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

  • A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming
    Is anti-A.I. radicalization a growing trend?
  • Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Their Sam Altman Investigation + One Good Thing
    The new Anthropic model that’s too dangerous to be released is already revealing thousands of software vulnerabilities.
  • The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT
    “The platforms should be absolutely begging Congress to regulate them because the alternative is they get sued into oblivion by a bunch of law firms.”
  • The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
    The Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells Ezra Klein what he sees coming in the new era of A.I. agents.
  • ‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing
    Companies are using A.I. as a reason for layoffs, but the truth may be more complex.
  • A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity
    “When there is an attack that kills civilians or doesn’t hit its intended target, people are going to be asking, Oh, was that a human who made that mistake or was that an A.I. system?”
  • OpenAI's Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop
    “The Pentagon and OpenAI are saying to the public, You’re just going to have to trust us. And the public is saying, Well, we don’t.”
  • At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out
    It’s been a crazy 48 hours in the A.I. industry.
  • Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School
    “I think the mere fact that the markets can move so much, based on almost nothing, underscores how high anxiety is right now.”
  • The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express
    This would be an unprecedented escalation against a U.S. company.
  • ‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing
    “I do think we are reaching an inflection point in people's feelings and senses about AI and where it's going.”
  • Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator
    “A very valuable and profitable company in SpaceX has acquired a cash furnace named xAI.”
  • Moltbook Mania Explained
    Is this the year the internet changes forever?
  • Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT
    In Minneapolis, it has become a battle of phone versus phone.
  • Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New Constitution
    “The question is not are these first couple of ads that we're seeing from OpenAI going to be good or not? It's whether two or three years from now, ChatGPT is being steered toward ad-friendly topics.”
  • Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse
    “If we can’t win on social media, then we definitely can’t win on A.I.,” says Haidt.
  • Can We Build a Better Social Network?
    A “Hard Fork” and “Search Engine” collaboration.
  • Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax
    “This is a story about how a tool can be used to try to affect politics and in particular to minimize women, denigrate them and push them out of the conversation.”
  • Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
    “When we came into the studio last year to record our resolutions, I had the best of intentions.”
  • The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose
    If you’ve ever wondered what chatbots are good for and how best to use them, this episode is for you.