Hard Fork
“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.
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Episodes (55)
The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture
“You now have the leaders of the biggest technology companies in the world saying, effectively in unison, that they do not care how much it costs to build all the way to A.G.I.”
Charlie Kirk and Online Rage + Inside Trump’s Chip Flip + This Week in A.I.
“We as a culture are optimizing for rage now.”
Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom
“There's only so many things that you can do to redesign a glass rectangle in your pocket.”
A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education
“I think that A.I. is going to help break, in a sense, the university model that has anyway reached a certain kind of end game,” says the Princeton professor D. Graham Burnett.
Intel’s New Deal + Waymo C.E.O. Tekedra Mawakana on Scaling Driverless Cars + Trumps in Tech
“At its core, what this is is like a state-sponsored industrial project.”
Is This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta’s Missing Morals + TikTok Shock Slop
“It’s beyond enormous. It’s unprecedented.”
GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + Hot Mess Express
“I think this was a growing up moment for OpenAI and the industry.”
GPT-5 Arrives, and We Try the New Alexa+
“Sam Altman in his remarks said that this is a major upgrade,” but he also said that “we’re not at A.G.I. yet.”
Age-Gating the Internet + Cloudflare Takes On A.I. Scrapers + HatGPT
“Frankly, if they’re going to behave like hackers, then we’re going to behave like trolls right back to them,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare.
Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics
"Any historical understanding of the First Amendment would say this is just plainly unconstitutional.”
X Hits Grok Bottom + More A.I. Talent Wars + ‘Crypto Week’
“XAI had to apologize after Grok began praising Adolf Hitler, making antisemitic comments and referring to itself as MechaHitler.”
Interesting Times: A Mind-Bending Conversation with Peter Thiel
The original tech right power player on A.I., Mars and immortality.
Hard Fork Live, Part 2: Patrick Collison of Stripe + Kathryn Zealand of Skip + Listener Questions
More from our first live show taping, including a robot pants demo and audience questions.
Hard Fork Live, Part 1: Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap of OpenAI
Highlights from our first live taping, and our reaction to a spicy interview with OpenAI leaders.
Trump Is Selling a Phone + The Start-Up Trying to Automate Every Job + Allison Williams Talks ‘M3GAN 2.0’
“They’re calling it the T1 Phone 8002 Gold Version, which sounds kind of like a Taylor Swift album.”
Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation
"These pay packages that they're offering are stretching into nine figures."
The Trump-Musk Fallout + A DOGE Coder Speaks + ChefGPT
“We're having a broligarchy blowup of the highest order.”
The A.I. Jobpocalypse + Building at Anthropic with Mike Krieger + Hard Fork Crimes Division
“The job market is not looking great for young graduates.”
Google DeepMind C.E.O. Demis Hassabis on Living in an A.I. Future
“The only thing we know for sure is there is going to be a lot of change over the next 10 years.”
Ed Helms Answers Your Hard Questions
A star of "The Office" comes to our office to answer your most pressing questions about tech.
Bad Apple + The Rise of the AI Empire + Italian Brain Rot
“I have rarely read a judge who is so obviously angry at a tech company”
The Dangers of A.I. Flattery + Kevin Meets the Orb + Group Chat Chat
"A.I.s are getting more persuasive and they are learning how to manipulate human behavior.”
Is Google Breaking Up? + Seasteading Is Back + Tool Time
"They are being dragged into change, kicking and screaming."
Meta on Trial + Is A.I. a ‘Normal’ Technology? + HatGPT
“The market for social networks or even what Meta is, is very different now than it was even a couple of years ago.”
Big Tech's Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama
“How do we navigate this new uncertain climate?”
Tech Stock Shock + Solving the Mystery of OpenAI's "Blip" + Tinder's Flirt-Off
What do Trump’s tariffs mean for tech consumers and the future of AI?
The Tech Behind Signalgate + Dwarkesh Patel's "Scaling Era" + Is A.I. Making Our Listeners Dumb?
“The group chats are popping off at the highest levels of government.”
A.I. Action Plans + The College Student Who Broke Job Interviews + Hot Mess Express
“A.I. companies are slowly and haltingly learning to speak the language of Donald Trump.”
Apple's Siri-ous Problem + How Starlink Took Over the World + Is AI Making Us Dumb?
In the A.I. era, does Apple need to get comfortable shipping less polished products?
Is Google Search Cooked? + We’re Getting a U.S. Crypto Reserve? + What You’re Vibecoding
“I think Google realizes that this is a once-in-a-generation chance to reinvent the search experience”
Anthropic’s C.E.O. Dario Amodei on Surviving the A.I. Endgame
“I'm just worried that it'll be a shock to people when it happens.”
How Based is Grok 3? + Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on Markets For Everything + Vibecoding 101
“Elon Musk is willing to spend a phenomenal amount of money and basically do everything he can to stay with the head of the pack on A.I. progress.”
A.I. Accelerates in Paris + Can A.I. Fix Your Love Life?
It’s a Valentine's Day Special!
The Musketeers Take Washington + Spotify's Ghost Music + Tool Time
“The way to control government is to control the computers.”
DeepSeek DeepDive + Hands-On With Operator + Hot Mess Express!
“DeepSeek is a really odd duck.”
Your Guide to the DeepSeek Freakout: an Emergency Pod
“I think this is a big moment in the history of A.I. development”
Quantum TikTok + Memecoin Mania + Chris Hayes on the Attention Wars
“We are starting to see how Silicon Valley wants to do business during the Trump administration.”
Goodbye TikTok, Ni Hao RedNote? + A.I.'s Environmental Impact + Meta's Masculine Energy
“This is truly one of the funniest and most unexpected stories of the young year so far.”
Meta Goes MAGA Mode +A Big Month in A.I. + HatGPT
“I think this set of changes that the company announced this week are the most important series of policy changes that they have made in the past five years.”
Our 2025 Tech Predictions and Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
Next year is going to be different: good and bad, but just different.
The Wirecutter Show: Kitchen Gear That Lasts a Lifetime (or Extremely Close)
Quality kitchen gear can last a lifetime — but not every pot, pan or knife is made to last.
Is Amazon's Drone Delivery Finally Ready for Prime Time?
We flew to Arizona to test the recently debuted service ourselves.
TikTok's Last Stand + Google's Quantum Breakthrough + Cult of Claude
“The president was given a very clear and easy opportunity to say, ‘Yes, I am going to save TikTok,’ and he absolutely did not say that.”
Is Intel Cooked? + What's Your P(Dyson Sphere)? + Hard Fork Gift Guide
The sudden departure of Intel’s C.E.O. reignites concerns about U.S. dependence on foreign manufacturing.
Hard Fork's 100 Most Iconic Technologies
“I just love imagining all of the angry emails we're going to get from people who are like, ‘Why did you put the fulcrum on this list?’”
Trump's Next Online Speech Cop + Doctors vs ChatGPT + Hard Fork Crimes Division
“I feel very strongly that the First Amendment is under the most direct threat that any of us will ever really experience.”
Crypto Congress + HBD ChatGPT + What Social Media Platform Should I Be On?
Cryptocurrency is poised to have a huge year in 2025.
What Trump 2.0 Means for Tech + A.I. Made Me Basic + HatGPT!
A shake up is coming for Silicon Valley.
Billionaire Game Theory + We Are Not Ready for A.G.I. + Election Betting Markets Get Weird
“If I had $1 billion, how would I try to influence the results of this election?”
The Elon-ction + Can A.I. Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide?
The 2024 election has a new main character.
Powerful A.I. By 2026? + Uber's C.E.O. on the Robotaxi Future + Casey's TikTok Test
“Check your calendar, Kevin, that is in 14 months.”
A Flood of A.I. Slop + Searching for Satoshi + the Hot Mess Express Returns
There’s just so much slop that at a certain point it makes the internet basically useless.
Can California Regulate A.I.? + Silicon Valley’s Super Babies + System Update!
“In the United States, we have 50 laboratories of democracy and they're called states.”
Meta’s Race for Your Face + Google’s Hit A.I. Notebook + HatGPT
Building great AR glasses is the hardest problem in consumer technology.
OpenAI's Reasoning Machine + Instagram Teen Changes + Amazon RTO Drama
“They should have just called it Strawberry. At least that’s delicious.”
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