Sway

Power, unpacked. “Sway” is a new interview show hosted by Kara Swisher, “Silicon Valley’s most feared and well liked journalist.” Now taking on Washington, Hollywood and the world, Kara investigates power: who has it, who’s been denied it, and who dares to defy it. Every Monday and Thursday, from New York Times Opinion Audio.

Age-Gating the Internet + Cloudflare Takes On A.I. Scrapers + HatGPT

This week, we look at the fallout from a sweeping internet age-verification law that went into effect...

Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics

On Wednesday, President Trump signed three A.I.-related executive orders, and the White House released...

X Hits Grok Bottom + More A.I. Talent Wars + ‘Crypto Week’

This week, we tick through the many dramatic headlines surrounding xAI, including the departure of X’s...

Interesting Times: A Mind-Bending Conversation with Peter Thiel

This week, we’re bringing you a recent interview from “Interesting Times with Ross Douthat,” one...

Hard Fork Live, Part 2: Patrick Collison of Stripe + Kathryn Zealand of Skip + Listener Questions

We’re back with part two of Hard Fork Live (see last week’s episode for part one). This week, Patrick...

Hard Fork Live, Part 1: Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap of OpenAI

The first Hard Fork Live is officially in the books, and for those who couldn’t attend, we’re playing...

Trump Is Selling a Phone + The Start-Up Trying to Automate Every Job + Allison Williams Talks ‘M3GAN 2.0’

This week, President Trump’s family business announced that it was introducing a mobile phone and...

Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation

This week, Meta hits the reset button on A.I. But will a new research lab and a multibillion-dollar...

The Trump-Musk Fallout + A DOGE Coder Speaks + ChefGPT

This week, Kevin and Casey discuss the sudden breakdown between President Trump and Elon Musk, whose...

The A.I. Jobpocalypse + Building at Anthropic with Mike Krieger + Hard Fork Crimes Division

This week, we dive into Kevin’s recent column about how A.I. is affecting the job market for new graduates,...

Google DeepMind C.E.O. Demis Hassabis on Living in an A.I. Future

This week, we take a field trip to Google and report back about everything the company announced at...

Ed Helms Answers Your Hard Questions

The actor, comedian and author Ed Helms has a new book out about historical blunders. He swings by Hard...

Bad Apple + The Rise of the AI Empire + Italian Brain Rot

This week, iPhone users started to feel the impact of a stern court order against Apple that requires...

The Dangers of A.I. Flattery + Kevin Meets the Orb + Group Chat Chat

This week we dig into the ways chatbots are starting to manipulate us, including ChatGPT’s sycophantic...

Is Google Breaking Up? + Seasteading Is Back + Tool Time

This week, with big developments in two antitrust cases against Google, we discuss how the company may...

Meta on Trial + Is A.I. a ‘Normal’ Technology? + HatGPT

This week Meta is on trial, in a landmark case over whether it illegally snuffed out competition when...

Big Tech's Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama

This week, with the tech world in chaos over President Trump’s tariffs, we look at how four specific...

Tech Stock Shock + Solving the Mystery of OpenAI's "Blip" + Tinder's Flirt-Off

This week, President Trump announced sweeping new tariffs that are roiling the global economy. We discuss...

The Tech Behind Signalgate + Dwarkesh Patel's "Scaling Era" + Is A.I. Making Our Listeners Dumb?

This week, we dig into the group chat that’s rocking the Trump administration and talk about why turning...

A.I. Action Plans + The College Student Who Broke Job Interviews + Hot Mess Express

With all of Silicon Valley weighing in on the Trump administration’s new action plan for artificial...

Apple's Siri-ous Problem + How Starlink Took Over the World + Is AI Making Us Dumb?

This week, as the long-promised new Siri faces increasing delays, we explore why Apple seems to be falling...

Is Google Search Cooked? + We’re Getting a U.S. Crypto Reserve? + What You’re Vibecoding

This week, Google introduced a new way to search, which could mean that Googling as we know it is on...

Anthropic’s C.E.O. Dario Amodei on Surviving the A.I. Endgame

This week, Anthropic’s C.E.O., Dario Amodei, returns to the show for a candid, wide-ranging interview....

How Based is Grok 3? + Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on Markets For Everything + Vibecoding 101

This week, Elon Musk brought a new chatbot into the crowded A.I. universe — Grok 3, the latest model...

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