The Times Tech Podcast

By: The Sunday Times
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  • Summary

  • As The Sunday Times’ West Coast Correspondent, Danny Fortson has witnessed the technological whirlwind coming from Silicon Valley first hand. The Times' Technology Business Editor Katie Prescott 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 Katie and Danny chronicle the AI revolution.

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Episodes
  • 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

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