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, helping stave off an invasion from mainland China. But ...
26 Nov 202422min
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 flashpoint for tensions between the US and China. For years...
19 Nov 202431min
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 driving the AI revolution. But almost all advanced semic...
12 Nov 202427min
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 our phones to our cars to the latest AI software. Fo...
7 Nov 20241min
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 messages sent between two individuals? In this episode...
10 Sep 202427min
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, the secretive founder of Telegram who was arrested i...
3 Sep 202434min
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 problems; she found it was difficult and expensive to ge...
29 Aug 202422min
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 generate. And some of these deepfakes are now so con...
22 Aug 202425min
