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Winners, Losers & WTF Moments: A Look Back at 2025’s Top Tech Stories

12/22/2025 • 63 min

From an unenforced TikTok ban and a chatbot calling itself MechaHitler to mounting fears that we’re in an AI bubble, 2025 was another messy year for the tech industry. We watched billionaire CEOs fully align themselves with President Trump, Nvidia become the first $5 trillion company, and Elon Musk’s popularity tank, thanks to his DOGE antics (and yet he could s… Play episode

The End of Human Driving? with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s Slide into Techno-Authoritarianism
Rachel Maddow on Japanese Incarceration During WWII, Mass Deportation & Me…
Beyond ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Margaret Atwood on Memoir, Grudges, & Gettin…
Tech Billionaires & the Rural Poor: Two Sides of Trump’s MAGA Populism
Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief
Fighting for Truth in a Rage-Driven Algorithmic Age with Jessica Yellin
Jennifer Welch of 'I’ve Had It' Blasts Both MAGA & Centrist Dems
Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit
Ken Burns & Sarah Botstein on Finding Hope in America’s Brutal Beginnings
'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton Rings the Warning Bells
What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Future of AI with Nick Foster
How Trump Dismantled the Department of Justice with Carol Leonnig
Why Scott Galloway Wants Us To Celebrate Masculinity, Not Diminish It
Lessons on Capitalism from Patagonia’s Reluctant Billionaire
Judd Apatow on Meme Politics, Being Funny in 2025 & the Comedy Biz
Inside Trump’s DOJ Power Play & the Future of Special Counsels
Bernie Sanders on Beating Authoritarianism, Billionaires & AOC
How AI Will Impact the Future of Work
Kamala Harris on Trump, Tech’s Power Grab, and the Fight for Democracy
Brené Brown on the State of Leadership in America Today
Makeup Mogul Bobbi Brown on Reinventing Herself in Her 60s
Free Speech, Colleges & Trump with Princeton President Chris Eisgruber
Sen. Smith on the Shutdown, Democrats’ Future, and Retiring Early
Did ChatGPT Encourage a Teen Suicide? The Parents Suing OpenAI Say Yes
Pete Buttigieg on Biden, Trump, Gaza, and His 2028 Presidential Plans
Joe Manchin on Trump, the Dems & the Filibuster
How To AI: A Practical Business Q&A With Three Experts
Is AI Hollywood’s Newest Star? Runway AI’s Vision for the Future of Film
How A ‘Brittle’ Constitution Broke U.S. Politics with Historian Jill Lepore
Liberal Media Bias, Trump & Taming Big Tech with Cable Impresario John Mal…
Labor Day Special: Hacks On Tap
Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media
Cartoons, Capitalism & Censorship: Alison Bechdel & Ann Telnaes on Politic…
Why Trump’s Economic Illiteracy Might *Not* Tank the Economy
Why Trump’s Cartoonish Fascism Is So Effective with Jason Stanley
What Makes A Man? Richard Reeves on Addressing the Struggles Facing Boys a…
Unpacking the Myth of John F. Kennedy Jr.
Kids These Days: The Impact of Tech, Social Media and AI on Adolescents
Robert Reich on Democrats’ Failures, Trump’s Fascism & Populism
Journalists or Creators? How Media Entrepreneurs Are Reshaping News
Epstein, Trump & the MAGA Meltdown — Sorting Fact from Fiction
When AI F*s Up, Who’s to Blame? With Bruce Holsinger
TikTok Is Changing How We Talk & How We Vote
Making Trump Pay with E. Jean Carroll and Roberta Kaplan
Science vs. Silicon Valley with Adam Becker
Taking on Trump Family Corruption with Rep. Robert Garcia
The 2024 Election Post-Mortem: How Trump Beat the Odds
The Red Scare Returns? Lessons from McCarthyism in the Age of Trump 2.0

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