How leaderboards lost their spot as the best way to judge AI
Meta-backed Scale has a new leaderboard to challenge the industry leader. But has the AI industry already moved on?
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Four fresh signs of the AI bubble
The numbers are all mostly going up. The worries are, too
OpenAI’s platform play
Facebook's social graph went down in the flames of Cambridge Analytica. Will the AI graph fare any better? PLUS: Our new approach to links
What everyone is saying about Sora
It's cool. It's scary. It's a hit
OpenAI launches a social network
Hands on with Sora 2
ChatGPT adds parental controls
Will the rest of the industry follow? PLUS: Claude Sonnet 4.5's software-on-demand dream, and your responses to my anniversary post
ChatGPT develops a Pulse
OpenAI’s latest experiment marks the arrival of a more proactive AI — and a new feed to scroll. Sound familiar?
What I learned in the first five years of Platformer
And where we go from here
Everything that's weird about the deal to spin out TikTok
PLUS: What LLMs say when they think no one’s looking, and Trump’s visa chaos
Three ways of thinking about the Kirk assassination
The right-wing activist used platforms to whip up a fury online and off — and we're now trapped in his edgelord politics
OpenAI’s risky step to protect teens
ChatGPT accounts will inform parents when their children express thoughts of self-harm. Will the move protect kids — or simply drive them elsewhere?
There might be a TikTok deal
After three extralegal extensions, Trump closes in on gifting ByteDance's jewel to his allies
Are Republicans changing their minds about AI safety?
A new FTC inquiry into chatbots and children shows that some within the Trump Administration may be reconsidering their anti-regulation approach
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?
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
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
Content Moderation
Trust and safety workers on why they're not speaking out
What readers say I got wrong in our last edition
Content Moderation
Is anyone left to defend trust and safety?
It’s under assault this year from users, politicians, and their own executives — but the industry has responded with silence
The Google study that told us what we already suspected
When users see AI overviews, clicks fall in half. How does the web survive?