Hot IPO Summer + What Is AI Doing to Math? + HatGPT
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI are all racing to the public markets. We discuss what their IPOs mean for the industry, charitable giving and anyone invested in an index fund. Then, more than 1,000 mathematicians signed a declaration this week raising concerns about the use of AI in their field. Author Kevin Hartnett joins to explain what the fuss is all about. And finally, we run through the biggest headlines of the week — including the new executive order on AI — in a round of HatGPT.
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“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Rose and Casey Newton and produced by Whitney Jones and Rachel Cohn. This episode was edited by Vjeran Pavic. engineering by Chris Wood and original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto. Fact-checking by Caitlin Love.
Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam and Dahlia Haddad.
