“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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Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator (01:04:27)
This week, the A.I. initial-public-offering race is heating up! We break down SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI, as well as OpenAI and Nvidia’s messy situationship. Then, it’s time for show and tell. We got...
Moltbook Mania Explained (00:27:52)
A Reddit-style web forum for A.I. agents has captured the attention of the tech world. According to the site, called Moltbook, more than 1.5 million agents have contributed to over 150,000 posts, maki...
Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT (01:10:30)
This week we’re talking about the tech industry’s response to the killings by federal agents in Minneapolis and the federal government’s strategy to control the narrative on social media. Then we foll...
Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New Constitution (01:13:40)
Ads are coming to ChatGPT’s free and low-cost subscription tiers. We explain what they’ll look like, why OpenAI is taking this approach and whether the company can court advertising dollars without co...
Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse (01:14:29)
This week, Jonathan Haidt, author of “The Anxious Generation,” returns to the show to discuss new research about how social media is harming teens and what it’s been like to become the face of a globa...
Can We Build a Better Social Network? (00:40:48)
Over the past year we’ve been working with the podcast “Search Engine” on a project that reimagines what the internet can be. What if instead of rage-baiting, a social platform incentivized friendly i...
Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax (01:16:15)
Users of X are asking the platform’s built-in A.I. chatbot, Grok, to remove clothing from images of celebrities and everyday people. We talk with the New York Times reporter Kate Conger about how some...
Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions (00:59:03)
Happy New Year! We’re kicking things off by sharing our tech resolutions for 2026 and reflecting on how we fared with our social media and meditation goals from last year.Then, we open up the listener...
The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose (00:34:55)
Kevin recently joined the hosts of The Wirecutter Show for a conversation about the A.I. products he’s using, strategies to make chatbots work better and his beloved robot vacuums Bruce Roose and Bruc...
Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress? (00:39:28)
The leaders of the biggest A.I. labs argue that artificial intelligence will usher in a new era of scientific discovery, which will help us cure diseases and accelerate our ability to address the clim...
Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song (01:03:30)
This week, iRobot, the pioneering American robotics company behind the Roomba, filed for bankruptcy and announced that it would be taken over by its Chinese creditor. Colin Angle, a co-founder and a f...
Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped (01:09:55)
This week, Australia implemented the most aggressive social media ban in a democracy to date, kicking children under 16 off 10 of the most popular social platforms. We discuss how the platforms lost t...
OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop (00:58:38)
It’s A.I. model rollout season in Silicon Valley, and OpenAI appears to be feeling the pressure. Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, sent a memo to staff on Monday declaring a “code red” effort...
Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025 (01:16:28)
Last year we debuted Hard Fork’s 100 Most Iconic Technologies list, in which we ranked the technologies from across all of history that best define life as we know it. To our surprise, it became one o...
The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars (00:46:06)
Last month our colleague Lulu Garcia-Navarro had a conversation with Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales about the challenges the site is facing — including by right-wing influencers who claim it is bi...
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense. (00:40:10)
Roblox's popularity has exploded among kids since the pandemic. Today Roblox has more than 150 million daily active users, and functions as one of the primary online gathering places for preteens. But...
Google's Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look (00:26:46)
Google’s much anticipated new large language model Gemini 3 begins rolling out today. We’ll tell you what we learned from an early product briefing and bring you our conversation with Google executive...
Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery (01:11:30)
This week, we talk about Google’s new plan to build data centers in space. Then, we’re joined by Dean Ball, a former adviser at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Ball worked on ...
We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT (01:08:04)
This week, we’re joined by Bernt Bornich, chief executive of 1X. We talked with him about NEO, his company’s new humanoid robot, which has the internet buzzing. Then we meet NEO itself, and compare no...
Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I. (01:00:38)
This week, Character.AI announced that it would soon be taking its A.I. companions away from teens. We explain why this is a major development in the world of chatbots and child safety and how we expe...
Celebrities Fight Sora + Amazon’s Secret Automation Plans + ChatGPT Gets a Browser (01:07:57)
Backlash to OpenAI’s video generation app Sora has reached a new tipping point. We discuss two big changes the company is making, after Bryan Cranston and the family of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King...
California Regulates A.I. Companions + OpenAI Investigates Its Critics + The Hard Fork Review of Slop (01:05:10)
This week, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a big package of A.I. and social media bills into law — including the first state law in the United States to regulate A.I. companions. We talk throug...
ChatGPT’s Platform Play + a Trillion-Dollar GPU Empire + the Queen of Slop (01:06:35)
This week, we discuss the standout moments from our field trip to OpenAI’s third annual DevDay — including a bizarre chat between Jony Ive and Sam Altman, and the announcement that OpenAI is putting a...
Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express (01:05:54)
This week, we’re talking about the new A.I.-generated video tools and social media feeds from Google, Meta and OpenAI. Is this how A.I. is going to cure cancer? Then, the psychotherapist Gary Greenber...
The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture (00:52:41)
This week, an eye-popping $100 billion deal between OpenAI and Nvidia — along with an announcement about the construction of five new American data centers — has us re-examining our predictions of an ...
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