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Dec 27, 2024 • 27min

Drone deliveries in London

Drones! Guys and St. Thomas' Hospital in London have started a pioneering trial using drones to deliver blood samples between the two sites. Sound simple, but this is one of the most regulated airspaces on the planet so how did they do it? Plus Katie and Danny get nostalgic for Christmas Tech past. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Dec 20, 2024 • 44min

Anthropic's Dario Amodei on AI and the future

Dario Amodei imagines that "powerful AI" will bring a golden future which people "will be literally moved to tears by". He talks about his grand vision and his grave concerns; and why he left OpenAI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Dec 13, 2024 • 40min

Be the "CEO of your own health" & GM pulls the plug on robotaxis

Will an Oura ring change the health industry as we know it? The company's CEO Tom Hale is this week's guest. Plus, why GM have pulled the plug on their robotaxi and has Google come closer to achieving the dream of quantum computing? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Dec 6, 2024 • 44min

The AI newsroom & Intel's fall from the top

Steve Hasker, CEO of Thomson Reuters, dives into the trust crisis in journalism spurred by AI-generated content. He discusses the urgent need for reliable news sources in training AI models and the challenges traditional media face in digital transformations. The conversation shifts to the impact of AI on legal practices, highlighting how it streamlines tasks like contract drafting. Additionally, the evolving competition between Intel and NVIDIA reveals insights on market dynamics and the semiconductor industry.
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Nov 29, 2024 • 39min

Google vs The Feds & Quantum computing for babies?

What's the point of quantum computing now we have generative AI? Will quantum computing change the world? And just what is quantum computing anyway? Raj Hazra, CEO of Quantinuum, joins the show to explain. Plus the Bluesky debate continues, and should we use Google to find out what a monopolist is? Clip from BBC Radio 5Live Breakfast used by permission. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nov 23, 2024 • 44min

Bluesky is getting bigger but how big?

Danny and Katie take on two big issues of the week - finding out from social media analyst Dan Whitmarsh just how big new social media platforms need to be. And software security expert Joe Levy talks about where crypto is taking us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nov 15, 2024 • 47min

Are flying cars the future?

The future might finally be here! Danny visits the headquarters of Joby Aviation, the company possibly furthest along in commercialising "flying cars" - just don't call them that! Plus, more on how the tech world is reacting to Donald Trump's victory and Elon Musk's new job. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nov 8, 2024 • 36min

Big tech and big politics

Danny and Katie look at the implications for Tech with the return of President-elect Donald Trump to the Whitehouse. And media analyst, Renée DiResta joins Danny and Katie to talk about how the new digital media has changed politics - and what you can do to be heard.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nov 1, 2024 • 45min

What if robots thought like animals?

If we made robots think more like animals, how clever could they be? This week we hear from David Rajan, CEO of Opteran, a pioneering AI company which is reverse engineering biological brains to create a "radical new scientific approach to doing AI". And, Danny, the cat and the Tesla. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Oct 25, 2024 • 53min

Satya Nadella, Microsoft's Chairman and Chief Executive

Satya Nadella is only the third boss in the tech giant's 50 year history, but he has pivoted Microsoft towards accelerating technology, and forging partnerships with leading companies including OpenAI. On a whistle-stop AI tour of the world and in his only UK interview this year - this exclusive conversation with Satya Nadella covers the dangers, pitfalls and growth of AI. What better time to sit down with the Microsoft supremo than almost two years after the public launch of ChatGPT? He tells Katie that his major worry is that nations miss the opportunity to take advantage of AI and technological innovation for economic growth "ultimately the benefits of it being much more broad spread are, I think... the real dream." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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