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• Casey Newton
Millions of people are sending messages to ChatGPT each week suggesting emotional dependence or plans for self-harm, the company says. Will an updated model protect them?
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• Casey Newton
Hitting close to Chrome
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• Casey Newton
Principle-based content moderation is out. Chaos is in. Welcome to tech policy in 2025
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• Casey Newton
AI-generated media is generating millions of views. But some companies are beginning to rein it in
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• Casey Newton
As safety concerns mount, one state becomes the first to implement guardrails. Will they be enough?
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• Ella Markianos
Meta-backed Scale has a new leaderboard to challenge the industry leader. But has the AI industry already moved on?
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• Casey Newton
The numbers are all mostly going up. The worries are, too
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• Casey Newton
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
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• Casey Newton
It's cool. It's scary. It's a hit
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• Casey Newton
Hands on with Sora 2
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• Casey Newton
Will the rest of the industry follow? PLUS: Claude Sonnet 4.5's software-on-demand dream, and your responses to my anniversary post
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• Casey Newton
OpenAI’s latest experiment marks the arrival of a more proactive AI — and a new feed to scroll. Sound familiar?
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• Casey Newton
And where we go from here
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• Casey Newton
PLUS: What LLMs say when they think no one’s looking, and Trump’s visa chaos
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• Casey Newton
The right-wing activist used platforms to whip up a fury online and off — and we're now trapped in his edgelord politics
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• Casey Newton
ChatGPT accounts will inform parents when their children express thoughts of self-harm. Will the move protect kids — or simply drive them elsewhere?
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• Casey Newton
After three extralegal extensions, Trump closes in on gifting ByteDance's jewel to his allies
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• Casey Newton
A new FTC inquiry into chatbots and children shows that some within the Trump Administration may be reconsidering their anti-regulation approach
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• Casey Newton
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?
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• Casey Newton
What the company's accidental legal filing and the Browser Company's acquisition tell us about the true future of the web
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• Casey Newton
One year out from Trump's threat to imprison him, Zuckerberg now has the administration fighting battles for him around the world
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• Casey Newton
The chatbot mental health crisis is here
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• Casey Newton
Stanford's Mark Lemley on xAI's whiny lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI
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• Casey Newton
What I gave up, what I kept, and what's new. PLUS: How I'm using AI
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• Casey Newton
What new surveys tell us about the messy state of AI diffusion
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• Casey Newton
It's clear that therapy chatbots can benefit people — but states may have good reason to intervene anyway
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• Casey Newton
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
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• Casey Newton
Trailing ChatGPT on the charts, and suspended by its own maker, Elon Musk asks: is this Apple's fault?
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• Casey Newton
In which an industry obsessed with benchmarks and evals finds that its products are being used by real people
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• Casey Newton
It's big news for free users of ChatGPT, but AGI remains elusive. PLUS: one AI safety idea other labs should borrow
