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Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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"These pay packages that they're offering are stretching into nine figures."

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0:00.0	Let me ask you about this.
0:02.7	There's this startup called the Browser Company, and they have a new browser called DIA,
0:08.3	which is sort of, you know, based around AI.
0:12.4	And so you have like an AI chat, and I was reading David Pierce's story about this in The Verge,
0:18.3	and he was like, there was a point in using Dia where I came to understand that it knows
0:22.7	what my social security number is
0:24.3	because I had like turned it onto a website.
0:27.6	And when I think about all of the things
0:29.6	that I, you know, put into a web browser,
0:31.7	some of very sensitive information, Kevin.
0:33.8	Yeah.
0:34.1	I don't know that I want a cloud service
0:36.9	to have total knowledge and memory of what I've
0:39.6	been browsing.
0:40.3	Yeah, that sounds to me like a bad idea.
0:45.7	Perfect.
0:46.6	Cut prints.
0:47.7	We're moving on.
0:53.9	I'm Kevin Roos, a tech columnist at the New York Times.
0:56.4	I'm Casey Noon from Platformer.
0:57.9	And this is hard for it.
0:59.0	This week, meta hits the reset button on AI.
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