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Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025From 🇺🇸 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.”
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Charlie Kirk and Online Rage + Inside Trump’s Chip Flip + This Week in A.I.
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-09-19 11:00
“We as a culture are optimizing for rage now.”
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Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-09-12 11:00
“There's only so many things that you can do to redesign a glass rectangle in your pocket.”
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A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-09-05 11:00
“I think that A.I. is going to help break, in a sense, the university model that has anyway reached a certain kind of end game,” says the Princeton professor D. Graham Burnett.
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Intel’s New Deal + Waymo C.E.O. Tekedra Mawakana on Scaling Driverless Cars + Trumps in Tech
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-08-29 11:00
“At its core, what this is is like a state-sponsored industrial project.”
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Is This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta’s Missing Morals + TikTok Shock Slop
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-08-22 11:00
“It’s beyond enormous. It’s unprecedented.”
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GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + Hot Mess Express
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-08-15 11:00
“I think this was a growing up moment for OpenAI and the industry.”
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GPT-5 Arrives, and We Try the New Alexa+
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-08-08 11:00
“Sam Altman in his remarks said that this is a major upgrade,” but he also said that “we’re not at A.G.I. yet.”
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Age-Gating the Internet + Cloudflare Takes On A.I. Scrapers + HatGPT
From 🇺🇸 Hard Fork, published at 2025-08-01 11:00
“Frankly, if they’re going to behave like hackers, then we’re going to behave like trolls right back to them,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare.
