AI
AI as Normal Technology, revisited
The authors of an influential paper on AI timelines stand by their view that societal transformation will take decades — but hasn't it already arrived?
Casey Newton
Founder and editor of Platformer, a publication about the intersection of tech and democracy. Prior to founding Platformer in October 2020, Newton was the longtime Silicon Valley editor of The Verge.
Google makes a gaffe
What the company's accidental legal filing and the Browser Company's acquisition tell us about the true future of the web
Mark Zuckerberg
Everything Mark Zuckerberg has gotten from Donald Trump so far
One year out from Trump's threat to imprison him, Zuckerberg now has the administration fighting battles for him around the world
OpenAI
A ChatGPT tragedy is only the beginning
The chatbot mental health crisis is here
xAI
Musk sues over Grok flop
Stanford's Mark Lemley on xAI's whiny lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI
Productivity
What I learned about productivity this year
What I gave up, what I kept, and what's new. PLUS: How I'm using AI
Labor
Americans fear AI will take their jobs — but companies can’t quite get it to work
What new surveys tell us about the messy state of AI diffusion
AI
The states are coming for AI therapy bots
It's clear that therapy chatbots can benefit people — but states may have good reason to intervene anyway
OpenAI
My dinner with Altman
In a wide-ranging conversation with reporters, OpenAI's CEO discusses the GPT-5 backlash, the AI bubble, and whether he would build a social network
xAI
Grok is on the rocks
Trailing ChatGPT on the charts, and suspended by its own maker, Elon Musk asks: is this Apple's fault?
OpenAI
Three big lessons from the GPT-5 backlash
In which an industry obsessed with benchmarks and evals finds that its products are being used by real people
OpenAI
GPT-5 is alive
It's big news for free users of ChatGPT, but AGI remains elusive. PLUS: one AI safety idea other labs should borrow
OpenAI
OpenAI returns to open weights
An industry leader releases a powerful model that runs on a laptop. Should we worry?
OpenAI
ChatGPT adds a warning
It’s almost certainly not enough — but it’s a start.
Substack promotes a Nazi
The company has long wanted to be seen as neutral infrastructure — this week, we saw why that’s a fantasy
Child Safety
The UK's age gates are coming to America
The rocky rollout of age verification in the United Kingdom — and the privacy debacle at Tea — illustrate why a different approach is needed