The Music Episode
This week, we drop the Hard Fork Music Megamix. Plus, we talk to two of the New York Time's composers who make the music for our show. It’s all the tracks you know and love, all in one place. Today’s ...
19 Apr 20241h 2min
A.I.’s Data Wall + a Surprise Privacy Bill + What Happened to the TikTok Ban?
This week, the companies building artificial intelligence are facing a limit to what training data is publicly available on the internet. Will that stop them from building God? Then, a new bipartisan ...
12 Apr 20241h 6min
Is AI Already Taking Jobs? + A Filmmaker Tries Sora + The XZ Backdoor Caper
This week we look at how AI is affecting jobs. As companies start announcing AI-related job cuts and experimenting with customer service bots, economists are placing bets on whether AI will lead to ma...
5 Apr 20241h 3min
A.I.’s Messy Moment + Listeners Respond to Jonathan Haidt + Shrimp Jesus
Warning: The second segment of this episode includes mentions of suicide. If you are in crisis please call the suicide and crisis lifeline at 988 or you can contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TAL...
29 Mar 20241h 8min
Justice Dept. Sues Apple + Smartphones and Children with Jonathan Haidt + Reddit’s IPO
This week, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Apple, saying the company holds a monopoly over the smartphone market. We break down the lawsuit and ask whether it will be a major turning point in Appl...
22 Mar 20241h 30min
A Looming TikTok Ban + A Royal Photoshop Mystery + Your Car is Snitching
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban TikTok if its Chinese-owned parent company, ByteDance, doesn’t sell it off. We talk about why, what happens next, and how like...
15 Mar 20241h 16min
Musk vs. OpenAI + Europe’s Tech Crackdown + A Month With the Vision Pro
OpenAI responded to Elon Musk’s lawsuit this week, with a blog post that included emails dating to 2015. We talk about whether the lawsuit could have any impact on the company, and who stands to benef...
8 Mar 20241h 10min
Gemini's Culture War + Kara Swisher Burns Us + SCOTUS Takes Up Content Moderation
Warning: This episode contains strong language.Google removed the ability to generate images of people from its Gemini chatbot. We talk about why, and about the brewing culture war over artificial int...
1 Mar 20241h 29min
