Technology
The Music Episode
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube This week, we drop the Hard Fork Music Megamix. Plus, we talk to two of The New York Times’s composers who make the […]
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Is A.I. Already Taking Jobs? +A Filmmaker Tries Sora + The XZ Backdoor Caper
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube This week we look at how A.I. is affecting jobs. As companies start announcing A.I.-related job cuts and experimenting with customer service bots, […]
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A.I.’s Messy Moment + Listeners Respond to Jonathan Haidt + Shrimp Jesus
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube This week, we look at a mess of corporate drama in artificial intelligence. Stability AI has announced that its founder and C.E.O., Emad […]
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Is Garry Tan San Francisco’s ‘Twitter Menace’ or True Believer?
Under cathedral ceilings and soaring stained glass windows, Garry Tan clutched a microphone as he greeted a crowd of political centrists, including San Francisco’s mayor, local prosecutors and police brass. “Welcome to the church of […]
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Justice Dept. Sues Apple, Smartphones and Children with Jonathan Haidt and Reddit’s I.P.O.
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube This week, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Apple, saying the company holds a monopoly over the smartphone market. We break down the […]
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Musk vs. OpenAI, Europe’s Tech Crackdown and a Month With the Vision Pro
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Gemini’s Culture War, Kara Swisher Burns Us and SCOTUS Takes Up Content Moderation
Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Google removed the ability to generate images of people from its Gemini chatbot. We talk about why, and about the brewing culture war over […]