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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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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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