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Received yesterday — 12 December 2025

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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.

“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

At DevDay, OpenAI signaled its ambition to take everything you can do on the internet and shove it inside ChatGPT.

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