Holiday Special: Part 1 - AI Hope vs Hype!
The Times Tech Podcast
Will Morley
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In the biggest, most shameless holiday name-drop of the year, Katie and Danny bring you – in no particular order – insights from Sam Altman of OpenAI, AMD’s Lisa Su, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Satya Nadella from Microsoft, Matthew Prince of Cloudflare, Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI, Sir Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, Marc Benioff from Salesforce, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei.
A whole smattering of billionaires, with a Nobel laureate mixed in too. So, what have they all told us about the AI rollout and what it really means? This is the first of a two-part Christmas extravaganza, where we look back at the world of AI covered on the pod with more than a year's worth of big-tech leaders returning to help us distinguish the potential of AI from the reality. (Just don’t mention the B-word!)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Times Tech Podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | I am Danny Fordson, Danny in the Valley. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm Katie Prescott, Katie in the City, the City of London. |
| 0:23.5 | So... Katie in the City, the City of London. So, everybody, welcome to this special edition of the Times TechPod, where we explain AI and everything else new in tech. |
| 0:33.3 | And for the last year, we've been chronicling tech in all of its forms. |
| 0:41.6 | And today, we're going to look back on the year of the pod that was. |
| 0:47.3 | And in some ways, try and separate, if this is mixing metaphors, the bubbles from the bathwater. |
| 0:53.5 | That's right. |
| 0:56.1 | So we're going to launch into a two-part. |
| 0:58.1 | I'm going to call it an extravaganza. |
| 0:59.2 | I don't think that's over the top. |
| 1:03.8 | Where we cover the biggest themes that have merged over this past year. |
| 1:08.9 | This week, we're going to cover four areas. They include, first, the great promise of AI. What's this all about? Then we get going to cover four areas they include first the great promise of a i what's this all |
| 1:12.9 | about then we get on to uh one of the key ingredients data who owns it what it's worth third topic is |
| 1:21.2 | the cost how are we going to pay for all of this who's footing the bill and lastly and very neatly |
| 1:26.6 | the final question for today's |
| 1:28.7 | episode, the question of the AI bubble. Are we in one and should we be scared? So that is, |
| 1:35.6 | you know, the run of show, as it were. And we're going to do this by showcasing the best of who we |
| 1:41.3 | call our friends of the podcast, all the friends that we've made this year. |
| 1:45.1 | So many friends. |
| 1:46.0 | So many friends. |
| 1:47.1 | Looking at everything, really, from data centers in space all the way through to the AGI race, all here in one place. |
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