A few days after a lawyer used ChatGPT to write a brief filled with made-up cases, a group of A.I. experts released a letter warning of the “risk of extinction” from the technology. But will A.I. ever be good enough to pose such a threat?
Then, FAANG is now MAAAN, with the addition of Nvidia. Here’s how the GPU company became a trillion-dollar behemoth.
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May 29
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?
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, write ... Show More
58m 39s
May 22
Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
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 ... Show More
55m 21s
May 15
A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express
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 worl ... Show More
1h 7m
Oct 2021
Fri. 10/01 – TikTok And NFTs, Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
TikTok has joined the NFT craze, so the singularity must be nigh. USB-C tries to clear up its customer confusion problem. Zoom abandons a huge acquisition. And a crypto developer is begging users to give $90 million dollars in tokens back, after an all-time screw up.
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19m 26s
Jun 2023
Is Washington Finally Ready to Take On Big Tech?
<p>In a San Francisco courtroom, federal regulators are fighting to block one of the biggest deals in the history of Silicon Valley. </p><p>David McCabe, who covers technology policy for The New York Times, talks about Lina Khan, the F.T.C. chair who is the architect of the lawsu ... Show More
27m 53s