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Hard Fork — 207 episodes

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OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting

2

The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT

3

Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time

4

Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama

5

‘The Daily’ and ‘The Opinions’: How A.I. Is Changing Loneliness and Taste

6

‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. Future

7

‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 2: Dylan Field on Standing Out in the A.I. Era

8

‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

9

Hot I.P.O Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT

10

Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

11

Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

12

A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express

13

Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School

14

OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM

15

Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

16

A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming

17

Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Their Sam Altman Investigation + One Good Thing

18

The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT

19

The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

Moltbook Mania Explained

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

Can We Build a Better Social Network?

33

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

34

Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

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

39

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

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Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025

41

The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars

42

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

43

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

44

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

45

We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT

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

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

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

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

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

51

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

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

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

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

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

56

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

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

58

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

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

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

61

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

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Interesting Times: A Mind-Bending Conversation with Peter Thiel

63

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

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

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

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

67

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

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

69

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

70

Ed Helms Answers Your Hard Questions

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

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

75

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

76

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

77

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

78

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

79

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

80

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

81

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

82

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

Your Guide to the DeepSeek Freakout: an Emergency Pod

87

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

88

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

89

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

90

Our 2025 Tech Predictions and Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions

91

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

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

Hard Fork's 100 Most Iconic Technologies

96

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

97

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

98

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

99

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

100

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

101

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

102

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

103

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

104

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

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

106

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

107

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

108

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

109

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

110

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

111

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

112

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

113

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

114

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

115

Alison Roman Answers Your Hard Questions

116

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

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

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

121

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

122

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

123

OpenAI's Flirty New Assistant + Google Guts the Web + We Play HatGPT

124

Meet Kevin’s A.I. Friends

125

AI at Your Jobs + Hank Green Talks TikTok + Deepfake High School

126

TikTok on the Clock + Tesla’s Flop Era + How NASA Fixed a ’70s-Era Space Computer

127

The Music Episode

128

A.I.’s Data Wall + a Surprise Privacy Bill + What Happened to the TikTok Ban?

129

Is AI Already Taking Jobs? + A Filmmaker Tries Sora + The XZ Backdoor Caper

130

A.I.’s Messy Moment + Listeners Respond to Jonathan Haidt + Shrimp Jesus

131

Justice Dept. Sues Apple + Smartphones and Children with Jonathan Haidt + Reddit’s IPO

132

A Looming TikTok Ban + A Royal Photoshop Mystery + Your Car is Snitching

133

Musk vs. OpenAI + Europe’s Tech Crackdown + A Month With the Vision Pro

134

Gemini's Culture War + Kara Swisher Burns Us + SCOTUS Takes Up Content Moderation

135

Google DeepMind C.E.O. Demis Hassabis on the Path From Chatbots to A.G.I.

136

The State of A.I. + Will Perplexity Beat Google or Destroy the Web?

137

Bluesky’s Big Bet + Are Deals Dead in Silicon Valley?

138

We Tried the Apple Vision Pro + Can Congress Protect Kids Online? + Cruise’s Crash

139

Mediapocalypse Now + a16z’s Chris Dixon Defends Crypto + HatGPT

140

The AI Election + Bitcoin’s Wall Street Debut + TikTok’s Doodad Era

141

Why Casey Left Substack + Elon’s Drug Use + A.I. Antibiotic Discovery

142

The Times Sues OpenAI + A Debate Over iMessage + Our New Year’s Tech Resolutions

143

Our 2024 Predictions + Jenny Slate Answers Your Hard Questions!

144

Google’s Epic Loss + Silicon Valley’s Curious New Subculture + How 2023 Changed the Internet

145

Google's Next Top Model + Will the Cybertruck Crash? + This Week in A.I.

146

What’s Next for OpenAI + Binance Is Binanceled + A.I. Is Eating the Internet

147

(Yet Another) Emergency Pod: Sam Altman Is Back

148

Mayhem at OpenAI + Our Interview With Sam Altman

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Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI

150

An A.I. Pin Drops + YouTube’s Take on Deepfakes + A Lab-Grown Thanksgiving

151

Personalized GPTs Are Here + F.T.C. Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Competition + Mayhem at Apefest

152

Casey Goes to the White House + The Copyright Battle Over Artificial Intelligence + HatGPT

153

The People vs. Meta + Marques Brownlee on YouTube and Future Tech + DALL-E 3 Arrives

154

Peering Into A.I.’s Black Box + Who’s The Real Techno-Optimist? + Reading Ancient Scrolls With A.I.

155

Social Media In Wartime + Betting on the Future + A.I. Passes the Smell Test

156

Google’s Trial Heats Up + How to Wear A.I. + It’s Our Birthday!

157

All Gas, No Brakes in A.I. + Metaverse Update + Lessons From a Prompt Engineer

158

Breaking Bard + Who Owns Your Face? + Gamer News!

159

Casey v. Kevin on US v. Google + Walter Isaacson on Two Years With Elon Musk

160

Escape From Burning Man + Musk vs. the A.D.L. + Listener Questions

161

The Secretive Billionaires Building a Tech Utopia + Casey’s External Brain + HatGPT

162

N.Y.C. Says Airbn-bye + How Far Would You Go for a GPU? + The A.I. Songs of the Summer

163

S.B.F Goes to Jail + Back to School with A.I. + Self-Driving Car Update

164

Don't Scrape Me, Bro + The Activists Sabotaging Self-Driving Cars + How Reddit Beat a Rebellion

165

Superconductor Superconfusion, KOSA’s Hidden Costs and HatGPT

166

Elon's X Machina + Crypto Orbs + A Visit to Google’s Robot Lab

167

Dario Amodei, C.E.O. of Anthropic, on the Paradoxes of A.I. Safety and Netflix’s ‘Deep Fake Love’

168

Help! My Boss Won’t Stop Using ChatGPT

169

Special Episode: Meta’s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam Mosseri

170

Is A.I. Poisoning Itself? + Billionaire Cage Fight + Cooking With ChatGPT

171

A.I. Beach + Vibes-Based R.T.O. + the ‘Black Mirror’ Quamputer

172

Reddit Revolts + MrBeast’s YouTube Empire + Peak Trust and Safety?

173

Apple’s Face Computer + Crypto Chaos + How Teens Really Feel About Social Media

174

A.I.'s Inner Conflict + Nvidia Joins the Trillion-Dollar Club + Hard Questions

175

The Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning + A.I.’s Existential Risks

176

Mr. Altman Goes to Washington + Casey Goes on This American Life

177

Google’s A.I. Bonanza + Driverless Car Talk With Cruise C.E.O. Kyle Vogt

178

Bluesky Has the Juice + A.I. Jobs Apocalypse + Hard Questions

179

Deepfake Drake + HatGPT + Ben Smith on the End of the BuzzFeed Era

180

Hard Fork Presents: The Most Amazing – And Dangerous – Technology In the World

181

Inside the Hunt for the Discord Leaker + Twitter Chaos Updates

182

A.I. Vibe Check With Ezra Klein + Kevin Tries Phone Positivity

183

Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on Bard, A.I. ‘Whiplash’ and Competing With ChatGPT

184

Bard Fork + How to Talk So Chatbots Will Listen

185

BONUS: Hard Fork Live! Big Tech’s Arch Nemesis + Bot, or Not?

186

GPT-4 Is Here + The Group Chat Bank Run

187

A Congressman Goes to A.I. School + How to Ban TikTok

188

Everyone Pivots to A.I. + Bad News for Crypto

189

Kevin Killed Sydney + Reddit’s C.E.O. Defends Section 230

190

The Bing Who Loved Me + Elon Rewrites the Algorithm

191

Bing’s Revenge + Google’s AI Faceplant

192

A Trip to TikTok + ChatGPT’s Origin Story + Kevin Systrom’s Comeback

193

Meta’s Trump Calculus + Regime Change at Netflix

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Elon's Crumbling Empire + Generative A.I. Goes to Court

195

ChatGPT Transforms a Classroom + Is 'M3GAN' Real?

196

TikTok’s Spying Scandal + ChatGPT Puts Google on Notice + Phone Jail

197

SBF Arrested + 2023 Predictions + Your Questions Answered

198

Can ChatGPT Make This Podcast?

199

Elon’s Two-Day War with Apple + How to Beat an A.I. Censor + S.B.F.’s ‘Bad Month’

200

A Hard Fork in the Road: FTX’s Unraveling and Elon’s Loyalty Oath

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A Verified Mess: Turmoil from Twitter to FTX

202

Life Under Musk: Two Twitter Employees Speak Out

203

Emergency Pod: Elon Musk Owns Twitter

204

Generative AI is Here. Who Should Control It?

205

Legs Are Coming + $36 Burritos + Shocking AI News

206

Elon’s Hidden Motives + A Meetup in the Metaverse

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