
The Oversight Board gives Meta a pass on anti-trans posts
The beleaguered body’s influence has been waning — and now its independence may be, too
The beleaguered body’s influence has been waning — and now its independence may be, too
Revelations that the company pursued pre-install deals for Gemini are giving the government fresh ammunition just as the trial heats up
After two blistering losses in court, a new era for the internet may be coming into view
And other revelations from day two of Meta's antitrust trial. PLUS: the OpenAI social network
More than four years after it was first filed, the government's case is only getting harder to prove
From Meta to Nvidia, tech CEOs are paying the president to get the outcomes they want — and it's working
"Llama con" just got a whole new meeting
Seemingly caught gaming a key benchmark, and defending allegations it taught to the test, Meta sees a rocky launch for its latest AI model
Trump is holding out ByteDance's app as a bargaining chip. Will China take the bait?
Scrapers caused the online encyclopedia's bandwidth to increase by 50 percent last year — and its plan to fight back may not be enough
A new book offers the most thorough explanation to date. Would it have mattered if we knew at the time?
Exclusive data from Anthropic about Claude usage finds that AI is both automating and augmenting human labor — and people are increasingly using it to educate themselves
A parable about responsibility in the AI age
New research from OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization. Will AI companies learn from social networks' mistakes?
Tech platforms got a rare opportunity to present President Trump with a wishlist — and they're using DeepSeek's success to push for controversial policies
New data from Adobe offers evidence for a big shift away from traditional search engines. Will the internet's vast public commons survive?
Meta
Crowdsourced moderation is better than nothing — but how much better remains an open question
TikTok
One has been banned by the federal government and awaits a forced sale. The other keeps shipping
AI
What the hype cycle around a new Chinese AI model tells us about the state of competition in agents
The next phase of AI's takeover of search offers plenty of links to the web — but will anyone click?
For companies that rely on Google, the company's collapse offers a warning
OpenAI
PLUS: What AI policy is for
Apple
In creating an age assurance API, the company raises hopes that platforms can keep kids safer without sacrificing everyone else's privacy
Child Safety
Making app stores verify kids' ages could save everyone a lot of grief — but some worry it will introduce new risks
The company once warned users when they might be seeing low-quality results — but weeks before the 2024 election, the feature was quietly turned off
Content Moderation
A new inquiry from the Federal Trade Commission suggests that apologizing for "censorship" may have only emboldened the company's conservative critics
AI
Everyone has a model. Almost no one has a business
OpenAI
As content moderation falls out of favor, OpenAI says it will loosen up
AI
At the Paris AI Action Summit, J.D. Vance delivers anything but
Content Moderation
How a new initiative from Google, OpenAI, Discord and others could transform trust and safety
A leaked AI mode for search gives publishers fresh reason for worry — and maybe reasons to strike a deal
The company’s promise to avoid building AI applications that cause harm has been deleted