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

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

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.

Latest Episode

Saudi Arabia Gets into EA’s Games (05.10.2025)

Previous Episodes

  • Who Owns TikTok Now? 03.10.2025
  • Trapped in a Tesla 28.09.2025
  • How Trump Got Obsessed with Autism 26.09.2025
  • Is A.I. Taking Your Job? 21.09.2025
  • The Discourse | TikTok Ban: The Final Loop? 19.09.2025
  • A Very Online Shooter 19.09.2025
  • Her Daughter Killed Herself. Then She Saw the ChatGPT logs. 14.09.2025
  • You Can't Escape the Charlie Kirk Video 12.09.2025
  • End of an Electric Avenue 07.09.2025
  • Is the A.I. Bubble Bursting? 05.09.2025
  • A24 Meets A.I. 31.08.2025
  • The Great Celebrity Spotify Playlist Hack 29.08.2025
  • Trump Vs. Cancer Research 24.08.2025
  • The CDC Under Fire 22.08.2025
  • Down the Text-Scam Rabbit Hole 17.08.2025
  • Trump Dips into NVIDIA’s Chips 15.08.2025
  • Here Comes the A.I. Music Slop 10.08.2025
  • What Happened After Meta Fired Its Fact-Checkers 08.08.2025
  • The A.I. Data Center Push That Wasn't 03.08.2025
  • The Death of an Online Whisper Network 01.08.2025

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