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)
Google’s Epic Loss + Silicon Valley’s Curious New Subculture + How 2023 Changed...
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Dec 15, 20231:13:21pending
Google's Next Top Model + Will the Cybertruck Crash? + This Week in A.I.
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Dec 8, 202357:18pending
What’s Next for OpenAI + Binance Is Binanceled + A.I. Is Eating the Internet
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Dec 1, 20231:04:54pending
(Yet Another) Emergency Pod: Sam Altman Is Back
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Nov 22, 202313:48pending
Mayhem at OpenAI + Our Interview With Sam Altman
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Nov 21, 20231:30:56pending
Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI
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Nov 18, 202321:16pending
An A.I. Pin Drops + YouTube’s Take on Deepfakes + A Lab-Grown Thanksgiving
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Nov 17, 202359:58pending
Personalized GPTs Are Here + F.T.C. Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Competition + Mayhem...
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Nov 10, 20231:08:18pending
Casey Goes to the White House + The Copyright Battle Over Artificial Intelligenc...
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Nov 3, 20231:05:34pending
The People vs. Meta + Marques Brownlee on YouTube and Future Tech + DALL-E 3 Arr...
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Oct 27, 20231:05:23pending
Peering Into A.I.’s Black Box + Who’s The Real Techno-Optimist? + Reading Ancien...
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Oct 20, 20231:04:33pending
Social Media In Wartime + Betting on the Future + A.I. Passes the Smell Test
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Oct 13, 20231:06:35pending
Google’s Trial Heats Up + How to Wear A.I. + It’s Our Birthday!
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Oct 6, 20231:06:20pending
All Gas, No Brakes in A.I. + Metaverse Update + Lessons From a Prompt Engineer
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Sep 29, 20231:06:05pending
Breaking Bard + Who Owns Your Face? + Gamer News!
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Sep 22, 202359:12pending
Casey v. Kevin on US v. Google + Walter Isaacson on Two Years With Elon Musk
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Sep 15, 202358:57pending
Escape From Burning Man + Musk vs. the A.D.L. + Listener Questions
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Sep 8, 20231:04:00pending
The Secretive Billionaires Building a Tech Utopia + Casey’s External Brain + Hat...
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Sep 1, 202359:35pending
N.Y.C. Says Airbn-bye + How Far Would You Go for a GPU? + The A.I. Songs of the...
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Aug 25, 20231:04:04pending
S.B.F Goes to Jail + Back to School with A.I. + Self-Driving Car Update
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Aug 18, 20231:10:39pending
Don't Scrape Me, Bro + The Activists Sabotaging Self-Driving Cars + How Reddit B...
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Aug 11, 20231:11:17pending
Superconductor Superconfusion, KOSA’s Hidden Costs and HatGPT
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Aug 4, 20231:06:47pending
Elon's X Machina + Crypto Orbs + A Visit to Google’s Robot Lab
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Jul 28, 202359:24pending
Dario Amodei, C.E.O. of Anthropic, on the Paradoxes of A.I. Safety and Netflix’s...
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Jul 21, 20231:12:24pending
Help! My Boss Won’t Stop Using ChatGPT
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Jul 14, 202347:24pending
Special Episode: Meta’s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam Mosseri
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Jul 6, 202338:59pending
Is A.I. Poisoning Itself? + Billionaire Cage Fight + Cooking With ChatGPT
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Jun 30, 20231:08:40pending
A.I. Beach + Vibes-Based R.T.O. + the ‘Black Mirror’ Quamputer
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Jun 23, 20231:01:46pending
Reddit Revolts + MrBeast’s YouTube Empire + Peak Trust and Safety?
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Jun 16, 20231:19:11pending
Apple’s Face Computer + Crypto Chaos + How Teens Really Feel About Social Media
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Jun 9, 20231:09:10pending
A.I.'s Inner Conflict + Nvidia Joins the Trillion-Dollar Club + Hard Questions
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Jun 2, 20231:05:40pending
The Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning + A.I.’s Existential Risks
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May 26, 20231:13:25pending
Mr. Altman Goes to Washington + Casey Goes on This American Life
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May 19, 20231:12:59pending
Google’s A.I. Bonanza + Driverless Car Talk With Cruise C.E.O. Kyle Vogt
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May 12, 20231:09:25pending
Bluesky Has the Juice + A.I. Jobs Apocalypse + Hard Questions
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May 5, 202356:14pending
Deepfake Drake + HatGPT + Ben Smith on the End of the BuzzFeed Era
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Apr 28, 20231:01:26pending
Hard Fork Presents: The Most Amazing – And Dangerous – Technology In the World
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Apr 21, 20231:01:08pending
Inside the Hunt for the Discord Leaker + Twitter Chaos Updates
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Apr 14, 20231:09:53pending
A.I. Vibe Check With Ezra Klein + Kevin Tries Phone Positivity
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Apr 7, 20231:03:24pending
Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on Bard, A.I. ‘Whiplash’ and Competing With ChatGPT
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Mar 31, 202346:35pending
Bard Fork + How to Talk So Chatbots Will Listen
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Mar 24, 20231:02:54pending
BONUS: Hard Fork Live! Big Tech’s Arch Nemesis + Bot, or Not?
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Mar 20, 202343:01pending
GPT-4 Is Here + The Group Chat Bank Run
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Mar 17, 20231:03:03pending
A Congressman Goes to A.I. School + How to Ban TikTok
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Mar 10, 202359:21pending
Everyone Pivots to A.I. + Bad News for Crypto
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Mar 3, 202359:35pending
Kevin Killed Sydney + Reddit’s C.E.O. Defends Section 230
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Feb 24, 202352:03pending
The Bing Who Loved Me + Elon Rewrites the Algorithm
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Feb 17, 20231:01:20pending
Bing’s Revenge + Google’s AI Faceplant
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Feb 10, 202355:07pending
A Trip to TikTok + ChatGPT’s Origin Story + Kevin Systrom’s Comeback
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Feb 3, 20231:01:49pending
Meta’s Trump Calculus + Regime Change at Netflix
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Jan 27, 202359:02pending