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

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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“At its core, what this is is like a state-sponsored industrial project.”

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0:00.0	What's going on with you?
0:01.8	Well, one of my friends who is a Zoomer is bringing back millennial slang, but as a bit.
0:10.6	Oh, boy.
0:11.1	And I don't like it.
0:12.1	Like what?
0:12.7	Well, now, every time we go out to a restaurant and he eats his food, he says, yum.com.
0:21.2	And it's so upsetting to me, because I remember when people, myself included, would say that
0:27.0	unironically.
0:27.7	Yeah.
0:28.3	And now it's come back 20 years later as a bit.
0:30.6	I don't like this either.
0:31.6	I don't either.
0:32.6	Our culture is not a costume.
0:34.2	Suffice to say, this is not awesome sauce.
0:39.9	It is not epic costume. Suffice to say, this is not awesome sauce. It is not epic bacon.
0:42.0	It's really not epic bacon at all.
0:50.1	I'm Kevin Russo Tech columnist at the New York Times.
0:52.5	I'm Casey Noon from Platformer.
0:54.0	And this is Hard Fork. This week, the Intel on Intel. Why the U.S. government is taking a 10% stake in the chipmaker. Then, Waymo co-CEO CEO, Takedra Mawakana, joins us to talk about expanding to New York City, making roads safer, and what exactly the company shares with law enforcement?
1:13.1	And finally, Kevin, it's Trump's in tech.
1:13.8	Buckle up.
1:29.6	Okay, see, we're going to start this week by talking about the biggest tech story of the week,
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