POLITICO Tech
The POLITICO Tech podcast is your download on the disruption that technology is bringing to politics and policy. New episodes on Thursdays.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 1025
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
What Anthropic’s big payout means for AI and copyright
Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to authors whose pirated books the company used to train its AI model, an eye-popping amount and one of the first big settlements of its kind. With so many copyri…
00:18:35 |
Thu 11 Sep 2025
Why AI companies are cutting Trump a deal
The federal government is buying artificial intelligence technology at deeply discounted rates — part of an effort to bring agencies into modern times. And for companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, it…
00:21:04 |
Thu 04 Sep 2025
The next president’s AI problem
With mounting concerns about AI leading to job losses, policymakers are grappling with how to prepare workers for major changes ahead — and the disruption that has already begun. Bharat Ramamurti was…
00:22:53 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
An exit interview with Trump’s AI policy adviser
As a senior policy adviser in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dean Ball helped write President Donald Trump’s recently released AI Action Plan. This week, Ball left the administration an…
00:21:40 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Data will soon be less secure. What can Washington do?
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) was a tech adviser to President Barack Obama back when Washington was first grappling with artificial intelligence. Now, he’s introducing legislation this week with Rep…
00:21:32 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Silicon Valley enters the space race
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin may garner lots of attention, but there are a growing number of tech companies now chasing commercial and defense opportunities in space. And they’re ra…
00:22:16 |
Thu 31 Jul 2025
Trump’s AI plan is a gift to Silicon Valley — with a catch
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump unveiled his AI Action Plan, which effectively outlines his strategy for keeping the U.S. at the forefront of artificial intelligence. And for the most part, it’s…
00:20:47 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
The Vatican’s AI battle
Pope Leo XIV has repeatedly warned that artificial intelligence poses a danger to humanity. And as the U.S. and other governments turn away from regulating AI, the Catholic Church is emerging as a vo…
00:23:31 |
Thu 17 Jul 2025
Do Americans need digital IDs?
There’s a power struggle between humanity and technology. And Vilas Dhar, president and trustee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, argues humanity coming out on top depends not just on regulation…
00:21:26 |
Thu 10 Jul 2025
Apple’s China dilemma
Patrick McGee has written the definitive book on how Apple supercharged China’s development into a global manufacturing colossus and leveraged its relationship with Beijing to become one of the most …
00:26:19 |
Thu 03 Jul 2025
The Trumpification of the FCC
The Federal Communications Commission will meet today with a new Republican majority after the confirmation of former Capitol Hill staffer Olivia Trusty. That’s likely to boost Chair Brendan Carr’s T…
00:20:09 |
Thu 26 Jun 2025
Joseph Gordon-Levitt on AI, Hollywood and owning your ‘digital self’
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been called a “Luddite” and “anti-tech,” but the actor, filmmaker and entrepreneur insists he’s actually dazzled by artificial intelligence. He just has qualms with the tech …
00:28:50 |
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Can the South win the AI race?
Mississippi is trying to position itself as the “Digital Delta” — a hub in the American South for artificial intelligence development and data centers. It’s one of many states that largely missed out…
00:23:17 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
The Republican case against Trump’s research cuts
Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) is big on investing in research in cutting-edge technologies, especially artificial intelligence and biotechnology. But lately, that’s put him in a position of pushing back a…
00:27:07 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
Trump’s crypto conflicts, explained
Vice President JD Vance told a crypto conference this week that the industry “finally has a champion and an ally in the White House.” And, he’s right. Since taking office, President Donald Trump has …
00:20:55 |
Thu 29 May 2025
The ‘big, beautiful bill' to ban state AI laws
House Republicans narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill, including a provision that would block states from enforcing new AI regulations for a decade. The prop…
00:18:26 |
Thu 22 May 2025
‘Compute, not crude’: How American AI is defining the new Middle East
A large contingent of Silicon Valley CEOs followed President Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia this week, where a number of them announced billions of dollars in AI-related investments and business partne…
00:24:47 |
Thu 15 May 2025
OpenAI reversed its restructuring plans. Critics aren’t cheering.
The saga over control of OpenAI took yet another turn this week when the ChatGPT maker announced it will no longer try to splinter off from the nonprofit that controls it. But critics of that plan, i…
00:21:50 |
Thu 08 May 2025
Trump's rocky start with Silicon Valley
President Donald Trump was sworn into office just over 100 days ago. And ever since Inauguration Day, tech industry leaders like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been a regular presence at the Whit…
00:20:34 |
Thu 01 May 2025
Mark Zuckerberg’s big week in court
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent hours in a Washington courtroom this week answering questions about his decision to buy Instagram and WhatsApp more than a decade ago — and whether the social media emp…
00:19:52 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
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