ACCESS with Alex Heath and Ellis Hamburger
Happy 2026 from all of us at On with Kara Swisher! We’re ringing in the new year with an episode of ACCESS, a new tech insider podcast from the Vox Media Podcast Network that’s hosted by two highly co...
1 Jan 1h 5min
Driverless Semi-Trucks Are Here & Coming to a Highway Near You
Kara sits down with Chris Urmson, CEO and co-founder of the autonomous trucking company Aurora, and Johnathon Ehsani, a professor of public health at Johns Hopkins University and leading road safety r...
29 Dec 202549min
Winners, Losers & WTF Moments: A Look Back at 2025’s Top Tech Stories
From an unenforced TikTok ban and a chatbot calling itself MechaHitler to mounting fears that we’re in an AI bubble, 2025 was another messy year for the tech industry. We watched billionaire CEOs full...
22 Dec 20251h 3min
The End of Human Driving? with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
Kara sits down with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to dig into how applied artificial intelligence works at scale. At Uber, AI powers everything from pricing, routing, and customer service to autonomo...
18 Dec 202547min
Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s Slide into Techno-Authoritarianism
One of 2025’s most memorable images was of Silicon Valley’s billionaire CEOs lined up in the front rows at President Donald Trump’s inauguration. It was visual proof of the tech industry’s embrace of ...
15 Dec 20251h 3min
Rachel Maddow on Japanese Incarceration During WWII, Mass Deportation & Media Chaos
Rachel Maddow is an author, podcast host and producer, documentary producer, and, of course, the anchor of her eponymous show on MS NOW. Her newest podcast, "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order," unrav...
11 Dec 202556min
Beyond ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Margaret Atwood on Memoir, Grudges, & Getting Older
Margaret Atwood is one of the most famous and prolific authors of the modern era. Though best known for her 1985 hit “The Handmaid’s Tale,” her dozens of works span literary genres — poetry, novels, c...
8 Dec 20251h 9min
