Technology

Hard Fork

by The New York Times

“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.
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1

‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing

1:00:36 Mar 20, 2026

2

A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity

1:06:42 Mar 13, 2026

3

OpenAI's Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop

1:05:39 Mar 6, 2026

4

At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out

33:08 Mar 1, 2026

5

Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School

1:00:39 Feb 27, 2026

6

The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express

1:04:09 Feb 20, 2026

7

‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing

1:00:38 Feb 13, 2026

8

Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator

1:04:27 Feb 6, 2026

9

Moltbook Mania Explained

27:52 Feb 4, 2026

10

Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT

1:10:30 Jan 30, 2026

11

Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New Constitution

1:13:40 Jan 23, 2026

12

Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse

1:14:29 Jan 16, 2026

13

Can We Build a Better Social Network?

40:48 Jan 13, 2026

14

Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax

1:16:15 Jan 9, 2026

15

Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions

59:03 Jan 2, 2026

16

The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose

34:55 Dec 30, 2025

17

Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress?

39:28 Dec 26, 2025

18

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

1:03:30 Dec 19, 2025

19

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

1:09:55 Dec 12, 2025

20

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

58:38 Dec 5, 2025

21

Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025

1:16:28 Nov 28, 2025

22

The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars

46:06 Nov 25, 2025

23

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

40:10 Nov 21, 2025

24

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

26:46 Nov 18, 2025

25

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

1:11:30 Nov 14, 2025

26

We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT

1:08:04 Nov 7, 2025

27

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

1:00:38 Oct 31, 2025

28

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

1:07:57 Oct 24, 2025

29

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

1:05:10 Oct 17, 2025

30

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

1:06:35 Oct 10, 2025

31

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

1:05:54 Oct 3, 2025

32

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

52:41 Sep 26, 2025

33

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

1:13:47 Sep 19, 2025

34

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

1:12:24 Sep 12, 2025

35

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

1:11:48 Sep 5, 2025

36

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

1:02:53 Aug 29, 2025

37

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

1:06:31 Aug 22, 2025

38

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

1:11:29 Aug 15, 2025

39

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

1:12:57 Aug 8, 2025

40

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

1:11:32 Aug 1, 2025

41

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

1:06:20 Jul 25, 2025

42

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

1:08:19 Jul 18, 2025

43

Interesting Times: A Mind-Bending Conversation with Peter Thiel

1:02:23 Jul 11, 2025

44

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

57:46 Jul 4, 2025

45

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

57:04 Jun 27, 2025

46

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

1:03:57 Jun 20, 2025

47

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

1:07:27 Jun 13, 2025

48

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

1:06:58 Jun 6, 2025

49

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

1:08:02 May 30, 2025

50

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

1:13:42 May 23, 2025

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