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

Meta押注规模+苹果的AI困境+听众讨论自动化就业

Hard Fork

2025-06-13

1 小时 7 分钟
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This week, Meta hits the reset button on A.I. But will a new research lab and a multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI bring the company any closer to its stated goal of “superintelligence”? Then we break down Apple’s big developer conference, WWDC: What was announced, what was noticeably absent, and why Apple seems a little stuck in the past. Finally, a couple of weeks ago we asked if your job is being automated away — it’s time to open up the listener mail bag and hear what you said. Additional Reading: Meta looks for an A.I. resetApple Executives Defend Apple Intelligence, Siri and A.I. StrategyThis A.I. Company Wants to Take Your Job We want to hear from you. Email us at hardfork@nytimes.com. Find “Hard Fork” on YouTube and TikTok. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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  • Let me ask you about this.

  • There's this startup called The Browser Company, and they have a new browser called Dia,

  • which is sort of, you know, based around AI.

  • And so you have like an AI chat.

  • And I was reading David Pierce's story about this in The Verge.

  • And he was like,

  • there was a point in using Dia where I came to understand that it knows what my social security number is.

  • because I had like entered it onto a website.

  • And when I think about all of the things that I, you know,

  • put into a web browser, some are very sensitive information, Kevin.

  • I don't know that I want a cloud service to have total knowledge and memory of what I've been browsing.

  • Yeah, that sounds to me like a bad idea.

  • Perfect.

  • Cut, Prince.