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1. Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama

   Jul 3, 2026 · 1h 7m

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

2. ‘The Daily’ and ‘The Opinions’: How A.I. Is Changing Loneliness and Taste

   Jun 26, 2026 · 60 min

   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.

3. ‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. Future

   Jun 19, 2026 · 56 min

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

4. ‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 2: Dylan Field on Standing Out in the A.I. Era

   Jun 17, 2026 · 31 min

   “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.

5. ‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

   Jun 12, 2026 · 1h 6m

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

6. Hot I.P.O Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT

   Jun 5, 2026 · 1h 4m

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

7. Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

   May 29, 2026 · 59 min

   Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.

8. Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

   May 22, 2026 · 55 min

   “This is the only recent gathering of a large number of people where mentions of A.I. did not produce a large chorus of boos.”

9. A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express

   May 15, 2026 · 1h 8m

   After several years of dismissing A.I. safety as doomer fear-mongering, parts of the Trump administration now seem ready to support regulation.

10. Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School

    May 8, 2026 · 1h 12m

    “It seems every other day I am reading a story about a massive insider trading scandal.”

11. OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM

    May 1, 2026 · 1h 10m

    Will the rising tide of A.I. adoption lift all boats?

12. Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

    Apr 24, 2026 · 1h 15m

    The highlights, the lowlights, and how Apple changed in the years since Tim Cook took over as chief executive.

13. A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming

    Apr 17, 2026 · 1h 3m

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

14. Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Their Sam Altman Investigation + One Good Thing

    Apr 10, 2026 · 1h 4m

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

15. The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT

    Apr 3, 2026 · 1h 9m

    “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.”

16. The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?

    Mar 27, 2026 · 1h 40m

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

17. ‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing

    Mar 20, 2026 · 1h 1m

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

18. A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity

    Mar 13, 2026 · 1h 7m

    “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?”

19. OpenAI's Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop

    Mar 6, 2026 · 1h 6m

    “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.”

20. At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out

    Mar 1, 2026 · 33 min

    It’s been a crazy 48 hours in the A.I. industry.