Hard Fork

“The first rule of Mark Zuckerberg is never count out Mark Zuckerberg."

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.

“It just seems like the temperature is rising on Silicon Valley.”

“The story that we're talking about in this segment was science fiction until Tuesday, OK?”

“I don’t know if the public understands this, but these companies hate each other.”

“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?”

What we learned from the government’s biggest attempt yet to control who can gain access to the most powerful new A.I. models.

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.

One final episode from our live event, featuring a debate, questions from listeners and the dramatic and unplanned collapse of a dancing robot.

“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.

A tech titan, a digital rights defender and two menacing-looking robot dogs took the stage at our second-ever live show.

“We are on track to see what might be the three biggest I.P.O.s of all time.”

Is anti-A.I. radicalization a growing trend?

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

“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 Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells Ezra Klein what he sees coming in the new era of A.I. agents.

Companies are using A.I. as a reason for layoffs, but the truth may be more complex.

“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. system?”

“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.”

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 social platforms. We discuss how the platforms lost the argument around...

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 memo to staff on Monday declaring a “code red” effort to improve ChatGPT...

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 life as we know it. To our surprise, it became one of our most popular...

Last month our colleague Lulu Garcia-Navarro had a conversation with Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales about the challenges the site is facing — including by right-wing influencers who claim it is biased and by A.I...

Hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore stories from the wild frontier of tech. What’s real? What’s hype? “Hard Fork” is here to help you make sense of it. Tune in every Friday. Subscribe today at...