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Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the ForkiverseFrom 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2026-01-16 12:00
“If we can’t win on social media, then we definitely can’t win on A.I.,” says Haidt.
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Can We Build a Better Social Network?
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2026-01-13 12:00
A “Hard Fork” and “Search Engine” collaboration.
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Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2026-01-09 12:00
“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.”
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Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2026-01-02 12:00
“When we came into the studio last year to record our resolutions, I had the best of intentions.”
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The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-12-30 12:00
If you’ve ever wondered what chatbots are good for and how best to use them, this episode is for you.
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Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress?
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-12-26 12:00
A tech C.E.O. explains why A.I. probably won’t cure diseases anytime soon. Hint: You still need humans.
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Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-12-19 12:00
“We were roadkill,” says Colin Angle, former chief executive of iRobot, maker of the robot vacuum.
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Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-12-12 12:00
“I'm told that Australian teens, in preparation for this ban, have been exchanging phone numbers with each other.”
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OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-12-05 12:00
“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.”
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Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-11-28 12:00
“You can't tell the story of 2025 without these icons.”
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The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-11-25 12:00
Attacks against the site are piling up. Its co-founder says, Trust the process.
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We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-11-21 12:00
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?
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Google's Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-11-18 16:00
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?
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Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-11-14 12:00
“As you may have noticed, it is not easy to build data centers here on Earth.”
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We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-11-07 12:00
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?
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Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I.
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-10-31 11:00
“We are living through a dramatic contraction in the access that teenagers have to technology online.”
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Celebrities Fight Sora + Amazon’s Secret Automation Plans + ChatGPT Gets a Browser
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-10-24 11:00
“Now we are just seeing OpenAI do the full Facebook when it comes to content policy.”
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California Regulates A.I. Companions + OpenAI Investigates Its Critics + The Hard Fork Review of Slop
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-10-17 11:00
Could this be a blueprint for the nation?
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ChatGPT’s Platform Play + a Trillion-Dollar GPU Empire + the Queen of Slop
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-10-10 11:00
At DevDay, OpenAI signaled its ambition to take everything you can do on the internet and shove it inside ChatGPT.
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Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-10-03 11:00
“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.”
