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- The Jensen Huang Affair · 31 min · Episodul 221Nvidia’s C.E.O., Jensen Huang, admitted to having an affair with a suspected Chinese corporate spy. Everything that means for him and the A.I. industry, and what happens next.
- Why the Tech Right Lost Big This Week · 1 h 8 min · Episodul 220“This felt like a decidedly anti-tech election.”
- Are We in an A.I. Bubble? We're About to Find Out. · 54 min · Episodul 219“This is the first pure-play L.L.M. company to go public, to open its books so we can actually look at the underlying business of this A.I. boom.”
- What’s the Deal With Billy Evans? A Spoiler-Filled Guide to ‘You Can See Everything’ · 59 min · Episodul 218“You shouldn’t overbeat scrambled eggs.”
- Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth Holmes · 1 h 7 min · Episodul 217“I felt like there were some moments in the film where she was just brazenly lying.”
- Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals · 44 min · Episodul 216“For Anthropic, it was part research and part evangelism.”
- A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous? · 53 min · Episodul 215“It’s going to be gnarly for a little while.”
- The Ezra Klein Show: Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far · 1 h 48 min · Episodul 214Ezra Klein interviews the Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang.
- A.I. Safety Goes Mainstream + a ‘Hard Fork’ Exit AMA · 1 h 24 min · Episodul 213“It has been one of the fastest, most sudden shifts I've experienced.”
- The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here · 1 h 19 min · Episodul 212The A.I. giants weren’t prepared for this.
- The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra · 1 h 18 min · Episodul 211This is probably the most important thing to have happened in A.I. this year.
- Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT · 1 h 2 min · Episodul 210Meta negotiated an unusual provision in their landmark settlement: If TikTok and YouTube also agree to penalties and changes to their products, Meta will pay more.
- OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought · 1 h 3 min · Episodul 209“It is the first time that we know of that a major lab has voluntarily slowed down.”
- Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math · 1 h 3 min · Episodul 208“The first rule of Mark Zuckerberg is never count out Mark Zuckerberg."
- The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express · 1 h 5 min · Episodul 207A few details from the White House’s A.I. plan have leaked to the news media, but the administration has officially communicated almost nothing.
- Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight · 1 h 6 min“It just seems like the temperature is rising on Silicon Valley.”
- OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting · 1 h 8 min · Episodul 205“The story that we're talking about in this segment was science fiction until Tuesday, OK?”
- The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT · 1 h 9 min · Episodul 204“I don’t know if the public understands this, but these companies hate each other.”
- Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time · 1 h 19 min · Episodul 201“If the net result is that all the teens in Australia are still using social media, even after they’re technically banned from doing it, why are we doing any of this?”
- Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama · 1 h 6 min · Episodul 202What we learned from the government’s biggest attempt yet to control who can gain access to the most powerful new A.I. models.
- ‘The Daily’ and ‘The Opinions’: How A.I. Is Changing Loneliness and Taste · 60 min · Episodul 201The story of a woman who let a robot into her home. Plus, a discussion about why Silicon Valley has taken such an interest in taste.
- ‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. Future · 56 min · Episodul 200One final episode from our live event, featuring a debate, questions from listeners and the dramatic and unplanned collapse of a dancing robot.
- ‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 2: Dylan Field on Standing Out in the A.I. Era · 31 min · Episodul 199“I think if you have a creative voice in writing or design, you put yourself out there and you take a risk — this is a good time to do that,” said the Figma chief executive Dylan…
- ‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn · 1 h 6 min · Episodul 198A tech titan, a digital rights defender and two menacing-looking robot dogs took the stage at our second-ever live show.
- Hot I.P.O Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT · 1 h 4 min · Episodul 197“We are on track to see what might be the three biggest I.P.O.s of all time.”
- Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving? · 59 min · Episodul 196Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.
- Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update · 55 min · Episodul 195“This is the only recent gathering of a large number of people where mentions of A.I. did not produce a large chorus of boos.”
- A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express · 1 h 7 min · Episodul 194After several years of dismissing A.I. safety as doomer fear-mongering, parts of the Trump administration now seem ready to support regulation.
- Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School · 1 h 12 min · Episodul 193“It seems every other day I am reading a story about a massive insider trading scandal.”
- OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM · 1 h 9 min · Episodul 192Will the rising tide of A.I. adoption lift all boats?
- Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT · 1 h 14 min · Episodul 191The highlights, the lowlights, and how Apple changed in the years since Tim Cook took over as chief executive.
- A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming · 1 h 3 min · Episodul 190Is anti-A.I. radicalization a growing trend?
- Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Their Sam Altman Investigation + One Good Thing · 1 h 4 min · Episodul 189The new Anthropic model that’s too dangerous to be released is already revealing thousands of software vulnerabilities.
- The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT · 1 h 9 min · Episodul 188“The platforms should be absolutely begging Congress to regulate them because the alternative is they get sued into oblivion by a bunch of law firms.”
- The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy? · 1 h 40 min · Episodul 187The Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells Ezra Klein what he sees coming in the new era of A.I. agents.
- ‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing · 1 h 0 min · Episodul 186Companies are using A.I. as a reason for layoffs, but the truth may be more complex.
- A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity · 1 h 6 min · Episodul 185“When there is an attack that kills civilians or doesn’t hit its intended target, people are going to be asking, Oh, was that a human who made that mistake or was that an A.I…
- OpenAI's Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop · 1 h 5 min · Episodul 184“The Pentagon and OpenAI are saying to the public, You’re just going to have to trust us. And the public is saying, Well, we don’t.”
- At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out · 33 min · Episodul 183It’s been a crazy 48 hours in the A.I. industry.
- Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School · 1 h 0 min · Episodul 182“I think the mere fact that the markets can move so much, based on almost nothing, underscores how high anxiety is right now.”
- The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express · 1 h 4 min · Episodul 181This would be an unprecedented escalation against a U.S. company.
- ‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing · 1 h 0 min · Episodul 180“I do think we are reaching an inflection point in people's feelings and senses about AI and where it's going.”
- Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator · 1 h 4 min · Episodul 179“A very valuable and profitable company in SpaceX has acquired a cash furnace named xAI.”
- Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT · 1 h 10 min · Episodul 177In Minneapolis, it has become a battle of phone versus phone.
- Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New Constitution · 1 h 13 min · Episodul 176“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…
- Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse · 1 h 14 min · Episodul 175“If we can’t win on social media, then we definitely can’t win on A.I.,” says Haidt.
- Can We Build a Better Social Network? · 41 min · Episodul 174A “Hard Fork” and “Search Engine” collaboration.
- Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax · 1 h 16 min · Episodul 173“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.”
