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Hard Fork

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.55.2K Ratings

Overview

“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.

173 Episodes

Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song

“We were roadkill,” says Colin Angle, former chief executive of iRobot, maker of the robot vacuum.

Transcribed - Published: 19 December 2025

Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped

“I'm told that Australian teens, in preparation for this ban, have been exchanging phone numbers with each other.”

Transcribed - Published: 12 December 2025

OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop

“For OpenAI to realize its ambitions, it is not going to be enough for them to make a model that is as good as Gemini 3. They need to be able to leapfrog it again.”

Transcribed - Published: 5 December 2025

Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025

“You can't tell the story of 2025 without these icons.”

Transcribed - Published: 28 November 2025

The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars

Attacks against the site are piling up. Its co-founder says, Trust the process.

Transcribed - Published: 25 November 2025

We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.

This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents?

Transcribed - Published: 21 November 2025

Google's Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look

Maybe more than other model releases, this one seems to have the attention of Google’s competitors. Will it put the company at the top of the A.I. leaderboard?

Transcribed - Published: 18 November 2025

Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery

“As you may have noticed, it is not easy to build data centers here on Earth.”

Transcribed - Published: 14 November 2025

We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT

People have been waiting for a robot to do their chores since they watched “The Jetsons.” Can the company behind NEO finally make it happen?

Transcribed - Published: 7 November 2025

Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I.

“We are living through a dramatic contraction in the access that teenagers have to technology online.”

Transcribed - Published: 31 October 2025

Celebrities Fight Sora + Amazon’s Secret Automation Plans + ChatGPT Gets a Browser

“Now we are just seeing OpenAI do the full Facebook when it comes to content policy.”

Transcribed - Published: 24 October 2025

California Regulates A.I. Companions + OpenAI Investigates Its Critics + The Hard Fork Review of Slop

Could this be a blueprint for the nation?

Transcribed - Published: 17 October 2025

ChatGPT’s Platform Play + a Trillion-Dollar GPU Empire + the Queen of Slop

At DevDay, OpenAI signaled its ambition to take everything you can do on the internet and shove it inside ChatGPT.

Transcribed - Published: 10 October 2025

Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express

“I do not like the idea of pointing these giant AI supercomputers at people's dopamine receptors and just feeding them an endless diet of hyper-personalized stimulating videos.”

Transcribed - Published: 3 October 2025

The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture

“You now have the leaders of the biggest technology companies in the world saying, effectively in unison, that they do not care how much it costs to build all the way to A.G.I.”

Transcribed - Published: 26 September 2025

Charlie Kirk and Online Rage + Inside Trump’s Chip Flip + This Week in A.I.

“We as a culture are optimizing for rage now.”

Transcribed - Published: 19 September 2025

Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom

“There's only so many things that you can do to redesign a glass rectangle in your pocket.”

Transcribed - Published: 12 September 2025

A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education

“I think that A.I. is going to help break, in a sense, the university model that has anyway reached a certain kind of end game,” says the Princeton professor D. Graham Burnett.

Transcribed - Published: 5 September 2025

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

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

Transcribed - Published: 29 August 2025

Is This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta’s Missing Morals + TikTok Shock Slop

“It’s beyond enormous. It’s unprecedented.”

Transcribed - Published: 22 August 2025

GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + Hot Mess Express

“I think this was a growing up moment for OpenAI and the industry.”

Transcribed - Published: 15 August 2025

GPT-5 Arrives, and We Try the New Alexa+

“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.”

Transcribed - Published: 8 August 2025

Age-Gating the Internet + Cloudflare Takes On A.I. Scrapers + HatGPT

“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.

Transcribed - Published: 1 August 2025

Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics

"Any historical understanding of the First Amendment would say this is just plainly unconstitutional.”

Transcribed - Published: 25 July 2025

X Hits Grok Bottom + More A.I. Talent Wars + ‘Crypto Week’

“XAI had to apologize after Grok began praising Adolf Hitler, making antisemitic comments and referring to itself as MechaHitler.”

Transcribed - Published: 18 July 2025

Interesting Times: A Mind-Bending Conversation with Peter Thiel

The original tech right power player on A.I., Mars and immortality.

Transcribed - Published: 11 July 2025

Hard Fork Live, Part 2: Patrick Collison of Stripe + Kathryn Zealand of Skip + Listener Questions

More from our first live show taping, including a robot pants demo and audience questions.

Transcribed - Published: 4 July 2025

Hard Fork Live, Part 1: Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap of OpenAI

Highlights from our first live taping, and our reaction to a spicy interview with OpenAI leaders.

Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2025

Trump Is Selling a Phone + The Start-Up Trying to Automate Every Job + Allison Williams Talks ‘M3GAN 2.0’

“They’re calling it the T1 Phone 8002 Gold Version, which sounds kind of like a Taylor Swift album.”

Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2025

Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation

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

Transcribed - Published: 13 June 2025

The Trump-Musk Fallout + A DOGE Coder Speaks + ChefGPT

“We're having a broligarchy blowup of the highest order.”

Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2025

The A.I. Jobpocalypse + Building at Anthropic with Mike Krieger + Hard Fork Crimes Division

“These products are really explicitly being designed to take away people’s jobs.”

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2025

Google DeepMind C.E.O. Demis Hassabis on Living in an A.I. Future

“The only thing we know for sure is there is going to be a lot of change over the next 10 years.”

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2025

Ed Helms Answers Your Hard Questions

A star of "The Office" comes to our office to answer your most pressing questions about tech.

Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2025

Bad Apple + The Rise of the AI Empire + Italian Brain Rot

“I have rarely read a judge who is so obviously angry at a tech company”

Transcribed - Published: 9 May 2025

The Dangers of A.I. Flattery + Kevin Meets the Orb + Group Chat Chat

"A.I.s are getting more persuasive and they are learning how to manipulate human behavior.”

Transcribed - Published: 2 May 2025

Is Google Breaking Up? + Seasteading Is Back + Tool Time

"They are being dragged into change, kicking and screaming."

Transcribed - Published: 25 April 2025

Meta on Trial + Is A.I. a ‘Normal’ Technology? + HatGPT

“The market for social networks or even what Meta is, is very different now than it was even a couple of years ago.”

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2025

Big Tech's Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama

“How do we navigate this new uncertain climate?”

Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2025

Tech Stock Shock + Solving the Mystery of OpenAI's "Blip" + Tinder's Flirt-Off

What do Trump’s tariffs mean for tech consumers and the future of AI?

Transcribed - Published: 4 April 2025

The Tech Behind Signalgate + Dwarkesh Patel's "Scaling Era" + Is A.I. Making Our Listeners Dumb?

“The group chats are popping off at the highest levels of government.”

Transcribed - Published: 28 March 2025

A.I. Action Plans + The College Student Who Broke Job Interviews + Hot Mess Express

“A.I. companies are slowly and haltingly learning to speak the language of Donald Trump.”

Transcribed - Published: 21 March 2025

Apple's Siri-ous Problem + How Starlink Took Over the World + Is AI Making Us Dumb?

In the A.I. era, does Apple need to get comfortable shipping less polished products?

Transcribed - Published: 14 March 2025

Is Google Search Cooked? + We’re Getting a U.S. Crypto Reserve? + What You’re Vibecoding

“I think Google realizes that this is a once-in-a-generation chance to reinvent the search experience”

Transcribed - Published: 7 March 2025

Anthropic’s C.E.O. Dario Amodei on Surviving the A.I. Endgame

“I'm just worried that it'll be a shock to people when it happens.”

Transcribed - Published: 28 February 2025

How Based is Grok 3? + Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on Markets For Everything + Vibecoding 101

“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.”

Transcribed - Published: 21 February 2025

A.I. Accelerates in Paris + Can A.I. Fix Your Love Life?

It’s a Valentine's Day Special!

Transcribed - Published: 14 February 2025

The Musketeers Take Washington + Spotify's Ghost Music + Tool Time

“The way to control government is to control the computers.”

Transcribed - Published: 7 February 2025

DeepSeek DeepDive + Hands-On With Operator + Hot Mess Express!

“DeepSeek is a really odd duck.”

Transcribed - Published: 31 January 2025

Your Guide to the DeepSeek Freakout: an Emergency Pod

“I think this is a big moment in the history of A.I. development”

Transcribed - Published: 28 January 2025

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