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• Casey Newton
Five years after the Oversight Board's creation, few are satisfied with the result. Can it be saved?
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• Casey Newton
A new study offers evidence for what we’ve long suspected: rage bait is distorting our politics. PLUS: The David Sacks discourse, and Claude Opus 4.5 debuts
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• Casey Newton
Why music labels are folding in their cases against AI startups
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• Casey Newton
What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?
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• Casey Newton
His new push for a state moratorium on AI regulation has the right talking like effective altruists. PLUS: the EU backtracks on AI and privacy, and Grok loves Elon
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• Casey Newton
How one experiment defined the social networking market better than the government did. PLUS: Gemini 3 arrives
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• Casey Newton
The state says ranking algorithms aren't protected by the First Amendment — and judges are starting to agree. PLUS: An OpenAI-powered toy breaks bad, and Jeff Bezos has a new AI company
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• Casey Newton
After King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard left Spotify in protest earlier this year, something strange took their place
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• Casey Newton
The bloc's leaders seem increasingly convinced AI regulations are harming its competitiveness. Are they right? PLUS: Another wave of ChatGPT lawsuits
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• Casey Newton
The company's own projections showed up to 10 percent of its revenue could come from scams, according to a new leak. PLUS: OpenAI's "backstop" controversy
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• Casey Newton
How Perplexity's smash-and-grab tactics are clouding the future of AI agents
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• Casey Newton
The company has 40 million users and big plans for the future. So why don't its users seem happy? PLUS: The NEO Home Robot goes viral + Ilya Sutskever's surprising deposition
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• Casey Newton
It's the first big developer to say AI companions aren't safe for under-18s. Will others follow?
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• Casey Newton
PLUS: ChatGPT users’ surprising questions for Sam Altman + Grokipedia launches
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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
Platformer
• Casey Newton
As safety concerns mount, one state becomes the first to implement guardrails. Will they be enough?
Platformer
• 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
Platformer
• 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?
