Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics
Episode Date: July 25, 2025On Wednesday, President Trump signed three A.I.-related executive orders, and the White House released “America’s A.I. Action Plan.” We break down wha...
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33 episodes transcribedOn Wednesday, President Trump signed three A.I.-related executive orders, and the White House released “America’s A.I. Action Plan.” We break down wha...
This week, we tick through the many dramatic headlines surrounding xAI, including the departure of X’s chief executive, Linda Yaccarino; the Grok chat...
This week, we’re bringing you a recent interview from “Interesting Times with Ross Douthat,” one of The New York Times’s newest podcasts. In this epis...
We’re back with part two of Hard Fork Live (see last week’s episode for part one). This week, Patrick Collison, Stripe’s chief executive, joins us ons...
The first Hard Fork Live is officially in the books, and for those who couldn’t attend, we’re playing highlights from the event in this episode and th...
This week, President Trump’s family business announced that it was introducing a mobile phone and a cellular network. We tick through the many potenti...
This week, Meta hits the reset button on A.I. But will a new research lab and a multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI bring the company any close...
This week, Kevin and Casey discuss the sudden breakdown between President Trump and Elon Musk, whose disagreements over the policy bill before Congres...
This week, we dive into Kevin’s recent column about how A.I. is affecting the job market for new graduates, and debate whether the job apocalypse is a...
This week, we take a field trip to Google and report back about everything the company announced at its biggest show of the year, Google I/O. Then, we...
The actor, comedian and author Ed Helms has a new book out about historical blunders. He swings by Hard Fork to tell us about it and answer your moral...
This week, iPhone users started to feel the impact of a stern court order against Apple that requires the company to stop collecting a commission on s...
This week we dig into the ways chatbots are starting to manipulate us, including ChatGPT’s sycophantic update, Meta’s digital companionship turn and a...
This week, with big developments in two antitrust cases against Google, we discuss how the company may be forced to change its business. Then we’re jo...
This week Meta is on trial, in a landmark case over whether it illegally snuffed out competition when it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp. We discuss s...
This week, with the tech world in chaos over President Trump’s tariffs, we look at how four specific companies are navigating the new day-to-day reali...
This week, President Trump announced sweeping new tariffs that are roiling the global economy. We discuss what this could mean for the tech sector and...
This week, we dig into the group chat that’s rocking the Trump administration and talk about why turning to Signal to plan military operations probabl...
With all of Silicon Valley weighing in on the Trump administration’s new action plan for artificial intelligence, Kevin and Casey break down what’s on...
This week, as the long-promised new Siri faces increasing delays, we explore why Apple seems to be falling even further behind in artificial intellige...