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Joel Kaplan leaves Meta
Long a voice for Republicans inside the company, he played a leading role in pushing Meta to the right
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The states come for OpenAI
Will the approach that beat Meta in New Mexico work against ChatGPT?
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X’s reverse eternal September
Why the onetime global town square now feels more like a clubhouse
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• Ella Markianos
AI is solving math problems faster than humans can understand the solutions
OpenAI’s math breakthroughs may trigger an identity crisis for mathematicians. Who’s next?
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Does intelligence need a hard cap?
Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X
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OpenAI connects the Dots
With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents
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• Ella Markianos
Following: OpenAI taps the brakes
On the eve of the company's developer conference, it cancels a new model over safety fears
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Can Muse make us forget the metaverse?
Meta has a new vision to sell, but it may be getting ahead of itself. (The VR Glasses are amazing, though)
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Muse is having a moment
Are consumer agents the future — or a mirage?
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What was Hard Fork?
Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods
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• Ella Markianos
Following: The government doesn't want to regulate AI
The leaders of AI labs agree that the United States to act, and soon. But the president and the speaker of the House aren't interested
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The AI safety vibe shift
Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about
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The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab
Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them
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Google gets away with it
A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era'
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The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
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How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job
Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about it
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Meta settles with the states over child safety failures
Will significant changes to Facebook and Instagram be enough to beat back a global wave of bans?
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The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI
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An LLM wiki changed how I work
And everything else I learned about productivity this year
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Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
Jean-Denis Greze on AI assistants, building a better corporate workspace, and avoiding "egg on face"
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• Casey Newton
Superintelligence is a dragon
What Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands about powerful AI
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Replit’s CEO on building a company that can run itself
Amjad Masad on the "self-driving company," why a CEO is a glorified router, and what's left for humans when agents do the work
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• Ella Markianos
How much of my boss's job can AI do?
Six months after trying to automate myself, I gave Claude Fable 5 a bigger job: replacing Casey
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Notes on the third era of slop
Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
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• Casey Newton
This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on invisible AI bots, the coming fight over who sees your transcripts, and why he turns down the companies that ask for them
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• Casey Newton
A big week for AI denialism
In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications
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Congress proposes an AI kill switch
As more details emerge about OpenAI's cyberattack against Hugging Face, lawmakers are taking an interest. PLUS: Meta's cynical new ad + "pervert glasses" damage control
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The case for making your own apps
Glaze's Thomas Paul Mann on disposable software, the SaaS apocalypse, and why half the software you use in a few years will be something you made. PLUS: OpenAI's rogue model, and the distillation debate
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China has a new top model
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is very good — but the hype may be getting ahead of reality. (For now.)