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Why journalists can't quit Twitter
The media should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down
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.
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How Sundar Pichai is thinking about AI
Three takeaways about Google's approach to this moment, after an interview with Google's CEO
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The AI industry really should slow down a little
This year has given us a bounty of innovations. We could use some time to absorb them
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Substack's new fundraising pitch
Venture capitalists wouldn't give the company the terms it wanted. Its writers might
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How TikTok failed to make the case for itself
After a rocky appearance before Congress, the company has reason to reflect
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Six questions about Google Bard
The company's new large language model has arrived. Now what?
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YouTube restores Trump
Meta explained its Trump decision in full. YouTube went another direction
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TikTok nears the endgame
Breaking off TikTok from ByteDance might be the right thing to do — but it will come at a high cost. PLUS: How Twitter keeps competitors off its For You page
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Meta doubles down on layoffs
The company's recent products have flopped with consumers. Will a more focused team reverse the trend?
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Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams
As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone
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Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
Is this the Twitter replacement we've been waiting for?
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Utah's war on social networks is a symptom of a larger problem
Congress failed to act — and now a patchwork of bad state laws is eroding our privacy
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How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday
The high cost of cutting expenses
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Winners and losers in the race to add AI
ChatGPT is now running inside Snapchat, Notion, and other apps. Will it give them a sustaining advantage — or just line OpenAI's pockets?
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The TikTok bans are accelerating
With a key vote scheduled for tonight, the company's options are growing limited
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In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO
Is the job Steve Davis' to lose? PLUS: A smart new tool to fight child exploitation online