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We are in the midst of a digital revolution, where the line between our physical world and cyberspace is blurring. Tech Tonic is the show that investigates the promises and perils of this new technological age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mission to Mars: The new space race
US President Donald Trump wants to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”. But more than 50 years on from the moon landings, America’s space...
Mission to Mars: Elon Musk's 'Starship' Enterprise
Elon Musk wants humans to settle on Mars, and his rocket company SpaceX is spending billions of dollars on developing the spacecraft to take us there....
Coming soon: Mission to Mars
US President Donald Trump has pledged to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”, China could send its first crewed mission to Mars within a...
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AI Music: ‘Theft machines’?
AI models have learned to create their own music by harvesting millions of songs from the internet. But critics say they’re using musicians’ work with...
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...
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 indisting...
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 Vall...
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...
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 n...
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 fi...
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...
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...
Future weapons: Tomorrow’s technology
How is defence tech reshaping geopolitics? And what does the battlefield of the future look like? In the final episode of our series on the technologi...
Future weapons: Rearming Europe
For European leaders, the war in Ukraine has strained relations with the US and prompted major questions about how the continent will defend itself in...
Future weapons: Battlefield AI
Israel has long been a leader in hi-tech warfare. In this episode, the Financial Times innovation editor John Thornhill explores the Israel Defense Fo...
Future weapons: The defence tech bros
Defence tech is booming in the US. Start-ups building drones, missiles and AI systems are competing with established companies for a piece of the US d...
Future weapons: Ukraine’s army of drones
The conflict in Ukraine has turned into the world’s first fully fledged drone war. The remote-controlled flying machines are now used by both sides fo...
Coming soon: The future weapons of war
New technologies such as drones, robots and AI systems are finding their way into conflict zones around the world.
In this season of Tech Tonic...
Making money from AI: After DeepSeek
The biggest companies in tech are fighting to be the leader in generative AI - even as the path to profitability for the technology remains unclear. S...
Making money from AI: Searching for a ‘killer app’
Is generative AI over-valued? At the heart of the generative AI boom has been the premise that a ‘killer app’ for AI will make investors a return on t...
Coming soon: Will AI ever make any money?
Generative AI is impressive, but can it be profitable? Since the emergence of ChatGPT in 2022, Silicon Valley investors and tech giants have poured bi...
Tech in 2025: The EU vs Big Tech
The past two years have seen the EU bring in landmark legislation to curb the power of big tech companies such as Apple, Google and Meta, threatening...
Tech in 2025: China’s AI ‘Sputnik moment’
The Chinese company DeepSeek has shocked the world with an AI model that could rival those built by the biggest artificial intelligence companies in S...
Tech in 2025: All hail the AI revolution
Murad Ahmed interviews Reid Hoffman - billionaire founder of LinkedIn, venture capitalist, self-proclaimed AI optimist and generally speaking a big na...
Tech in 2025: Trump and the tech bros
Incoming president Donald Trump has shown he’s ready to act decisively on tech, giving a stay of execution to TikTok after the US Supreme Court upheld...
Tech in 2025: Hi, I’m your AI-powered assistant
Since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, generative AI tools have been helping us answer questions, write essays and create AI images and videos. But no...
Coming soon: How will technology shape the world in 2025?
In a new season of Tech Tonic, the FT’s technology editor Murad Ahmed asks some of the big questions likely to shape the tech world in 2025, with the...
The geopolitics of chips: Nvidia and the AI boom
Amid the artificial intelligence boom, demand for AI chips has exploded. But this push for chips also creates new challenges for countries and compani...
The geopolitics of chips: Taiwan’s ‘Silicon Shield’
The global tech industry depends on Taiwan’s semiconductor chips and many believe the sector plays a key role in the island’s national security, helpi...
The geopolitics of chips: A manufacturing miracle
Semiconductors are one of the most complex and technically difficult pieces of hardware to make in the world – which is why they’ve become a flashpoin...
The geopolitics of chips: Chips in the USA
The next superpower will be a tech superpower, and to be that superpower you need to have some control over the semiconductor industry which is drivin...
Coming soon: The fight for the future of chips
There's a battle going on for control of the global semiconductor industry – the chips that are in virtually every piece of electronics we use from ou...
The Telegram case: Privacy vs security
What are the limits of privacy when it comes to our online lives? If authorities are investigating a crime, should they be able to access private mess...
The Telegram case: Pavel Durov
The FT’s Innovation editor John Thornhill and San Francisco tech correspondent Hannah Murphy have in the past both met and interviewed Pavel Durov, th...
The trouble with deepfakes: Beyond control?
Anita was scrolling on Twitter when she found someone had made deepfake porn of her, without her permission. But that was just the start of her proble...
The trouble with deepfakes: Liar’s dividend
A new breed of AI generated fake pictures, videos and audio clips is spreading across the internet - content anyone with an internet connection can ge...
China's race to tech supremacy: New frontiers
China is pushing the frontiers of scientific research, launching missions to the Moon and exploring the remotest places on Earth. It’s part of China’s...
China's race to tech supremacy: Chatbots & chips
Since the emergence of chatbots like ChatGPT, China has made building its own advanced AI a priority. But to build AI it needs the most advanced compu...
China’s race to tech supremacy: Robot generation
In China, you can find robots serving food in restaurants, delivering room service in hotels, and cleaning floors in office buildings. But it’s in fac...