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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. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Listen to this podcast in New York Times Audio, our new iOS app for news subscribers. Download now at nytimes.com/audioapp

137 Episodes

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

Quantum TikTok + Memecoin Mania + Chris Hayes on the Attention Wars

“We are starting to see how Silicon Valley wants to do business during the Trump administration.”

Transcribed - Published: 24 January 2025

Goodbye TikTok, Ni Hao RedNote? + A.I.'s Environmental Impact + Meta's Masculine Energy

“This is truly one of the funniest and most unexpected stories of the young year so far.”

Transcribed - Published: 17 January 2025

Meta Goes MAGA Mode +A Big Month in A.I. + HatGPT

“I think this set of changes that the company announced this week are the most important series of policy changes that they have made in the past five years.”

Transcribed - Published: 10 January 2025

Our 2025 Tech Predictions and Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions

Next year is going to be different: good and bad, but just different.

Transcribed - Published: 3 January 2025

The Wirecutter Show: Kitchen Gear That Lasts a Lifetime (or Extremely Close)

Quality kitchen gear can last a lifetime — but not every pot, pan or knife is made to last.

Transcribed - Published: 27 December 2024

Is Amazon's Drone Delivery Finally Ready for Prime Time?

We flew to Arizona to test the recently debuted service ourselves.

Transcribed - Published: 20 December 2024

TikTok's Last Stand + Google's Quantum Breakthrough + Cult of Claude

“The president was given a very clear and easy opportunity to say, ‘Yes, I am going to save TikTok,’ and he absolutely did not say that.”

Transcribed - Published: 13 December 2024

Is Intel Cooked? + What's Your P(Dyson Sphere)? + Hard Fork Gift Guide

The sudden departure of Intel’s C.E.O. reignites concerns about U.S. dependence on foreign manufacturing.

Transcribed - Published: 6 December 2024

Hard Fork's 100 Most Iconic Technologies

“I just love imagining all of the angry emails we're going to get from people who are like, ‘Why did you put the fulcrum on this list?’”

Transcribed - Published: 29 November 2024

Trump's Next Online Speech Cop + Doctors vs ChatGPT + Hard Fork Crimes Division

“I feel very strongly that the First Amendment is under the most direct threat that any of us will ever really experience.”

Transcribed - Published: 22 November 2024

Crypto Congress + HBD ChatGPT + What Social Media Platform Should I Be On?

Cryptocurrency is poised to have a huge year in 2025.

Transcribed - Published: 15 November 2024

What Trump 2.0 Means for Tech + A.I. Made Me Basic + HatGPT!

A shake up is coming for Silicon Valley.

Transcribed - Published: 8 November 2024

Billionaire Game Theory + We Are Not Ready for A.G.I. + Election Betting Markets Get Weird

“If I had $1 billion, how would I try to influence the results of this election?”

Transcribed - Published: 1 November 2024

The Elon-ction + Can A.I. Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide?

The 2024 election has a new main character.

Transcribed - Published: 25 October 2024

Powerful A.I. By 2026? + Uber's C.E.O. on the Robotaxi Future + Casey's TikTok Test

“Check your calendar, Kevin, that is in 14 months.”

Transcribed - Published: 18 October 2024

A Flood of A.I. Slop + Searching for Satoshi + the Hot Mess Express Returns

There’s just so much slop that at a certain point it makes the internet basically useless.

Transcribed - Published: 11 October 2024

Can California Regulate A.I.? + Silicon Valley’s Super Babies + System Update!

“In the United States, we have 50 laboratories of democracy and they're called states.”

Transcribed - Published: 4 October 2024

Meta’s Race for Your Face + Google’s Hit A.I. Notebook + HatGPT

Building great AR glasses is the hardest problem in consumer technology.

Transcribed - Published: 27 September 2024

OpenAI's Reasoning Machine + Instagram Teen Changes + Amazon RTO Drama

“They should have just called it Strawberry. At least that’s delicious.”

Transcribed - Published: 20 September 2024

Do You Need a New iPhone? + Yuval Noah Harari’s A.I. Fears + Hard Fork Crimes Division

Welcome to our 100th episode!

Transcribed - Published: 13 September 2024

X Gets a Brazilian Ax + Founder Mode + Listeners Respond on School Phone Bans

“This is not a normal legal dispute.”

Transcribed - Published: 6 September 2024

The Telegram Problem + Gov. Kathy Hochul on School Phone Bans + Kevin's A.I. Reputation Rehab

Tech platforms and governments are in a standoff.

Transcribed - Published: 30 August 2024

What Happened to the A.I. Election? + ChatGPT for Mayor + The Productivity Tools We’re Using

“It's happening, but people don't want it public.”

Transcribed - Published: 23 August 2024

Can Musk Get Trump Elected? + Steve Ballmer’s Quest for the Facts + This Week in A.I.

This is totally unprecedented for a tech C.E.O.

Transcribed - Published: 16 August 2024

Google’s Monopoly Money + Is the A.I. Bubble Popping? + The Hot-Mess Express

“Maybe this actually is a chance to press the reset button on the internet.”

Transcribed - Published: 9 August 2024

The Zoom Election + Google DeepMind's Math Olympiad + HatGPT! Olympics Edition

Every presidential election has a defining technology.

Transcribed - Published: 2 August 2024

Kamala Harris’s Bratty Coconut Memescape + What Does $1,000 a Month Do? + The Empire CrowdStrikes Back

An episode unburdened by what has been.

Transcribed - Published: 26 July 2024

Social Media Reacts to an Attempted Assassination + Tech Elites for Trump + TikTok's Jawmaxxing Trend

“The 2024 internet is just different than the internet we lived on four years ago.”

Transcribed - Published: 19 July 2024

Alison Roman Answers Your Hard Questions

Answers to your moral quandaries, ethical dilemmas and etiquette questions about technology.

Transcribed - Published: 12 July 2024

The Interview: The Netflix Chief’s Plan to Get You to Binge Even More

Ted Sarandos, a chief executive of Netflix, on the future of entertainment.

Transcribed - Published: 5 July 2024

Record Labels Sue A.I. Music Generators + Inside the Pentagon’s Tech Upgrade + HatGPT

A little something for everyone: lawsuits, fighter jets and Casey in a bucket hat.

Transcribed - Published: 28 June 2024

A Surgeon General Warning + Is Disinformation Winning? + The CryptoPACs Are Coming

The Surgeon General is calling for warning labels on social media platforms: Should Congress give his proposal a like? Then, former Stanford researcher Renée DiResta joins us to talk about her new book on modern propaganda and whether we are losing the war against disinformation. And finally, the Times reporter David Yaffe-Bellany stops by to tell us how crypto could reshape the 2024 elections.

Transcribed - Published: 21 June 2024

Apple Joins the A.I. Party + Elon's Wild Week + HatGPT

“They really sort of make you feel like it’s Christmas and Coachella at the same time.”

Transcribed - Published: 14 June 2024

A Conversation With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada + An OpenAI Whistle-Blower Speaks Out

It turns out A.I. is surprisingly Canadian.

Transcribed - Published: 7 June 2024

Google Eats Rocks + A Win for A.I. Interpretability + Safety Vibe Check

“Pass me the nontoxic glue and a couple of rocks, because it’s time to whip up a meal with Google’s new A.I. Overviews.”

Transcribed - Published: 31 May 2024

ScarJo vs. ChatGPT + Neuralink’s First Patient Opens Up + Microsoft’s A.I. PCs

“Did you ever think we would have a literal Avenger fighting back against the relentless march of A.I.? Because that's sort of what this story is about.”

Transcribed - Published: 24 May 2024

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