Deepfakes
Welcome to the shitpost election
Forget what’s true and false. Did you hear about J.D. Vance and the couch?
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.
AI
Sam Altman calls for an AI coalition
AI leaders are promoting the idea of an arms race — but the hype is getting ahead of the technology. PLUS: KOSA makes a comeback
AI
Meta unleashes its Llama
The company's open-source AI is now roughly on par with rivals from OpenAI and Google. Should we worry?
Kamala Harris
How Kamala Harris sees the tech industry
Plus: Zuckerberg and Trump, is X "back," and other questions about the brand-new 2024 presidential campaign
AI
How the world is ceding AI to America
As regulations pile up in Europe, South America, and elsewhere, it’s still full speed ahead in the United States
AI
The e/accs inch closer to the White House
How billionaire donors, a new policy framework, and Trump’s VP pick promise to steamroll the AI safety movement
An assassination attempt for the social media age
On a dark day for democracy, the rules of the 2020 internet no longer apply
Threads
Adam Mosseri on the first year of Threads
With more than 175 million monthly users, Meta has its sights set on overtaking Twitter
The Supreme Court gives a green light to jawboning
A decision this week should mean Russia won't easily be able to repeat its 2016 propaganda campaign — but First Amendment advocates still have concerns
Child Safety
Snap tackles the teen sextortion problem
What will it take to stop an epidemic of suicides among teenage boys?
The record labels come for AI
Another industry recognizes a bad bargain when it sees one
AI
How to stop Perplexity and save the web from bad AI
We can still have the internet we want — but we have to try new business models
Election deepfakes make a shallow impact
The world braced for the worst — but so far, politicians are using generative AI in mostly conventional ways
Child Safety
The surgeon general wants a warning for social media
A year after issuing an advisory, Vivek Murthy sharpens his rhetoric
Academia
The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
House Republicans attacked the lab’s reports on misinformation and election integrity — and now Stanford is pulling the plug
Apple
Nine things to know about Apple Intelligence
Apple’s move into content moderation, unlimited ChatGPT, and more