Gadget Lab: Weekly Tech News from WIRED
Hosted by Leah and Brian and Katie · WIRED
4.2from 780 ratings
- 479
- Episodes
- 242
- Transcribed
- 780
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 5B
- YouTube views
About Gadget Lab: Weekly Tech News from WIRED
Welcome to Uncanny Valley—an insider look at the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley—where each week, WIRED’s writers and editors bring you original reporting and analysis about some of the biggest stories in tech. On Tuesdays, The Big Interview with WIRED’s Global Editorial Director Katie Drummond in conversation with influential figures in culture, politics, business, science, and beyond for a discussion captured through the WIRED lens. On Thursdays, WIRED writers and editors Zoë Schiffer, Brian Barrett and Leah Feiger add you to the Slack group thread to let you into what they’re hearing from sources in Silicon Valley and D.C, read you into what trends you should be watching for and how WIRED is thinking about it all.
- Publisher
- WIRED
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Dec 2018
- Latest episode
- 5 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
242 of 479 episodes have a transcript.
5 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Elon Musk and Big Tech Poured Millions Into the Midterms, and Lost
3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers
29 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How a Contractor's AI Agent Got Into the Pentagon; Anthropic’s Doomer IPO; ICE at the Polls?
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How Elon Musk and Big Tech Poured Millions Into the Midterms, and Lost
Published 5 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah, look, in total, Musk's America PAC spent about close to $500 million, actually, half a billion dollars this midterm cycle, him alone. I mean, if you kind of conceptualize that sort of spending, the way I think about it, I think, is he effectively ran a shadow Republican National Committee. […]
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- Jess Asato
- Katie Drummond
- Mary Anne Franks
- Nathan Fielder
- Reece Rogers
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- YouTube views
- 4,585,827,936
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.1 / 5
- 552 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 228 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 97 / 100
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- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Leah and Brian and Katie host the show. Published by WIRED.
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