SpaceX’s AI gamble and the crackdown on AI slop
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is spending billions on AI data centres, rocket ships and moon ambitions but investors are asking how much it can burn be...
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Danny In The Valley
After more than a decade in London, Danny Fortson returns to Silicon Valley to meet the techies trying to change the world - and make loads of money while doing it.
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China vs USA: Should Trump ban open-source AI?
A fierce debate is taking place between Silicon Valley and Washington right now. After the release of KIMI K3 – China’s cheaper and powerful...
OpenAI's rogue agent and Silicon Valley’s China problem
OpenAI has revealed that one of their AI agents went rogue during a test and hacked a startup. Hugging Face reportedly had to use an open-so...
BONUS | Will.i.am: will AI repeat the mistakes of social media?
In this bonus episode of The Times Tech podcast, Katie Prescott shares her conversation with will.i.am about what comes after the AI boom. T...
Will.i.am: musicians will survive AI
Will.i.am is not as worried about AI and artists. He tells Katie Prescott that the "creatives will be alright," but it's "the assistants, th...
Can beautifying AI data centres save them from backlash?
AI needs vast data centres to power it but communities around the world are increasingly pushing back against the large, ugly “sheds” appear...
BONUS: The hidden technology behind Wimbledon
This episode of The Times Tech Podcast is in paid partnership with IBM. Wimbledon may be one of the most familiar events in British sport, b...
PayPal’s Max Levchin on Donald Trump, Elon Musk and mega-IPOs
Affirm CEO, PayPal co-founder, original member of the 'PayPal Mafia' Max Levchin joins Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott to talk about moral...
Why Europe fears America’s AI power
Who really controls the future of AI? A rare warning from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance says powerful AI models capable of devastating...
Keir Starmer vs Big Tech - the UK's under-16s social media ban
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced a ban on social media for under-16s, due to come into effect next year. But questions remain over...
Anthropic's warning: AI will start building itself
Anthropic has warned about the next phase of 'recursive AI', where agents could become capable enough to build and train models themselves w...
How to turn AI pilots into real business value
This episode of The Times Tech Podcast is sponsored by KPMG. Businesses are spending heavily on AI, but is it actually changing how they wor...
Move over Harvey Specter! The rise of AI lawyers
A strange new experiment where AI agents run their own societies free from humans has raised questions about whether we can really trust the...
Why the Pope is taking on Silicon Valley and AI
Pope Leo has warned that Big Tech has too much power over humanity’s future. Danny Fortson and Mark Sellman discuss what his warning on AI m...
Inside Elon Musk’s trillion dollar mission to colonise Mars
Two big events have put Elon Musk in the spotlight. First, a jury has dismissed Elon Musk’s case against Sam Altman and OpenAI after three w...
The incredible stakes of Elon Musk's trial against OpenAI
Sam Altman took the stand this week to defend himself and his company against a lawsuit by Elon Musk. The three-week long trial has featured...
Elon Musk vs OpenAI and the Met Gala tech takeover
The Met Gala has been dubbed the “Tech Gala” after a heavy Silicon Valley presence and sponsorship from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez. But a...
AI in security and defence: is tech making us safer?
Alphabet, Google's parent company, has reportedly signed a deal allowing the Pentagon use of its AI for classified purposes. It's just one o...
How to build your AI agent
Meet Norman: the launch of the OpenClaw AI agent has "opened the next frontier of AI to everyone" says Jensen Huang, chief exec of the tech...
Is AI anxiety fuelling real world hostility?
The race among top AI companies to build ever more powerful systems is accelerating, and so are fears about losing control. OpenAI CEO Sam A...