Your Guide to the DeepSeek Freakout: an Emergency Pod
A Chinese firm called DeepSeek managed to upend global markets at the start of the week, to drag down chipmaker Nvidia — and to surge to No. 1 in the iPhone app store, all in basically no time at all....
27 Jan 202524min
Quantum TikTok + Memecoin Mania + Chris Hayes on the Attention Wars
This week, TikTok died, came back to life — and now exists in a kind of limbo state. We break down what that may signal for how tech does business with the new Trump administration. Then we pump up th...
24 Jan 20251h 12min
Goodbye TikTok, Ni Hao RedNote? + A.I.'s Environmental Impact + Meta's Masculine Energy
The deadline for TikTok to sell or to face a ban is fast approaching. We discuss how Supreme Court justices — who opted on Friday to uphold the law — reacted to arguments in the case, whether the Chin...
17 Jan 20251h 13min
Meta Goes MAGA Mode +A Big Month in A.I. + HatGPT
This week, Meta announced a series of content moderation changes that will transform the way the social media company’s platforms deal with misinformation and hate speech. We break down what these cha...
10 Jan 20251h 10min
Our 2025 Tech Predictions and Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
This week, it’s our yearly tech predictions. We’ll review what we got right and wrong about 2024, and tell you what we think is going to happen in 2025. Then we’ll discuss how we want to interact with...
3 Jan 20251h 8min
The Wirecutter Show: Kitchen Gear That Lasts a Lifetime (or Extremely Close)
Happy Holidays, everybody! We are off this week, but we wanted to bring you a recent episode from another New York Times podcast: The Wirecutter Show. It’s called “Kitchen Gear That Lasts a Lifetime (...
27 Dec 202441min
Is Amazon's Drone Delivery Finally Ready for Prime Time?
This week, we took a field trip to the Phoenix suburbs to see Amazon’s newest iteration of drone delivery service in action. We toured the facility where these drones are in operation, spoke with the ...
20 Dec 20241h 3min
TikTok's Last Stand + Google's Quantum Breakthrough + Cult of Claude
Last Friday, a panel of federal judges denied TikTok’s petition to overturn the law that could force the ban of the app in the United States. We walk through the judges reasoning and explain why TikTo...
13 Dec 20241h 13min
