What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future
Every Friday and Sunday, Slate’s popular daily news podcast What Next brings you TBD, a clear-eyed look into the future. From fake news to fake meat, algorithms to augmented reality, Lizzie O’Leary is your guide to the tech industry and the world it’s creating for us to live in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes (692)
David Ellison, Eldest Boy
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The Right’s Minneapolis Outrage Machine
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ChatGPT, MD
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How and Why to Vaccinate Now
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How Grok Filled X With Deepfake Porn
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Betting on Venezuela
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Are We Over the Moon?
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2025: Dystopian Tech of the Year
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2025: The Meme of the Year
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Is the A.I. Bubble Bursting? | 2025 in Review
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We Made a Memecoin | 2025 in Review
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Data Center Space Race
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Whole Shopping List
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Ready for Chatbot Canvassers?
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ChatGOP?
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The AI & Crypto Czar’s Conflicts
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If You Give A.I. a Nuke
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Rebroadcast: Dupes!
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The Surveillance Interstate
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Crypto Keeps Criming
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How Meta Profits Off Fraud
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Data Centers on the Ballot
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Why Tesla Is Paying Elon a Trillion Bucks
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The Nick Fuentes Problem
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Why Trump Keeps Pardoning Crypto Criminals
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Inside the Goonerverse
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Did The Trump Administration Censor Speech?
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The AWS Outage is Only the Beginning
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Why Bands Are Leaving Spotify
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Inside the MAGA Content Mill
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A.I. for Cops
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The People Suing ICE
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Saudi Arabia Gets into EA’s Games
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Who Owns TikTok Now?
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Trapped in a Tesla
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How Trump Got Obsessed with Autism
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Is A.I. Taking Your Job?
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The Discourse | TikTok Ban: The Final Loop?
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A Very Online Shooter
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Her Daughter Killed Herself. Then She Saw the ChatGPT logs.
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You Can't Escape the Charlie Kirk Video
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End of an Electric Avenue
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Is the A.I. Bubble Bursting?
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A24 Meets A.I.
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The Great Celebrity Spotify Playlist Hack
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Trump Vs. Cancer Research
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The CDC Under Fire
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Down the Text-Scam Rabbit Hole
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Trump Dips into NVIDIA’s Chips
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Here Comes the A.I. Music Slop
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