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The New York Times

“Hard Fork” is a show about the future that’s already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech. 

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Hard Fork

This week, the Commerce Department lifted its restrictions on Anthropic’s powerful A.I. models, Claude Mythos and Claude Fable. We dissect why the government took such a hands-on approach in the first place, how the restriction on the OpenAI model GPT 5.6 is likely to resolve and what, if anything, this tells us about A.I. competition with China.

Then, Dr. Dana Suskind, a pediatric surgeon and the author of the forthcoming book “Human Raised,” stops by to discuss a framework she has developed to help parents make informed decisions about what kinds of A.I. products are safe for children.

And finally, we introduce a new segment about prediction markets: Against All Odds.

Guest:

 Dr. Dana Suskind • , founder and co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago and author of the forthcoming book “Human Raised: Nurturing Connection, Curiosity and Lifelong Learning in the Age of A.I.”

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Additional Reading:

 U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Anthropic’s Most Powerful A.I. Models
 U.S. Bars Foreigners From Using Anthropic’s Most Advanced A.I. Models
 Chinese A.I. Models Close the Gap With Anthropic and OpenAI
 The Donk-ing of a Truth Machine
 Mark Zuckerberg Directed Meta to Create a Prediction Markets App

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

This week, we’re bringing you two A.I.-related stories from our colleagues at The New York Times.

First, Rachel Abrams, a host of “The Daily,” talks with the Times reporter Eli Saslow about a woman in a remote part of Washington who is using an A.I. companion robot to keep her independence, and to keep her company.

Then, the Times Opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman talks to the New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka and the journalist and critic Sophie Haigney. They get into the rise of “taste slop” and what happens to culture if the internet collapses into just a few chatbots that serve us everything.

“Hard Fork” will be back with an original episode next week.

 

Guests:

 Eli Saslow • , a reporter for The New York Times who writes in-depth stories about the impact of major national issues on people’s lives.

 Kyle Chayka • , staff writer at The New Yorker covering technology and online culture.

 Sophie Haigney • , a critic and journalist.

Additional Reading:

 Can A.I. Make People Feel Less Lonely?
 What Silicon Valley Is Coming for Next

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

We’re back with our final installment from Hard Fork Live, recorded at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In this episode, we’re joined by Sayash Kapoor and Daniel Kokotajlo to talk about their differing visions of A.I. transformation: why Sayash thinks A.I. will diffuse throughout society like a “normal” technology, and why Daniel thinks an unprecedented acceleration is just around the corner. Then we’re joined by George Ekas from Toborlife AI, along with his dancing robot Toby. Finally, the podcaster Dwarkesh Patel drops by, and we take a few questions from the live audience.

 

Guests:

 Sayash Kapoor, • an A.I. researcher at Princeton University and a co-author of the newsletter “AI as Normal Technology”

 Daniel Kokotajlo • ,
 • the
 • executive director of the AI Futures Project and a co-author of “AI 2027”

 George Ekas • , the director of engineering at Toberlife AI

 Dwarkesh Patel • , a tech podcaster

 

Additional Reading:

 This A.I. Forecast Predicts Storms Ahead
 AI as Normal Technology
 Common Ground Between AI 2027 & AI as Normal Technology

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

We’re back with more from our live event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In this episode, we sit down with Dylan Field, a founder and the chief executive of the design company Figma, for what he describes as a “roller coaster” of a conversation. We cover everything from the company’s “Design Is Dead” campaign to the sudden resignation of the Anthropic executive Mike Krieger from Figma’s board. Then, we close things out with a special musical performance by eight wooden robotic dolls that make up the Teenage Engineering Choir.

One quick correction to note: In our interview with Field, he makes reference to the SpaceX S-1 filing and misstates what the company says their addressable market for A.I. enterprise applications is. Field says “$22.9 trillion,” but the correct number from the SpaceX filing is $22.7 trillion. The decimal point makes it look small, but it’s a difference of $200 billion.

We’ll be back on Friday with our final installment of “Hard Fork” Live.

 

Guests:

 Dylan Field, • chief executive and co-founder of Figma.

 Dan Powell • , robot conductor, New York Times music composer and “Hard Fork” theme-song creator.

 Teenage Engineering Choir

 

Additional Reading:

 This Start-Up’s $20 Billion Sale Died. It Came Fighting Back.

 

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

This week and next, we’re bringing you recordings from our second-ever live taping in San Francisco. First, we sit down with Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, to hear what he’s maxing out his A.I. tokens on, why he’s skeptical that software developers will ever be fully replaced, and how he’s hoping to create a new business model for Xbox. Then, Phil Mohun tells us what it has been like to watch people in the Bay Area interact with two robot dogs that wear the faces of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. And finally, we talk with the longtime privacy defender Cindy Cohn about where things stand in the fight to protect internet users from digital surveillance by Big Tech and the government.

 Guests:

 Satya Nadella • , chairman and chief executive of Microsoft.

 Phil Mohun • , executive director of Node.

 Cindy Cohn • , former executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and author of “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance.”

 Additional Reading:

 Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella Says, ‘Everyone Is a Stakeholder’ in A.I.
 Node presents “Beeple: /Infinite_Loop”

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

SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI are all racing to the public markets. We discuss what their I.P.O.s mean for the industry, charitable giving and anyone invested in an index fund. Then, more than 1,000 mathematicians signed a declaration this week raising concerns about the use of A.I. in their field. Author Kevin Hartnett joins to explain what the fuss is all about. And finally, we run through the biggest headlines of the week — including the new executive order on A.I. — in a round of HatGPT.

 

Guest:

 Kevin Hartnett • , author of 
The Proof In the Code: How a Truth Machine is Transforming Math and AI

Additional Reading:

 Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.
 As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution
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An SF Startup Is Secretly Testing Robots in Airbnbs, and Trashing Them, Lawsuit Claims
 Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models 
 U.S. Is Said to Be Investigating George Santos Over Kalshi Betting
 Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
 United Flight Forced to Turn Around Because of a Bluetooth Speaker Name
 ‘Survivor’ Boss Jeff Probst Says Kalshi and Polymarket Are ‘Incentivizing People to Lie, Cheat and Steal’; Kalshi Is Now Considering Measures to Prevent Spoilers

 

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

The “Hard Fork” team is taking a break this week as we prepare for our upcoming live show in San Francisco.

While we’re away, we’re bringing you a recent episode of “Interesting Times” with Ross Douthat that we really enjoyed.

In this episode, Ross talks with Andrew Miller, writer of the transportation policy newsletter “Changing Lanes” and co-author of the book “The End of Driving.”

Together, they explore the potential benefits of driverless cars — from fewer car crashes to reclaimed time and attention — as well as what could be lost if we don’t have to be in the driver’s seat anymore.

Guest:

 • Andrew Miller, writer of the newsletter 
“Changing Lanes.”

Additional Reading:

 • A full transcript and video of this episode can be found 
here • . 

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Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

This week, we headed to Mountain View, Calif., for the annual developer event Google I/O. We share our reactions to Google’s biggest announcements, including a revamped search box, new agentic tools that compete with OpenClaw and an updated flash model of Gemini that the company says is faster than competitors. Then, we ask Sundar Pichai, the company’s chief executive, how he’s responding to growing evidence that the public is souring on A.I., what advice he’d give to college grads frightened by the current job market and where the company stands relative to competitors in the A.I. race. Finally, we run through the other big tech headlines of the week in our segment System Update.

Guest:

 Sundar Pichai, • chief executive of Google.

Additional Reading:

 Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years
 How Google Is Starting to Win the A.I. Race
 Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion Suit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman
 Before Mass Layoffs, Meta Reassigns 7,000 Workers to Focus on A.I.
 Pope to Launch Encyclical on AI Alongside Anthropic Co-Founder
 Was a Story That Just Won a Literary Prize A.I.-Generated?
 Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.

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

This week, between the president’s negotiations in China and a potential executive order, we discuss why the Trump administration seems to be changing its tune on A.I. safety. Then, Nikesh Arora, chief executive of Palo Alto Networks, the largest cybersecurity company in the world, gives us a firsthand account of where we stand in the race to secure the internet. And finally, we run through some of the wildest headlines of the week in a round of Hot Mess Express.

Guest:

 Nikesh Arora • , chief executive and chairman of Palo Alto Networks.

Additional Reading:

 White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
 Chief Executives to Accompany Trump to China
 Is Anthropic’s New A.I. Really That Scary? It Depends Whom You Ask.
 Venmo Finally Takes Privacy Seriously
 Amazon Staff Use A.I. Tool for Unnecessary Tasks to Inflate Usage Scores
 Graduates Boo Commencement Speech About A.I.
 Dua Lipa Files $15 Million Suit Against Samsung for Using Her Face to Sell TVs
 EBay Rejects GameStop’s $55 Billion Takeover Bid
 Shein, Temu Trade Blows as UK Trial Spotlights Supply Chains
 People Are Seriously Pissed That Grindr Outed Them With Its Latest Madonna Advert
 Sam Altman Testifies That Elon Musk Wanted Control of OpenAI

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

This week we’re taking another look at prediction markets and a new series of scandals. Is Congress finally ready to rein them in? Then, the journalist Joanna Stern returns to the show to discuss her new book “I Am Not A Robot,” all about turning her life over to a chatbot for a year. And finally, Hard Fork’s Rachel Cohn reports back on her month attending classes at the Strother School of Radical Attention, the center of a movement to resist the commodification of attention by technology companies.

 

Guests: 

 Joanna Stern, • chief everything officer at 
New Things
 Rachel Cohn • , producer of “Hard Fork”

 

Additional Reading:

 Soldier Used Classified Information to Bet on Maduro’s Ouster, U.S. Says
 Soldier Pleads Not Guilty in $400,000 Betting Case Over Maduro’s Ouster
 French weather service alerts police to tampering after suspicious Polymarket bets
 The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie

 

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