How we're shaking up Platformer for the AI era
On newsletters in the age of AI automation. PLUS: Musk and OpenAI in court, and China blocks Meta's Manus acquisition
The week that Meta employees became training data
Invasive monitoring and a fresh round of layoffs have workers I spoke to on edge. Is this the future of knowledge work?
Following: Trump says Anthropic is “shaping up”
PLUS: Everyone has feelings about Tim Cook
Why UBI is making a comeback
Tech companies hope a check in the mail will calm the AI backlash — but there are reasons for skepticism
The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot
New research confirms that LLMs often perform better when you encourage them. But why?
Sam Altman’s second thoughts
OpenAI’s CEO is asking the public to lower the temperature on AI. But who turned it up in the first place?
Meta has a new model
Nine months after an expensive overhaul, the company says it's back in the AI race — but the race keeps getting faster
Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled
The company says it has built its most dangerous model yet. Can its coalition of internet companies fix the internet before others catch up?
OpenAI is getting weird again
A strange purchase, executive reshuffling and a New Yorker investigation are raising questions ahead of an IPO
Exclusive: Meta has discussed ending funding to the Oversight Board
Shifting priorities and budget pressures could bring an end to the company’s experiment in independent governance, sources say
Can you have child safety and Section 230, too?
The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech
Mark Zuckerberg is doing content moderation again
Meta’s CEO said he didn't want to be the speech police. Then he texted Elon Musk