Episodes

  • Are flying cars the future?

    Are flying cars the future?
    Nov 15 2024
    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 the tech world is reacting to Donald Trump's victory and Elon Musk's new job.

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    47 mins
  • Big tech and big politics

    Big tech and big politics
    Nov 8 2024
    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 digital media has changed politics - and what you can do to be heard.

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    36 mins
  • What if robots thought like animals?

    What if robots thought like animals?
    Nov 1 2024
    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 create a "radical new scientific approach to doing AI". And, Danny, the cat and the Tesla.

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    45 mins
  • Satya Nadella, Microsoft's Chairman and Chief Executive

    Satya Nadella, Microsoft's Chairman and Chief Executive
    Oct 25 2024



    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 OpenAI. On a whistle-stop AI tour of the world and in his only UK interview this year - this exclusive conversation with Satya Nadella covers the dangers, pitfalls and growth of AI. What better time to sit down with the Microsoft supremo than almost two years after the public launch of ChatGPT? He tells Katie that his major worry is that nations miss the opportunity to take advantage of AI and technological innovation for economic growth "ultimately the benefits of it being much more broad spread are, I think... the real dream."


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    53 mins
  • Al Gore, Tech and Climate

    Al Gore, Tech and Climate
    Oct 18 2024
    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 tackling climate change. But what's the right way to invest and will it work? Who decides the way forward, the investors, the tech giants or the politicians? And who better to answer these questions than Al Gore, former US Vice-President and now guru to climate campaigners worldwide. He's our guest this week. Follow us now for more big interviews coming up.

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

    Robinhood's Vlad Tenev (Plus, Nobel Prizes for A.I.)
    Oct 11 2024

    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”.

    And did Danny cleverly predict in our first episode, that Sir Demis Hassabis would indeed win a Nobel Prize?


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    50 mins
  • The First Episode: Google DeepMind's Sir Demis Hassabis

    The First Episode: Google DeepMind's Sir Demis Hassabis
    Oct 4 2024


    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" and could 'have general human cognitive abilities within ten years." But fundamentally - do we really understand what AI is? Professor Neil Lawrence, the inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at Cambridge University, Faculty AI CEO, Marc Warner, and Naila Murray, Director of AI Research at Meta share their views. And Danny and Katie ponder whether AI mania could be more about money than the mind?



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    35 mins
  • Coming soon: The Times Tech Podcast with Danny and Katie

    Coming soon: The Times Tech Podcast with Danny and Katie
    Oct 1 2024

    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 has witnessed first hand the technological whirlwind coming from Silicon Valley. Katie as Technology Business Editor at The Times has reported on how digital technology is transforming businesses and society around the world. Now ‘Danny in the Valley’ meets ‘Katie in the City’ - with a podcast presented from San Francisco and London. Each week sees a fresh interview with pioneers in tech from the brightest start-ups to the tech giants as they chronicle the AI revolution. Sounds good, but what will it sound like? Here's a taste.


    'What Occurs' by Islands is used by permission.


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    22 mins