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“Hard Fork” is a show about the future that’s already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.
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Are We in an A.I. Bubble? We're About to Find Out.Oct 30, 2026 · 54 min
Are We in an A.I. Bubble? We're About to Find Out.Monday gave us the release of Anthropic’s S-1 filing, providing the clearest view yet into the business side of the A.I. boom and setting the stage for what could be the largest…
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What’s the Deal With Billy Evans? A Spoiler-Filled Guide to ‘You Can See Everything’Oct 23, 2026 · 59 min
What’s the Deal With Billy Evans? A Spoiler-Filled Guide to ‘You Can See Everything’This week, we focus on Billy Evans, the breakout character of the documentary “You Can See Everything,” and his Theranos-esque new blood-testing start-up. Rob Copeland, a New York…
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Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth HolmesOct 16, 2026 · 1 h 7 min
Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth HolmesThis week, there’s a new blockbuster Elizabeth Holmes documentary out, and we’ve assembled an expert panel to discuss the movie and what Holmes means to the tech world of today…
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Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. MoralsOct 9, 2026 · 44 min
Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. MoralsThis week, Max Read talks to the Times religion correspondent Elizabeth Dias, the tech reporter Erin Griffith and the opinion writer David Wallace-Wells about Anthropic’s private…
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A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?Oct 2, 2026 · 53 min
A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?This week, after months in which rogue agents have caused havoc across the internet, tech’s most powerful leaders joined President Trump at the White House to rebrand A.I. At the…
Oct 1, 2026 · 2 min
What’s Next for ‘Hard Fork’?For the next few months on “Hard Fork,” join the guest host Max Read and an array of Times reporters and experts as we zoom out, catch up and try to understand both what’s…
Sep 25, 2026 · 1 h 48 min
The Ezra Klein Show: Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too FarIn this episode, Ezra travels to Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., for a wide-ranging conversation with the chief executive Jensen Huang about the future of A.I. and…
Sep 18, 2026 · 1 h 24 min
A.I. Safety Goes Mainstream + a ‘Hard Fork’ Exit AMAThis week, we break down why everyone is suddenly talking about A.I. safety, why frontier A.I. companies are asking for regulation and why the Trump administration is rejecting…
Sep 11, 2026 · 1 h 20 min
The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is HereThe “Hard Fork” team is away this week. But while we’re away, we’re bringing you a recent episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” In this episode, Ezra talks with the journalist Jasmine…
Sep 4, 2026 · 1 h 19 min
The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya CotraThis week, we’re diving into two new reports about the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack. We discuss what’s new and how they fundamentally change our understanding of what happened. Then…
Aug 28, 2026 · 1 h 3 min
Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPTThis week, Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram over claims it endangered children with addictive social media platforms. We…
Aug 21, 2026 · 1 h 3 min
OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of ThoughtThis week, we learned that OpenAI had stopped training new artificial intelligence models while the company reviewed its security measures. Will this encourage other labs to hit…
Aug 14, 2026 · 1 h 3 min
Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. MathThis week we’re talking about Mark Zuckerberg’s latest essay, “The Future Is for Everyone,” which outlines his positive new vision about the potential of A.I. But do we think it’s…
Aug 7, 2026 · 1 h 5 min
The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess ExpressThis week, the White House announced a new framework for regulating A.I. models, but it isn’t letting the public read it. We break down what we know about the rules and what the…
Jul 31, 2026 · 1 h 7 min
Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop FightThis week, we break down the arguments about open-weight models unfolding in Silicon Valley right now. Nvidia released an open letter signed by over 230 companies opposing…
Jul 24, 2026 · 1 h 8 min
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. SuperforecastingThis week, OpenAI reported that two of its models escaped their testing sandbox and launched an autonomous cyberattack, turning what sounds like science fiction into reality. We…
Jul 17, 2026 · 1 h 10 min
The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPTThis week, feuding between some of the biggest tech companies spilled into public view. We discuss Apple’s accusation that OpenAI tried to steal secrets about Apple’s hardware…
Jul 10, 2026 · 1 h 19 min
Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool TimeThis week, with news that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up Texas’ age verification law for app stores, we check in on how social media bans are going around the globe and…
Jul 3, 2026 · 1 h 7 min
Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market DramaThis week, the Commerce Department lifted its restrictions on Anthropic’s powerful A.I. models, Claude Mythos and Claude Fable. We dissect why the government took such a hands-on…
Jun 26, 2026 · 1 h
‘The Daily’ and ‘The Opinions’: How A.I. Is Changing Loneliness and TasteThis week, we’re bringing you two A.I.-related stories from our colleagues at The New York Times. First, Rachel Abrams, a host of “The Daily,” talks with the Times reporter Eli…
Jun 19, 2026 · 56 min
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. FutureWe’re back with our final installment from Hard Fork Live, recorded at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In this episode, we’re joined by Sayash Kapoor and…
Jun 17, 2026 · 31 min
‘Hard Fork’ Live Part 2: Dylan Field on Standing Out in the A.I. EraWe’re back with more from our live event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In this episode, we sit down with Dylan Field, a founder and the chief executive…
Jun 12, 2026 · 1 h 6 min
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy CohnThis week and next, we’re bringing you recordings from our second-ever live taping in San Francisco. First, we sit down with Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, to hear…
Jun 5, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Hot I.P.O Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPTSpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI are all racing to the public markets. We discuss what their I.P.O.s mean for the industry, charitable giving and anyone invested in an index fund…
May 29, 2026 · 59 min
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?The “Hard Fork” team is taking a break this week as we prepare for our upcoming live show in San Francisco. While we’re away, we’re bringing you a recent episode of “Interesting…
May 22, 2026 · 55 min
Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System UpdateThis week, we headed to Mountain View, Calif., for the annual developer event Google I/O. We share our reactions to Google’s biggest announcements, including a revamped search box…
May 15, 2026 · 1 h 8 min
A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess ExpressThis week, between the president’s negotiations in China and a potential executive order, we discuss why the Trump administration seems to be changing its tune on A.I. safety…
May 8, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention SchoolThis week we’re taking another look at prediction markets and a new series of scandals. Is Congress finally ready to rein them in? Then, the journalist Joanna Stern returns to the…
May 1, 2026 · 1 h 10 min
OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLMThis week, OpenAI announced a loosened partnership with Microsoft and an aggressive new strategy to secure computing power. We unpack what these updates signal about OpenAI’s…
Apr 24, 2026 · 1 h 15 min
Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPTThis week, Tim Cook announced he would step down as chief executive of Apple. We discuss what he got right and what he got wrong, and we offer some unsolicited advice for his…
Apr 17, 2026 · 1 h 3 min
A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is ComingThis week, amid violent attacks on the homes of the OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and the Indianapolis councilman Ron Gibson, we debate why artificial intelligence and data…
Apr 10, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Their Sam Altman Investigation + One Good ThingThis week, we look at the cybersecurity threats that a new unreleased model from Anthropic are posing to software everywhere. And we ask whether Project Glasswing, the company’s…
Apr 3, 2026 · 1 h 9 min
The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPTLast week, two separate juries held social media companies liable for harming young users. We unpack what these landmark decisions mean — not only for the future of social…
Mar 27, 2026 · 1 h 40 min
The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?The “Hard Fork” team is off this week, taking a much-needed break. While we’re away, we wanted to draw your attention to a recent episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” In this…
Mar 20, 2026 · 1 h 1 min
‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + TokenmaxxingThis week, we start by talking about the new wave of tech layoffs at Atlassian and Block, as well as reports that Meta plans to cut up to 20 percent of its work force. This raises…
Mar 13, 2026 · 1 h 7 min
A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s IdentityA.I. is changing the ways war is waged. This week, we explore how the U.S. and Israel are using A.I. to identify targets in the conflict with Iran — and why data centers and fiber…
Mar 6, 2026 · 1 h 6 min
OpenAI's Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of SlopThis week, the fallout continues as OpenAI scrambles to rework its deal with the Pentagon, while government agencies adapt to life without Claude. Then we break down the grim new…
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At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is OutMar 1, 2026 · 33 min
At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is OutOn Friday, President Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s A.I. systems and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated the company a “supply chain risk.” Then…
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Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha SchoolFeb 27, 2026 · 1 h 1 min
Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha SchoolThis week, the economist Anton Korinek joins to break down how artificial intelligence is driving volatility in the job and stock markets. Then, the battle between the Pentagon and…
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The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess ExpressFeb 20, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess ExpressThis week, Anthropic is refusing to let the government use the company’s technology for autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance. In response, the Pentagon is threatening to…
Feb 13, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good ThingThis week, we discuss Wall Street’s software-stock sell-off and a viral essay on X about the potential for widespread job displacement from A.I. Then, the New York Times reporter…
Feb 6, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook CreatorThis week, the A.I. initial-public-offering race is heating up! We break down SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI, as well as OpenAI and Nvidia’s messy situationship. Then, it’s time for…
Feb 4, 2026 · 28 min
Moltbook Mania ExplainedA Reddit-style web forum for A.I. agents has captured the attention of the tech world. According to the site, called Moltbook, more than 1.5 million agents have contributed to over…
Jan 30, 2026 · 1 h 11 min
Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPTThis week we’re talking about the tech industry’s response to the killings by federal agents in Minneapolis and the federal government’s strategy to control the narrative on social…
Jan 23, 2026 · 1 h 14 min
Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New ConstitutionAds are coming to ChatGPT’s free and low-cost subscription tiers. We explain what they’ll look like, why OpenAI is taking this approach and whether the company can court…
Jan 16, 2026 · 1 h 14 min
Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the ForkiverseThis week, Jonathan Haidt, author of “The Anxious Generation,” returns to the show to discuss new research about how social media is harming teens and what it’s been like to become…
Jan 13, 2026 · 41 min
Can We Build a Better Social Network?Over the past year we’ve been working with the podcast “Search Engine” on a project that reimagines what the internet can be. What if instead of rage-baiting, a social platform…
Jan 9, 2026 · 1 h 16 min
Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit HoaxUsers of X are asking the platform’s built-in A.I. chatbot, Grok, to remove clothing from images of celebrities and everyday people. We talk with the New York Times reporter Kate…
Jan 2, 2026 · 59 min
Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your QuestionsHappy New Year! We’re kicking things off by sharing our tech resolutions for 2026 and reflecting on how we fared with our social media and meditation goals from last year. Then, we…
Dec 30, 2025 · 35 min
The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin RooseKevin recently joined the hosts of The Wirecutter Show for a conversation about the A.I. products he’s using, strategies to make chatbots work better and his beloved robot vacuums…
Dec 26, 2025 · 39 min
Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress?The leaders of the biggest A.I. labs argue that artificial intelligence will usher in a new era of scientific discovery, which will help us cure diseases and accelerate our ability…
Dec 19, 2025 · 1 h 4 min
Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas SongThis week, iRobot, the pioneering American robotics company behind the Roomba, filed for bankruptcy and announced that it would be taken over by its Chinese creditor. Colin Angle…
Dec 12, 2025 · 1 h 10 min
Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork WrappedThis week, Australia implemented the most aggressive social media ban in a democracy to date, kicking children under 16 off 10 of the most popular social platforms. We discuss how…
Dec 5, 2025 · 59 min
OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of SlopIt’s A.I. model rollout season in Silicon Valley, and OpenAI appears to be feeling the pressure. Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, sent a memo to staff on Monday declaring…
Nov 28, 2025 · 1 h 16 min
Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025Last year we debuted Hard Fork’s 100 Most Iconic Technologies list, in which we ranked the technologies from across all of history that best define life as we know it. To our…
Nov 25, 2025 · 46 min
The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture WarsLast month our colleague Lulu Garcia-Navarro had a conversation with Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales about the challenges the site is facing — including by right-wing…
Nov 21, 2025 · 40 min
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.Roblox's popularity has exploded among kids since the pandemic. Today Roblox has more than 150 million daily active users, and functions as one of the primary online gathering…
Nov 18, 2025 · 27 min
Google's Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early LookGoogle’s much anticipated new large language model Gemini 3 begins rolling out today. We’ll tell you what we learned from an early product briefing and bring you our conversation…
Nov 14, 2025 · 1 h 12 min
Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History MysteryThis week, we talk about Google’s new plan to build data centers in space. Then, we’re joined by Dean Ball, a former adviser at the White House Office of Science and Technology…
Nov 7, 2025 · 1 h 8 min
We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPTThis week, we’re joined by Bernt Bornich, chief executive of 1X. We talked with him about NEO, his company’s new humanoid robot, which has the internet buzzing. Then we meet NEO…
Oct 31, 2025 · 1 h 1 min
Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I.This week, Character.AI announced that it would soon be taking its A.I. companions away from teens. We explain why this is a major development in the world of chatbots and child…
Oct 24, 2025 · 1 h 8 min
Celebrities Fight Sora + Amazon’s Secret Automation Plans + ChatGPT Gets a BrowserBacklash to OpenAI’s video generation app Sora has reached a new tipping point. We discuss two big changes the company is making, after Bryan Cranston and the family of the Rev…
Oct 17, 2025 · 1 h 5 min
California Regulates A.I. Companions + OpenAI Investigates Its Critics + The Hard Fork Review of SlopThis week, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a big package of A.I. and social media bills into law — including the first state law in the United States to regulate A.I…
Oct 10, 2025 · 1 h 7 min
ChatGPT’s Platform Play + a Trillion-Dollar GPU Empire + the Queen of SlopThis week, we discuss the standout moments from our field trip to OpenAI’s third annual DevDay — including a bizarre chat between Jony Ive and Sam Altman, and the announcement that…
Oct 3, 2025 · 1 h 6 min
Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess ExpressThis week, we’re talking about the new A.I.-generated video tools and social media feeds from Google, Meta and OpenAI. Is this how A.I. is going to cure cancer? Then, the…
Sep 26, 2025 · 53 min
The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the RaptureThis week, an eye-popping $100 billion deal between OpenAI and Nvidia — along with an announcement about the construction of five new American data centers — has us re-examining…
Sep 19, 2025 · 1 h 14 min
Charlie Kirk and Online Rage + Inside Trump’s Chip Flip + This Week in A.I.This week, we discuss the assassination of Charlie Kirk, freedom of speech and the terrifying new reality of extremely online violence. Then The Times’s David Yaffe-Bellany brings…
Sep 12, 2025 · 1 h 12 min
Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. DoomApple’s yearly iPhone event took place this week, and it left us asking, Is Apple losing the juice? We break down all the new products the company announced and discuss where it…
Sep 5, 2025 · 1 h 12 min
A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of EducationThis week, we check in on the state of artificial intelligence in education. We talk with a co-founder of Alpha Schools, MacKenzie Price, about how her private K-12 schools are…
Aug 29, 2025 · 1 h 3 min
Intel’s New Deal + Waymo C.E.O. Tekedra Mawakana on Scaling Driverless Cars + Trumps in TechPresident Trump announced this week that the U.S. government, in a highly unusual deal, had agreed to take a 10 percent stake in the chip maker Intel, and that he was considering…
Aug 22, 2025 · 1 h 7 min
Is This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta’s Missing Morals + TikTok Shock SlopNote: This episode contains sexually explicit music. This week, the whole tech world seemed to be asking: Are we in an A.I. bubble? We’ll explore the cases for and against…
Aug 15, 2025 · 1 h 11 min
GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + Hot Mess ExpressOpenAI spent the week responding to outcry from users who miss the behavior of the old ChatGPT, before the latest flagship model was released. We discuss the criticism, why it…
Aug 8, 2025 · 1 h 13 min
GPT-5 Arrives, and We Try the New Alexa+This week, OpenAI released its much-anticipated flagship model, GPT-5. We break down what we know about the upgrade, drawing from our initial testing and a special news briefing…
Aug 1, 2025 · 1 h 12 min
Age-Gating the Internet + Cloudflare Takes On A.I. Scrapers + HatGPTThis week, we look at the fallout from a sweeping internet age-verification law that went into effect in Britain. We explain why age restrictions are suddenly popping up all over…
Jul 25, 2025 · 1 h 6 min
Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our CriticsOn Wednesday, President Trump signed three A.I.-related executive orders, and the White House released “America’s A.I. Action Plan.” We break down what’s in them, how the federal…
Jul 18, 2025 · 1 h 8 min
X Hits Grok Bottom + More A.I. Talent Wars + ‘Crypto Week’This week, we tick through the many dramatic headlines surrounding xAI, including the departure of X’s chief executive, Linda Yaccarino; the Grok chatbot spewing antisemitic…
Jul 11, 2025 · 1 h 2 min
Interesting Times: A Mind-Bending Conversation with Peter ThielThis week, we’re bringing you a recent interview from “Interesting Times with Ross Douthat,” one of The New York Times’s newest podcasts. In this episode, Ross sits down with Peter…
Jul 4, 2025 · 58 min
Hard Fork Live, Part 2: Patrick Collison of Stripe + Kathryn Zealand of Skip + Listener QuestionsWe’re back with part two of Hard Fork Live (see last week’s episode for part one). This week, Patrick Collison, Stripe’s chief executive, joins us onstage for a wide-ranging…
Jun 27, 2025 · 57 min
Hard Fork Live, Part 1: Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap of OpenAIThe first Hard Fork Live is officially in the books, and for those who couldn’t attend, we’re playing highlights from the event in this episode and the next. This week, Mayor…
Jun 20, 2025 · 1 h 4 min
Trump Is Selling a Phone + The Start-Up Trying to Automate Every Job + Allison Williams Talks ‘M3GAN 2.0’This week, President Trump’s family business announced that it was introducing a mobile phone and a cellular network. We tick through the many potential conflicts of interest this…
Jun 13, 2025 · 1 h 7 min
Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job AutomationThis week, Meta hits the reset button on A.I. But will a new research lab and a multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI bring the company any closer to its stated goal of…
Jun 6, 2025 · 1 h 7 min
The Trump-Musk Fallout + A DOGE Coder Speaks + ChefGPTThis week, Kevin and Casey discuss the sudden breakdown between President Trump and Elon Musk, whose disagreements over the policy bill before Congress quickly erupted into an…
May 30, 2025 · 1 h 8 min
The A.I. Jobpocalypse + Building at Anthropic with Mike Krieger + Hard Fork Crimes DivisionThis week, we dive into Kevin’s recent column about how A.I. is affecting the job market for new graduates, and debate whether the job apocalypse is already here for entry-level…
May 23, 2025 · 1 h 14 min
Google DeepMind C.E.O. Demis Hassabis on Living in an A.I. FutureThis week, we take a field trip to Google and report back about everything the company announced at its biggest show of the year, Google I/O. Then, we sit down with Google…
May 16, 2025 · 56 min
Ed Helms Answers Your Hard QuestionsThe actor, comedian and author Ed Helms has a new book out about historical blunders. He swings by Hard Fork to tell us about it and answer your moral quandaries, ethical dilemmas…
May 9, 2025 · 1 h 12 min
Bad Apple + The Rise of the AI Empire + Italian Brain RotThis week, iPhone users started to feel the impact of a stern court order against Apple that requires the company to stop collecting a commission on some app sales. We break down…
May 2, 2025 · 1 h 7 min
The Dangers of A.I. Flattery + Kevin Meets the Orb + Group Chat ChatThis week we dig into the ways chatbots are starting to manipulate us, including ChatGPT’s sycophantic update, Meta’s digital companionship turn and a secret experiment run on…
Apr 25, 2025 · 1 h 8 min
Is Google Breaking Up? + Seasteading Is Back + Tool TimeThis week, with big developments in two antitrust cases against Google, we discuss how the company may be forced to change its business. Then we’re joined by the journalist Mark…
Apr 18, 2025 · 1 h 20 min
Meta on Trial + Is A.I. a ‘Normal’ Technology? + HatGPTThis week Meta is on trial, in a landmark case over whether it illegally snuffed out competition when it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp. We discuss some of the most surprising…
Apr 11, 2025 · 1 h 9 min
Big Tech's Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama DramaThis week, with the tech world in chaos over President Trump’s tariffs, we look at how four specific companies are navigating the new day-to-day reality. Then, the A.I. researcher…
Apr 4, 2025 · 1 h 2 min
Tech Stock Shock + Solving the Mystery of OpenAI's "Blip" + Tinder's Flirt-OffThis week, President Trump announced sweeping new tariffs that are roiling the global economy. We discuss what this could mean for the tech sector and whether this will give China…
Mar 28, 2025 · 1 h 8 min
The Tech Behind Signalgate + Dwarkesh Patel's "Scaling Era" + Is A.I. Making Our Listeners Dumb?This week, we dig into the group chat that’s rocking the Trump administration and talk about why turning to Signal to plan military operations probably isn’t a great idea. Then…
Mar 21, 2025 · 1 h 2 min
A.I. Action Plans + The College Student Who Broke Job Interviews + Hot Mess ExpressWith all of Silicon Valley weighing in on the Trump administration’s new action plan for artificial intelligence, Kevin and Casey break down what’s on everybody’s wish list. Then…
Mar 14, 2025 · 1 h 3 min
Apple's Siri-ous Problem + How Starlink Took Over the World + Is AI Making Us Dumb?This week, as the long-promised new Siri faces increasing delays, we explore why Apple seems to be falling even further behind in artificial intelligence. Then, the New York Times…
Mar 7, 2025 · 1 h 10 min
Is Google Search Cooked? + We’re Getting a U.S. Crypto Reserve? + What You’re VibecodingThis week, Google introduced a new way to search, which could mean that Googling as we know it is on the way out. It’s called AI Mode and it is essentially the company’s response…
Feb 28, 2025 · 1 h 7 min
Anthropic’s C.E.O. Dario Amodei on Surviving the A.I. EndgameThis week, Anthropic’s C.E.O., Dario Amodei, returns to the show for a candid, wide-ranging interview. We discuss Anthropic’s brand-new Claude 3.7 Sonnet model, the A.I. arms race…
Feb 21, 2025 · 1 h 12 min
How Based is Grok 3? + Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on Markets For Everything + Vibecoding 101This week, Elon Musk brought a new chatbot into the crowded A.I. universe — Grok 3, the latest model from his company xAI. We break down how it compares with other leading models…
Feb 14, 2025 · 1 h 12 min
A.I. Accelerates in Paris + Can A.I. Fix Your Love Life?Kevin reports back from the A.I. Action Summit in Paris, where it was full speed ahead toward artificial general intelligence, with a conspicuous lack of action on the safety…
Feb 7, 2025 · 1 h 23 min
The Musketeers Take Washington + Spotify's Ghost Music + Tool TimeThis week, we’re joined by the Times reporter Jonathan Swan to discuss Elon Musk’s tech takeover of Washington, D.C. Then, Liz Pelly, author of a new book about Spotify, stops by…
Jan 31, 2025 · 1 h 6 min
DeepSeek DeepDive + Hands-On With Operator + Hot Mess Express!This week we go even deeper on DeepSeek. ChinaTalk's Jordan Schneider joins us to explain the Chinese A.I. industry and to break down the reaction inside of China to DeepSeek’s…
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