Hard Fork
Episodes
Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the A.I. initial-public-offering race is heating up! We break down SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI, as well as OpenAI and Nvidia’s messy si...
Moltbook Mania Explained
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A Reddit-style web forum for A.I. agents has captured the attention of the tech world. According to the site, called Moltbook, more than 1.5 million a...
Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re talking about the tech industry’s response to the killings by federal agents in Minneapolis and the federal government’s strateg...
Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New Constitution
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ads are coming to ChatGPT’s free and low-cost subscription tiers. We explain what they’ll look like, why OpenAI is taking this approach and whethe...
Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jonathan Haidt, author of “The Anxious Generation,” returns to the show to discuss new research about how social media is harming teens...
Can We Build a Better Social Network?
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year we’ve been working with the podcast “Search Engine” on a project that reimagines what the internet can be. What if instead of...
Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Users of X are asking the platform’s built-in A.I. chatbot, Grok, to remove clothing from images of celebrities and everyday people. We talk with th...
Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year! We’re kicking things off by sharing our tech resolutions for 2026 and reflecting on how we fared with our social media and meditatio...
The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin recently joined the hosts of The Wirecutter Show for a conversation about the A.I. products he’s using, strategies to make chatbots work bette...
Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress?
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 disea...
Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, iRobot, the pioneering American robotics company behind the Roomba, filed for bankruptcy and announced that it would be taken over by its C...
Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 soc...
OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last month our colleague Lulu Garcia-Navarro had a conversation with Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales about the challenges the site is facing — ...
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 the...
Google's Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 briefin...
What’s a Hard Fork?
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ma...