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
How Grok Filled X With Deepfake Porn (11.01.2026)
Previous Episodes
- Betting on Venezuela
- Are We Over the Moon?
- 2025: Dystopian Tech of the Year
- 2025: The Meme of the Year
- Is the A.I. Bubble Bursting? | 2025 in Review
- We Made a Memecoin | 2025 in Review
- Data Center Space Race
- Whole Shopping List
- Ready for Chatbot Canvassers?
- ChatGOP?
- The AI & Crypto Czar’s Conflicts
- If You Give A.I. a Nuke
- Rebroadcast: Dupes!
- The Surveillance Interstate
- Crypto Keeps Criming
- How Meta Profits Off Fraud
- Data Centers on the Ballot
- Why Tesla Is Paying Elon a Trillion Bucks
- The Nick Fuentes Problem
- Why Trump Keeps Pardoning Crypto Criminals
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