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A Flood of A.I. Slop + Searching for Satoshi + the Hot Mess Express Returns
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-10-11 09:00
There’s just so much slop that at a certain point it makes the internet basically useless.
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Can California Regulate A.I.? + Silicon Valley’s Super Babies + System Update!
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-10-04 09:00
“In the United States, we have 50 laboratories of democracy and they're called states.”
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Meta’s Race for Your Face + Google’s Hit A.I. Notebook + HatGPT
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-09-27 09:00
Building great AR glasses is the hardest problem in consumer technology.
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OpenAI's Reasoning Machine + Instagram Teen Changes + Amazon RTO Drama
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-09-20 09:00
“They should have just called it Strawberry. At least that’s delicious.”
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Do You Need a New iPhone? + Yuval Noah Harari’s A.I. Fears + Hard Fork Crimes Division
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-09-13 09:00
Welcome to our 100th episode!
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X Gets a Brazilian Ax + Founder Mode + Listeners Respond on School Phone Bans
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-09-06 09:00
“This is not a normal legal dispute.”
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The Telegram Problem + Gov. Kathy Hochul on School Phone Bans + Kevin's A.I. Reputation Rehab
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-08-30 09:05
Tech platforms and governments are in a standoff.
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What Happened to the A.I. Election? + ChatGPT for Mayor + The Productivity Tools We’re Using
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-08-23 09:00
“It's happening, but people don't want it public.”
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Can Musk Get Trump Elected? + Steve Ballmer’s Quest for the Facts + This Week in A.I.
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-08-16 09:00
This is totally unprecedented for a tech C.E.O.
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Google’s Monopoly Money + Is the A.I. Bubble Popping? + The Hot-Mess Express
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-08-09 09:00
“Maybe this actually is a chance to press the reset button on the internet.”
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The Zoom Election + Google DeepMind's Math Olympiad + HatGPT! Olympics Edition
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-08-02 08:59
Every presidential election has a defining technology.
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Kamala Harris’s Bratty Coconut Memescape + What Does $1,000 a Month Do? + The Empire CrowdStrikes Back
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-07-26 08:59
An episode unburdened by what has been.
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Social Media Reacts to an Attempted Assassination + Tech Elites for Trump + TikTok's Jawmaxxing Trend
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-07-19 09:00
“The 2024 internet is just different than the internet we lived on four years ago.”
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Alison Roman Answers Your Hard Questions
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-07-12 09:00
Answers to your moral quandaries, ethical dilemmas and etiquette questions about technology.
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The Interview: The Netflix Chief’s Plan to Get You to Binge Even More
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-07-05 09:00
Ted Sarandos, a chief executive of Netflix, on the future of entertainment.
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Record Labels Sue A.I. Music Generators + Inside the Pentagon’s Tech Upgrade + HatGPT
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-06-28 09:00
A little something for everyone: lawsuits, fighter jets and Casey in a bucket hat.
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A Surgeon General Warning + Is Disinformation Winning? + The CryptoPACs Are Coming
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-06-21 09:00
The Surgeon General is calling for warning labels on social media platforms: Should Congress give his proposal a like? Then, former Stanford researcher Renée DiResta joins us to talk about her new book on modern propaganda and whether we are losing the war against disinformation. And finally, the Times reporter David Yaffe-Bellany stops by to tell us how crypto could reshape the 2024 elections.
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Apple Joins the A.I. Party + Elon's Wild Week + HatGPT
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-06-14 09:00
“They really sort of make you feel like it’s Christmas and Coachella at the same time.”
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A Conversation With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada + An OpenAI Whistle-Blower Speaks Out
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-06-07 09:00
It turns out A.I. is surprisingly Canadian.
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Google Eats Rocks + A Win for A.I. Interpretability + Safety Vibe Check
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2024-05-31 09:00
“Pass me the nontoxic glue and a couple of rocks, because it’s time to whip up a meal with Google’s new A.I. Overviews.”