March 6, 2026, 7:00 a.m. ET
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Hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton
Produced by Rachel Cohn and Whitney Jones
Edited by Vjeran Pavic
Engineered by Chris Wood
Original music by Dan PowellElisheba Ittoop and Rowan Niemisto
This week, the fallout continues as OpenAI scrambles to rework its deal with the Pentagon, while government agencies adapt to life without Claude. Then we break down the grim new reality of prediction market bets on the U.S.-Israel led war with Iran. Finally, it’s time for another edition of The Hard Fork Review of Slop. This time we’re joined by Arijeta Lajka, a New York Times reporter, to discuss her recent article about the short form A.I.-generated slop YouTube is feeding to young children.
Additional Reading
The Pentagon Officially Notifies Anthropic That It Is a ‘Supply Chain Risk’
How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart
How Anonymous Bettors Cashed In on the Iran Strike, Just Hours Before It Happened
Israeli Army Reservists Are Suspected of Using Inside Knowledge to Bet
How A.I.-Generated Videos Are Distorting Your Child’s YouTube Feed
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“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Rachel Cohn and Whitney Jones. This episode was edited by Vjeran Pavic. Our executive producer is Jen Poyant. Engineering by Chris Wood and original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop and Rowan Niemisto. Fact-checking by Caitlin Love.
Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam and Dahlia Haddad.
Kevin Roose is a Times technology columnist and a host of the podcast "Hard Fork."
Hard Fork
Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the rapidly changing world of tech.
•OpenAI’s Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop
•At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out
•Is A.I. Eating the Labor Market? + The Latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School
•The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express
•‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing
•Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger + We Test Google’s Project Genie + What’s Next for Moltbook Creator
•Moltbook Mania Explained
•Tech Grapples With ICE + Casey Tries Clawdbot, a Risky New A.I. Assistant + HatGPT
•Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude’s New Constitution
•Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse
•Can We Build a Better Social Network?
•Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax
•Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions
•The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose
•Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress?
•Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song
•Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped
•OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop
•Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025
•The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars
•We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
•Google’s Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look
•Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery
•We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT
•Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I.
•Celebrities Fight Sora + Amazon’s Secret Automation Plans + ChatGPT Gets a Browser
•California Regulates A.I. Companions + OpenAI Investigates Its Critics + The Hard Fork Review of Slop
•ChatGPT’s Platform Play + a Trillion-Dollar GPU Empire + the Queen of Slop
•Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express
•The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture
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