Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation
This week, Meta hits the reset button on A.I. But will a new research lab and a multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI bring the company any closer to its stated goal of “superintelligence”? Then ...
13 Jun 20251h 7min
The Trump-Musk Fallout + A DOGE Coder Speaks + ChefGPT
This week, Kevin and Casey discuss the sudden breakdown between President Trump and Elon Musk, whose disagreements over the policy bill before Congress quickly erupted into an all-out feud. Then, an e...
6 Jun 20251h 6min
The A.I. Jobpocalypse + Building at Anthropic with Mike Krieger + Hard Fork Crimes Division
This week, we dive into Kevin’s recent column about how A.I. is affecting the job market for new graduates, and debate whether the job apocalypse is already here for entry-level work. Then Mike Kriege...
30 Mai 20251h 8min
Google DeepMind C.E.O. Demis Hassabis on Living in an A.I. Future
This week, we take a field trip to Google and report back about everything the company announced at its biggest show of the year, Google I/O. Then, we sit down with Google DeepMind’s chief executive a...
23 Mai 20251h 13min
Ed Helms Answers Your Hard Questions
The actor, comedian and author Ed Helms has a new book out about historical blunders. He swings by Hard Fork to tell us about it and answer your moral quandaries, ethical dilemmas and etiquette questi...
16 Mai 202556min
Bad Apple + The Rise of the AI Empire + Italian Brain Rot
This week, iPhone users started to feel the impact of a stern court order against Apple that requires the company to stop collecting a commission on some app sales. We break down what this means for a...
9 Mai 20251h 11min
The Dangers of A.I. Flattery + Kevin Meets the Orb + Group Chat Chat
This week we dig into the ways chatbots are starting to manipulate us, including ChatGPT’s sycophantic update, Meta’s digital companionship turn and a secret experiment run on Reddit users. Then Kevin...
2 Mai 20251h 7min
Is Google Breaking Up? + Seasteading Is Back + Tool Time
This week, with big developments in two antitrust cases against Google, we discuss how the company may be forced to change its business. Then we’re joined by the journalist Mark Yarm to discuss his re...
25 Apr 20251h 7min
