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
Roblox’s CEO on tariffs, TikTok and keeping kids safe online
Washington is looking to regulate how kids use the internet with legislation that could alter how online platforms collect data, monitor content and design features. Roblox has a lot at stake in that…
00:19:46 |
Mon 14 Apr 2025
‘Gloves off’: A former Trump trade official on his China fight
After days of stock market mayhem, President Donald Trump pulled back most of the tariffs he slapped on U.S. trade partners. But not China. Trump upped his tariffs on China to 125 percent — the lates…
00:22:20 |
Thu 10 Apr 2025
What Elon Musk’s pending exit means for Washington
What’s Washington without Elon Musk? That’s a question many Republicans are hoping to answer in the weeks ahead after President Donald Trump told allies that Musk’s time in the White House is soon co…
00:22:03 |
Mon 07 Apr 2025
Will Trump’s tariffs ‘liberate’ Silicon Valley?
“Liberation Day” arrived at the White House and President Donald Trump, as promised, slapped sweeping tariffs on the world. But what comes next may be less predictable — especially for tech. From the…
00:16:58 |
Thu 03 Apr 2025
The great tech race heading toward Greenland
Greenland’s “Great Race” isn’t just a dog sled competition. It’s increasingly a hunt for critical minerals and AI data centers — two national security priorities for President Donald Trump and a busi…
00:16:27 |
Mon 31 Mar 2025
Why you shouldn’t share ‘war plans’ on Signal
Were the messages “war plans” or “attack plans”? Was the information classified, sensitive or something in between? If you put aside the spin around Signalgate, security experts warn secret military …
00:20:25 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
‘Nothing is off the table’: The U.S.-UK tech talks are underway
President Donald Trump has many U.S. allies on edge, but you wouldn’t know it from talking to Peter Kyle, the UK’s secretary of state for science, innovation and technology. He’s a relentless believ…
00:19:38 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
‘American Dynamism’ meets ‘America First’
Silicon Valley’s bet that a Trump administration would be friendly to tech has a big payoff: Vice President JD Vance. At the American Dynamism Summit this week, Vance spoke at length about bolstering…
00:19:53 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
How a tech CEO and board game master sizes up DOGE
This Elon Musk-made moment of government upheaval has some business executives seeing dollar signs, and that includes Matt Calkins, the CEO of software company Appian. Calkins contends there are bill…
00:18:23 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
‘We’re not like some small country you can push around’
François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s minister of innovation, science and industry, says America’s northern neighbor is “not like some small country that you can push around.” That’s why Champagne is…
00:21:53 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
This Bachelor-turned-podcaster has a lesson for Washington
Nick Viall became famous after appearing on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette — but used podcasting to turn reality TV stardom into lasting relevance. So last week, YouTube brought The Viall Files ho…
00:20:16 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
Trump’s tariffs are threatening California’s cash cow
This week, President Donald Trump put tariffs in place — again. He then walked most of them back — again. The administration’s erratic trade policy is also causing a great deal of anxiety in Californ…
00:10:34 |
Fri 07 Mar 2025
The future of war? Cheaper, faster tech
Three Army brigades have been trying to prove that the future of war can be cheaper — even before Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency came in demanding budget cuts. The brigades are part …
00:17:28 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
Is venture capital eating the world?
It’s been said that software is “eating the world.” But Catherine Bracy, the founder and CEO of TechEquity, says tech investors are actually reshaping the economy. And she explains why that’s a probl…
00:18:18 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
The new Gilded Age could be bad for Republicans — and Big Tech
Joshua Zeitz is a historian and best-selling author who thinks America is living through a second Gilded Age. A period that is reminiscent of the late 1800s, when railroad and banking magnates held e…
00:17:43 |
Tue 04 Mar 2025
Why DOGE led one government tech official to quit
Anne Marshall resigned from her role as director of engineering and data science at the U.S. Digital Service last month. The decision followed staffing cuts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef…
00:20:15 |
Mon 03 Mar 2025
The U.S. and UK will broker a tech deal. Here’s what to watch.
The U.S. and UK will negotiate “a new economic deal with advanced technology at its core,” UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday at the White House. The details of the arrangement remain an…
00:17:38 |
Fri 28 Feb 2025
This Biden official wants to root out waste. She says DOGE is doing it all wrong.
Ann Lewis has seen the government waste a lot of money on bad technology. As director of Technology Transformation Services under President Joe Biden, her office was tasked with revamping and updatin…
00:21:16 |
Thu 27 Feb 2025
Is Big Tech getting an antitrust reset? Not quite yet.
Big Tech is hoping President Donald Trump will lighten up on antitrust enforcement after four years of heavy scrutiny under the Biden administration. But so far, there are few signs of a change. In f…
00:17:28 |
Wed 26 Feb 2025
What the German election tells us about Elon Musk’s influence
The most striking outcome of this weekend’s German election wasn’t the actual winner. It’s that one in five voters backed the far-right party, Alternative for Germany. Elon Musk heavily promoted the …
00:16:48 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
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