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Independent reporting on AI, social platforms, and the people shaping technology.
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• Casey Newton
Exclusive data from Anthropic about Claude usage finds that AI is both automating and augmenting human labor — and people are increasingly using it to educate themselves
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• Casey Newton
A parable about responsibility in the AI age
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• Casey Newton
New research from OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization. Will AI companies learn from social networks' mistakes?
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• Casey Newton
Tech platforms got a rare opportunity to present President Trump with a wishlist — and they're using DeepSeek's success to push for controversial policies
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• Casey Newton
New data from Adobe offers evidence for a big shift away from traditional search engines. Will the internet's vast public commons survive?
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• Casey Newton
Crowdsourced moderation is better than nothing — but how much better remains an open question
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• Casey Newton
One has been banned by the federal government and awaits a forced sale. The other keeps shipping
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• Casey Newton
What the hype cycle around a new Chinese AI model tells us about the state of competition in agents
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• Casey Newton
The next phase of AI's takeover of search offers plenty of links to the web — but will anyone click?
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• Casey Newton
For companies that rely on Google, the company's collapse offers a warning
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• Casey Newton
PLUS: What AI policy is for
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• Casey Newton
In creating an age assurance API, the company raises hopes that platforms can keep kids safer without sacrificing everyone else's privacy
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• Casey Newton
Making app stores verify kids' ages could save everyone a lot of grief — but some worry it will introduce new risks
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• Casey Newton
The company once warned users when they might be seeing low-quality results — but weeks before the 2024 election, the feature was quietly turned off
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• Casey Newton
A new inquiry from the Federal Trade Commission suggests that apologizing for "censorship" may have only emboldened the company's conservative critics
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• Casey Newton
Everyone has a model. Almost no one has a business
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• Casey Newton
As content moderation falls out of favor, OpenAI says it will loosen up
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• Casey Newton
At the Paris AI Action Summit, J.D. Vance delivers anything but
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• Casey Newton
How a new initiative from Google, OpenAI, Discord and others could transform trust and safety
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• Casey Newton
A leaked AI mode for search gives publishers fresh reason for worry — and maybe reasons to strike a deal
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• Casey Newton
The company’s promise to avoid building AI applications that cause harm has been deleted
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• Casey Newton
OpenAI's new research tool still makes mistakes — but in its speed and average quality of analysis, it represents a remarkable step forward
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• Casey Newton
The company’s decision to expose chain of thought is a surprise hit — and a reminder of how far AI product teams have left to go
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• Casey Newton
The Chinese AI upstart has rattled Silicon Valley — but how much the game has changed remains to be seen
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• Casey Newton
Hands on with Operator — a promising but frustrating new frontier for artificial intelligence
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• Casey Newton
PLUS: What we actually learned about Mark Zuckerberg last week
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• Casey Newton
PLUS: What executives are telling employees about Meta's move to the right
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• Casey Newton
The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news. Last week, it shut them down
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• Casey Newton
Scenes from a Trump transition
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• Casey Newton
What employees are saying about the company's embrace of MAGA ideology —and what Meta is telling them not to say
