Musk took over Twitter with the promise of promoting free speech and making the loss-making pla...
Coming soon: Peak social media
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Social media platforms have defined our experience of the internet for nearly two decades. But as ho...
Introducing Behind the Money: Night School
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There’s been a lot of big finance and economics news in 2023. Whether it's stories about rising in...
The quantum revolution: The way the world is
11 Apr 2023
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In the final episode of this series, we hear how radical quantum ideas are reshaping our fundamental...
The quantum revolution: Brain waves
04 Apr 2023
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Quantum computers aren’t the only form of groundbreaking technology that use quantum physics. Madh...
The quantum revolution: First port of call
28 Mar 2023
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The Port of Los Angeles is one of the world’s busiest — and most inefficient. It’s now using a...
The quantum revolution: ‘Spooky action’
21 Mar 2023
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In this episode, Tech Tonic dives into the science at the heart of quantum computing. How do technol...
The quantum revolution: The race to build a quantum computer
14 Mar 2023
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Tech companies including Google, Microsoft and IBM are all working on plans for a commercially viabl...
The quantum revolution: Q-Day
07 Mar 2023
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In the cybersecurity world they call it Q-Day, the day when a quantum computer will be built that ca...
Coming soon: The Quantum Revolution
28 Feb 2023
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Tech companies and labs around the world are building a revolutionary new computer. Quantum computer...
Climate tech to save the planet: Techno-optimism or greenwashing?
22 Nov 2022
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Billions of dollars are being spent by tech companies and investors on new technology to fight clima...
Climate tech to save the planet: Star power
15 Nov 2022
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Nuclear fusion is the reaction that powers stars and scientists say replicating it on Earth could pr...
Climate tech to save the planet: Hype and hydrogen
08 Nov 2022
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The joke about hydrogen is that it’s the fuel of the future, and always will be. But green hydroge...
Climate tech to save the planet: How to keep flying
01 Nov 2022
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As more people fly, aviation is on track to becoming a much bigger problem for climate change. Host ...
Climate tech to save the planet: Out of thin air
25 Oct 2022
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Direct air carbon capture - taking carbon dioxide straight out of the air around us - sounds like sc...
Coming soon: Will climate tech save the planet?
24 Oct 2022
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The climate crisis threatens the future of the planet. But don’t worry, technology will save us. A...
A sceptic’s guide to crypto: the crypto Wild West
13 Sep 2022
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In the fifth episode of the latest season of Tech Tonic, FT columnist and host Jemima Kelly looks at...
A sceptic’s guide to crypto: the church of bitcoin
06 Sep 2022
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In the fourth episode of the latest season of Tech Tonic, FT columnist and host Jemima Kelly looks a...
A sceptic’s guide to crypto: NFT mania
30 Aug 2022
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In the third episode of the latest season of Tech Tonic, FT columnist and host Jemima Kelly unpacks ...
A sceptic’s guide to crypto: bonus interview with a16z’s Chris Dixon
23 Aug 2022
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A bonus episode of Tech Tonic featuring a full, unedited interview between John Thornhill, FT innova...
A sceptic’s guide to crypto: the ‘smart’ money
23 Aug 2022
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In the second episode of the latest season of Tech Tonic, FT columnist and host Jemima Kelly tries t...
A sceptic’s guide to crypto: boom and bust
16 Aug 2022
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A new season of Tech Tonic asks whether crypto and its supporting technology - the blockchain - have...
Coming soon: A Sceptic’s Guide to Crypto
15 Aug 2022
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Even after the crypto markets crashed this year, there are still a number of people who believe ther...
Introducing: Hot Money
07 Jun 2022
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When Financial Times reporter Patricia Nilsson started digging into the porn industry, she made a sh...
Behind the Money is back!
19 May 2022
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Behind the Money is back with all-new episodes! From hostile takeovers to C-suite intrigue, Behind t...
US-China Tech Race: The great decoupling
02 May 2022
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In the final episode of this season of Tech Tonic, we ask if the growing tensions between the US and...
US-China Tech Race: Brave new world
25 Apr 2022
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In this episode, how a mysterious death in Belgrade prompted Serbia to embrace Chinese surveillance ...
US-China Tech Race: Shock and Awe
18 Apr 2022
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In the latest episode of this Tech Tonic season about US-China tech rivalry, the FT’s US-China cor...
US-China Tech Race: Chips with everything
11 Apr 2022
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How China's growing appetite for computer chips has put Taiwan on the frontline of the US-China batt...
US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part Two)
04 Apr 2022
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In the second episode of this season of Tech Tonic, James Kynge, the FT’s Global China Editor, ask...
US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part One)
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of this season’s six-part series, the FT’s Global China Editor James Kynge ...