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Episodes: 3
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.3/5.0
Estimated listeners: >100k
Gender skew: Male
Location: USA
YouTube: 58.4k subscribers
Instagram: 516 followers
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Host
Kevin Roose - Journalist focused on technology and its societal/business impact, known for covering major tech companies and the political/economic effects of AI and digital platforms.
Casey Newton - Journalist and tech reporter specializing in startups and the rapidly changing technology ecosystem, often analyzing how new products and business strategies affect industries and policy.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Nikesh Arora - AI Safety; Cybersecurity And Securing The Internet
Rachel Cohn - Attending Classes At The Strother School Of Radical Attention
Joanna Stern - Turning Her Life Over To A Chatbot For A Year; AI Experimentation
David Duvenaud - LLM Capabilities And Forecasting Via An LLM Trained On Older Texts
Dr. Adam Rodman - How AI Is Changing Clinical Care And Patient Treatment
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Episodes
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?
May 29, 2026
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 an...
Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
May 22, 2026
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...
A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express
May 15, 2026
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 ...
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