Hard Fork
The New York Times • Technology
The New York Times • Technology
Hard Fork
The New York Times • Technology
The New York Times • Technology

About

“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.

Episodes

  • 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.”
  • 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.”
  • Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025
    “You can't tell the story of 2025 without these icons.”
  • The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars
    Attacks against the site are piling up. Its co-founder says, Trust the process.
  • 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?
  • 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?
  • 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.”
  • 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?
  • 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.”
  • 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.”
  • California Regulates A.I. Companions + OpenAI Investigates Its Critics + The Hard Fork Review of Slop
    Could this be a blueprint for the nation?
  • 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.
  • 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.”
  • 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.”
  • Charlie Kirk and Online Rage + Inside Trump’s Chip Flip + This Week in A.I.
    “We as a culture are optimizing for rage now.”
  • 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.”
  • 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.
  • 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.”
  • Is This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta’s Missing Morals + TikTok Shock Slop
    “It’s beyond enormous. It’s unprecedented.”
  • 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.”