Chancellor Rachel Reeves only mentioned AI once and didn’t mention quantum at all in the Budget. Why? Wasn’t quantum meant to be a shining light for British innovation? Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel Walker explain why.

Also, we’re joined by Dr. Carolina Are and Maedb Joy to discuss what campaigners are calling “the digital erasure of queer communities” across Instagram, Facebook and even WhatsApp. What does that meant for creators and wider society?

Finally, who wins the AI chip race? NVidia? Google? A company we haven’t heard of? All will become (slightly more) clear.

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Keywords: algorithm overreach, Meta policies, creator challenges, censorship, communication, social media, content creation, algorithm learning, algo speak

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Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker try to work out whether Nvidia being bigger than the entire British economy is a good thing (spoiler: it isn't), if tech has any way to innovate its way away from monopoly powers (spoiler: it doesn't) and the EU has finally put a price on how annoying cookie banner pop-ups are (spoiler: it's billions)

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Crashed is an Everything Popular is Wrong production. Follow us on all your favourite podcast platforms. The title music is from Nuffer, check them out on all the streamers. We’re hosted by Acast, assisted by Riverside Studios and we are published every Thursday morning.

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Crashed: the technology podcast about the ethics, the policy, the politics, the business of tech.

In this episode, hosts Alex Hudson and Chris Stoker Walker uncover a Trump-like plot to bring the 900-page Conservative Christian Project 2025 doctrine to the UK. They also try to pick apart the tech that could influence the next General Election, the latest on the EU/US/China AI wars and how this all relates to the 1990s’ Saturday night TV national treasure Mr Blobby.

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Keywords: AI dominance, economic power, social control, political influence, advanced chips, AI infrastructure, global race

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All the unicorns keep moving to America, and the EU is willing to spend €300 billion to try to stop that from happening. Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker get to grips with whether it's too little too late, if a "think boring" strategy might be successful, and whether a green energy revolution might have already happened, despite what politicians might tell you.

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Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker try to work out what Microsoft taking a multi-billion-dollar cut in its OpenAI stake means in practice; whether that means general AI is closer (or further away) than ever; and how it all impacts the AI Cold War… which may not even be a war.

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Crashed delves into the complexities of technology and its implications on politics, business, and wider society. It’s smart, it’s nerdy, and it’s two journalists trying to make sense of a complex tech landscape in the UK.

Keywords: AI dominance, economic power, social control, political influence, advanced chips, AI infrastructure, global race

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In this conversation, presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker discuss the AI bubble, AI slop, and the supposed demise of human contact. Harvard PhD candidate Shae Omonijo joins the pair to discuss her thesis on the implications of AI-generated content and the importance of high-quality data.

You'll also get insight into what AWS outages mean, what attention spans are doing to algorithm and how this all ties in with The Last of the Summer Wine

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AI, AI Slop, Data Quality, Human Creativity, AI Standards, AI Companies, Cultural Renaissance, AI Bubble, AWS Outages, Digital Infrastructure

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