What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

by Slate Podcasts

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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1
Why He Sued Roblox
33:21 Mar 15, 2026
2
Are We Ready for A.I. Warfare?
26:11 Mar 13, 2026
3
Why Hollywood Is Afraid of the Paramount-WBD Deal
26:17 Mar 8, 2026
4
War in Iran, Shockwaves in Markets
34:02 Mar 6, 2026
5
TBD Tries… Wearables
22:58 Mar 1, 2026
6
Anthropic vs. the Pentagon
25:02 Feb 27, 2026
7
The Future of Retail is A.I.
20:53 Feb 22, 2026
8
The A.I. Disruption Is Here
24:54 Feb 20, 2026
9
The Senator Going After Data Centers
25:21 Feb 13, 2026
10
Markiplier Goes to Hollywood
28:51 Feb 10, 2026
11
Escape from a Scam Compound
30:41 Feb 8, 2026
12
Elon 3.0
25:23 Feb 6, 2026
13
Why Dictators Take Out the Internet
27:02 Feb 1, 2026
14
Can Cell Phones Stop ICE?
26:07 Jan 30, 2026
15
David Ellison, Eldest Boy
29:36 Jan 25, 2026
16
The Right’s Minneapolis Outrage Machine
24:46 Jan 23, 2026
17
ChatGPT, MD
22:47 Jan 18, 2026
18
How and Why to Vaccinate Now
35:03 Jan 16, 2026
19
How Grok Filled X With Deepfake Porn
33:48 Jan 11, 2026
20
Betting on Venezuela
24:20 Jan 9, 2026
21
Are We Over the Moon?
33:11 Jan 4, 2026
22
2025: Dystopian Tech of the Year
24:07 Jan 2, 2026
23
2025: The Meme of the Year
22:37 Dec 28, 2025
24
Is the A.I. Bubble Bursting? | 2025 in Review
34:58 Dec 26, 2025
25
We Made a Memecoin | 2025 in Review
31:28 Dec 21, 2025
26
Data Center Space Race
22:47 Dec 19, 2025
27
Whole Shopping List
20:58 Dec 14, 2025
28
Ready for Chatbot Canvassers?
26:38 Dec 12, 2025
29
ChatGOP?
19:52 Dec 7, 2025
30
The AI & Crypto Czar’s Conflicts
22:16 Dec 5, 2025
31
If You Give A.I. a Nuke
24:51 Nov 30, 2025
32
Rebroadcast: Dupes!
30:31 Nov 28, 2025
33
The Surveillance Interstate
27:30 Nov 23, 2025
34
Crypto Keeps Criming
21:27 Nov 21, 2025
35
How Meta Profits Off Fraud
28:39 Nov 16, 2025
36
Data Centers on the Ballot
21:40 Nov 14, 2025
37
Why Tesla Is Paying Elon a Trillion Bucks
27:15 Nov 9, 2025
38
The Nick Fuentes Problem
21:53 Nov 7, 2025
39
Why Trump Keeps Pardoning Crypto Criminals
27:23 Nov 2, 2025
40
Inside the Goonerverse
26:22 Oct 31, 2025
41
Did The Trump Administration Censor Speech?
28:34 Oct 26, 2025
42
The AWS Outage is Only the Beginning
28:19 Oct 24, 2025
43
Why Bands Are Leaving Spotify
17:32 Oct 19, 2025
44
Inside the MAGA Content Mill
23:30 Oct 17, 2025
45
A.I. for Cops
24:29 Oct 12, 2025
46
The People Suing ICE
21:44 Oct 10, 2025
47
Saudi Arabia Gets into EA’s Games
20:09 Oct 5, 2025
48
Who Owns TikTok Now?
25:10 Oct 3, 2025
49
Trapped in a Tesla
24:02 Sep 28, 2025
50
How Trump Got Obsessed with Autism
28:52 Sep 26, 2025
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