Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIs This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta’s Missing Morals + TikTok Shock Slop
Episode 150
Note: This episode contains sexually explicit music.
This week, the whole tech world seemed to be asking: Are we in an A.I. bubble? We’ll explore the …
9 months, 4 weeks ago
GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + Hot Mess Express
Episode 149
OpenAI spent the week responding to outcry from users who miss the behavior of the old ChatGPT, before the latest flagship model was released.
We disc…
10 months ago
GPT-5 Arrives, and We Try the New Alexa+
Episode 148
This week, OpenAI released its much-anticipated flagship model, GPT-5. We break down what we know about the upgrade, drawing from our initial testing…
10 months, 1 week ago
Age-Gating the Internet + Cloudflare Takes On A.I. Scrapers + HatGPT
Episode 147
This week, we look at the fallout from a sweeping internet age-verification law that went into effect in Britain. We explain why age restrictions are…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics
Episode 146
On Wednesday, President Trump signed three A.I.-related executive orders, and the White House released “America’s A.I. Action Plan.” We break down wh…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
X Hits Grok Bottom + More A.I. Talent Wars + ‘Crypto Week’
Episode 145
This week, we tick through the many dramatic headlines surrounding xAI, including the departure of X’s chief executive, Linda Yaccarino; the Grok cha…
11 months ago
Interesting Times: A Mind-Bending Conversation with Peter Thiel
Episode 144
This week, we’re bringing you a recent interview from “Interesting Times with Ross Douthat,” one of The New York Times’s newest podcasts. In this epi…
11 months, 1 week ago
Hard Fork Live, Part 2: Patrick Collison of Stripe + Kathryn Zealand of Skip + Listener Questions
Episode 143
We’re back with part two of Hard Fork Live (see last week’s episode for part one). This week, Patrick Collison, Stripe’s chief executive, joins us on…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Hard Fork Live, Part 1: Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap of OpenAI
Episode 142
The first Hard Fork Live is officially in the books, and for those who couldn’t attend, we’re playing highlights from the event in this episode and t…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Trump Is Selling a Phone + The Start-Up Trying to Automate Every Job + Allison Williams Talks ‘M3GAN 2.0’
Episode 141
This week, President Trump’s family business announced that it was introducing a mobile phone and a cellular network. We tick through the many potent…
1 year ago