What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the...
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.
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Where DOGE Is Taking Us
What happens when you run the government like how Elon Musk runs a business?
24 min
52
This Is Your Brain On Ketamine
And Silicon Valley's too.
22 min
53
We Made a Memecoin
Because—how hard could it be?
27 min
54
Bezos 2.0
How the Amazon founder went from Trump critic to Trump donor.
25 min
55
Trump's War on Scientific Research
Cutting NIH grants–even temporarily–could have repercussions for years to come.
26 min
56
How Trump Is Trying to Kill Press Freedom
Inside the movement targeting free speech.
26 min
57
Will Tesla Survive Elon Musk?
From “Eco-Friendly” to “Swastiscar”
23 min
58
Zuckerberg and the Post-Factcheck Era
Does Meta know what they’ve done?
26 min
59
From 4Chan to Charlottesville to DOGE
How the far-right internet conquered American politics.
27 min
60
Cracking the Egg Crisis
An eggsplanation.
18 min
61
The DOGE Resistance
Lawsuits, protests and Elon Musk's Achilles Heel
24 min
62
$Trump
Crypto poured money into the campaign, now the first family is cashing in.
21 min
63
Elon's Endgame
He's slashing the federal workforce. He's gutting programs he doesn't like. But at the end of the day, what does he want?
30 min
64
Can You Pay Attention, Please?
Chris Hayes discusses his new book that calls attention “the world’s most endangered resource.”
23 min
65
Is Elon Actually Trying to Buy OpenAI?
Elon Musk's bid to purchase OpenAI is both an attempt to control the future of A.I. and a massive troll.
20 min
66
Why Trump’s Data Purge is a Digital Book Burning
Erasing wokeness, one dataset and line of code at a time.
23 min
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Bonus: The Discourse | Why is Elon Musk Cheatin...
Not to game shame anyone, but doesn’t he have better things to do?
6 min
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Is Elon Musk Unstoppable?
Inside the DOGE assault on the federal government.
23 min
69
The DeepSeek Panic
How one app brought the US-China A.I. war out into the open.
22 min
70
RFK Jr. Is a Feature, Not a Bug
The vaccine skeptic’s nomination reveals the Trump 2.0 approach to public health.
23 min
71
The A.I. Will See You Now
Doctors are increasingly using artificial intelligence to help with appointments. But do the risks outweigh the benefits?
20 min
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Bonus: The Discourse | The Bro-ligarchs Take Wa...
Slate’s Nitish Pahwa joins us for a Slate Plus exclusive.
6 min
73
Department of Government Elon
To trim government, first you must add to government, apparently.
19 min
74
As Fires Approached LA, Angelenos Turned to Wat...
A conversation with the app’s cofounder.
19 min
75
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta-Morphosis
Is this a pivot? Or was the Meta CEO always this way?
23 min