I make @machinegodspod & write a newsletter called Are You My Boyfriend? Formerly: @NYTimes, @CNN, @ReplyAll and @Planetmoney
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Never thought I'd leave the New York Times. But have you tried saying no to these guys???
Psyched to announce our new adventure: Machine Gods, in partnership with NPR!
My new show with @CaseyNewton is called Machine Gods, and we’re partnering with NPR!
It’s a twice-a-week, video-first podcast about AI, and it will be available next month on YouTube and other podcast apps (and on radio soon!)
It’s a really critical time for public engagement with AI, and we’re thrilled to bring our AI coverage (and jokes!) to NPR’s massive audience, while building an independent media company in San Francisco. We’re also thrilled that @RachelCohnnn, our incredible Hard Fork producer, is coming with us to make the new show.
More to say soon!
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There are real limits to what we can accomplish in a world where people believe nothing they do really matters.
My book (!) is about how we wound up in a place where millions of people feel like spectators in their own lives. And how we course correct. Because we can.
watch out X, he's back
"A full report with additional safety evaluations will be available soon" — just what you want to hear from Meta on a day that it claims to have reached the frontier of AI research.meta.ai/blog/muse-w…
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If you react to this by thinking it’s kind of sci-fi, that’s because I kind of think it is! This is super weird! We did not used to live in a world where little guys in boxes could replicate across networks, gobble up computers, reconfigure themselves to work better in the machines they find, etc etc
Welp! I am officially on the hunt for the first person to discover Claude is living inside their smart oven
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this story is so damn good. @yaffebellany is the goat.
nytimes.com/2026/10/01/busin…
Giddy up!
The official podcast of the singularity. From Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, in partnership with NPR.
New episodes twice weekly starting the week of October 19th, wherever you get your podcasts and at youtube.com/@machinegodspod
Hard Fork finally in TBPN lol
BREAKING: @kevinroose is leaving NYT to start an independent media company with Hard Fork co-host @CaseyNewton
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I made the anti-Grammarly. Mess up your emails with AI.
Sinceerly.com
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Bonus Hard Fork this week! We did a Claude Code for Dummies walkthrough, if you’ve been curious about the hype but haven’t figured out where to start.
youtube.com/watch?v=ji_xpQzZ…
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Claude's new constitution is a wild, fascinating document. It treats Claude as a mature entity capable of good judgment, not an alien shoggoth that needs to be constrained with rules.
@AmandaAskell will be on Hard Fork this week to discuss it!
The Claude Constitution shows where Anthropic thinks this is all going. It is a massive document covering many philosophical issues. I think it is worth serious attention beyond the usual AI-adjacent commentators. Other labs should be similarly explicit. anthropic.com/constitution
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This week's Hard Fork might be the craziest interview we've ever done.
We asked the CEO of Roblox about the child safety issues that have been plaguing the platform. His response was...well, just listen.
nytimes.com/2025/11/21/podca…
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A sold-out Hard Fork Live is in the books! Incredible night, thanks to everyone who came!
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We had a lot of great guests and then to top it all off Mayor @DanielLurie stopped by as a surprise. More videos/audio will be up soon!
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Today I published a story about the Trump admin moving away from Housing First, and I wanted to offer a few additional thoughts.
I’ve been covering homelessness for a long time, and I do think HF advocates need to reconsider some aspects of their advocacy /1🧵
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Episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/4WZ…
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It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show:
• What happened at the big AI summit in Paris
• Is AI safety dead?
• How our producer @RachelCohnnn uses AI to find love on Hinge
• And Hinge CEO Justin McLeod on the AI-filled future of online dating
What do you do when you're terrified you'll end up alone? (No really. What do you do???)
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