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  • What Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals about tech and power

    October 29, 2026 · 22 min

    Anthropic has launched its historic IPO filing ahead of its blockbuster stock market debut. It offers the first glimpse inside the company’s finances, including both the mountain of money it’s sitting on and spending. So what do the…

  • Bear Robotics co-founder on using AI to teach robots how to think

    October 24, 2026 · 33 min

    Humanoid robots are all over social media: making beds, doing backflips, even outrunning Usain Bolt. But how much of it is real and how much is hype? This week, Danny and Katie are joined by roboticist and co-founder of Bear Robotics Bren…

  • Why are tech giants giving away their billions?

    October 22, 2026 · 12 min

    Anthropic has pledged to give away 5% of its shares to a fund that will make donations for the quote unquote “public good”. These shares could be worth between 75 and $100 billion. Days later, Elon Musk posted on X that he would give one…

  • Bending Spoons CEO on going public, buying old tech brands and The Matrix

    October 17, 2026 · 29 min

    Bending Spoons has become one of Europe’s most unusual tech companies by buying well-known tech businesses and rebuilding them. Katie Prescott speaks to CEO Luca Ferrari about taking the company public, choosing the US over Europe and…

  • Is AI a national security threat?

    October 15, 2026 · 22 min

    MI5 has warned that AI is "supercharging" security threats to the UK, while Britain’s AI minister said it was “inevitable” that Britain is going to be hacked by rogue AI agents. Danny and Katie look at the growing security fears around AI…

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  • Facebook Whistleblower on Mark Zuckerberg, Meta AI and The Social Reckoning

    October 10, 2026 · 27 min

    Five years after leaking thousands of internal Facebook documents, whistleblower Frances Haugen joins Times Tech to talk about The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s new film about her story and the sequel to The Social Network. She talks…

  • Who pays when AI agents go rogue?

    October 8, 2026 · 23 min

    AI companies are investigating a growing number of incidents where agents have gone rogue and done things which would be considered crimes if committed by a human. But when AI causes serious damage, who is responsible and crucially, who…

  • BONUS: AI governance - how business can adopt AI safely

    October 8, 2026 · 16 min

    This episode of The Times Tech Podcast is in paid partnership with ServiceNow. How do you navigate the rapid pace of AI development in business? With Matt Higham, ServiceNow’s chief digital and technology officer for UK and Ireland, we ask…

  • The Interview: Replit CEO on the contradictions at the heart of AI doom

    October 3, 2026 · 32 min

    This week, Danny speaks to Amjad Masad, co-founder and CEO of Replit, a ‘vibe-coding’ company which enables anyone – coder or not – to build software simply by telling AI what they want it to do. Amjad makes the case that we’ve lost the…

  • Why is Anthropic asking people to fund AI doom?

    October 1, 2026 · 25 min

    Warnings that AI is going to kill us are once again abounding. This week, Anthropic’s long awaited IPO prospectus was leaked. In it, the company warns that its technology poses “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity” while…

  • The Interview: Ordnance Survey CEO on AI reinventing maps

    September 26, 2026 · 28 min

    Ordnance Survey might just be the oldest tech company around. For 235 years, it has been mapping out every single metre of the UK – no matter how remote. And that data plays a huge part in how we use technology today; think of the many…

  • Why OpenAI and Anthropic should fear Meta Muse

    September 24, 2026 · 22 min

    Meta’s new AI agent app, Muse, has rocketed straight to number one on the App Store. Having put it to the test, Danny explains what the hype is all about. Meanwhile, Katie has bid farewell to her agent Norman in favor of a new AI assistant…

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About the show

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.