The Times Tech Podcast
Episodes
Will this AI actress be the next Oscar winner?
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Conan O’Brien joked at the Oscars that he might be the last human to host the Academy Awards. It got Danny and Katie thinking about AI's influence o...
Nscale, Nvidia and neoclouds: How to become Silicon Valley's next CEO
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
British AI data-center company NScale has hit a $14.6 billion valuation after raising another $2 billion but its rapid rise is raising eyebrows. Danny...
Bonus episode: Will quantum computing change everything?
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Quantum computing has been called the next big technological revolution, potentially as transformative as AI. Governments are investing billions, bank...
Anthropic vs Pentagon: How AI is changing war
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An explosive fallout between AI giant Anthropic, OpenAI and the US Department of War has ignited a fierce debate in Silicon Valley about who gets...
Inside Nvidia: The company powering the AI gold rush
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Do Nvidia’s latest results confirm a tech boom or signal the makings of a bubble? Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott ask how a once-niche graphics chi...
Bonus episode: Agentic AI explained – The next phase of artificial intelligence
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of The Times Tech podcast is sponsored by PwC.Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. It’s no longer just about chatbots gener...
AI safety meets OpenClaw – what India’s AI summit tells us
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As world leaders and tech bosses gather for India’s AI Impact Summit, Danny Fortson and Mark Sellman ask if these global summits are shaping AI or s...
Nikola Mrksic on PolyAI, Gordon Ramsay, and the future of voice AI
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nikola Mrksic, CEO of Nvidia-backed London startup PolyAI, joins Danny and Katie to talk about AI voice assistants transforming customer service....
Bonus episode: The ‘secret sauce’ of success - With Octopus Energy CEO, Greg Jackson
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is from The Business – The Times’ flagship podcasts covering business, finance and the economy.Octopus Energy has gone from mark...
Is OpenClaw about to burst the AI bubble?
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A new open-source AI agent called OpenClaw has set Silicon Valley buzzing and with a single line of code, anyone can use it. Does this free tool threa...
Is AI growing too fast for humanity?
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Are we heading for the next ChatGPT moment? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, has sparked debate about the growth of AI and its acceleration into a risky ne...
Can Europe rely on Silicon Valley in the age of Trump tariffs?
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Grok, deepfakes and who should police AI
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 imag...
Tech in 2026 – AI winners, losers and what happens next
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 spe...
Holiday Special! Part 2: Has AI already taken your job?
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing our big name-dropping look-back with Sam Altman, Lisa Su, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Satya Nadella, Matthew Prince, Arthur Mensch, Sir Demis ...
Holiday Special! Part 1 - AI Hope vs Hype!
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ope...
Are venture capitalists the new power brokers?
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, fo...
The humans training AI to be better
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Realising the AI advantage for the UK
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Can AI be you? (Or will the ‘bubble’ burst first?)
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Danny talks to Dara Ladjevardian, Co-founder of Delphi - a company that creates digital AI versions of.. well, you, so can you can be you, more often....
The Budget and the battle for tech entrepreneurs
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The British Chancellor, Rachel Reeves has delivered her now annual Budget Statement - a sort of economic State of the United Kingdom address to parlia...
Nvidia and the AI Bubble? What bubble!
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 tha...
Lyft’s CEO on the end of driving
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ca...
Who holds the power in the age of AI?
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ope...
Can AI be your friend?
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
How to stop Britain being a technological ‘vassal state’?
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
AI bubble & Cloudflare CEO on the AI content wars
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The future of social media according to Bluesky's COO & Trump 'saves' TikTok
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 rul...
Equinix CEO Adaire Fox-Martin on AI’s growing demands on data centres
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
'Smart thinking about energy and tech for small businesses'
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 businesse...
Yahoo's CEO on the new challenges for the internet pioneer
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
What the £31 billion UK-US tech deal really means
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 gi...
Vibe coding with Lovable's CEO Anton Osika
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 codin...
Sage CEO on the future of work & Stanford’s big study on AI and jobs
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Perplexity CEO on Chrome, AI and challenging the tech giants
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 or...
Linda Yaccarino’s X exit & Figma files for IPO
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Mistral AI: Europe's answer to Silicon Valley?
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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'
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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)
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 roboti...
Nuclear's big return, British creators revolt & Elon sends an email
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is nuclear power the answer to energy hungry Artificial Intelligence? Matt Loszak CEO & Cofounder of Aalo Atomics thinks so. Plus, British artists...
With Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Elon bids for OpenAI, and Sam says no
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
A Very British AI Revolution!
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, joins the pod to discuss the British Government's 'AI Opportunities Action Plan' (and Elon Musk). Plus, a new gu...
Sam Altman reflects on AI, Meta scraps fact-checkers, and data centres in outer space?
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Big predictions for Big Tech in 2025!
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Drone deliveries in London?
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Drones! Guys and St. Thomas' Hospital in London have started a pioneering trial using drones to deliver blood samples between the two sites. Sound sim...
Anthropic's Dario Amodei on AI and the future
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 visio...
Be the "CEO of your own health" & GM pulls the plug on robotaxis
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 thei...
The AI newsroom & Intel's fall from the top
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 the...
Google vs The Feds & Quantum computing for babies?
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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? R...
Bluesky is getting bigger but how big?
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Are flying cars the future?
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The future might finally be here! Danny visits the headquarters of Joby Aviation, the company possibly furthest along in commercialising "flying cars"...
Big tech and big politics
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
What if robots thought like animals?
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Satya Nadella, Microsoft's Chairman and Chief Executive
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 pa...
Al Gore, Tech and Climate
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Robinhood's Vlad Tenev (Plus, Nobel Prizes for A.I.)
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week - money, invention and regulation as we delve deep into the mind of Vlad Tenev, the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood, a hugely influential Ap...
The First Episode: Google DeepMind's Sir Demis Hassabis
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Danny joins Katie in London for the Times Tech Summit, where the co-founder and boss of Google DeepMind Sir Demis Hassabis sets out his startling view...
Coming soon: The Times Tech Podcast with Danny and Katie
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Danny Fortson in California - 'Danny in the Valley' - joins Katie Prescott in London to talk to the people changing tech across the world. As The Sund...
Danny in the Valley meets Katie in the City
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'For nearly seven years Danny Fortson has made the Valley his own, interviewing the newcomers and the established; the inventors and the entrepreneurs...
Tech legend John Chambers: “Don’t do the right thing for too long”
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on John Chambers, former chief executive of Cisco, to talk about artificial intelligence (4:30), why boo...
HourOne’s Natalie Monbiot: “Building the virtual human economy”
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The gig economy is coming for your soul. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Natalie Monbiot of HourOne, to talk about the ...
Hebbia’s George Sivulka: “Bots will be most of the economy within decade”
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence “agents” will create more economic value than humans within ten years. Sound outlandish? That is the prediction of this we...
Captura’s Steve Oldham: “Removing a drop of ink from a swimming pool”
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Steve Oldham of Captura, to talk about why sucking CO2 out of the air is not a bad idea...
Refactor's Zal Bilimoria: “I am the investment committee”
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Zal Bilimoria to talk about being a solo venture capitalist (3:15), how he decided on i...
How lab-grown meat company SciFi Foods failed - and why many others may soon follow
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It wasn’t long ago that lab-grown meat was booming. Startups raised billions of dollars. Investors boldly predicted the large scale slaughter of cow...
Mike Lynch’s first post-acquittal interview
27 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch faced potentially dying in a federal prison. But in a 12-week trial in America, he beat all the odds and was found “n...
Conservation X Labs’ Alex Deghan: “Why go to Mars? it’s a failed version of earth”
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Alex Deghan, founder of Conservation X Labs, to talk about avoiding the sixth mass exti...
UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “AI is a misinformation amplifier”
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Hany Farid, a digital forensic professor, to talk about launching a cybersecurity startup ...
Deep Sky’s Fred Lalonde - Holiday replay!
06 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Happy July 4th! Running back one of our favorite episodes from last summer - Fred Lalonde of Deep Sky, who speaks eloquently about the need to bury ev...
PagerDuty's Jennifer Tejada: "Going public is the wedding, staying public is the marriage"
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When a website goes down, companies lose an average of $500,000 per minute. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jennifer Te...
Limbic’s Ross Harper: “AI won’t replace doctors, it will enhance them”
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The world is aflutter with talk of "AI doctors". A UK company has actually built one. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on D...
Galvanize's Tom Steyer: "We're winning the climate fight"
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The climate fight is going far better than you realise. So says this week’s guest, Tom Steyer, former presidential candidate and founder of Galvani...
X Prize's Peter Diamandis: "Talking to your dog and extending life"
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you want to talk to your whales? Monkeys? Your dog? AI will make it possible. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Peter ...
Renaissance's Tom Kalil: "Transforming philanthropy"
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are about 1,200 billionaires in Europe and America. Why don't they do more good with their money? This week's guest reckons he can get them to d...