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Hard Fork

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2026-08-14 11:00:00 • 1:03:14

DOWNLOADED Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math

“The first rule of Mark Zuckerberg is never count out Mark Zuckerberg."
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2026-08-07 11:00:00 • 1:05:29

DOWNLOADED The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express

A few details from the White House’s A.I. plan have leaked to the news media, but the administration has officially communicated almost nothing.
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2026-07-31 11:00:00 • 1:06:47

DOWNLOADED Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight 58 plays

“It just seems like the temperature is rising on Silicon Valley.”
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2026-07-24 11:00:00 • 1:08:14

DELETED OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting 18 plays

“The story that we're talking about in this segment was science fiction until Tuesday, OK?”
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2026-07-17 11:00:00 • 1:09:30

DELETED The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT

“I don’t know if the public understands this, but these companies hate each other.”
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2026-07-10 11:00:00 • 1:19:01

DELETED Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time

“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?”
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2026-07-03 11:00:00 • 1:06:44

DELETED Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama 2 plays

What we learned from the government’s biggest attempt yet to control who can gain access to the most powerful new A.I. models.
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2026-06-26 11:00:00 • 59:33

DELETED ‘The Daily’ and ‘The Opinions’: How A.I. Is Changing Loneliness and Taste 5 plays

The 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.
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2026-06-19 11:00:00 • 56:13

DELETED ‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. Future 1 play

One final episode from our live event, featuring a debate, questions from listeners and the dramatic and unplanned collapse of a dancing robot.
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2026-06-17 11:00:00 • 31:14

DELETED ‘Hard Fork’ Live Part 2: Dylan Field on Standing Out in the A.I. Era

“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 Field.
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2026-06-12 11:01:28 • 1:05:55

DELETED ‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

A tech titan, a digital rights defender and two menacing-looking robot dogs took the stage at our second-ever live show.
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2026-06-05 11:00:00 • 1:04:20

DELETED Hot I.P.O Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT 6 plays

“We are on track to see what might be the three biggest I.P.O.s of all time.”
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2026-05-29 11:00:00 • 58:39

DELETED Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.
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2026-05-22 11:00:00 • 55:21

DELETED Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

“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.”
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2026-05-15 11:00:00 • 1:07:46

DELETED A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express 3 plays

After several years of dismissing A.I. safety as doomer fear-mongering, parts of the Trump administration now seem ready to support regulation.
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2026-05-08 11:00:00 • 1:12:25

DELETED Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School 1 play

“It seems every other day I am reading a story about a massive insider trading scandal.”
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2026-05-01 11:00:00 • 1:09:55

DELETED OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM 17 plays

Will the rising tide of A.I. adoption lift all boats?
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2026-04-24 11:00:00 • 1:14:39

DELETED Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

The highlights, the lowlights, and how Apple changed in the years since Tim Cook took over as chief executive.
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2026-04-17 11:00:00 • 1:03:21

DELETED A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming

Is anti-A.I. radicalization a growing trend?
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2026-04-10 11:00:00 • 1:04:06

DELETED Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Their Sam Altman Investigation + One Good Thing 41 plays

The new Anthropic model that’s too dangerous to be released is already revealing thousands of software vulnerabilities.
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