Kevin Roose and Casey Newton Leave The New York Times to Launch Machine Gods

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Former New York Times reporter Kevin Roose and Casey Newton have left the paper to start Machine Gods, a new independent tech podcast that launched last week. The show is a successor to their popular podcast Hard Fork. Roose, who has also written the book The AGI Chronicles on the companies racing to build artificial general intelligence, discussed the move with Decoder host Nilay Patel. The interview covered the challenges of going from a major newsroom to independent creator work, including the appeal of video platforms like YouTube.

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