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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This Is Your Brain On Ketamine
And Silicon Valley's too.
22 min
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We Made a Memecoin
Because—how hard could it be?
27 min
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Bezos 2.0
How the Amazon founder went from Trump critic to Trump donor.
25 min
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Trump's War on Scientific Research
Cutting NIH grants–even temporarily–could have repercussions for years to come.
26 min
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How Trump Is Trying to Kill Press Freedom
Inside the movement targeting free speech.
26 min
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Will Tesla Survive Elon Musk?
From “Eco-Friendly” to “Swastiscar”
23 min
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Zuckerberg and the Post-Factcheck Era
Does Meta know what they’ve done?
26 min
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From 4Chan to Charlottesville to DOGE
How the far-right internet conquered American politics.
27 min
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Cracking the Egg Crisis
An eggsplanation.
18 min
85
The DOGE Resistance
Lawsuits, protests and Elon Musk's Achilles Heel
24 min
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$Trump
Crypto poured money into the campaign, now the first family is cashing in.
21 min
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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
88
Can You Pay Attention, Please?
Chris Hayes discusses his new book that calls attention “the world’s most endangered resource.”
23 min
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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
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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
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The DeepSeek Panic
How one app brought the US-China A.I. war out into the open.
22 min
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RFK Jr. Is a Feature, Not a Bug
The vaccine skeptic’s nomination reveals the Trump 2.0 approach to public health.
23 min
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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
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Department of Government Elon
To trim government, first you must add to government, apparently.
19 min
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As Fires Approached LA, Angelenos Turned to Wat...
A conversation with the app’s cofounder.
19 min
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta-Morphosis
Is this a pivot? Or was the Meta CEO always this way?
23 min
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Why Tech Is Bending the Knee
Meet the man running Trump's FCC.
22 min