Hard Fork

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.

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Episodes (51)

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Intel’s New Deal + Waymo C.E.O. Tekedra Mawakana on Scaling Driverless Cars + Trumps in Tech

August 29, 2025 1h 2m Episode 151
“At its core, what this is is like a state-sponsored industrial project.”
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Is This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta’s Missing Morals + TikTok Shock Slop

August 22, 2025 1h 6m Episode 150
“It’s beyond enormous. It’s unprecedented.”
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GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + Hot Mess Express

August 15, 2025 1h 11m Episode 149
“I think this was a growing up moment for OpenAI and the industry.”
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GPT-5 Arrives, and We Try the New Alexa+

August 08, 2025 1h 12m Episode 148
“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.”
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Age-Gating the Internet + Cloudflare Takes On A.I. Scrapers + HatGPT

August 01, 2025 1h 11m Episode 147
“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.
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Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics

July 25, 2025 1h 6m Episode 146
"Any historical understanding of the First Amendment would say this is just plainly unconstitutional.”
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X Hits Grok Bottom + More A.I. Talent Wars + ‘Crypto Week’

July 18, 2025 1h 8m Episode 145
“XAI had to apologize after Grok began praising Adolf Hitler, making antisemitic comments and referring to itself as MechaHitler.”
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Interesting Times: A Mind-Bending Conversation with Peter Thiel

July 11, 2025 1h 2m Episode 144
The original tech right power player on A.I., Mars and immortality.
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Hard Fork Live, Part 2: Patrick Collison of Stripe + Kathryn Zealand of Skip + Listener Questions

July 04, 2025 57m Episode 143
More from our first live show taping, including a robot pants demo and audience questions.
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Hard Fork Live, Part 1: Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap of OpenAI

June 27, 2025 57m Episode 142
Highlights from our first live taping, and our reaction to a spicy interview with OpenAI leaders.
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Trump Is Selling a Phone + The Start-Up Trying to Automate Every Job + Allison Williams Talks ‘M3GAN 2.0’

June 20, 2025 1h 3m Episode 141
“They’re calling it the T1 Phone 8002 Gold Version, which sounds kind of like a Taylor Swift album.”
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Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation

June 13, 2025 1h 7m Episode 140
"These pay packages that they're offering are stretching into nine figures."
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The Trump-Musk Fallout + A DOGE Coder Speaks + ChefGPT

June 06, 2025 1h 6m Episode 139
“We're having a broligarchy blowup of the highest order.”
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The A.I. Jobpocalypse + Building at Anthropic with Mike Krieger + Hard Fork Crimes Division

May 30, 2025 1h 8m Episode 138
“The job market is not looking great for young graduates.”
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Google DeepMind C.E.O. Demis Hassabis on Living in an A.I. Future

May 23, 2025 1h 13m Episode 137
“The only thing we know for sure is there is going to be a lot of change over the next 10 years.”
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Ed Helms Answers Your Hard Questions

May 16, 2025 56m Episode 136
A star of "The Office" comes to our office to answer your most pressing questions about tech.
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Bad Apple + The Rise of the AI Empire + Italian Brain Rot

May 09, 2025 1h 11m Episode 135
“I have rarely read a judge who is so obviously angry at a tech company”
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The Dangers of A.I. Flattery + Kevin Meets the Orb + Group Chat Chat

May 02, 2025 1h 7m Episode 134
"A.I.s are getting more persuasive and they are learning how to manipulate human behavior.”
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Is Google Breaking Up? + Seasteading Is Back + Tool Time

April 25, 2025 1h 7m Episode 133
"They are being dragged into change, kicking and screaming."
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Meta on Trial + Is A.I. a ‘Normal’ Technology? + HatGPT

April 18, 2025 1h 20m Episode 132
“The market for social networks or even what Meta is, is very different now than it was even a couple of years ago.”
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Big Tech's Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama

April 11, 2025 1h 9m Episode 131
“How do we navigate this new uncertain climate?”
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Tech Stock Shock + Solving the Mystery of OpenAI's "Blip" + Tinder's Flirt-Off

April 04, 2025 1h 2m Episode 130
What do Trump’s tariffs mean for tech consumers and the future of AI?
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The Tech Behind Signalgate + Dwarkesh Patel's "Scaling Era" + Is A.I. Making Our Listeners Dumb?

March 28, 2025 1h 7m Episode 129
“The group chats are popping off at the highest levels of government.”
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A.I. Action Plans + The College Student Who Broke Job Interviews + Hot Mess Express

March 21, 2025 1h 1m Episode 128
“A.I. companies are slowly and haltingly learning to speak the language of Donald Trump.”
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Apple's Siri-ous Problem + How Starlink Took Over the World + Is AI Making Us Dumb?

March 14, 2025 1h 2m Episode 127
In the A.I. era, does Apple need to get comfortable shipping less polished products?
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Is Google Search Cooked? + We’re Getting a U.S. Crypto Reserve? + What You’re Vibecoding

March 07, 2025 1h 10m Episode 126
“I think Google realizes that this is a once-in-a-generation chance to reinvent the search experience”
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Anthropic’s C.E.O. Dario Amodei on Surviving the A.I. Endgame

February 28, 2025 1h 7m Episode 125
“I'm just worried that it'll be a shock to people when it happens.”
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How Based is Grok 3? + Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on Markets For Everything + Vibecoding 101

February 21, 2025 1h 11m Episode 124
“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.”
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A.I. Accelerates in Paris + Can A.I. Fix Your Love Life?

February 14, 2025 1h 12m Episode 123
It’s a Valentine's Day Special!
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The Musketeers Take Washington + Spotify's Ghost Music + Tool Time

February 07, 2025 1h 22m Episode 122
“The way to control government is to control the computers.”
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DeepSeek DeepDive + Hands-On With Operator + Hot Mess Express!

January 31, 2025 1h 5m Episode 121
“DeepSeek is a really odd duck.”
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Your Guide to the DeepSeek Freakout: an Emergency Pod

January 27, 2025 24m Episode 120
“I think this is a big moment in the history of A.I. development”
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Quantum TikTok + Memecoin Mania + Chris Hayes on the Attention Wars

January 24, 2025 1h 12m Episode 119
“We are starting to see how Silicon Valley wants to do business during the Trump administration.”
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Goodbye TikTok, Ni Hao RedNote? + A.I.'s Environmental Impact + Meta's Masculine Energy

January 17, 2025 1h 13m Episode 118
“This is truly one of the funniest and most unexpected stories of the young year so far.”
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Meta Goes MAGA Mode +A Big Month in A.I. + HatGPT

January 10, 2025 1h 10m Episode 117
“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.”
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Our 2025 Tech Predictions and Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions

January 03, 2025 1h 8m Episode 116
Next year is going to be different: good and bad, but just different.
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The Wirecutter Show: Kitchen Gear That Lasts a Lifetime (or Extremely Close)

December 27, 2024 41m Episode 115
Quality kitchen gear can last a lifetime — but not every pot, pan or knife is made to last.
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Is Amazon's Drone Delivery Finally Ready for Prime Time?

December 20, 2024 1h 3m Episode 114
We flew to Arizona to test the recently debuted service ourselves.
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TikTok's Last Stand + Google's Quantum Breakthrough + Cult of Claude

December 13, 2024 1h 13m Episode 113
“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.”
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Is Intel Cooked? + What's Your P(Dyson Sphere)? + Hard Fork Gift Guide

December 06, 2024 1h 11m Episode 112
The sudden departure of Intel’s C.E.O. reignites concerns about U.S. dependence on foreign manufacturing.
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Hard Fork's 100 Most Iconic Technologies

November 29, 2024 1h 27m Episode 111
“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?’”
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Trump's Next Online Speech Cop + Doctors vs ChatGPT + Hard Fork Crimes Division

November 22, 2024 1h 9m Episode 110
“I feel very strongly that the First Amendment is under the most direct threat that any of us will ever really experience.”
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Crypto Congress + HBD ChatGPT + What Social Media Platform Should I Be On?

November 15, 2024 1h 17m Episode 109
Cryptocurrency is poised to have a huge year in 2025.
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What Trump 2.0 Means for Tech + A.I. Made Me Basic + HatGPT!

November 08, 2024 1h 5m Episode 108
A shake up is coming for Silicon Valley.
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Billionaire Game Theory + We Are Not Ready for A.G.I. + Election Betting Markets Get Weird

November 01, 2024 1h 11m Episode 107
“If I had $1 billion, how would I try to influence the results of this election?”
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The Elon-ction + Can A.I. Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide?

October 25, 2024 1h 10m Episode 106
The 2024 election has a new main character.
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Powerful A.I. By 2026? + Uber's C.E.O. on the Robotaxi Future + Casey's TikTok Test

October 18, 2024 1h 55m Episode 105
“Check your calendar, Kevin, that is in 14 months.”
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A Flood of A.I. Slop + Searching for Satoshi + the Hot Mess Express Returns

October 11, 2024 1h 9m Episode 104
There’s just so much slop that at a certain point it makes the internet basically useless.
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Can California Regulate A.I.? + Silicon Valley’s Super Babies + System Update!

October 04, 2024 1h 9m Episode 103
“In the United States, we have 50 laboratories of democracy and they're called states.”
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Meta’s Race for Your Face + Google’s Hit A.I. Notebook + HatGPT

September 27, 2024 1h 12m Episode 102
Building great AR glasses is the hardest problem in consumer technology.
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OpenAI's Reasoning Machine + Instagram Teen Changes + Amazon RTO Drama

September 20, 2024 1h 6m Episode 101
“They should have just called it Strawberry. At least that’s delicious.”

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