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Why Platformer is leaving Substack
We’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it play out
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Meta seeks to hide harms from teens
But to change the conversation, the company will have to do more than tweak its settings
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Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform
Nazi content violates rules against incitement to violence, the company says
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Why Substack is at a crossroads
Some thoughts on platforms and Nazis
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OpenAI’s news blues
A New York Times lawsuit won’t be the last challenge to LLMs’ free-riding. PLUS: A note on Substack and Nazis
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14 predictions about 2024
AI! Elections! Threads! Media! And more
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An Epic win jolts Google
The company's app store monopoly has been ruled illegal, and the ramifications will extend well beyond Fortnite
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X restores Alex Jones
Five years after Big Tech deplatformed him, Jones is back — but X ain’t what it used to be
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Meta’s Oversight Board takes on the Israel-Hamas War
The board promises to move quickly for a change — but is it focused on the right problem?
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Google unveils Gemini
CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product roadmap — of their answer to GPT-4
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How Facebook helps predators find each other
A new report on CSAM shows how platform dynamics are bringing bad actors together, years after a similar scandal unfolded at YouTube
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Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn
Some hallucinations could ‘potentially induce cardiac incidents in Legal,’ according to internal documents
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Ten strategies for replacing Twitter from people who used to work there
Announcing 'Extremely Hardcore,' Zoë Schiffer’s book on Musk’s Twitter takeover
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The AGs reveal their hand against Meta
A newly unredacted lawsuit suggests the company has a bruising battle ahead of it
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The OpenAI saga isn’t over just yet
A new board and a promised investigation could threaten Altman’s happy ending
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Why one AI executive quit his job to protest creators' rights
Q&A with Stability AI's just-departed vice presidenct of audio, Ed Rex-Newton