Hard Fork
The New York Times“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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Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics
Jul 25 • 1h 6m
Ed Helms Answers Your Hard Questions
May 16 • 56m
Is Google Breaking Up? + Seasteading Is Back + Tool Time
Apr 25 • 1h 7m
Meta on Trial + Is A.I. a ‘Normal’ Technology? + HatGPT
Apr 18 • 1h 20m
Big Tech's Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama
Apr 11 • 1h 9m
A.I. Accelerates in Paris + Can A.I. Fix Your Love Life?
Feb 14 • 1h 12m
Meta Goes MAGA Mode +A Big Month in A.I. + HatGPT
Jan 10 • 1h 10m
Is Amazon's Drone Delivery Finally Ready for Prime Time?
Dec 20, 2024 • 1h 3m
TikTok's Last Stand + Google's Quantum Breakthrough + Cult of Claude
Dec 13, 2024 • 1h 13m
Is Intel Cooked? + What's Your P(Dyson Sphere)? + Hard Fork Gift Guide
Dec 6, 2024 • 1h 11m
Hard Fork's 100 Most Iconic Technologies
Nov 29, 2024 • 1h 27m
Trump's Next Online Speech Cop + Doctors vs ChatGPT + Hard Fork Crimes Division
Nov 22, 2024 • 1h 9m
Crypto Congress + HBD ChatGPT + What Social Media Platform Should I Be On?
Nov 15, 2024 • 1h 17m
What Trump 2.0 Means for Tech + A.I. Made Me Basic + HatGPT!
Nov 8, 2024 • 1h 5m
The Elon-ction + Can A.I. Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide?
Oct 25, 2024 • 1h 10m
Powerful A.I. By 2026? + Uber's C.E.O. on the Robotaxi Future + Casey's TikTok Test
Oct 18, 2024 • 1h 55m
A Flood of A.I. Slop + Searching for Satoshi + the Hot Mess Express Returns
Oct 11, 2024 • 1h 9m
Meta’s Race for Your Face + Google’s Hit A.I. Notebook + HatGPT
Sep 27, 2024 • 1h 12m
OpenAI's Reasoning Machine + Instagram Teen Changes + Amazon RTO Drama
Sep 20, 2024 • 1h 6m
Google’s Monopoly Money + Is the A.I. Bubble Popping? + The Hot-Mess Express
Aug 9, 2024 • 1h 13m
Alison Roman Answers Your Hard Questions
Jul 12, 2024 • 51m
A Surgeon General Warning + Is Disinformation Winning? + The CryptoPACs Are Coming
Jun 21, 2024 • 1h 18m
Apple Joins the A.I. Party + Elon's Wild Week + HatGPT
Jun 14, 2024 • 1h 13m
Google Eats Rocks + A Win for A.I. Interpretability + Safety Vibe Check
May 31, 2024 • 1h 19m
ScarJo vs. ChatGPT + Neuralink’s First Patient Opens Up + Microsoft’s A.I. PCs
May 24, 2024 • 1h 17m
OpenAI's Flirty New Assistant + Google Guts the Web + We Play HatGPT
May 17, 2024 • 1h 6m
Meet Kevin’s A.I. Friends
May 10, 2024 • 1h 17m
AI at Your Jobs + Hank Green Talks TikTok + Deepfake High School
May 3, 2024 • 1h 13m
TikTok on the Clock + Tesla’s Flop Era + How NASA Fixed a ’70s-Era Space Computer
Apr 26, 2024 • 1h 11m
The Music Episode
Apr 19, 2024 • 1h 2m
A.I.’s Data Wall + a Surprise Privacy Bill + What Happened to the TikTok Ban?
Apr 12, 2024 • 1h 6m
Is AI Already Taking Jobs? + A Filmmaker Tries Sora + The XZ Backdoor Caper
Apr 5, 2024 • 1h 3m
A.I.’s Messy Moment + Listeners Respond to Jonathan Haidt + Shrimp Jesus
Mar 29, 2024 • 1h 8m
A Looming TikTok Ban + A Royal Photoshop Mystery + Your Car is Snitching
Mar 15, 2024 • 1h 16m
Musk vs. OpenAI + Europe’s Tech Crackdown + A Month With the Vision Pro
Mar 8, 2024 • 1h 10m
The State of A.I. + Will Perplexity Beat Google or Destroy the Web?
Feb 16, 2024 • 1h 13m
Bluesky’s Big Bet + Are Deals Dead in Silicon Valley?
Feb 9, 2024 • 1h 8m
Mediapocalypse Now + a16z’s Chris Dixon Defends Crypto + HatGPT
Jan 26, 2024 • 1h 15m
The AI Election + Bitcoin’s Wall Street Debut + TikTok’s Doodad Era
Jan 19, 2024 • 1h 15m
Why Casey Left Substack + Elon’s Drug Use + A.I. Antibiotic Discovery
Jan 12, 2024 • 1h 27m
Our 2024 Predictions + Jenny Slate Answers Your Hard Questions!
Dec 22, 2023 • 1h 37m
What’s Next for OpenAI + Binance Is Binanceled + A.I. Is Eating the Internet
Dec 1, 2023 • 1h 4m
(Yet Another) Emergency Pod: Sam Altman Is Back
Nov 22, 2023 • 13m
Mayhem at OpenAI + Our Interview With Sam Altman
Nov 21, 2023 • 1h 30m
Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI
Nov 18, 2023 • 21m
Social Media In Wartime + Betting on the Future + A.I. Passes the Smell Test
Oct 13, 2023 • 1h 6m
Google’s Trial Heats Up + How to Wear A.I. + It’s Our Birthday!
Oct 6, 2023 • 1h 6m
All Gas, No Brakes in A.I. + Metaverse Update + Lessons From a Prompt Engineer
Sep 29, 2023 • 1h 6m
Breaking Bard + Who Owns Your Face? + Gamer News!
Sep 22, 2023 • 59m
Escape From Burning Man + Musk vs. the A.D.L. + Listener Questions
Sep 8, 2023 • 1h 4m
S.B.F Goes to Jail + Back to School with A.I. + Self-Driving Car Update
Aug 18, 2023 • 1h 10m
Superconductor Superconfusion, KOSA’s Hidden Costs and HatGPT
Aug 4, 2023 • 1h 6m
Elon's X Machina + Crypto Orbs + A Visit to Google’s Robot Lab
Jul 28, 2023 • 59m
Help! My Boss Won’t Stop Using ChatGPT
Jul 14, 2023 • 47m
Special Episode: Meta’s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam Mosseri
Jul 6, 2023 • 38m
Is A.I. Poisoning Itself? + Billionaire Cage Fight + Cooking With ChatGPT
Jun 30, 2023 • 1h 8m
A.I. Beach + Vibes-Based R.T.O. + the ‘Black Mirror’ Quamputer
Jun 23, 2023 • 1h 1m
Reddit Revolts + MrBeast’s YouTube Empire + Peak Trust and Safety?
Jun 16, 2023 • 1h 19m
The Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning + A.I.’s Existential Risks
May 26, 2023 • 1h 13m
Mr. Altman Goes to Washington + Casey Goes on This American Life
May 19, 2023 • 1h 12m
Google’s A.I. Bonanza + Driverless Car Talk With Cruise C.E.O. Kyle Vogt
May 12, 2023 • 1h 9m
Bluesky Has the Juice + A.I. Jobs Apocalypse + Hard Questions
May 5, 2023 • 56m
Deepfake Drake + HatGPT + Ben Smith on the End of the BuzzFeed Era
Apr 28, 2023 • 1h 1m
Hard Fork Presents: The Most Amazing – And Dangerous – Technology In the World
Apr 21, 2023 • 1h 1m
Inside the Hunt for the Discord Leaker + Twitter Chaos Updates
Apr 14, 2023 • 1h 9m
A.I. Vibe Check With Ezra Klein + Kevin Tries Phone Positivity
Apr 7, 2023 • 1h 3m
Bard Fork + How to Talk So Chatbots Will Listen
Mar 24, 2023 • 1h 2m
BONUS: Hard Fork Live! Big Tech’s Arch Nemesis + Bot, or Not?
Mar 20, 2023 • 43m
GPT-4 Is Here + The Group Chat Bank Run
Mar 17, 2023 • 1h 3m
A Congressman Goes to A.I. School + How to Ban TikTok
Mar 10, 2023 • 59m
Everyone Pivots to A.I. + Bad News for Crypto
Mar 3, 2023 • 59m
Kevin Killed Sydney + Reddit’s C.E.O. Defends Section 230
Feb 24, 2023 • 52m
The Bing Who Loved Me + Elon Rewrites the Algorithm
Feb 17, 2023 • 1h 1m
Bing’s Revenge + Google’s AI Faceplant
Feb 10, 2023 • 55m
A Trip to TikTok + ChatGPT’s Origin Story + Kevin Systrom’s Comeback
Feb 3, 2023 • 1h 1m
Meta’s Trump Calculus + Regime Change at Netflix
Jan 27, 2023 • 59m
Elon's Crumbling Empire + Generative A.I. Goes to Court
Jan 20, 2023 • 1h 0m
ChatGPT Transforms a Classroom + Is 'M3GAN' Real?
Jan 13, 2023 • 1h 2m
TikTok’s Spying Scandal + ChatGPT Puts Google on Notice + Phone Jail
Jan 6, 2023 • 59m
SBF Arrested + 2023 Predictions + Your Questions Answered
Dec 16, 2022 • 56m
Can ChatGPT Make This Podcast?
Dec 9, 2022 • 57m
A Hard Fork in the Road: FTX’s Unraveling and Elon’s Loyalty Oath
Nov 18, 2022 • 47m
A Verified Mess: Turmoil from Twitter to FTX
Nov 11, 2022 • 53m
Life Under Musk: Two Twitter Employees Speak Out
Nov 4, 2022 • 39m
Emergency Pod: Elon Musk Owns Twitter
Oct 28, 2022 • 56m
Generative AI is Here. Who Should Control It?
Oct 21, 2022 • 53m
Legs Are Coming + $36 Burritos + Shocking AI News
Oct 14, 2022 • 1h 0m
Elon’s Hidden Motives + A Meetup in the Metaverse
Oct 7, 2022 • 1h 4m
What’s a Hard Fork?
Sep 27, 2022 • 1m
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