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The Times Tech Podcast

From Silicon Valley to The City, tech journalists Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott bring you the inside track on the new industrial revolution.


Co-hosted from San Francisco and London, this weekly podcast delivers the latest news and freshest interviews with the people creating the future.


As West Coast Correspondent for The Sunday Times, Danny is on the ground to witness the technological whirlwind that first roared out Silicon Valley. From London, working as The Times' Technology Business Editor, Katie has seen the waves of boom and bust rolling through one of the world's financial capitals. Together they explore this strange new world of high finance and tech giants, explaining how we got here and what is just around the corner.


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Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
44 minutes
Episodes
416
Years Active
2017 - 2025
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The AI newsroom & Intel's fall from the top

The AI newsroom & Intel's fall from the top

How can we trust the news in a world with artificially created content? Thomson Reuters CEO, Steve Hasker, joins the podcast to discuss the use of their information, and the future of journalism. Plu…
00:43:43  |   Fri 06 Dec 2024
Google vs The Feds & Quantum computing for babies?

Google vs The Feds & Quantum computing for babies?

What's the point of quantum computing now we have generative AI? Will quantum computing change the world? And just what is quantum computing anyway? Raj Hazra, CEO of Quantinuum, joins the show to ex…

00:39:24  |   Fri 29 Nov 2024
Bluesky is getting bigger but how big?

Bluesky is getting bigger but how big?

Danny and Katie take on two big issues of the week - finding out from social media analyst Dan Whitmarsh just how big new social media platforms need to be. And software security expert Joe Levy talk…
00:44:11  |   Sat 23 Nov 2024
Are flying cars the future?

Are flying cars the future?

The future might finally be here! Danny visits the headquarters of Joby Aviation, the company possibly furthest along in commercialising "flying cars" - just don't call them that! Plus, more on how t…
00:47:07  |   Fri 15 Nov 2024
Big tech and big politics

Big tech and big politics

Danny and Katie look at the implications for Tech with the return of President-elect Donald Trump to the Whitehouse. And media analyst, Renée DiResta joins Danny and Katie to talk about how the new d…
00:35:39  |   Fri 08 Nov 2024
What if robots thought like animals?

What if robots thought like animals?

If we made robots think more like animals, how clever could they be? This week we hear from David Rajan, CEO of Opteran, a pioneering AI company which is reverse engineering biological brains to crea…
00:45:08  |   Fri 01 Nov 2024
Satya Nadella, Microsoft's Chairman and Chief Executive

Satya Nadella, Microsoft's Chairman and Chief Executive



Satya Nadella is only the third boss in the tech giant's 50 year history, but he has pivoted Microsoft towards accelerating technology, and forging partnerships with leading companies including OpenA…

00:53:26  |   Fri 25 Oct 2024
Al Gore, Tech and Climate

Al Gore, Tech and Climate

Katie and Danny are joined by Al Gore for big thoughts on how to take on the big challenges. Outside of AI, there is one area that is still getting a good amount of venture capital dollars and that's…
00:51:45  |   Fri 18 Oct 2024
Robinhood's Vlad Tenev (Plus, Nobel Prizes for A.I.)

Robinhood's Vlad Tenev (Plus, Nobel Prizes for A.I.)

This week - money, invention and regulation as we delve deep into the mind of Vlad Tenev, the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood, a hugely influential App designed in their words to “democratise finance…

00:49:44  |   Fri 11 Oct 2024
The First Episode: Google DeepMind's Sir Demis Hassabis

The First Episode: Google DeepMind's Sir Demis Hassabis


Danny joins Katie in London for the Times Tech Summit, where the co-founder and boss of Google DeepMind Sir Demis Hassabis sets out his startling view that AI has the potential "to cure all diseases"…

00:34:52  |   Fri 04 Oct 2024
Coming soon: The Times Tech Podcast with Danny and Katie

Coming soon: The Times Tech Podcast with Danny and Katie

Danny Fortson in California - 'Danny in the Valley' - joins Katie Prescott in London to talk to the people changing tech across the world. As The Sunday Times’ West Coast Correspondent, Danny Fortson…

00:21:38  |   Tue 01 Oct 2024
Danny in the Valley meets Katie in the City

Danny in the Valley meets Katie in the City

'For nearly seven years Danny Fortson has made the Valley his own, interviewing the newcomers and the established; the inventors and the entrepreneurs; the brightest minds and most daring doers in Si…

00:40:17  |   Fri 27 Sep 2024
Tech legend John Chambers: “Don’t do the right thing for too long”

Tech legend John Chambers: “Don’t do the right thing for too long”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on John Chambers, former chief executive of Cisco, to talk about artificial intelligence (4:30), why booms are necessary (8:00), coming to Silicon Valley (…

00:57:21  |   Fri 20 Sep 2024
HourOne’s Natalie Monbiot: “Building the virtual human economy”

HourOne’s Natalie Monbiot: “Building the virtual human economy”

The gig economy is coming for your soul. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Natalie Monbiot of HourOne, to talk about the digital clone company starting before the ChatGPT m…
00:41:17  |   Fri 13 Sep 2024
Hebbia’s George Sivulka: “Bots will be most of the economy within decade”

Hebbia’s George Sivulka: “Bots will be most of the economy within decade”

Artificial intelligence “agents” will create more economic value than humans within ten years. Sound outlandish? That is the prediction of this week’s guest, George Sivulka, founder of AI startup Heb…
00:46:11  |   Sat 07 Sep 2024
Captura’s Steve Oldham: “Removing a drop of ink from a swimming pool”

Captura’s Steve Oldham: “Removing a drop of ink from a swimming pool”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Steve Oldham of Captura, to talk about why sucking CO2 out of the air is not a bad idea (6:30), using the ocean (10:00), their contraption…
00:45:10  |   Fri 30 Aug 2024
Refactor's Zal Bilimoria: “I am the investment committee”

Refactor's Zal Bilimoria: “I am the investment committee”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Zal Bilimoria to talk about being a solo venture capitalist (3:15), how he decided on investments (6:30), happening into climate tech (9:3…
00:46:48  |   Fri 09 Aug 2024
How lab-grown meat company SciFi Foods failed - and why many others may soon follow

How lab-grown meat company SciFi Foods failed - and why many others may soon follow

It wasn’t long ago that lab-grown meat was booming. Startups raised billions of dollars. Investors boldly predicted the large scale slaughter of cows, chickens and fish would soon end. Then it all we…

00:45:12  |   Fri 02 Aug 2024
Mike Lynch’s first post-acquittal interview

Mike Lynch’s first post-acquittal interview

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch faced potentially dying in a federal prison. But in a 12-week trial in America, he beat all the odds and was found “not guilty” last month on 15 counts of fraud brought…
01:15:45  |   Sat 27 Jul 2024
Conservation X Labs’ Alex Deghan: “Why go to Mars? it’s a failed version of earth”

Conservation X Labs’ Alex Deghan: “Why go to Mars? it’s a failed version of earth”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Alex Deghan, founder of Conservation X Labs, to talk about avoiding the sixth mass extinction (3:00), getting near a tipping point in the …
00:50:47  |   Fri 19 Jul 2024
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