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Independent reporting on AI, social platforms, and the people shaping technology.
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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
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• Casey Newton
An industry leader releases a powerful model that runs on a laptop. Should we worry?
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• Casey Newton
It’s almost certainly not enough — but it’s a start.
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• Casey Newton
The company has long wanted to be seen as neutral infrastructure — this week, we saw why that’s a fantasy
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• Casey Newton
The rocky rollout of age verification in the United Kingdom — and the privacy debacle at Tea — illustrate why a different approach is needed
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• Casey Newton
What readers say I got wrong in our last edition
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• Casey Newton
It’s under assault this year from users, politicians, and their own executives — but the industry has responded with silence
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• Casey Newton
When users see AI overviews, clicks fall in half. How does the web survive?
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• Casey Newton
The race to AGI is getting petty
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• Casey Newton
The company's new unicorn status has already led its founders to reverse their position on advertising. What other compromises are they prepared to make?
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• Casey Newton
AI companions are arriving faster than platforms can build guardrails around them. Parents need to pay attention
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• Casey Newton
The conservative pressure campaign against social networks was hugely successful — and now it's coming for AI
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• Casey Newton
And six other takeaways from Hard Fork Live
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• Casey Newton
The company clearly needs an infusion of fresh talent — but blank checks aren't going as far as they used to
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• Casey Newton
Decentralized media is off to an agonizingly slow start — but there are glimmers of progress
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• Casey Newton
The Trump Mobile T1 probably won't be a big hit. It's still dangerous
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• Casey Newton
In a new partnership with Mattel, the company hopes to reimagine play — but making internet-connected toys safe will be anything but child's play
