Danny In The Valley

After many years in London, Danny Fortson returns to Silicon Valley to meet the new wave of tech entrepreneurs hoping to disrupt our lives.

  • 40 minutes 51 seconds
    A Very British AI Revolution!
    The Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, joins the pod to discuss the British Government's 'AI Opportunities Action Plan' (and Elon Musk). Plus, a new guide the UK's fastest growing tech companies is revealed by The Times and Sunday Times. Find it here - https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-100-tech/tech-feature/article/best-uk-tech-companies-2025-qzt9lcmnd

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    17 January 2025, 6:00 am
  • 40 minutes 45 seconds
    Sam Altman reflects on AI, Meta scraps fact-checkers, and data centres in outer space?
    Is AGI right around the corner? Sam Altman thinks so. Mark Zuckerberg decides to get rid of fact-checkers at Meta, at least for the USA. And what does it take to put data centres in space?

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    10 January 2025, 1:00 am
  • 33 minutes 1 second
    Big predictions for Big Tech in 2025!
    Happy New Year! If 2025 is half as fascinating as 2024, we're in for wild ride. So, to predict the future, Katie and Danny are joined by two venture capitalists who spend their days checking out where tech goes next. Interplanetary overdrive anyone?

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    3 January 2025, 1:00 am
  • 27 minutes
    Drone deliveries in London?

    Drones! Guys and St. Thomas' Hospital in London have started a pioneering trial using drones to deliver blood samples between the two sites. Sound simple, but this is one of the most regulated airspaces on the planet so how did they do it? Plus Katie and Danny get nostalgic for Christmas Tech past.



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    27 December 2024, 1:00 am
  • 43 minutes 43 seconds
    Anthropic's Dario Amodei on AI and the future
    Dario Amodei imagines that "powerful AI" will bring a golden future which people "will be literally moved to tears by". He talks about his grand vision and his grave concerns; and why he left OpenAI.

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    20 December 2024, 1:00 am
  • 40 minutes 5 seconds
    Be the "CEO of your own health" & GM pulls the plug on robotaxis
    Will an Oura ring change the health industry as we know it? The company's CEO Tom Hale is this week's guest. Plus, why GM have pulled the plug on their robotaxi and has Google come closer to achieving the dream of quantum computing?

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    13 December 2024, 1:19 am
  • 43 minutes 43 seconds
    The AI newsroom & Intel's fall from the top
    How can we trust the news in a world with artificially created content? Thomson Reuters CEO, Steve Hasker, joins the podcast to discuss the use of their information, and the future of journalism. Plus a look at Intel as the battle for chip supremacy goes on.

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    6 December 2024, 1:00 am
  • 39 minutes 24 seconds
    Google vs The Feds & Quantum computing for babies?

    What's the point of quantum computing now we have generative AI? Will quantum computing change the world? And just what is quantum computing anyway? Raj Hazra, CEO of Quantinuum, joins the show to explain. Plus the Bluesky debate continues, and should we use Google to find out what a monopolist is?


    Clip from BBC Radio 5Live Breakfast used by permission.

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    29 November 2024, 1:00 am
  • 44 minutes 11 seconds
    Bluesky is getting bigger but how big?
    Danny and Katie take on two big issues of the week - finding out from social media analyst Dan Whitmarsh just how big new social media platforms need to be. And software security expert Joe Levy talks about where crypto is taking us.

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    23 November 2024, 10:03 am
  • 47 minutes 7 seconds
    Are flying cars the future?
    The future might finally be here! Danny visits the headquarters of Joby Aviation, the company possibly furthest along in commercialising "flying cars" - just don't call them that! Plus, more on how the tech world is reacting to Donald Trump's victory and Elon Musk's new job.

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    15 November 2024, 1:00 am
  • 35 minutes 39 seconds
    Big tech and big politics
    Danny and Katie look at the implications for Tech with the return of President-elect Donald Trump to the Whitehouse. And media analyst, Renée DiResta joins Danny and Katie to talk about how the new digital media has changed politics - and what you can do to be heard. 

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    8 November 2024, 11:08 am
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