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
Meet the American implementing Australia’s social media ban
While U.S. lawmakers debate kids’ online safety legislation, elected officials in Australia have already taken bold action — banning minors under age 16 from social media altogether. Now, Australian …
00:29:40 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
Google’s query: How many inventors use AI?
Patent lawyers at Google had a question: How many of the company’s big, new ideas were developed using artificial intelligence? The patent world has been grappling for years with whether or not AI ca…
00:17:42 |
Thu 12 Dec 2024
The new laws trying to kill after-work emails
Technology has made it so that we’re always connected. And for many of us, that means the boss can text or email anytime. But several countries are cracking down on after-work communication by enacti…
00:22:24 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
A jolt of life for the kids online safety bill
It was looking like Congress had few plans to take up tech bills before the end of the year. But in Washington, one weekend and a couple of tweets can make a world of difference. Senators struck a de…
00:16:02 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
The legal battle over the TikTok ban, explained
The government’s plan to potentially ban TikTok next month is still on schedule, at least for now. A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that Congress can legally force its parent company, ByteDanc…
00:18:59 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
Chinese hackers got Trump’s data in a major breach — and possible yours
Chinese hackers have infiltrated major telecommunications networks, gaining access to the call logs and data of millions of Americans, including President-elect Donald Trump. But while the breach was…
00:15:20 |
Fri 06 Dec 2024
TikTok’s reckoning in Romania
Romanians head to the polls for a final round of voting on Sunday and European tech regulators will be watching. The candidate expected to win is a far-right politician named Călin Georgescu, who cat…
00:15:04 |
Thu 05 Dec 2024
Marc Andreesen bet on Trump. How it could pay off.
Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen made headlines for backing Donald Trump in the 2024 election, and now stands to gain new levels of influence with Trump’s return to the White House. In a recen…
00:20:32 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
The liberal X-odus from Elon Musk’s social network
Donald Trump’s election victory has liberals torn over whether or not to ditch X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter and owned by Trump’s billionaire benefactor Elon Musk. They say i…
00:14:59 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
The billionaire who wants to buy TikTok for the people
Billionaire Frank McCourt wants to create a more decentralized internet, one where big tech companies don’t hold all the power and individuals control their own data. But McCourt believes people need…
00:19:59 |
Mon 02 Dec 2024
What OpenAI wants from Trump
Two years on from the release of ChatGPT, OpenAI has been beefing up its efforts to shape the way governments manage artificial intelligence. And earlier this year, the company tapped Democratic poli…
00:21:43 |
Fri 22 Nov 2024
Rep. Ro Khanna wants Elon Musk to work with government, not against it
Silicon Valley voted en masse for Vice President Kamala Harris, but Democratic support there did decline, just as it did in many other parts of the country. Host Steven Overly called up Rep. Ro Khann…
00:18:10 |
Thu 21 Nov 2024
Gina Raimondo is working weekends to protect her Commerce legacy
Secretary Gina Raimondo has morphed the Commerce Department over the past four years into an agency focused on national security — enacting a massive, high-tech industrial policy aimed at beating Chi…
00:22:27 |
Wed 20 Nov 2024
Biden and Xi had a breakthrough on AI nukes. Enter Trump.
President Joe Biden held the final meeting of his term with Chinese leader Xi Jinping over the weekend, and the pair walked away with an agreement not to allow artificial intelligence to control nucl…
00:18:52 |
Tue 19 Nov 2024
The new tech power players in Trump’s Washington
In Washington, the people animate the policy. And that means new power players in the incoming Trump administration and Congress will shape everything from artificial intelligence to telecom regulati…
00:18:05 |
Mon 18 Nov 2024
This tech CEO backed Harris, but says Dems should embrace Elon Musk
Box CEO Aaron Levie backed Vice President Kamala Harris in last week’s presidential election. But now that former President Donald Trump is returning to the White House, Levie says he’s getting on bo…
00:17:58 |
Fri 15 Nov 2024
Tech beat Trump's tariffs once. Can it happen again?
President-elect Donald Trump has promised sweeping tariffs on all U.S. trading partners, including a whopping 60 percent tariffs on goods from China. And Trump’s allies are already plotting how to ge…
00:20:12 |
Thu 14 Nov 2024
Defense startups’ new hope in D.C.: Donald Trump and Elon Musk
The Defense Department shelled out more than $400 billion in contracts last fiscal year, but only a sliver of that money went to defense startups. Now, those companies hoping the incoming Trump admin…
00:13:21 |
Wed 13 Nov 2024
The overlooked factor that shapes how people vote
After every major election, the losing side faces a dreaded question: Where did it all go wrong? But journalist Steven Waldman, the co-founder and president of Rebuild Local News and Report for Ameri…
00:18:03 |
Tue 12 Nov 2024
Congress is back with a long tech to-do list
Congress returns to Washington tomorrow with the results of last week’s election hanging overhead. But the weeks ahead could be a busy time for tech. Congress has let legislation languish on issues l…
00:17:15 |
Mon 11 Nov 2024
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