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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.”
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The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-09-26 11:00
“You now have the leaders of the biggest technology companies in the world saying, effectively in unison, that they do not care how much it costs to build all the way to A.G.I.”
