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)
Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery
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We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT
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Nov 7, 20251:08:04pending
Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Wit...
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Oct 31, 20251:00:38pending
Celebrities Fight Sora + Amazon’s Secret Automation Plans + ChatGPT Gets a Brows...
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Oct 24, 20251:07:57pending
California Regulates A.I. Companions + OpenAI Investigates Its Critics + The Har...
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Oct 17, 20251:05:10pending
ChatGPT’s Platform Play + a Trillion-Dollar GPU Empire + the Queen of Slop
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Oct 10, 20251:06:35pending
Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express
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Oct 3, 20251:05:54pending
The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture
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Charlie Kirk and Online Rage + Inside Trump’s Chip Flip + This Week in A.I.
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Sep 19, 20251:13:47pending
Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom
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Sep 12, 20251:12:24pending
A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education
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Sep 5, 20251:11:48pending
Intel’s New Deal + Waymo C.E.O. Tekedra Mawakana on Scaling Driverless Cars + Tr...
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Aug 29, 20251:02:53pending
Is This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta’s Missing Morals + TikTok Shock Slop
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Aug 22, 20251:06:31pending
GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + Hot Me...
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Aug 15, 20251:11:29pending
GPT-5 Arrives, and We Try the New Alexa+
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Aug 8, 20251:12:57pending
Age-Gating the Internet + Cloudflare Takes On A.I. Scrapers + HatGPT
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Aug 1, 20251:11:32pending
Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics
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Jul 25, 20251:06:20pending
X Hits Grok Bottom + More A.I. Talent Wars + ‘Crypto Week’
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Jul 18, 20251:08:19pending
Interesting Times: A Mind-Bending Conversation with Peter Thiel
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Jul 11, 20251:02:23pending
Hard Fork Live, Part 2: Patrick Collison of Stripe + Kathryn Zealand of Skip + L...
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Hard Fork Live, Part 1: Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap of OpenAI
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Jun 27, 202557:04pending
Trump Is Selling a Phone + The Start-Up Trying to Automate Every Job + Allison W...
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Jun 20, 20251:03:57pending
Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation
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Jun 13, 20251:07:27pending
The Trump-Musk Fallout + A DOGE Coder Speaks + ChefGPT
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Jun 6, 20251:06:58pending
The A.I. Jobpocalypse + Building at Anthropic with Mike Krieger + Hard Fork Crim...
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May 30, 20251:08:02pending
Google DeepMind C.E.O. Demis Hassabis on Living in an A.I. Future
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May 23, 20251:13:42pending
Ed Helms Answers Your Hard Questions
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May 16, 202556:03pending
Bad Apple + The Rise of the AI Empire + Italian Brain Rot
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May 9, 20251:11:48pending
The Dangers of A.I. Flattery + Kevin Meets the Orb + Group Chat Chat
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May 2, 20251:07:24pending
Is Google Breaking Up? + Seasteading Is Back + Tool Time
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Apr 25, 20251:07:37pending
Meta on Trial + Is A.I. a ‘Normal’ Technology? + HatGPT
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Apr 18, 20251:20:28pending
Big Tech's Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama
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Apr 11, 20251:09:18pending
Tech Stock Shock + Solving the Mystery of OpenAI's "Blip" + Tinder's Flirt-Off
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Apr 4, 20251:02:27pending
The Tech Behind Signalgate + Dwarkesh Patel's "Scaling Era" + Is A.I. Making Our...
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Mar 28, 20251:07:49pending
A.I. Action Plans + The College Student Who Broke Job Interviews + Hot Mess Expr...
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Mar 21, 20251:01:50pending
Apple's Siri-ous Problem + How Starlink Took Over the World + Is AI Making Us Du...
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Mar 14, 20251:02:46pending
Is Google Search Cooked? + We’re Getting a U.S. Crypto Reserve? + What You’re Vi...
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Mar 7, 20251:10:23pending
Anthropic’s C.E.O. Dario Amodei on Surviving the A.I. Endgame
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Feb 28, 20251:07:28pending
How Based is Grok 3? + Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on Markets For Everything + Vibe...
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Feb 21, 20251:11:40pending
A.I. Accelerates in Paris + Can A.I. Fix Your Love Life?
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Feb 14, 20251:12:07pending
The Musketeers Take Washington + Spotify's Ghost Music + Tool Time
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Feb 7, 20251:22:59pending
DeepSeek DeepDive + Hands-On With Operator + Hot Mess Express!
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Jan 31, 20251:05:51pending
Your Guide to the DeepSeek Freakout: an Emergency Pod
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Jan 27, 202524:04pending
Quantum TikTok + Memecoin Mania + Chris Hayes on the Attention Wars
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Jan 24, 20251:12:20pending
Goodbye TikTok, Ni Hao RedNote? + A.I.'s Environmental Impact + Meta's Masculine...
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Jan 17, 20251:13:08pending
Meta Goes MAGA Mode +A Big Month in A.I. + HatGPT
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Jan 10, 20251:10:55pending
Our 2025 Tech Predictions and Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
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Jan 3, 20251:08:39pending
The Wirecutter Show: Kitchen Gear That Lasts a Lifetime (or Extremely Close)
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Is Amazon's Drone Delivery Finally Ready for Prime Time?
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Dec 20, 20241:03:16pending
TikTok's Last Stand + Google's Quantum Breakthrough + Cult of Claude
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