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If Then: is a show about technology, society, and power. Each week, Slate‘s April Glaser and Will Oremus take you on a lively tour of the tech news that actually matters, from fake news in y...

The era of ads following you around the internet via cookies might be coming to an end. What’s replacing it? Guest: Sara Fisher, Axios' medi...

Is artificial intelligence a blessing to all humanity, or a demon sent to lead us astray from God’s path? MAGA is choosing between two extre...

This very online administration is facing push back from Iran in their own home territory: the world of insipid memes, A.I. videos, and onli...

Back in the depths of the pandemic, what was an actor to do? Ben McKenzie started looking into cryptocurrency—and his research yielded both...

If you had as much trouble getting along with other humans as Sam Altman does, you too might be eager to issue in the artificial intelligenc...

As OpenAI prepares for its IPO, the company decided to…pay millions of dollars for a tech talk show? Is this just what rich tech guys like S...

One of artificial intelligence’s most hyped “abilities” is how it writes computer code. So much so that seemingly anyone can do it. So we fi...

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, private credit or “shadow banking” grew as an alternative to the regulations and shared risk that...

Artificial intelligence is working its way into every aspect of our lives, including law and immigration enforcement, and the industry is sp...

What YouTube and Meta’s loss in the “social media addiction trial” could mean for your feed. Guest: Ryan Mac , business and technology repor...

Why Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp views working with Western militaries not just as a business opportunity, but as a higher calling....

Hank Green recently pulled a “reverse OpenAI” - he took his education platform Complexly and made it a nonprofit. In a world where outrage,...

A half dozen state attorneys general have sued the online gaming platform Roblox after multiple investigations found child predators on the...

Drone warfare has evolved immensely since Ukraine. The use of artificial intelligence in combat has evolved just since Venezuela. Guest: Ste...

How does Paramount, an old-guard studio and media institution, buying Warner Bros., another of the same, change the landscape in Hollywood,...

When you’re sending troops to war, it seems like there are more important things to consider than how it will impact the stock market. Howev...

How much would it change your life and approach to health if you had instant access to your quantified biometrics? RFK Jr. and the Departmen...

The Pentagon wants Anthropic to hand over its A.I. with no strings attached. Anthropic doesn’t want its products used to surveil Americans o...

You might not think you need artificial intelligence added to your shopping experience. Store employees might not see the point either. So w...

Tech companies proudly touting that the imminent artificial intelligence revolution are pushing the stock market to ever higher heights, eve...

Data centers are a hot issue - tech companies say they need them, but communities don’t want to be anywhere near them. Senator Van Hollen st...

Markiplier has been entertaining millions of fans on YouTube for over a decade. But his new movie Iron Lung - which he self-financed, direct...

Scamming attempts might seem to just come out of nowhere to suddenly appear in your WhatsApp, but a special economic zone in Laos has emerge...

He’s discontinuing Tesla’s signature models, taking SpaceX public, and putting more chips on A.I. and robotics. As Elon Musk prepares for hi...

The Iranian government cut off nearly all internet access on January 8 as part of a crackdown on protestors, an example of why authoritarian...

In the immediate aftermath of the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota, federal authorities presented very different accounts...

Having already taken over Paramount, David Ellison was vying to add Warner Bros. Discovery to his portfolio. Are his dad’s politics behind h...

The administration’s justification for their actions in Minneapolis owe a lot to the right-wing influencers—and they seem happy to keep this...

Doctors are already using artificial intelligence to take notes while with patients—but are large language models ready to consult? Guest: B...

Where do you turn for vaccination advice for your kids—or yourself—when the government’s own recommendations can’t be trusted anymore? Guest...

To kick off the new year, users on X have been asking Grok to nudify people - and kids - at an astonishing rate. And X leadership is egging...

While the U.S. was busy capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, someone online was busy placing bets on prediction markets on the ous...

The Trump administration wants NASA to land astronauts on the moon by 2027. They also want them to do it with their budget slashed, a leader...

Artificial intelligence boosters spent the year wedging the tech into our lives – whether we wanted it or not. But one new product brought A...

With so much online content, it can be hard for a meme to stay in the collective consciousness for more than a few days. But one meme this y...

All this week, What Next and What Next: TBD are re-airing some of our favorite conversations from throughout the year and checking back with...

All this week, What Next and What Next: TBD are re-airing some of our favorite conversations from throughout the year and checking back with...

While the A.I. boom has created a data center boom, rich guys are turning their computing dreams to the skies. With its impending IPO, Space...

Whole Foods based its brand on a certain standard of quality—but there are some things that shoppers nevertheless want. Amazon believes it h...

The good news is voters are more persuaded by factual claims than emotional appeals or appeals to fear. But the bad news is that A.I. chatbo...

Donald Trump—or at least the tech guys who have his ear—is ready to clear the regulatory runway for A.I. but other Republicans aren’t too su...

A tech mogul who made bank from Paypal with his Stanford buddies and has endeared himself to right-wing politicians and enriched himself the...

As the U.S. upgrades and updates its defense and military systems, the question isn’t whether A.I. will be integrated, but where, how much,...

Note: This episode was originally published on July 27, 2025. There’s an entire economy devoted to seeing what products are trending—clothin...

Tracking a license plate across the country has never been easier, which is good news if your car has been stolen, but in an era of ICE and...

Trump promised to stop the “persecution” of the cryptocurrency industry. He did call off the SEC investigations that began under Biden, and...

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta, doesn’t (just) have a scam problem—with 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads,...

They don’t cut cleanly along party lines, but data centers, and where they get built, became an election issue in Virginia. With so many mor...

Tesla shareholders just approved a trillion dollar (with a t!) pay package for Elon Musk. Is it enough incentive to keep him around the comp...

Nick Fuentes—an openly antisemitic, openly racist, openly sexist type who once was persona non grata in all but the unseemliest of online sp...