Beschikbare afleveringen

• Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom

  Apple’s yearly iPhone event took place this week, and it left us asking, Is Apple losing the juice? We break down all the new products the company announced and discuss where it goes from here. Then, Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the most...

  12 sep 2025 4344 sec.

• A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education

  This week, we check in on the state of artificial intelligence in education. We talk with a co-founder of Alpha Schools, MacKenzie Price, about how her private K-12 schools are using A.I. to generate personalized lesson plans and...

  5 sep 2025 4308 sec.

• Intel’s New Deal + Waymo C.E.O. Tekedra Mawakana on Scaling Driverless Cars + Trumps in Tech

  President Trump announced this week that the U.S. government, in a highly unusual deal, had agreed to take a 10 percent stake in the chip maker Intel, and that he was considering similar investments in other companies. We discuss why...

  29 aug 2025 3773 sec.

• Is This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta’s Missing Morals + TikTok Shock Slop

  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 cases for and against, including who we think stands to lose most. Then we’re joined by...

  22 aug 2025 3991 sec.

• GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + Hot Mess Express

  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 discuss the criticism, why it caught the company by surprise and what it indicates about...

  15 aug 2025 4289 sec.

• GPT-5 Arrives, and We Try the New Alexa+

  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 and a special news briefing with Sam Altman. Then, we explain why we were underwhelmed...

  8 aug 2025 4377 sec.

• Age-Gating the Internet + Cloudflare Takes On A.I. Scrapers + HatGPT

  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 suddenly popping up all over the internet — and how some might create more problems...

  1 aug 2025 4292 sec.

• Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics

  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 what’s in them, how the federal government intends to target “political bias” in chatbot...

  25 jul 2025 3980 sec.

• X Hits Grok Bottom + More A.I. Talent Wars + ‘Crypto Week’

  This week, we tick through the many dramatic headlines surrounding xAI, including the departure of X’s chief executive, Linda Yaccarino; the Grok chatbot spewing antisemitic comments; and the A.I. companion Ani engaging in sexually...

  18 jul 2025 4099 sec.

• Interesting Times: A Mind-Bending Conversation with Peter Thiel

  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 episode, Ross sits down with Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and Palantir and one of...

  11 jul 2025 3743 sec.

• Hard Fork Live, Part 2: Patrick Collison of Stripe + Kathryn Zealand of Skip + Listener Questions

  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 onstage for a wide-ranging conversation about how Silicon Valley could unleash greater...

  4 jul 2025 3466 sec.

• Hard Fork Live, Part 1: Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap of OpenAI

  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 the next. This week, Mayor Daniel Lurie of San Francisco makes a surprise appearance to...

  27 jun 2025 3424 sec.