Hard Fork
by The New York Times
“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
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.
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.”
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?
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.”