Kevin Roose and Casey Newton launch independent podcast Machine Gods, leaving NYT
Kevin Roose has departed The New York Times and his podcast Hard Fork to co-found a new tech podcast, Machine Gods, alongside Casey Newton. The launch coincides with Roose's new book, The AGI Chronicles, which examines the companies racing to build artificial general intelligence. In a Decoder interview, Roose discussed the transition to independent media and his reporting on AI's biggest players.