“Hard Fork” is a show about the future that’s already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
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The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT
69 hours 26 mins; April 03, 2026
The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
100 hours 24 mins; March 27, 2026
‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing
60 hours 36 mins; March 20, 2026
A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity
66 hours 42 mins; March 13, 2026
OpenAI's Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop
65 hours 39 mins; March 06, 2026
At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out
33 mins; February 28, 2026
Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School
60 hours 39 mins; February 27, 2026
The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express
64 hours 9 mins; February 20, 2026
‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing
60 hours 38 mins; February 13, 2026
Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator
64 hours 27 mins; February 06, 2026
Moltbook Mania Explained
27 mins; February 04, 2026
Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT
70 hours 30 mins; January 30, 2026
Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New Constitution
73 hours 40 mins; January 23, 2026
Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse
74 hours 29 mins; January 16, 2026
Can We Build a Better Social Network?
40 mins; January 13, 2026
Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax
76 hours 15 mins; January 09, 2026
Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
59 mins; January 02, 2026
The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose
34 mins; December 30, 2025
Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress?
39 mins; December 26, 2025
Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song
63 hours 30 mins; December 19, 2025
Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped
69 hours 55 mins; December 12, 2025
OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop
58 mins; December 05, 2025
Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025
76 hours 28 mins; November 28, 2025
The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars
46 mins; November 25, 2025
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
40 mins; November 21, 2025
Google's Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look
26 mins; November 18, 2025
Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery
71 hours 30 mins; November 14, 2025
We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT
68 hours 4 mins; November 07, 2025
Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I.
60 hours 38 mins; October 31, 2025
Celebrities Fight Sora + Amazon’s Secret Automation Plans + ChatGPT Gets a Browser
67 hours 57 mins; October 24, 2025
California Regulates A.I. Companions + OpenAI Investigates Its Critics + The Hard Fork Review of Slop
65 hours 10 mins; October 17, 2025
ChatGPT’s Platform Play + a Trillion-Dollar GPU Empire + the Queen of Slop
66 hours 35 mins; October 10, 2025
Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express
65 hours 54 mins; October 03, 2025
The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture
52 mins; September 26, 2025
Charlie Kirk and Online Rage + Inside Trump’s Chip Flip + This Week in A.I.
73 hours 47 mins; September 19, 2025
Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom
72 hours 24 mins; September 12, 2025
A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education
71 hours 48 mins; September 05, 2025
Intel’s New Deal + Waymo C.E.O. Tekedra Mawakana on Scaling Driverless Cars + Trumps in Tech
62 hours 53 mins; August 29, 2025
Is This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta’s Missing Morals + TikTok Shock Slop
66 hours 31 mins; August 22, 2025
GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + Hot Mess Express
71 hours 29 mins; August 15, 2025
GPT-5 Arrives, and We Try the New Alexa+
72 hours 57 mins; August 08, 2025
Age-Gating the Internet + Cloudflare Takes On A.I. Scrapers + HatGPT
71 hours 32 mins; August 01, 2025
Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics
66 hours 20 mins; July 25, 2025
X Hits Grok Bottom + More A.I. Talent Wars + ‘Crypto Week’
68 hours 19 mins; July 18, 2025
Interesting Times: A Mind-Bending Conversation with Peter Thiel
62 hours 23 mins; July 11, 2025
Hard Fork Live, Part 2: Patrick Collison of Stripe + Kathryn Zealand of Skip + Listener Questions
57 mins; July 04, 2025
Hard Fork Live, Part 1: Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap of OpenAI
57 mins; June 27, 2025
Trump Is Selling a Phone + The Start-Up Trying to Automate Every Job + Allison Williams Talks ‘M3GAN 2.0’
63 hours 57 mins; June 20, 2025
Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation
67 hours 27 mins; June 13, 2025
The Trump-Musk Fallout + A DOGE Coder Speaks + ChefGPT
66 hours 58 mins; June 06, 2025
The A.I. Jobpocalypse + Building at Anthropic with Mike Krieger + Hard Fork Crimes Division
68 hours 2 mins; May 30, 2025
Google DeepMind C.E.O. Demis Hassabis on Living in an A.I. Future
73 hours 42 mins; May 23, 2025
Ed Helms Answers Your Hard Questions
56 mins; May 16, 2025
Bad Apple + The Rise of the AI Empire + Italian Brain Rot
71 hours 48 mins; May 09, 2025
The Dangers of A.I. Flattery + Kevin Meets the Orb + Group Chat Chat
67 hours 24 mins; May 02, 2025
Is Google Breaking Up? + Seasteading Is Back + Tool Time
67 hours 37 mins; April 25, 2025
Meta on Trial + Is A.I. a ‘Normal’ Technology? + HatGPT
80 hours 28 mins; April 18, 2025
Big Tech's Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama
69 hours 18 mins; April 11, 2025
Tech Stock Shock + Solving the Mystery of OpenAI's "Blip" + Tinder's Flirt-Off
62 hours 27 mins; April 04, 2025
The Tech Behind Signalgate + Dwarkesh Patel's "Scaling Era" + Is A.I. Making Our Listeners Dumb?
67 hours 49 mins; March 28, 2025
A.I. Action Plans + The College Student Who Broke Job Interviews + Hot Mess Express
61 hours 50 mins; March 21, 2025
Apple's Siri-ous Problem + How Starlink Took Over the World + Is AI Making Us Dumb?
62 hours 46 mins; March 14, 2025
Is Google Search Cooked? + We’re Getting a U.S. Crypto Reserve? + What You’re Vibecoding
70 hours 23 mins; March 07, 2025
Anthropic’s C.E.O. Dario Amodei on Surviving the A.I. Endgame
67 hours 28 mins; February 28, 2025
How Based is Grok 3? + Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on Markets For Everything + Vibecoding 101
71 hours 40 mins; February 21, 2025
A.I. Accelerates in Paris + Can A.I. Fix Your Love Life?
72 hours 7 mins; February 14, 2025
The Musketeers Take Washington + Spotify's Ghost Music + Tool Time
82 hours 59 mins; February 07, 2025
DeepSeek DeepDive + Hands-On With Operator + Hot Mess Express!
65 hours 51 mins; January 31, 2025
Your Guide to the DeepSeek Freakout: an Emergency Pod
24 mins; January 27, 2025
Quantum TikTok + Memecoin Mania + Chris Hayes on the Attention Wars
72 hours 20 mins; January 24, 2025
Goodbye TikTok, Ni Hao RedNote? + A.I.'s Environmental Impact + Meta's Masculine Energy
73 hours 8 mins; January 17, 2025
Meta Goes MAGA Mode +A Big Month in A.I. + HatGPT
70 hours 55 mins; January 10, 2025
Our 2025 Tech Predictions and Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
68 hours 39 mins; January 03, 2025
The Wirecutter Show: Kitchen Gear That Lasts a Lifetime (or Extremely Close)
41 mins; December 27, 2024
Is Amazon's Drone Delivery Finally Ready for Prime Time?
63 hours 16 mins; December 20, 2024
TikTok's Last Stand + Google's Quantum Breakthrough + Cult of Claude
73 hours 6 mins; December 13, 2024
Is Intel Cooked? + What's Your P(Dyson Sphere)? + Hard Fork Gift Guide
71 hours 31 mins; December 06, 2024
Hard Fork's 100 Most Iconic Technologies
87 hours 21 mins; November 29, 2024
Trump's Next Online Speech Cop + Doctors vs ChatGPT + Hard Fork Crimes Division
69 hours 52 mins; November 22, 2024
Crypto Congress + HBD ChatGPT + What Social Media Platform Should I Be On?
77 hours 47 mins; November 15, 2024
What Trump 2.0 Means for Tech + A.I. Made Me Basic + HatGPT!
65 hours 17 mins; November 08, 2024
Billionaire Game Theory + We Are Not Ready for A.G.I. + Election Betting Markets Get Weird
71 hours 28 mins; November 01, 2024
The Elon-ction + Can A.I. Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide?
70 hours 26 mins; October 25, 2024
Powerful A.I. By 2026? + Uber's C.E.O. on the Robotaxi Future + Casey's TikTok Test
115 hours 24 mins; October 18, 2024
A Flood of A.I. Slop + Searching for Satoshi + the Hot Mess Express Returns
69 hours 11 mins; October 11, 2024
Can California Regulate A.I.? + Silicon Valley’s Super Babies + System Update!
69 hours 30 mins; October 04, 2024
Meta’s Race for Your Face + Google’s Hit A.I. Notebook + HatGPT
72 hours 57 mins; September 27, 2024
OpenAI's Reasoning Machine + Instagram Teen Changes + Amazon RTO Drama
66 hours 22 mins; September 20, 2024
Do You Need a New iPhone? + Yuval Noah Harari’s A.I. Fears + Hard Fork Crimes Division
72 hours 22 mins; September 13, 2024
X Gets a Brazilian Ax + Founder Mode + Listeners Respond on School Phone Bans
68 hours 7 mins; September 06, 2024
The Telegram Problem + Gov. Kathy Hochul on School Phone Bans + Kevin's A.I. Reputation Rehab
74 hours 10 mins; August 30, 2024
What Happened to the A.I. Election? + ChatGPT for Mayor + The Productivity Tools We’re Using
68 hours 32 mins; August 23, 2024
Can Musk Get Trump Elected? + Steve Ballmer’s Quest for the Facts + This Week in A.I.
68 hours 34 mins; August 16, 2024
Google’s Monopoly Money + Is the A.I. Bubble Popping? + The Hot-Mess Express
73 hours 20 mins; August 09, 2024
The Zoom Election + Google DeepMind's Math Olympiad + HatGPT! Olympics Edition
61 hours 34 mins; August 02, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Bratty Coconut Memescape + What Does $1,000 a Month Do? + The Empire CrowdStrikes Back
73 hours 15 mins; July 26, 2024
Social Media Reacts to an Attempted Assassination + Tech Elites for Trump + TikTok's Jawmaxxing Trend
70 hours 16 mins; July 19, 2024
Alison Roman Answers Your Hard Questions
51 mins; July 12, 2024
The Interview: The Netflix Chief’s Plan to Get You to Binge Even More
40 mins; July 05, 2024
Record Labels Sue A.I. Music Generators + Inside the Pentagon’s Tech Upgrade + HatGPT