AI
Publishers gamble over AI licensing deals
Is it smarter to take the deal they can get — or fight it out in court?
Managing editor of Platformer
AI
Is it smarter to take the deal they can get — or fight it out in court?
Child Safety
Jonathan Haidt wrote a best-selling book about teens and social media. Not everyone buys its thesis
Startups
Behind the rocky launch of a photo-sharing app was a co-founder about to quit and months of employee warnings that its new project wasn’t ready
Grindr
The company’s bet on AI boyfriends and other paywalled features is making some employees nervous
Meta
The board needs data to determine whether Meta is listening to its recommendations. It isn't always forthcoming
X
Was it Jack Dorsey or Elon Musk? Kurt Wagner and Zoë Schiffer, authors of two new books on the subject, interview each other about what they learned
Mastodon
Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol
Newsletter
AI! Elections! Threads! Media! And more
Newsletter
Some hallucinations could ‘potentially induce cardiac incidents in Legal,’ according to internal documents
Newsletter
Announcing 'Extremely Hardcore,' Zoë Schiffer’s book on Musk’s Twitter takeover
Newsletter
Q&A with Stability AI's just-departed vice presidenct of audio, Ed Rex-Newton
Newsletter
From servers to people, Musk is looking across his empire to catch up in AI
Newsletter
One year after Elon Musk let that sink in, an elegy for the platform that was — and some notes on the one that is poised to succeed it
Newsletter
In her first interview, former engineer Yao Yue discusses being fired over a tweet — and her success in getting the NLRB to file its first formal complaint against X
Newsletter
Notes on selling books via Instagram stories, fighting with Elon, and which platform is best at shielding users from harassment
Newsletter
Company documents reveal how a stalled data deletion project and inadequate data protections could put X in the agency’s crosshairs