Kevin Roose

The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love this one! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Coming tomorrow: the most masculine Hard Fork episode ever

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...

Normal company!

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

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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

"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-...

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?

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...

I wrote about the most eligible bachelor in San Francisco's tech scene: a chatbot named Claude, who is helping AI insiders with everything from legal advice to relationship drama. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/t...

It’s Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show: 😮 Legendary chips reporter Don Clark joins to talk about Intel’s surprise CEO ouster and the state of chips 🤖 A recap of our trip to the Curve AI conference 🎁 And the Hard Fork gift guide! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/p...

One of the most important debates in tech right now is the group of folks who think AI is fake and sucks vs. the people who think AI is real and dangerous. I wrote about why I'm in the latter camp, and talked about my differences with Gary Marcus www.platformer.news/ai-skeptics-...

It’s Hard Fork Friday! Today, in a very special, extra-manic Thanksgiving episode, we count down the 100 most iconic technologies of all time. Did sundials outrank the Walkman? Is penicillin more iconic than Waymo? Only one way to find out! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/p...

Excited about this week’s special Thanksgiving ep of Hard Fork, mostly because I finally got to talk about ✨ aqueducts ✨

Musk admitted X throttles links, and Threads is only a little better. But social media's quiet war on links has been going on for years. I wrote about how big tech has been draining the open web's lifeblood and giving us "news influencers" instead of the news. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

And only 34 million were Instagram users who accidentally clicked on a dark pattern button while trying to buy a cabbage peeler

Pretty shocking to me that Instagram is encouraging users to chat with an AI “therapist” Especially after a character.ai chatbot has been accused of encouraging a teen’s suicide

Competition is good! It’s been a while since Meta has had a competitor it couldn’t buy or copy (Threads can feature-match around the edges, but the big apps can’t decentralize in any real way)

Both of these are better than Zoom's original name which was (not making this up) "Saasbee"

nothing has ever made it to my bookmark bar faster!

The displacement of entry-level programming jobs by AI is pretty clearly happening, even though it's not showing up (much) in economic data yet. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/b...

I get the argument that journalists still need to be on X/Threads, but boy is it refreshing to spend time on a platform whose leaders do not overtly hate you

Gotten into poker recently. Ready to graduate from playing online to a (small-stakes) home game. Who’s got a good one in SF/East Bay?

It’s Hard Fork Friday! This week: 👮‍♂️ Podcast nemesis @reckless.bsky.social joins to talk about Trump’s FCC pick 🩻 Dr. @adamrodmanmd.bsky.social talks about his study finding that ChatGPT beats human doctors at medical diagnosis 🚨 And the Hard Fork Crime Division www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/p...

I wrote about this app! It’s good! (But you know that, you’re here) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/t...