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Rethinking Tech — 172 episodes

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Anthropic’s AI Strategy Explained: Safety Company or the Smartest PR Machine in Tech?

2

South Africa’s AI Policy Problem and the Risk for the Global South

3

Europe, AI, and the Environmental Cost No One Wanted to See

4

WhatsApp, Encryption, and the Data You Never Really Controlled

5

PR Is Controlling What You Believe (Not the News)

6

Elon vs Altman Isn't Just About Ego

7

China, Meta, Manus — And The New Rules Of Tech Sovereignty

8

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting And The Collapse Of Trust

9

The EU’s Age Verification App: The Pros And Cons

10

Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Ideology Behind Defense Tech

11

How Social Media Turned Male Insecurity Into A Business

12

Is Elon Musk Claiming Space? The Politics of 1 Million Satellites

13

Is Death An Acceptable Cost? Like Big Auto, Big Tech May Think So.

14

The New Space Race: SpaceX’s 1 Million Satellites & The Hidden Power Grab

15

Inside China’s AI Boom: Tech Wars & the Future Beyond the West

16

Why The Gulf Is Rethinking US Tech After The Iran War

17

Why Sam Altman’s Most Personal Blog Post Still Raises Red Flags

18

Iran’s Threat to Apple, Google, and Nvidia Is Bigger Than It Looks

19

Meta Knew It Was Harming Kids… And Did It Anyway | Big Tech’s Tobacco Moment?

20

Walmart and OpenAI Broke Up - Because They Didn't Get It

21

Instagram Is Killing Encryption — And The Story Is Bigger Than Privacy

22

Microsoft Just Had Its Worst Quarter Since 2008 — Is AI to Blame?

23

Meta Built an AI Co-CEO - Is It Just About Efficiency?

24

Iran Hacked the FBI Director - Is It Bigger Than It Sounds

25

The U.S. Wants to Control AI… And Take Power From States

26

They Tried to Buy the Truth… Then Threatened Him When He Refused

27

AI Can Identify You From Just 5 Comments… For $4

28

Millions Fooled by an AI Influencer… And That’s the Real Story

29

DoorDash Isn’t Delivering Food Anymore… It’s Training AI

30

OpenAI’s ‘Naughty Mode’ Was Never Just About Sex

31

Flying Taxis Are Finally Here… But the US Is Already Behind

32

Did a Tech CEO Just Admit AI Will Shift Power… On Purpose?

33

ChatGPT Helped Cure Cancer… But Would It Be Allowed for Humans?

34

AI Sovereignty Is a Myth… And Everyone Is Still Chasing It

35

Elon Musk’s “Macrohard”… Could Replace Entire Companies?

36

A $99 Weapon on GitHub… And No One Can Stop It

37

Palantir Exposed: The AI Powering Modern War (And Why No One Can Replace It)

38

Is Data the New Oil? The Internet’s Hidden War & Global Power Shift

39

Google’s NotebookLM Privacy Scare: Is Your Data Actually Safe in AI Tools?

40

Are Chinese AI Models Rewriting Reality? DeepSeek, Bias & The Global Narrative War

41

Your Glasses Are Watching You: Meta AI, Hidden Cameras & The Privacy Illusion

42

AI Warfare Is Here: Drones, Algorithms & The End of Human Control?

43

Iran vs The AI Economy: Why Data Centers Are Becoming War Targets?

44

You’re Being Censored Without Knowing It | The Hidden Power of Algorithms

45

Anthropic’s AI Ethics Reversal: Did the “Safest AI Company” Just Break Its Promise?

46

Anthropic vs The Pentagon: The AI Lawsuit That Could Change Everything

47

AI Running for Office? Colombia’s Digital Avatar Candidate Explained

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Is AI Becoming Conscious? Anthropic CEO Says Claude Might Feel “Anxiety”

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Big Tech’s Secret AI Power Deal with Trump | Who Really Pays for AI’s Energy?

50

eBay’s Bizarre Scandal: Executives Sent Spiders & a Bloody Mask to Silence Critics

51

AI Targeted a Head of State: Inside the Tech Powering Modern Warfare | Anthropic vs Pentagon

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Meta’s Creepy New Idea: AI That Talks as You After You Die

53

The Hidden AI Sweatshops: How Kenyan Gig Workers Train Military AI Without Knowing

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Anthropic’s Distillation Attack: Is AI Model Theft the Next Cyber War?

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🎙️ India’s AI Impact Summit: Sovereignty, Silicon Valley & Who Really Controls AI

56

OpenAI Poaches Instagram’s Celebrity Power Broker — Is AI’s Hollywood Moment Coming?

57

Microsoft Copilot “Bug” Read Your Draft Emails? AI Privacy Just Collapsed

58

NVIDIA x Meta: $50B AI Power Move Toward “Personal Superintelligence”

59

Apple + SpaceX = The End of Telcos? Starlink Internet Direct to iPhone

60

AI vs The Pentagon: Anthropic Draws a Line on Military Use. Who Controls the Ethical Guardrails?

61

The Vatican Enters Wall Street: Faith-Based Investing Goes Global

62

The Epstein Files & The Digital Blackmail State | Surveillance, Power & Data Sovereignty

63

Russia’s Global PsyOps Playbook: Inside the 1,430-Page Disinformation Leak

64

Meta, TikTok & Snap Agree to Teen Safety Ratings – Real Reform or Clever PR?

65

Google Employees Revolt Over ICE Contracts – Does Worker Activism Still Matter in Big Tech?

66

Dubai’s Global SWAT Games: When Elite Military Forces Become Reality TV

67

Meta’s Smart Glasses Can Identify You Instantly — Is Wearable Facial Recognition the End of Privacy?

68

OpenClaw’s Founder Joins OpenAI: Is This the Future of AI Agents — or the End of Open Source?

69

MrBeast Bought a Bank? The Influencer Play for Gen Z Finance

70

Super Bowl 2026: AI Propaganda, Claude vs ChatGPT, and the Politics of the Benito Bowl

71

AI Just Shook India’s $250B IT Industry — Is Outsourcing Dead?

72

Is TikTok Censoring U.S. Users? Free Speech, Ownership & Algorithmic Control

73

Betting on War? The Rise of Kalshi, Polymarket & Geopolitical Arbitrage

74

Is the EU Really Banning “Addictive Design”? TikTok, Dark Patterns & the DSA

75

The Silicon Valley Playbook: How Tech Billionaires Bend the Rules

76

An 8-Year-Old Used AI to Deepfake a Teacher — What Are We Failing to Protect?

77

France Is Ditching US Big Tech — Is Digital Sovereignty Finally Real?

78

India–EU Free Trade Deal: A New Power Bloc Emerges as the US Pushes Back

79

Moltbook: When AI Agents Get Their Own Social Network

80

Tesla Isn’t a Car Company Anymore: Elon Musk’s Bet on AI, Robots, and Space

81

Fighter Jets, Sovereignty, and Pressure Politics: Canada Pushes Back on the U.S.

82

Who Really Controls Africa’s Internet? Big Tech, Satellites, and Data Power

83

Davos 2026 Wasn’t Optimism — It Was a Power Map (AI, Greenland, and the Middle-Power Reset)

84

Apple Lets Google Into Siri — and Platform Power Quietly Shifts

85

DOGE, Elon Musk, and the Social Security Data Leak No One Can Fully Explain

86

TikTok Knows Where You Are Now — And That Changes Everything

87

Your Doorbell, Their Database: How Ring Cameras Ended Up in ICE Investigations

88

Canada Drops China EV Tariffs — What Happens Next?

89

ChatGPT Is Getting Ads — Is This the AI Industry’s Turning Point?

90

China’s Mega Embassy in London — Security Risk or Diplomatic Reality?

91

Who’s Making Your Music — Real Artists or Spotify's AI Algorithm?

92

Microsoft’s Data Center Bet — Who Pays When AI Drains Local Resources?

93

Why the U.S. Wants Greenland — National Security or Strategic Resources?

94

The Tony Blair Institute’s Pivot — From Think Tank to Defense Tech

95

When Public Broadcasting Walks Away — Trust, Funding, and the Erosion of Public Media

96

DJI’s Corporate Web — and How It Triggered a U.S. Tech Crackdown

97

2026 Predictions: How Tech, Geopolitics, and Ethics Collide Next

98

ICE Has a Bigger Tech Budget Than You Think — Here’s Where the Money Goes

99

Iran vs Starlink: What Happens When a State Loses Control of the Internet

100

The Spotify Clone That Nobody Can Shut Down - Is Napster Back?

101

This Crypto Bank Could Change Global Finance

102

The Renee Good Shooting — And the Fake News Spiral Putting People in Danger

103

Why Grok Has Governments Panicking - Sanctions, Safeguards, and Society

104

The World Is Rearming — Here Are The Tech And Geopolitics Driving It

105

TikTok Just Became Two Companies

106

The Dollar Is Losing Its Grip — And the World Is Preparing for What Comes Next

107

Iran Is Selling Weapons for Crypto — And It’s Changing Everything

108

The U.S. Just Armed Taiwan — Here’s What It Means for China

109

Trump Wants Greenland — And It Could Change Global Power

110

U.S. Border Agents Will Now Check Your Social Media

111

Jeff Bezos Is Building Something New — Here’s Why It Matters

112

Would You Date an AI? The Rise of Synthetic Relationships

113

We Predicted 2025 — Here’s What We Got Right (And Very Wrong)

114

EU–US Data Transfers Are Under Threat — Again

115

Trump Reopens Nvidia Chip Sales to China — With a Catch

116

OpenAI Declares Code Red — Everything Is Changing Or Is It?

117

China Names Dutch Spies — A Dangerous Escalation in the Nexperia Saga

118

Pax Silica: The Anti-China Chip Alliance That Could Rewire the World!

119

Australia Just Banned Social Media for Teens: Is This the Start of a Global Crackdown?

120

Technopolitics - Understanding How Geopolitics Is Reshaping Global Tech: What Business Leaders Need to Know

121

How Advertising in LLMs Could Reshape Power, Influence & Politics

122

European Values are being Rewritten by U.S. Big Tech | Digital Sovereignty, Geopolitics, AI & Ethics

123

Data Colonization: Are We Users or Resources? | Big Tech, Geopolitics & the Fight for Digital Power

124

Rethinking Tech // Unpacked: “The Auto Revolution No One’s Talking About: How Tech Took Over the Auto Industry"

125

"AI, Youth & The Loneliness Epidemic: Are We Raising a Generation Shaped by Algorithms?"

126

Big Tech’s Dangerous Power: How Deregulation Is Rewriting Politics — A Conversation with Pat de Brun

127

The Future of Learning: AI, Access & the Fight for Inclusive Education | UNICEF x Rethinking Tech

128

The Tech War: US-China Relations

129

Bitcoin or Bust: Why Fiat Currency Is the Real Scam — A Conversation with Aleks Svetski

130

Can Democracy Survive the Digital Age? 💻

131

Immigration at a Breaking Point: Who’s in Charge? 🌎

132

Living Neurons Running AI? FinalSpark’s Radical Biocomputing Breakthrough Explained 🧠⚡🌍

133

Trump’s TikTok Deal Explained: Security or Power Grab? 🔒🌍

134

Nepal Internet Blackout Triggers Riots and Global Shockwaves

135

Google Beats Antitrust: Capitalism on Trial, Trust on the Line 💥

136

Washington’s 10% Intel Stake: Capitalism Will Never Be the Same 💥

137

Ali Amin on Health Tech | Wearables, Data Privacy & the Future of Longevity

138

Rethinking Ethics of AI: Children, Work, and the Future of Human Connection 🤖🌍

139

The AI Hype Train: Billionaires, Geopolitics & the Gamble That Could Change Everything

140

Guest Episode: A Discussion with Eugenia Olliaro on Youth Engagement | Why Youth Voices Matter in Tech & Policy

141

🎙️E27: Trump’s Tariff Chess Game: How It’s Shaking Canada, China, India & Big Tech

142

Guest Episode: Bo Viktor Nylund on Navigating Crisis, Change & Liminality

143

🎙️E26: The American Dream Reimagined: Is It Still Alive in 2025?

144

🎙️E25: Rethinking How Tech is Changing Travel Forever

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Guest Episode: Safir Jamal on Travel Tech - Rethinking How Politics, Algorithms & Data Shape Global Travel

146

🎙️ E24: Rethinking the Browser Wars: Big Tech, Privacy, and the Future of Browsing

147

Guest Episode: Stefaan Verhulst on PeaceTech - Rethinking Technology in Global Conflict

148

🎙️E23: Rethinking the Nobel Peace Prize: Politics, Tech, and the Future of “Peace” Awards

149

🎙️E22: Rwanda–DRC Peace Deal: Cobalt, Colonialism & Washington’s New Power Play

150

🎙️ EP 21: NATO 2025: Tech-Driven Defense, U.S. Leadership & the New Arms Race

151

🎙️ EP20: The Iran-Israel Flashpoint — Tech, Power & the New Rules of Conflict

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🎙️ EP19: Rethinking the American Spring — Protests, Data, and the Fight for Autonomy

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🎙️ EP18: Elon Musk’s First 130 Days — A Report Card for the Age of Geopolitical Disruption

154

🎙️ EP17: Rethinking Ivy League Education — The Crisis, The Future & The Global Stakes

155

Guest Episode: Rethinking Elections — Ruth Cabal on Elections, Journalism & Disinformation

156

🎙️ EP16: Rethinking Childhood — AI, Tech, and Social Media Transforming Kids’ Lives

157

🎙️ EP15: Rethinking the Middle East — Trillions, Tech & the Geopolitics of Soft Power

158

🎙️ EP14: Rethinking Non-Profit Structure - Profits, Power and Perception

159

🎙️ EP13: Rethinking Antitrust - The games played by David and Goliath

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🎙️ EP12: Rethinking Religion and Technology — A New Faith in the Digital World

161

🎙️ EP11: Rethinking Intellectual Property — A Free-for-All Future?

162

🎙️ EP10: Rethinking Tariffs — When National Interest Meets Global Friction

163

🎙️ EP09: Rethinking xAI – Freedom, Power, and the New Data War

164

🎙️ EP08: Rethinking Open AI - Are we paying $20 a month towards our unemployment?

165

EP00: Meet the Co-Hosts — Aparna & Harinda

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🎙️ E07: Rethinking Short Form Content - When Content Gets Too Fast to Digest

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E06: Rethinking DOGEification - Is it a war on Value or Values?

168

E05: Rethinking Freedom of Speech – Who Really Owns the Right to Speak?

169

E04: Rethinking Rare Earth Minerals – The Secret War No One Is Talking About

170

E03: Rethinking 2025 Predictions - What the tech is going to happen in 2025?

171

E02: Rethinking the Paris AI Summit - Contemplating the EU's role in AI or AI's role in the EU

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E01: Rethinking DeepSeek - the AI Disruptor We Were Not Ready For