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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How Trump Is Trying to Kill Press Freedom
Inside the movement targeting free speech.
26 min
52
Will Tesla Survive Elon Musk?
From “Eco-Friendly” to “Swastiscar”
23 min
53
Zuckerberg and the Post-Factcheck Era
Does Meta know what they’ve done?
26 min
54
From 4Chan to Charlottesville to DOGE
How the far-right internet conquered American politics.
27 min
55
Cracking the Egg Crisis
An eggsplanation.
18 min
56
The DOGE Resistance
Lawsuits, protests and Elon Musk's Achilles Heel
24 min
57
$Trump
Crypto poured money into the campaign, now the first family is cashing in.
21 min
58
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
59
Can You Pay Attention, Please?
Chris Hayes discusses his new book that calls attention “the world’s most endangered resource.”
23 min
60
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
61
Why Trump’s Data Purge is a Digital Book Burning
Erasing wokeness, one dataset and line of code at a time.
23 min
62
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
64
The DeepSeek Panic
How one app brought the US-China A.I. war out into the open.
22 min
65
RFK Jr. Is a Feature, Not a Bug
The vaccine skeptic’s nomination reveals the Trump 2.0 approach to public health.
23 min
66
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
68
Department of Government Elon
To trim government, first you must add to government, apparently.
19 min
69
As Fires Approached LA, Angelenos Turned to Wat...
A conversation with the app’s cofounder.
19 min
70
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta-Morphosis
Is this a pivot? Or was the Meta CEO always this way?
23 min
71
Why Tech Is Bending the Knee
Meet the man running Trump's FCC.
22 min
72
Will the Supreme Court Save TikTok?
The ban has now reached the highest court in the land.
25 min
73
Bitcoin Takes the White House
Cryptocurrency folks see the future, and with Trump returning to office, it looks like a giant pool of money.
20 min
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Musk vs. MAGA
Elon Musk and the base discovered their opinions on immigration are actually pretty far apart.
22 min
75
The Cost of Suicide Prevention Software
Is this the best way to address an urgent mental health crisis? The data isn’t there yet.
24 min