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
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.
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
Apple
Apple’s AI moment arrives
What WWDC told us about the near-term future of computing
Misinformation
The misinformation panic may be over
Three new studies suggest the problem is manageable — and smaller than you might expect. PLUS: What is Joan Donovan’s deal?
OpenAI
What aren’t the OpenAI whistleblowers saying?
A group of current and former employees say the company has been reckless — but aren’t offering many details
OpenAI
The strange incentives at OpenAI
I am once again asking: what is the conflict of interest policy at this company?
Google’s AI search setback
The AI Overviews debacle and leaked search ranking documents tell a common story about the web's future — and it's not pretty
OpenAI
OpenAI explains itself (again)
Some fresh reporting on who knew what and when
Journalism
A better way for platforms to fund journalism
A new bill in California offers an alternative to Australia-style link taxes. PLUS: OpenAI explains itself
OpenAI
OpenAI loses its voice
The company hasn’t been the same since Sam Altman’s return — and its treatment of Scarlett Johansson should worry everyone