The AI backlash needs a plan
Democrats have a mandate to rein in frontier labs, data centers, and more. Can they deliver without repeating their mistakes from the social-media era?
Independent reporting on AI, social platforms, and the people shaping technology.
Original reporting and analysis from Casey Newton, delivered to your inbox.
Latest
The frontier labs launch election war rooms
An old playbook is back for the deepfake era. Is it working?
What Google and Reddit's bad days have in common
AI search is underperforming for Google, and it's killing Reddit's traffic. What now?
The AI election that wasn't
Voters have other things on their minds — for now. PLUS: OpenAI’s clever policy to fight deepfakes, and the Anthropic S-1
Introducing Machine Gods
Why we're betting on AI realism. PLUS: The hell of PHP2Shell
Joel Kaplan leaves Meta
Long a voice for Republicans inside the company, he played a leading role in pushing Meta to the right
The states come for OpenAI
Will the approach that beat Meta in New Mexico work against ChatGPT?
X’s reverse eternal September
Why the onetime global town square now feels more like a clubhouse
AI is solving math problems faster than humans can understand the solutions
OpenAI’s math breakthroughs may trigger an identity crisis for mathematicians. Who’s next?
Does intelligence need a hard cap?
Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X
OpenAI connects the Dots
With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents
Following: OpenAI taps the brakes
On the eve of the company's developer conference, it cancels a new model over safety fears
Start Here
Why social media bans are gaining steam
How a recent talk by researcher Candice Odgers explains why ban critics are losing
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm
🚨 What really happened at Basecamp
How a list of "funny" customer names triggered an internal reckoning