Hard Fork
by The New York Times
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Audience Interest
- latest technology trends
- future of tech
Podcast Focus
- exploring current tech developments
- understanding tech's societal impact
Publishing Consistency
- weekly episodes
- active for three years
Platform Reach
- available on major platforms
- accessible via podcast apps
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Total monthly reach
Estimated from 49 chart positions in 49 markets.
By chart position
- 🇨🇦CA · Technology#6300K to 1M
- 🇦🇺AU · Technology#6300K to 1M
- 🇬🇧GB · Technology#7300K to 1M
- 🇺🇸US · Technology#9300K to 1M
- 🇩🇪DE · Technology#21100K to 300K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
880K to 2.8M🎙 Daily cadence·192 episodes·Last published today - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
2.9M to 9.4M🇨🇦11%🇦🇺11%🇬🇧11%+46 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
1.2M to 3.7M99K real followers tracked across platforms
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Recent episodes
‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn
Jun 12, 2026
Unknown duration
Hot I.P.O Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT
Jun 5, 2026
Unknown duration
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?
May 29, 2026
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Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update
May 22, 2026
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A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express
May 15, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/12/26 | ‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn | A tech titan, a digital rights defender and two menacing-looking robot dogs took the stage at our second-ever live show. | — | ||||||
| 6/5/26 | Hot I.P.O Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT | “We are on track to see what might be the three biggest I.P.O.s of all time.” | — | ||||||
| 5/29/26 | Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving? | Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update | “This is the only recent gathering of a large number of people where mentions of A.I. did not produce a large chorus of boos.” | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express | After several years of dismissing A.I. safety as doomer fear-mongering, parts of the Trump administration now seem ready to support regulation. | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School✨ | prediction marketsinsider trading+2 | Joanna Stern | The New York Times | — | prediction marketsinsider trading+3 | — | 1h 12m 25s | |
| 5/1/26 | OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM✨ | A.I. adoptionhealthcare technology+4 | — | A.I.OpenAI+2 | — | OpenAIA.I.+5 | — | 1h 09m 55s | |
| 4/24/26 | Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT✨ | Tim CookApple+5 | Andrew Yang | Apple | — | Tim CookApple+5 | — | 1h 14m 39s | |
| 4/17/26 | A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming✨ | A.I. backlashradicalization+3 | Kara Swisher | HealthmaxxingThe New York Times | — | A.I.backlash+4 | — | 1h 03m 21s | |
| 4/10/26 | Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Their Sam Altman Investigation + One Good Thing✨ | cybersecuritysoftware vulnerabilities+3 | Ronan FarrowAndrew Marantz | AnthropicThe New York Times | — | Anthropiccybersecurity+5 | — | 1h 04m 06s | |
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| 4/3/26 | The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT✨ | addictive designDeepMind+4 | — | HatGPTCongress+1 | — | addictive designDeepMind+5 | — | 1h 09m 26s | |
| 3/27/26 | The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?✨ | A.I. agentseconomy+3 | Jack Clark | Anthropic | — | A.I.agents+5 | — | 1h 40m 24s | |
| 3/20/26 | ‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing✨ | A.I. layoffsL.L.M. writing+4 | — | A.I.L.L.M.s+1 | — | A.I.layoffs+5 | — | 1h 00m 36s | |
| 3/13/26 | A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity✨ | A.I. in warfarecivilian casualties+3 | — | Grammarly | — | A.I.war+5 | — | 1h 06m 42s | |
| 3/6/26 | OpenAI's Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop✨ | OpenAIPentagon+4 | — | OpenAIPentagon | Iran | OpenAIPentagon+4 | — | 1h 05m 39s | |
| 3/1/26 | At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out✨ | A.I. industryOpenAI+4 | — | OpenAIAnthropic | Pentagon | A.I.OpenAI+4 | — | 33m 08s | |
| 2/27/26 | Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School✨ | A.I.labor market+3 | — | A.I.The New York Times+3 | — | A.I.labor market+4 | — | 1h 00m 39s | |
| 2/20/26 | The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express | This would be an unprecedented escalation against a U.S. company. | — | ||||||
| 2/13/26 | ‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing | “I do think we are reaching an inflection point in people's feelings and senses about AI and where it's going.” | — | ||||||
| 2/6/26 | Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator | “A very valuable and profitable company in SpaceX has acquired a cash furnace named xAI.” | — | ||||||
| 2/4/26 | Moltbook Mania Explained | Is this the year the internet changes forever? | — | ||||||
| 1/30/26 | Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT | In Minneapolis, it has become a battle of phone versus phone. | — | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New Constitution | “The question is not are these first couple of ads that we're seeing from OpenAI going to be good or not? It's whether two or three years from now, ChatGPT is being steered toward ad-friendly topics.” | — | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse | “If we can’t win on social media, then we definitely can’t win on A.I.,” says Haidt. | — | ||||||
| 1/13/26 | Can We Build a Better Social Network? | A “Hard Fork” and “Search Engine” collaboration. | — | ||||||
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