The A.I. giants weren’t prepared for this.
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This is probably the most important thing to have happened in A.I. this year.
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This is probably the most important thing to have happened in A.I. this year.
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.
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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.
Published 2026-08-21
OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought
“It is the first time that we know of that a major lab has voluntarily slowed down.”
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“It is the first time that we know of that a major lab has voluntarily slowed down.”
Published 2026-08-14
Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math
“The first rule of Mark Zuckerberg is never count out Mark Zuckerberg.”
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“The first rule of Mark Zuckerberg is never count out Mark Zuckerberg.”
Published 2026-08-12
The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express
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.
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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.
Published 2026-07-31
Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton’s Dishy Google Memoir + Substack’s Slop Fight
“It just seems like the temperature is rising on Silicon Valley.”
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“It just seems like the temperature is rising on Silicon Valley.”
“The story that we’re talking about in this segment was science fiction until Tuesday, OK?”
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“The story that we’re talking about in this segment was science fiction until Tuesday, OK?”
“I don’t know if the public understands this, but these companies hate each other.”
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“I don’t know if the public understands this, but these companies hate each other.”
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Published 2026-07-10
Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time
“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?”
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“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?”
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Published 2026-07-03
Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama
What we learned from the government’s biggest attempt yet to control who can gain access to the most powerful new A.I. models.
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What we learned from the government’s biggest attempt yet to control who can gain access to the most powerful new A.I. models.
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“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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explain why they try to include “a little chaos” when they record their New York Times tech podcast in front of a crowd in San Francisco.
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Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explain why they try to include “a little chaos” when they record their New York Times tech podcast in front of a crowd in San Francisco.
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One final episode from our live event, featuring a debate, questions from listeners and the dramatic and unplanned collapse of a dancing robot.
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One final episode from our live event, featuring a debate, questions from listeners and the dramatic and unplanned collapse of a dancing robot.
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A tech titan, a digital rights defender and two menacing-looking robot dogs took the stage at our second-ever live show.
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A tech titan, a digital rights defender and two menacing-looking robot dogs took the stage at our second-ever live show.
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“We are on track to see what might be the three biggest I.P.O.s of all time.”
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“We are on track to see what might be the three biggest I.P.O.s of all time.”
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Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.
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Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.
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After a busy Google I/O, the company’s chief executive sits down with the hosts of “Hard Fork” to discuss the future of Google Search, how he’s using A.I. agents and his advice for college graduates.
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After a busy Google I/O, the company’s chief executive sits down with the hosts of “Hard Fork” to discuss the future of Google Search, how he’s using A.I. agents and his advice for college graduates.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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After several years of dismissing A.I. safety as doomer fear-mongering, parts of the Trump administration now seem ready to support regulation.
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After several years of dismissing A.I. safety as doomer fear-mongering, parts of the Trump administration now seem ready to support regulation.
Published 2026-05-11
Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School
“It seems every other day I am reading a story about a massive insider trading scandal.”
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“It seems every other day I am reading a story about a massive insider trading scandal.”
Will the rising tide of A.I. adoption lift all boats?
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Will the rising tide of A.I. adoption lift all boats?
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The highlights, the lowlights, and how Apple changed in the years since Tim Cook took over as chief executive.
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The highlights, the lowlights, and how Apple changed in the years since Tim Cook took over as chief executive.
Published 2026-04-17
A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming
Is anti-A.I. radicalization a growing trend?
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Is anti-A.I. radicalization a growing trend?
Published 2026-04-15
Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Their Sam Altman Investigation + One Good Thing
The new Anthropic model that’s too dangerous to be released is already revealing thousands of software vulnerabilities.
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The new Anthropic model that’s too dangerous to be released is already revealing thousands of software vulnerabilities.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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The Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells Ezra Klein what he sees coming in the new era of A.I. agents.
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The Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells Ezra Klein what he sees coming in the new era of A.I. agents.
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Companies are using A.I. as a reason for layoffs, but the truth may be more complex.
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Companies are using A.I. as a reason for layoffs, but the truth may be more complex.
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Published 2026-03-13
A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity
“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?”
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“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?”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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It’s been a crazy 48 hours in the A.I. industry.
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It’s been a crazy 48 hours in the A.I. industry.
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Published 2026-02-27
Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School
“I think the mere fact that the markets can move so much, based on almost nothing, underscores how high anxiety is right now.”
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“I think the mere fact that the markets can move so much, based on almost nothing, underscores how high anxiety is right now.”
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This would be an unprecedented escalation against a U.S. company.
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This would be an unprecedented escalation against a U.S. company.
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Published 2026-02-13
‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing
“I do think we are reaching an inflection point in people’s feelings and senses about A.I. and where it’s going.”
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“I do think we are reaching an inflection point in people’s feelings and senses about A.I. and where it’s going.”
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Published 2026-02-06
Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator
“A very valuable and profitable company in SpaceX has acquired a cash furnace named xAI.”
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“A very valuable and profitable company in SpaceX has acquired a cash furnace named xAI.”
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Is this the year the internet changes forever?
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Is this the year the internet changes forever?
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Published 2026-01-30
Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT
In Minneapolis, it has become a battle of phone versus phone.
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In Minneapolis, it has become a battle of phone versus phone.
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Published 2026-01-23
Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude’s New Constitution
“The question is not are these first couple of ads that we’re seeing from OpenAI going to be good or not? It’s whether two or three years from now, ChatGPT is being steered toward ad-friendly topics.”
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“The question is not are these first couple of ads that we’re seeing from OpenAI going to be good or not? It’s whether two or three years from now, ChatGPT is being steered toward ad-friendly topics.”
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Published 2026-01-16
Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse
“If we can’t win on social media, then we definitely can’t win on A.I.,” says Haidt.
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“If we can’t win on social media, then we definitely can’t win on A.I.,” says Haidt.
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A “Hard Fork” and “Search Engine” collaboration.
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A “Hard Fork” and “Search Engine” collaboration.
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“This is a story about how a tool can be used to try to affect politics and in particular to minimize women, denigrate them and push them out of the conversation.”
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“This is a story about how a tool can be used to try to affect politics and in particular to minimize women, denigrate them and push them out of the conversation.”
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