Hard Fork
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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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Episodes (214)
The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here
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The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra
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Sep 4, 20261:18:46completed
Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT
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Aug 28, 20261:02:56completed
OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” +...
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Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math
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Aug 14, 20261:03:14pending
The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s C...
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Aug 7, 20261:05:29pending
Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight
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Jul 31, 20261:06:47pending
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
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Jul 24, 20261:08:14pending
The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT
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Jul 17, 20261:09:30pending
Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time
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Jul 10, 20261:19:01pending
Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market...
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Jul 3, 20261:06:44pending
‘The Daily’ and ‘The Opinions’: How A.I. Is Changing Loneliness and Taste
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‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. Future
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Jun 19, 202656:13pending
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 2: Dylan Field on Standing Out in the A.I. Era
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‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn
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Jun 12, 20261:06:10pending
Hot I.P.O Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT
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Jun 5, 20261:04:20pending
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
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A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express
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May 15, 20261:07:46pending
Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Expe...
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May 8, 20261:12:25pending
OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM
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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT
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Apr 24, 20261:14:39failed
A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Co...
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Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Their...
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Apr 10, 20261:04:06failed
The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT
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Apr 3, 20261:09:26failed
The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
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Mar 27, 20261:40:24failed
‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing
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Mar 20, 20261:00:36failed
A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Ident...
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Mar 13, 20261:06:42failed
OpenAI's Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop
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Mar 6, 20261:05:39completed
At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out
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Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alph...
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Feb 27, 20261:00:39pending
The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express
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Feb 20, 20261:04:09pending
‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good...
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Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltb...
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Moltbook Mania Explained
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Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatG...
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Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New Constituti...
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Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse
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Jan 16, 20261:14:29pending
Can We Build a Better Social Network?
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Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax
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Jan 9, 20261:16:15pending
Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
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Jan 2, 202659:03pending
The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose
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Dec 30, 202534:55pending
Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress?
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Dec 26, 202539:28pending
Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song
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Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard For...
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OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of...
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Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025
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The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars
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Nov 25, 202546:06pending
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
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Nov 21, 202540:10pending
Google's Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look
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