Episodes

  • Coconut trees and ‘brat’ behavior: A TikTok influencer’s take on Kamala Harris’s social media surge

    Coconut trees and ‘brat’ behavior: A TikTok influencer’s take on Kamala Harris’s social media surge
    Jul 29 2024
    It all started with a coconut tree. Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has become a sudden social media phenomenon, generating a flurry of funny videos and sassy tweets. But can Harris meme her way to the White House? On POLITICO Tech, host Steven Overly discusses her new online fandom and whether she can get them to the polls with TikTok influencer and political analyst Quentin Jiles.
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    19 mins
  • It’s a big deadline day for Biden’s AI executive order

    It’s a big deadline day for Biden’s AI executive order
    Jul 26 2024
    It’s been 270 days since President Joe Biden signed an executive order on artificial intelligence. That makes today a key deadline for the administration to release recommendations for how to make AI more safe and secure, including new guidelines the Commerce Department put out this morning. On POLITICO Tech, Elizabeth Kelly, the inaugural director of the U.S. AI Safety Institute, joins host Steven Overly to discuss the proposed guidelines and her office’s future.
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    17 mins
  • Looking back at the AI speech that left Brits upset with Kamala Harris

    Looking back at the AI speech that left Brits upset with Kamala Harris
    Jul 25 2024
    Last November, Vice President Kamala Harris outlined the Biden administration’s vision for artificial intelligence regulation in a speech at the U.S. embassy in London. But the policy address, delivered on the eve of a major U.K. AI summit, left some British officials feeling upstaged. On POLITICO Tech, reporter Vincent Manancourt revisits the incident in light of Harris becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
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    14 mins
  • How France is preparing for its global AI moment

    How France is preparing for its global AI moment
    Jul 24 2024
    The French are planning a major global gathering — and we’re not talking about the Olympics. The AI Action Summit may still be months out, but planning is already well underway. And it’s an opportunity for President Emmanuel Macron’s government to flex its artificial intelligence ambitions. On POLITICO Tech, reporter Mohar Chatterjee sits down with Anne Bouverot, the French AI envoy tasked with organizing the event.
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    20 mins
  • Would Kamala Harris offer Silicon Valley a do-over with Democrats?

    Would Kamala Harris offer Silicon Valley a do-over with Democrats?
    Jul 23 2024
    Vice President Kamala Harris has raised a lot of money from Silicon Valley over the years. From her campaigns for California Attorney General and U.S. Senator, to her first run at the White House, she’s been backed by executives from the likes of Google, Microsoft and Apple. Now that Harris is more or less the presumptive Democratic nominee, will tech support her again? Adam Kovacevich, the founder and CEO of the tech industry group Chamber of Progress, is making the case for it. He explains on today’s POLITICO Tech.
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    20 mins
  • What’s next for EU tech policy? Less regulation, more competition.

    What’s next for EU tech policy? Less regulation, more competition.
    Jul 22 2024
    Ursula von der Leyen was re-elected as president of the European Commission late last week. But another five years with her at the helm doesn’t necessarily mean more of the same tech policy. On POLITICO Tech, senior tech reporter Clothilde Goujard joins from Brussels to explain von der Leyen’s shifting focus from regulation to European competitiveness, and why it could put the European Union and U.S. on a collision course.
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    15 mins
  • Conspiracies followed Trump’s assassination attempt. Russia took note.

    Conspiracies followed Trump’s assassination attempt. Russia took note.
    Jul 19 2024
    After the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, social media platforms lit up with conspiracies. Speculation about whether it was all a political ploy. Or an inside job. But it wasn’t just happening in the U.S. Emerson Brooking has been tracking Russian propaganda all week as the director of strategy at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. On POLITICO Tech, he joins host Steven Overly to talk about how the Kremlin spun the shooting and what that could mean for Russia’s disinformation playbook between now and Election Day.
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    15 mins
  • Your field report from a lite-on-tech RNC

    Your field report from a lite-on-tech RNC
    Jul 18 2024
    The Republican National Convention wraps up tonight and, it turns out, tech wasn’t high up on the GOP’s agenda in Milwaukee. But POLITICO reporter Brendan Bordelon nevertheless tracked down the chatter about social media, TikTok, AI and more. He joins POLITICO Tech from Milwaukee to give us the grist on the ground.
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    15 mins