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1. The Jensen Huang Affair

   Nov 10, 2026 · 31 min

   Nvidia’s C.E.O., Jensen Huang, admitted to having an affair with a suspected Chinese corporate spy. Everything that means for him and the A.I. industry, and what happens next.

2. Why the Tech Right Lost Big This Week

   Nov 6, 2026 · 1h 8m

   “This felt like a decidedly anti-tech election.”

3. Are We in an A.I. Bubble? We're About to Find Out.

   Oct 30, 2026 · 54 min

   “This is the first pure-play L.L.M. company to go public, to open its books so we can actually look at the underlying business of this A.I. boom.”

4. What’s the Deal With Billy Evans? A Spoiler-Filled Guide to ‘You Can See Everything’

   Oct 23, 2026 · 59 min

   “You shouldn’t overbeat scrambled eggs.”

5. Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth Holmes

   Oct 16, 2026 · 1h 7m

   “I felt like there were some moments in the film where she was just brazenly lying.”

6. Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals

   Oct 9, 2026 · 44 min

   “For Anthropic, it was part research and part evangelism.”

7. A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?

   Oct 2, 2026 · 53 min

   “It’s going to be gnarly for a little while.”

8. What’s Next for ‘Hard Fork’?

   Oct 1, 2026 · 2 min

   The podcast’s next chapter begins this week.

9. The Ezra Klein Show: Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far

   Sep 25, 2026 · 1h 48m

   Ezra Klein interviews the Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang.

10. A.I. Safety Goes Mainstream + a ‘Hard Fork’ Exit AMA

    Sep 18, 2026 · 1h 24m

    “It has been one of the fastest, most sudden shifts I've experienced.”

11. The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here

    Sep 11, 2026 · 1h 20m

    The A.I. giants weren’t prepared for this.

12. The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

    Sep 4, 2026 · 1h 19m

    This is probably the most important thing to have happened in A.I. this year.

13. Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT

    Aug 28, 2026 · 1h 3m

    Meta negotiated an unusual provision in their landmark settlement: If TikTok and YouTube also agree to penalties and changes to their products, Meta will pay more.

14. OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought

    Aug 21, 2026 · 1h 3m

    “It is the first time that we know of that a major lab has voluntarily slowed down.”

15. Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math

    Aug 14, 2026 · 1h 3m

    “The first rule of Mark Zuckerberg is never count out Mark Zuckerberg."

16. The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express

    Aug 7, 2026 · 1h 5m

    A few details from the White House’s A.I. plan have leaked to the news media, but the administration has officially communicated almost nothing.

17. Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight

    Jul 31, 2026 · 1h 7m

    “It just seems like the temperature is rising on Silicon Valley.”

18. OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting

    Jul 24, 2026 · 1h 8m

    “The story that we're talking about in this segment was science fiction until Tuesday, OK?”

19. The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT

    Jul 17, 2026 · 1h 10m

    “I don’t know if the public understands this, but these companies hate each other.”

20. Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time

    Jul 10, 2026 · 1h 19m

    “If the net result is that all the teens in Australia are still using social media, even after they’re technically banned from doing it, why are we doing any of this?”