Child Safety
The surgeon general wants a warning for social media
A year after issuing an advisory, Vivek Murthy sharpens his rhetoric
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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?
How one change to Google search blew up one independent publisher
Until last year, Retro Dodo had a growing business and a team of six. Now it’s fighting for its life
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
Labor
How the tech industry soured on employee activism
When social justice protests swept the country in 2020, tech companies mostly welcomed employee activism. The Gaza demonstrations are getting a much different reception
Google’s broken link to the web
With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background
OpenAI
ChatGPT gets an emotional upgrade
OpenAI’s forthcoming voice assistant laughs, flirts, helps — and draws a sharp distinction with Google
AI
How AI changed the bargain between platforms and users
As Stack Overflow, Reddit, and others license their users’ posts to train AI, the internet’s extraction phase is accelerating