As the digital age charges on, what do we stand to gain, and what might we lose? Who's calling the shots and why, from artificial intelligence to data protection? No matter how much time you spend online, technology is changing your life. Find out how every Sunday at 3:09pm Paris time.
Latest episodes
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5 min
Why I quit the movement shaping AI
Artificial intelligence insiders are quitting their jobs, saying the technology could mean the end of humanity. Pope Leo, on his recent visit to France, warned of a "paradise of ma…
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3 min
Behind the scenes of Céline Dion's high-tech comeback
You'll no doubt have seen the coverage of singer Céline Dion's return from illness and her Paris residency. But here's a different angle: the audio technology keeping her stage qui…
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6 min
AI-pocalypse? Tech leaders, politicians clash over development slowdown
Insider warnings, hacking scares during tests and a US-China race have split the industry and Washington.
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Driverless taxi services are rolling out fast across the world
From Austin to London, the current robotaxi boom is raising hard questions about safety and jobs. We take a closer look in this edition of Tech 24.
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6 min
Why Anthropic won't mind Alibaba's Claude ban
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has ordered staff to stop using Anthropic's Claude Code after the US coding tool was found to be flagging users’ connecting from China. But Anthropic is…
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6 min
What France gets wrong about air conditioning
Is this the heatwave that finally changes French minds on air conditioning? Not for Environment Minister Monique Barbut. She said she was "horrified" by the idea of it becoming wid…
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6 min
Love, loneliness and robots: AI prompts new questions around human connection
VivaTech turned 10 this year and Europe's biggest tech showcase has never been louder, shinier or more crowded. But walking the show floors, FRANCE 24 tech reporters Charlotte Lam…
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Tech 24 takes to the skies as VivaTech takes over the Champs-Élysées
France's biggest geek get-together started with a bang this year. For its 10th anniversary, the VivaTech trade show took to the Champs-Élysées, billing the installation as "Europe'…
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7 min
Washington, Brussels stake their claims on AI as trillion-dollar IPO wave begins
With SpaceX set to become the first AI-era giant to go public on Friday June 12, governments on both sides of the Atlantic are racing to define their relationship with the industry…
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7 min
A 'second brain' on your face: Testing the AI glasses built by Meta's hackers
They first made headlines by bolting facial recognition onto Meta's Ray-Bans to show how easily the technology could identify strangers in the street. Now AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine A…
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Are Google and SpaceX plotting space-based data centres?
Tech giants are increasingly looking beyond Earth to solve one of AI's biggest growing pains: where to put all the computers.
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Iran 'slopaganda': We tried recreating viral Lego-style AI videos
After Donald Trump announced a pause to the US operation in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's online propaganda machine was quick to declare victory. Explosive Media, one of the groups…
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Musk vs. Altman: Battle of the tech bros underway in California courthouse
It's being called the most consequential courtroom drama Silicon Valley has ever produced. Elon Musk, the world's richest man, is squaring off against Sam Altman, the man who put a…
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AI is already getting boring
It could end white-collar work. It could end poverty. It could end humanity. From AI's boosters and doomsters alike, bumptious predictions abound. But in workplaces, the technology…
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Should kids be banned from social media? The world is deciding
From the announcement of a new EU age-verification app to a video summit of European leaders and legal threats in Australia, governments moved quickly this week on a debate years i…
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Why Anthropic's new AI model is too powerful to release
One of the world's leading AI companies has built a model so powerful that it refuses to fully release it publicly just yet, prompting urgent talks with everyone from Wall Street C…
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7 min
The law is coming for social media, with the science still uncertain
The law is finally catching up with social media. This week, a California jury found Meta and Google liable for addicting a child to their platforms. On Tuesday, the French Senate…
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6 min
Is this the beginning of the end for the Metaverse?
Five years and more than $80 billion later, Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality dream seems to be being dismantled, and replaced with equally ambitious AI projects. We take a closer…
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#QuitGPT: Can an AI boycott really change big tech?
It started quietly, with a handful of posts on tech forums and Reddit explaining why and how you should uninstall and unsubscribe from ChatGPT. Now the campaign #QuitGPT has more t…
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Trump announces AI chatbot ban while Pentagon uses it to prepare Iran attacks
In the hours leading up to the US attack on Iran, Donald Trump announced that technology company Anthropic would be banned from all work with the federal government. At the same ti…