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.
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Is Elon Actually Trying to Buy OpenAI?
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Why Trump’s Data Purge is a Digital Book Burning
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Bonus: The Discourse | Why is Elon Musk Cheating at Video Games?
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Is Elon Musk Unstoppable?
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The DeepSeek Panic
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RFK Jr. Is a Feature, Not a Bug
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The A.I. Will See You Now
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Bonus: The Discourse | The Bro-ligarchs Take Washington
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Department of Government Elon
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As Fires Approached LA, Angelenos Turned to Watch Duty
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta-Morphosis
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Why Tech Is Bending the Knee
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Will the Supreme Court Save TikTok?
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Bitcoin Takes the White House
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Musk vs. MAGA
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The Cost of Suicide Prevention Software
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2024 In Review: Would You Buy Poop On the Internet?
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Influencer vs. Influencer
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Drones!??!!!?!!!
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The Surveillance State Trump Is Inheriting
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Elon Musk and Trump’s Shadow Transition Team
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Spotify Trapped
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The Influencer Administration
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When Your Flight’s GPS Gets Spoofed
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The Post-Election Social Media Wars
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Is Sickle Cell Anemia…Cured?
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What's Google Without Chrome?
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The X-odus
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The Manosphere That Delivered Trump Back to Power
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The Polls Weren’t Wrong
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Elon Wins
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u up? Go vote.
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What Elon Wants From Trump
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Facebook for the Dead
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Can TikTok Sway this Election?
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How Secure Is Our Election?
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The Elon-Trump Alliance
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23andMe...And a Looming Data Disaster
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Trump’s Crypto Gurus
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A.I. Goes Nuclear
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Helene Proves Nowhere is Safe
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American Life is a Highway
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Big Tech Fears Her
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Trump Called. Laura Loomer Answered.
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Can Instagram Really Keep Kids Safe?
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Is Boeing Lost in Space?
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TikTok Goes to Court
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The Misguided Buzz About Mosquitoes
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US v. Google… Again
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Telegram's CEO Just Got Arrested. Huh?
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