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Hard Fork
211 episodes · by The New York Times
About Hard Fork
Hard Fork is a podcast with 211 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. “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. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Also, for more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. PodLexicon indexes every episode of Hard Fork and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Topics Covered on Hard Fork
Open-Weight AI Models Debate AI Regulation and Policy Uncertainty Frontier AI Employee Letter Google Worker Activism and Idealism Tech Worker Leverage and Labor Substack AI Detection and Trust OpenAI Pentagon Deal Backlash Anthropic Military Pressure and Growth
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OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought — August 21, 2026Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math — August 14, 2026The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express — August 07, 2026Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight — July 31, 2026OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting — July 24, 2026The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT — July 17, 2026Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time — July 10, 2026Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama — July 03, 2026‘The Daily’ and ‘The Opinions’: How A.I. Is Changing Loneliness and Taste — June 26, 2026‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. Future — June 19, 2026‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 2: Dylan Field on Standing Out in the A.I. Era — June 17, 2026‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn — June 12, 2026Hot I.P.O Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT — June 05, 2026Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving? — May 29, 2026Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update — May 22, 2026A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express — May 15, 2026Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School — May 08, 2026OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM — May 01, 2026Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT — April 24, 2026A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming — April 17, 2026Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Their Sam Altman Investigation + One Good Thing — April 10, 2026The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT — April 03, 2026The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy? — March 27, 2026‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing — March 20, 2026A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity — March 13, 2026OpenAI's Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop — March 06, 2026At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out — March 01, 2026Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School — February 27, 2026The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express — February 20, 2026‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing — February 13, 2026Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator — February 06, 2026Moltbook Mania Explained — February 04, 2026Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT — January 30, 2026Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New Constitution — January 23, 2026Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse — January 16, 2026Can We Build a Better Social Network? — January 13, 2026Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax — January 09, 2026Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions — January 02, 2026The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose — December 30, 2025Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress? — December 26, 2025Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song — December 19, 2025Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped — December 12, 2025OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop — December 05, 2025Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025 — November 28, 2025The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars — November 25, 2025We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense. — November 21, 2025Google's Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look — November 18, 2025Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery — November 14, 2025We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT — November 07, 2025Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I. — October 31, 2025
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