California regulates AI companions
As safety concerns mount, one state becomes the first to implement guardrails. Will they be enough?
How leaderboards lost their spot as the best way to judge AI
Meta-backed Scale has a new leaderboard to challenge the industry leader. But has the AI industry already moved on?
Four fresh signs of the AI bubble
The numbers are all mostly going up. The worries are, too
OpenAI’s platform play
Facebook's social graph went down in the flames of Cambridge Analytica. Will the AI graph fare any better? PLUS: Our new approach to links
What everyone is saying about Sora
It's cool. It's scary. It's a hit
OpenAI launches a social network
Hands on with Sora 2
ChatGPT adds parental controls
Will the rest of the industry follow? PLUS: Claude Sonnet 4.5's software-on-demand dream, and your responses to my anniversary post
ChatGPT develops a Pulse
OpenAI’s latest experiment marks the arrival of a more proactive AI — and a new feed to scroll. Sound familiar?
What I learned in the first five years of Platformer
And where we go from here
Everything that's weird about the deal to spin out TikTok
PLUS: What LLMs say when they think no one’s looking, and Trump’s visa chaos
Three ways of thinking about the Kirk assassination
The right-wing activist used platforms to whip up a fury online and off — and we're now trapped in his edgelord politics
OpenAI’s risky step to protect teens
ChatGPT accounts will inform parents when their children express thoughts of self-harm. Will the move protect kids — or simply drive them elsewhere?