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Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped

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By:Kevin Roose · Casey Newton · Rachel Cohn · Whitney Jones · Jen Poyant · Katie McMurran · Dan Powell · Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto
12 December 2025 at 07:00
“I’m told that Australian teens, in preparation for this ban, have been exchanging phone numbers with each other.”

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OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop

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By:Kevin Roose · Casey Newton · Whitney Jones · Rachel Cohn · Jen Poyant · Chris Wood · Dan Powell · Elisheba Ittoop and Rowan Niemisto
5 December 2025 at 07:00
“For OpenAI to realize its ambitions, it is not going to be enough for them to make a model that is as good as Gemini 3. They need to be able to leapfrog it again.”

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Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025

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By:Kevin Roose · Casey Newton · Whitney Jones · Rachel Cohn · Jen Poyant · Alyssa Moxley · Dan Powell and Diane Wong
28 November 2025 at 07:00
“You can’t tell the story of 2025 without these icons.”

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Google’s Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look

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By:Kevin Roose · Casey Newton · Rachel Cohn · Whitney Jones · Jen Poyant · Chris Wood · Dan Powell · Rowan Niemisto and Diane Wong
18 November 2025 at 11:03
Maybe more than other model releases, this one seems to have the attention of Google’s competitors. Will it put the company at the top of the A.I. leaderboard?

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Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery

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By:Kevin Roose · Casey Newton · Rachel Cohn · Whitney Jones · Jen Poyant · Chris Wood · Dan Powell · Elisheba Ittoop and Marion Lozano
14 November 2025 at 07:00
“As you may have noticed, it is not easy to build data centers here on Earth.”

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We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT

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By:Kevin Roose · Casey Newton · Whitney Jones · Rachel Cohn · Jen Poyant · Katie McMurran · Dan Powell · Elisheba Ittoop · Rowan Niemisto and Diane Wong
7 November 2025 at 07:00
People have been waiting for a robot to do their chores since they watched “The Jetsons.” Can the company behind NEO finally make it happen?

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Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I.

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By:Kevin Roose · Casey Newton · Rachel Cohn · Whitney Jones · Jen Poyant · Katie McMurran · Dan Powell · Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto
31 October 2025 at 07:00
“We are living through a dramatic contraction in the access that teenagers have to technology online.”

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ChatGPT’s Platform Play + a Trillion-Dollar GPU Empire + the Queen of Slop

✇NYT: Technology
By:Kevin Roose · Casey Newton · Whitney Jones · Rachel Cohn · Jen Poyant · Alyssa Moxley · Dan Powell · Marion Lozano and Diane Wong
10 October 2025 at 07:00
At DevDay, OpenAI signaled its ambition to take everything you can do on the internet and shove it inside ChatGPT.

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