Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhere Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress?
Episode 170
The leaders of the biggest A.I. labs argue that artificial intelligence will usher in a new era of scientific discovery, which will help us cure dise…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song
Episode 169
This week, iRobot, the pioneering American robotics company behind the Roomba, filed for bankruptcy and announced that it would be taken over by its …
6 months ago
Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped
Episode 168
This week, Australia implemented the most aggressive social media ban in a democracy to date, kicking children under 16 off 10 of the most popular so…
6 months, 1 week ago
OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop
Episode 167
It’s A.I. model rollout season in Silicon Valley, and OpenAI appears to be feeling the pressure. Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, sent a me…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025
Episode 166
Last year we debuted Hard Fork’s 100 Most Iconic Technologies list, in which we ranked the technologies from across all of history that best define l…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars
Episode 165
Last month our colleague Lulu Garcia-Navarro had a conversation with Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales about the challenges the site is facing — inc…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
Episode 164
Roblox's popularity has exploded among kids since the pandemic. Today Roblox has more than 150 million daily active users, and functions as one of th…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Google's Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look
Episode 163
Google’s much anticipated new large language model Gemini 3 begins rolling out today. We’ll tell you what we learned from an early product briefing a…
7 months ago
Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery
Episode 162
This week, we talk about Google’s new plan to build data centers in space. Then, we’re joined by Dean Ball, a former adviser at the White House Offic…
7 months ago
We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT
Episode 161
This week, we’re joined by Bernt Bornich, chief executive of 1X. We talked with him about NEO, his company’s new humanoid robot, which has the intern…
7 months, 1 week ago