FT Tech Tonic Podcast
1) Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism
John Thornhill talks to the social scientist Shoshana Zuboff about her book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, and what we need to do to reclaim the more benign impacts of the digital revolution. Ho...Show More
2) AI Music: The Infinite Jukebox
Generative AI models trained on vast swaths of popular music can create songs almost indistinguishable from human-made work. For some, they represent the future of pop music. For others, they threaten...Show More
3) Coming soon: Will AI ruin music?
AI music generators - platforms that use artificial intelligence to create new, original music from scratch - can make songs that are almost indistinguishable from human creations. For some musicians,...Show More
4) Trump’s tech bros: The enigma of Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is unlike any other Trump tech bro. As well as a wildly successful investor, he’s seen as a thinker - the philosopher king of Silicon Valley. Thiel’s acolytes in the tech world and Washing...Show More
5) Trump’s tech bros: The enigma of Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is unlike any other Trump tech bro. As well as a wildly successful investor, he’s seen as a thinker - the philosopher king of Silicon Valley. Thiel’s acolytes in the tech world and Washing...Show More
6) Trump’s Tech Bros: Is ‘Maga Mark’ the real Mark Zuckerberg?
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has undergone a transformation, both physical and political. The skinny teenager who founded Facebook in his dorm room is now a muscular jiu-jitsu enthusiast who’s...Show More
7) Trump’s Tech Bros: Has Jeff Bezos sold out?
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was once a vocal critic of Donald Trump. But that changed during last year’s election campaign. Now, he has instructed the newspaper he owns, The Washington Post, to shift it...Show More
8) Trump's Tech Bros: The tragedy of Elon Musk
When Donald Trump re-entered the White House, Elon Musk came with him as his ‘tech bro-in-chief’, tasked with rebooting the government machine. But five months on, Musk’s ambitious plan to cut $2tn fr...Show More
9) Trump’s Tech Bros: Can Tim Cook save Apple from the trade war?
During the US president’s first term in office, Tim Cook appeared to be the ultimate Trump whisperer, winning tariff exemptions despite Apple’s heavy reliance on Chinese manufacturing. Now, the iPhone...Show More
10) Coming soon: The rise and fall of Trump’s tech bros
Can Tim Cook save Apple from the trade war? Has Mark Zuckerberg really been a fan of Donald Trump all along? And is the bromance between Elon Musk and the president really over? In a new season o...Show More