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It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show: -- A hard look at Glazegate, and why it's bad when AI models are too nice -- I got scanned by a Worldcoin orb -- And @pjvogt.bsky.social joins us for a new segment about what's going on in our group chats www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lum...

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My new column is drawing rave reviews like “go fuck yourself,” “die, loser” and more! Take a look and add yours to the pile!

submitted 8 days ago • 277 comments

Some news: I'm writing a book about AGI! This has been a while in the making, very excited to front-burner it for a while. I think what's happening in AI today is the most important and exciting story in the world, bar none, and I can't imagine a richer topic to write hundreds of pages about.

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show: • Grok 3 is here, and it's...woke? • An interview with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev about whether we're becoming a nation of gamblers • And I build Casey a hot tub time machine using AI www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 71 days ago • 40 comments

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week's show is a Valentine's Day spectacular! • What happened at the big AI summit in Paris • Is AI safety dead? • How our producer Rachel uses AI to find love • And Hinge CEO Justin McLeod on the AI-filled future of online dating www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/p...

submitted 78 days ago • 34 comments

I spent a week testing Operator, OpenAI's new AI agent that can browse the web and take actions on your behalf. It ordered me dog food, booked a haircut, took online surveys for cash, and more. Spooky stuff! Even spookier: it registered me for a LinkedIn webinar. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/t...

submitted 90 days ago • 48 comments

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show: • A DeepSeek DeepDive with the great @jordanschneider.bsky.social, who explains where DeepSeek sits in China's AI ecosystem • We try OpenAI's new AI agent, Operator • And choo choo, it's the Hot Mess Express! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/p...

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It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show: • TikTok is both dead and alive, Schrödinger's app • How tech CEOs are trying to do business with Trump • Memecoins are back, are you rich yet? • And @chrislhayes.bsky.social joins to talk about his new book on attention www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/p...

submitted 99 days ago • 29 comments

I wrote about a new AI evaluation called "Humanity's Last Exam," a collection of 3,000 questions submitted by leading academics to try to stump leading AI models, which mostly find today's college-level tests too easy. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

submitted 100 days ago • 17 comments

on the tech industry's new "deal" nymag.com/intelligence...

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It's Hard Fork Friday! This week: • TikTok ban v12 final final USE THIS ONE • HuggingFace's @sashamtl.bsky.social joins to talk about the environmental impact of AI • And finally, put on your gold chains and pop some Zyns, it's time for MASCULINE ENERGY www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/p...

submitted 106 days ago • 4 comments

Coming tomorrow: the most masculine Hard Fork episode ever

submitted 106 days ago • 57 comments

It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

submitted 106 days ago • 1719 comments

Normal company!

submitted 109 days ago • 13 comments

on zuck's gold chain open.substack.com/pub/maxread/...

submitted 112 days ago • 37 comments

Inspiring words on innovation from the inventor of Stories, Reels, and Threads.

submitted 112 days ago • 115 comments

It’s Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show: • The gadget robbers did NOT take from my house • What’s really behind Meta’s MAGA pivot • Deepseek, o3, and catching up on a wild month of AI progress • And 2025’s first game of HatGPT! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/p...

submitted 113 days ago • 8 comments

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

submitted 113 days ago • 372 comments

Everyone assumes Zuckerberg is a cynical operator who is cozying up to Trump for business reasons, but I wouldn’t discount the possibility that spending so much time around MMA guys/in the Rogansphere has truly pilled him.

submitted 116 days ago • 23 comments

5 minutes after giving my toddler kinetic sand: this stuff is incredible, a marvel of material science day 3 of finding lumps of sand in every furniture crevice in the house: whoever invented this should be tried at The Hague

submitted 119 days ago • 45 comments

Every year, I compile a list of my favorite tech projects, and honor them in a column called the Good Tech Awards. This year, I was excited to feature LLMs for genomics, AI brain mapping, open-source maintainers, the NASA heroes who saved Voyager 1, and more. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/t...

submitted 123 days ago • 6 comments

the feeling when the scissors glide through the wrapping paper >>>>>>>>

submitted 129 days ago • 7 comments

"All intuition about AI capabilities will need to get updated for o3," says the founder of the ARC prize — designed to be very difficult for LLMs to solve — after OpenAI took the benchmark from 5% with o1 to 85% today with o3 arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-...

submitted 134 days ago • 13 comments

It’s Hard Fork Friday! This week, @caseynewton.bsky.social and I went to Arizona to see Amazon’s overhauled drone delivery program, which brought us a jar of Brazilian Bum Bum Cream in 45 minutes. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/p...

submitted 134 days ago • 14 comments

Putting together my annual Good Tech Awards list of the tech projects/startups/nonprofits that contributed to human flourishing in 2024. Past lists have included things like AI for accessibility, carbon capture, AlphaFold, etc. What should be on it this year?

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It's Hard Fork Friday! This week: • TikTok is maybe going to get banned for real? • Julian Kelly from Google explains their new Willow quantum chip (which I almost understand) • And the cult of Claude! Podcast: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/p... YouTube version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyUV...

submitted 141 days ago • 6 comments