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Sway

The New York Times

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 inve...

Episodes

20 of 222 episodes

Are We in an A.I. Bubble? We're About to Find Out.

“This is the first pure-play L.L.M. company to go public, to open its books so we can actually look at the underlying business of this A.I....

00:54:21Oct 30, 2026

What’s the Deal With Billy Evans? A Spoiler-Filled Guide to ‘You Can See Everything’

“You shouldn’t overbeat scrambled eggs.”

00:59:10Oct 23, 2026

Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth Holmes

“I felt like there were some moments in the film where she was just brazenly lying.”

01:07:15Oct 16, 2026

Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals

“For Anthropic, it was part research and part evangelism.”

00:44:20Oct 9, 2026

A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?

“It’s going to be gnarly for a little while.”

00:53:02Oct 2, 2026

What’s Next for ‘Hard Fork’?

The podcast’s next chapter begins this week.

00:02:16Oct 1, 2026

The Ezra Klein Show: Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far

Ezra Klein interviews the Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang.

01:48:18Sep 25, 2026

A.I. Safety Goes Mainstream + a ‘Hard Fork’ Exit AMA

“It has been one of the fastest, most sudden shifts I've experienced.”

01:24:07Sep 18, 2026

The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here

The A.I. giants weren’t prepared for this.

01:19:47Sep 11, 2026

The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

This is probably the most important thing to have happened in A.I. this year.

01:18:46Sep 4, 2026

Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT

Meta negotiated an unusual provision in their landmark settlement: If TikTok and YouTube also agree to penalties and changes to their produc...

01:02:56Aug 28, 2026

OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought

“It is the first time that we know of that a major lab has voluntarily slowed down.”

01:03:07Aug 21, 2026

Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math

“The first rule of Mark Zuckerberg is never count out Mark Zuckerberg."

01:03:14Aug 14, 2026

The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express

A few details from the White House’s A.I. plan have leaked to the news media, but the administration has officially communicated almost noth...

01:05:29Aug 7, 2026

Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight

“It just seems like the temperature is rising on Silicon Valley.”

01:06:47Jul 31, 2026

OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting

“The story that we're talking about in this segment was science fiction until Tuesday, OK?”

01:08:14Jul 24, 2026

The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT

“I don’t know if the public understands this, but these companies hate each other.”

01:09:30Jul 17, 2026

Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time

“If the net result is that all the teens in Australia are still using social media, even after they’re technically banned from doing it, why...

01:19:01Jul 10, 2026

Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama

What we learned from the government’s biggest attempt yet to control who can gain access to the most powerful new A.I. models.

01:06:44Jul 3, 2026

‘The Daily’ and ‘The Opinions’: How A.I. Is Changing Loneliness and Taste

The story of a woman who let a robot into her home. Plus, a discussion about why Silicon Valley has taken such an interest in taste.

00:59:33Jun 26, 2026