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. 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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‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn
Jun 12, 2026
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Hot I.P.O Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT
Jun 5, 2026
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Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?
May 29, 2026
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
May 22, 2026
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A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express
May 15, 2026
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Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School
May 8, 2026
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OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM
May 1, 2026
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Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT
Apr 24, 2026
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A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming
Apr 17, 2026
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Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Their Sam Altman Investigation + One Good Thing
Apr 10, 2026
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The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT
Apr 3, 2026
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The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
Mar 27, 2026
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‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing
Mar 20, 2026
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A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity
Mar 13, 2026
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OpenAI's Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop
Mar 6, 2026
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At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out
Mar 1, 2026
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Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School
Feb 27, 2026
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The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express
Feb 20, 2026
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‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing
Feb 13, 2026
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Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator
Feb 6, 2026
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Moltbook Mania Explained
Feb 4, 2026
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Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT
Jan 30, 2026
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Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New Constitution
Jan 23, 2026
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Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse
Jan 16, 2026
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Can We Build a Better Social Network?
Jan 13, 2026
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Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax
Jan 9, 2026
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Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
Jan 2, 2026
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The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose
Dec 30, 2025
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Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress?
Dec 26, 2025
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Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song
Dec 19, 2025
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Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped
Dec 12, 2025
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OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop
Dec 5, 2025
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Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025
Nov 28, 2025
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The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars
Nov 25, 2025
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We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
Nov 21, 2025
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Google's Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look
Nov 18, 2025
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Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery
Nov 14, 2025
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We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT
Nov 7, 2025
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Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I.
Oct 31, 2025
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Celebrities Fight Sora + Amazon’s Secret Automation Plans + ChatGPT Gets a Browser
Oct 24, 2025
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California Regulates A.I. Companions + OpenAI Investigates Its Critics + The Hard Fork Review of Slop
Oct 17, 2025
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ChatGPT’s Platform Play + a Trillion-Dollar GPU Empire + the Queen of Slop
Oct 10, 2025
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Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express
Oct 3, 2025
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The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture
Sep 26, 2025
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Charlie Kirk and Online Rage + Inside Trump’s Chip Flip + This Week in A.I.
Sep 19, 2025
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Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom
Sep 12, 2025
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A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education
Sep 5, 2025
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Intel’s New Deal + Waymo C.E.O. Tekedra Mawakana on Scaling Driverless Cars + Trumps in Tech
Aug 29, 2025
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Is This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta’s Missing Morals + TikTok Shock Slop
Aug 22, 2025
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GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + Hot Mess Express
Aug 15, 2025
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