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
Pangea Biomed’s Ranit Aharonov: “Cancer-hunting AI”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ranit Aharonov to talk about this moment for artificial intelligence (3:15), studying the brain (6:30), Project Debater (8:30), neural net…
00:38:46 |
Fri 22 Sep 2023
Walter Isaacson: “The light and darks strands of Elon Musk”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Walter Isaacson, the biographer of Elon Musk, to talk about his new book (3:10), Musks’ “heartlessness” (6:15), his maniacal sense of miss…
00:45:21 |
Sun 17 Sep 2023
Air Company’s Gregory Constantine: “Turning CO2 into vodka”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Gregory Constantine, co-founder of Air Company, to talk about turning CO2 into fuel, booze and perfume (2:30), why they chose to do consum…
00:33:45 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
Pinecone's Edo Liberty: "AI is infrastructure"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Edo Liberty, founder of Pinecone, to talk about the state of artificial intelligence (4:00) the ‘hallucination’ problem (7:10), giving AI’…
00:43:25 |
Fri 01 Sep 2023
Just Climate's Shaun Kingsbury: "We've never built a rainforest"
The Sunday times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Shaun Kingsbury to talk about the Green Investment Bank (3:40), whether he is optimistic (9:15), taking on harder-to-clean industries at J…
00:44:58 |
Fri 04 Aug 2023
Deep Sky's Fred Lalonde: "We need to bury every ton of CO2 emitted since the Industrial Revolution"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Frederic Lalonde, founder of Deep Sky, to talk about why it is already too late to address climate change (3:10), terraforming earth (14:0…
01:13:56 |
Fri 28 Jul 2023
IRL415’s Philip Rosedale: “Heading toward software’s Hiroshima moment”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life and IRL415, to talk about the Apple’s Vision Pro augmented reality goggles (3:30), digital eyes (6…
00:35:22 |
Fri 21 Jul 2023
AstroForge's Matt Gialich: "We can eradicate mining on earth”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Matt Gialich, founder of AstroForge, to talk about what he did before attempting asteroid mining (3:40), working at Virgin Orbit (6:00), w…
00:38:16 |
Fri 14 Jul 2023
SciFi Foods' Joshua March: "Most 'clean meat' startups won't be successful"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Joshua March, co-founder and chief executive of SciFi Foods, to talk about the first approvals for lab-grown meat in America (4:45), building their pilo…
00:29:34 |
Fri 07 Jul 2023
Lumo's Devon Wright: "Helping farmers save water"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Devon Wright to talk about moving from a boat to the country (4:00), starting agricultural and water tech startup Lumo (7:15), inventing a…
00:45:53 |
Fri 30 Jun 2023
Trevor Neilson: “I helped start Extinction Rebellion. Here is why they are getting it wrong”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Trevor Neilson, founder of startup Wastefuel and the Climate Emergency Fund, to talk about how he helped launch and finance Extinction Rebellion (XR) (4…
01:17:03 |
Sun 25 Jun 2023
Securiti’s Rehan Jalil: “Where there’s chaos, there’s opportunity”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Rehan Jalil, founder of Securiti, to talk about trying to grab control of data (3:00), the generative AI boom (7:35), growing up in Karach…
00:32:34 |
Fri 16 Jun 2023
UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “With AI, we’re making the same mistakes that we did with social media”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Hany Farid, of UC Berkeley’s School of Information, to talk about the new age of AI (artificial intelligence) misinformation (4:00), the proliferation o…
00:38:59 |
Fri 09 Jun 2023
Sightful's Tamir Berliner and Tomer Kahan: "The world's first augmented reality laptop"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tamir Berliner and Tomer Kahan, founders of Sightful, to talk about inventing the world’s first “augmented reality” laptop (4:30), the end…
00:35:09 |
Fri 02 Jun 2023
Outreach’s Manny Medina: “Most founders give up too soon”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Manny Medina, chief executive of Outreach, to talk about how artificial intelligence is invading the sales business (2:30), why it will en…
00:34:27 |
Fri 26 May 2023
Runway’s Cristobal Valenzuela: “Pushing AI-generated film past the ’mom threshold’”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Cristobal Valenzuela, founder of Runway, to talk about using AI to edit and create videos (3:00), starting out at art school (6:50), quitt…
00:39:47 |
Fri 19 May 2023
Stability.ai's Emad Mostaque: "We're all going to die - but not from AI"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Stability.ai's founder Emad Mostaque, to talk about whether artificial intelligence (AI) is going to kill us all (3:30), why AI is the mos…
00:59:16 |
Fri 12 May 2023
Loyal's Celine Halioua: "The first life extension drug for dogs"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Loyal founder Celine Halioua, to talk about extending the life of dogs (3:00), pushing to get first product on market in 2025 (6:10), the …
00:56:00 |
Fri 05 May 2023
Andreessen Horowitz's Vijay Pande: "AI doctors"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Vijay Pande, head of Andreessen Horowitz’s $1.5bn bio fund, to talk about how artificial intelligence is impacting healthcare (3:30), tool…
00:51:04 |
Fri 28 Apr 2023
SuperFocus.ai's Stephen Hsu: “AI study buddies”
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Stephen Hsu, founder of SuperFocus.ai, to talk about genetic testing of children (5:15), his new startup SuperFocus (9:15), the hallucinat…
00:50:50 |
Fri 21 Apr 2023
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