AI
Anthropic is done with AI doomerism
What happens when the safety-first AI company decides it needs to go faster?
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.
The likeliest outcomes from the Google antitrust trial
Breaking up is very hard to do. So what else is on the table?
Oversight Board
The Oversight Board gets a lifeline
A new initiative will handle user appeals in Europe — but it can be more effective for them than it has been for Meta?
Facebook wants to get younger
A redesign hopes to capture some of the app’s once-youthful energy — but its older users remain a problem in more ways than one
AI
Can AI regulation survive the First Amendment?
California’s first effort to regulate AI slop hit a wall. What now?
snap
How Snap ignored its sextortion problem
A newly unredacted lawsuit reveals that the company failed to act on 90 percent of user reports
Meta
Meta’s Orion glasses made me want to throw away VR headsets forever
The future of computing is starting to come into focus
OpenAI
OpenAI is a weird company
What is going on over there? PLUS: X's hack-and-leak moment arrives, via Substack
Meta
At Meta Connect, it’s Zuck or nothing
The company has an expansive vision for the future — and until then, some incremental updates
Journalism
What I learned in year four of Platformer
Everything that happened after we left Substack
X
X sneaks back into Brazil
Was it really a mistake — or a gesture of defiance? PLUS: What's Google hiding?
Snapchat
Snap’s latest spectacle
The company’s augmented reality glasses nudge the state of the art forward — but remain frustratingly limited
Meta
Instagram makes teen accounts private by default
Under siege by state lawmakers, Meta makes its biggest move yet to address harms to minors. Will it be enough?
Meta
Mark Zuckerberg’s 20-year mistake
Meta’s CEO says he’s done apologizing. Should we worry?
Elections
Trump’s dead cat bounce
What the latest lie to go mainstream on X tells us about what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn't
Telegram
Telegram changes its tune
But a new terrorism indictment shows the reckoning is only just beginning