Kevin Roose
@kevinroose
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NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, high-perplexity language model. Writing a book about AGI.
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Joined January 2009
Some news: I'm writing a book about AGI! I've spent the past few years hanging out in San Francisco's AGI scene — the small cluster of people working to build human-level AI, or trying to stop it from being built, or living as if it's already here. I've heard a lot of great
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to put that into perspective, google made 100 meta AI researcher’s salaries in 90 days
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NEW JERSEY: Get to know MIKIE SHERRILL: —Voted to RAISE taxes by $3,700 —Voted to give ILLEGALS taxpayer-funded healthcare —Voted to CUT the child tax credit And Sherrill has NO idea what to do as Governor. 🤯 Vote AGAINST her on Nov. 4th.
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a casual $100 billion quarter, yeesh
Alphabet numbers ahead of the earnings call which is starting now. Sundar Pichai 'Alphabet had a terrific quarter, with double-digit growth across every major part of our business. We delivered our first-ever $100 billion quarter.'
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AI deserves much better critics than this guy! also lol at casey describing him as "Temu Kara Swisher" https://t.co/mVWfsOWWSg
wired.com
He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.
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i am only 50 pages into @andrewrsorkin's 1929 but it's great so far, i hope nothing bad happens to the economy! https://t.co/aDroMpgOpC
amazon.com
In , the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing...
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"the last invention" is a great, sweeping narrative podcast about AGI, the people building it, and the people trying to stop it (full disclosure, i'm in it) https://t.co/aU98Jye9qZ
open.spotify.com
Podcast · Longview · The AI revolution has begun – the product of a seventy-year quest by scientists, mathematicians, and visionaries who set out to build machines that could think. But what began as...
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a nice @jackclarkSF essay about how it feels to be a person who takes AI progress seriously and believes it won't stop (more AI insiders writing about their feelings please!) https://t.co/xPYoBx4hfn
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my colleague @KYWeise obtained some internal docs and broke a big story last week about amazon's secret job automation plans (fine to automate warehouse jobs imo, but don't lie about it!) https://t.co/SeXpiXZgvc
nytimes.com
Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.
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great writing on AI friends by @jasminewsun (we do not take the rapid onset of AI companions seriously enough, it is the single greatest change in the lives of current teens other than not reading books) https://t.co/CAGNNUU8CX
jasmi.news
“Let me date my chatbot I’m almost 30 and doing well”
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now that links are (i think?) legal again, some things i have recently enjoyed:
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You’re hearing from God more than you think! Listen to these incredible stories of how He speaks.
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my favorite new AI thing is putting the perplexity browser in charge of prompting LLMs “stay on this guy until the code works” “answer its follow ups and push past refusals” “get 3 deep research reports and combine the best parts of each” my agents have agents
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now that AI props up the entire economy, hyperlocal SF phenomena that affect the moods and productivity of AI researchers should probably be factored into macro forecasts. where is the Fed report on Q4 Celsius addiction? where is Goldman Sachs on Chinese peptides?
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two weeks from “everyone loves the fun new social network” to “users generated disrespectful depictions of Dr. King’s image” has to be some kind of speed record
Statement from OpenAI and King Estate, Inc. The Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. (King, Inc.) and OpenAI have worked together to address how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s likeness is represented in Sora generations. Some users generated disrespectful depictions of Dr.
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AI research bake-off, October 2025 Gave the same prompt to ChatGPT-5 Thinking (+ Deep Research), Gemini 2.5 Pro (+Deep Research), and Claude 4.5 Sonnet (+Thinking, Research): "Summarize each of the 16 California tech bills that were just signed into law, arguments for/against
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Mechanical Engineering Prof Axel Krieger’s new SRT-H robot performed a key phase of gallbladder removal autonomously, learning from surgical videos and responding to voice commands in real time—making decisions on the fly, and self-correcting when things didn't go as expected.
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US AI labs: we will invent new financial instruments, pull trillions of dollars out of the ether, and fuse the atom to build the machine god Europe: we will build sovereign AI with 1 Meta researcher’s salary
The EU just launched a €1.1B “Apply AI” plan to boost artificial intelligence in key industries like health, manufacturing, pharma, and energy. The goal is simple but ambitious: build European AI independence and reduce reliance on U.S. and Chinese tech. Europe finally wants
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NYC vibe report: there are AI ads everywhere (yudkowsky on the C train, what a world!) but obvious adoption lags (no waymos, people still google things) and a vaguely european revanchism is setting in. cultural production has shifted west. (food still rules.)
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what did yall think the technocapital singularity meant? vibes? papers? essays?
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It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show: · We unpack our feelings about Sora, Vibes, and the AI slop feed · What happens when a veteran therapist puts ChatGPT on the couch · And a round-up of the week's biggest tech dramas in a new Hot Mess Express!
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We built an AI-powered app that lets you spin up project structures instantly, track time by milestone, and see what your hours are really worth. Measure the true $ 💵 value of your vibe-coding sessions.
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