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The Times Tech Podcast

Can the UK invent the next internet?

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The internet, GPS, autonomous vehicles... they all have one thing in common: they're existence is in large part down to the DARPA (the US Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). And the UK is trying to repeat the success of that agency with its own: ARIA (the Advanced Research and Invention Agency). The organisation's CEO, Ilan Gur, joins Katie to discuss how.


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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, just a quick note before we get into today's show to say that we recorded

0:07.9

before a very big announcement in Techland, which was, of course, that OpenAI was buying for

0:14.8

$6.4 billion, the design firm founded by Sir Johnny Ive, the creator of the iPhone.

0:22.8

Now, we will get into the nitty-gritty of it all next week, but the idea is very big here.

0:27.5

It is potentially, you know, a moment for the tech industry because the conceit of them getting

0:33.2

together is that the iPhone is nearly two decades old.

0:36.9

And I've and his team have been working on

0:38.8

something that is entirely new and new piece of technology that has purpose built for these new

0:43.3

AI systems. They have a prototype that's working. And potentially, we're going to have something

0:49.6

entirely new, except maybe that successor to the iPhone that people have been trying to figure out

0:54.5

for years and years and years, which is, of course, the most important product of one of the

0:58.7

largest companies in the world. So if they can pull it off, this new piece of tech could

1:04.2

change the way we interact with technology. So a lot to unpack, which we look forward to doing

1:10.3

next week. But until then, please enjoy this week's episode, which we look forward to doing next week.

1:10.9

But until then, please enjoy this week's episode, which is very good fun.

1:20.9

If you see something and you do not like it, is it good, quite good or quite good?

1:28.6

Like, how do you use the word good?

1:30.7

It's quite good or generally all right.

1:34.4

All right is bad.

1:35.7

All right.

1:36.2

Could be good or bad.

1:39.6

How does one know, though, if you are not from these shores?

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