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What Bluesky has over Threads*
(*For now)
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AI companies hit a scaling wall
OpenAI, Google and others are seeing diminishing returns to building ever-bigger models — but that may not matter as much as you would guess
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So much for that TikTok ban
Trump has vowed to make good on his promise to save the app. What will it cost the company?
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The post-election social network realignment
Bluesky and Threads are on the rise. Can it last?
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What tech wants from Trump
Platforms and venture capitalists have a long wishlist for the president-elect — but can they survive the chaos of Trump 2.0?
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America holds its breath
The polls are closing — and the fight over the election could just be beginning
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X’s plan to interfere with the election
Elon Musk’s effort to deny Kamala Harris an election victory is already underway. Can it work?
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OpenAI adds search
It leapfrogged Google at launch. Now ChatGPT is reaching to the past to build its future
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Jeff Bezos’ view from nowhere
The Washington Post owner says the media must stay neutral to maintain its credibility — but misunderstands how trust is built today
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The billionaires hedge their bets
The owners and CEOs of America’s biggest platforms are playing nice with Trump. And it could come back to haunt them
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Notion brings AI to email
Is artificial intelligence the solution to inbox overload?
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The AI agents have arrived
Artificial intelligence can now compute for you on your behalf — and the web is never going to be the same
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Google shuffles the search deck
With a new Knowledge and Information chief and a new home for Gemini, can the company hit the reset button?
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Anthropic makes an AI safety plan
Can responsible scaling policies bring the future into alignment?
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Anthropic is done with AI doomerism
What happens when the safety-first AI company decides it needs to go faster?
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The likeliest outcomes from the Google antitrust trial
Breaking up is very hard to do. So what else is on the table?
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The Oversight Board gets a lifeline
A new initiative will handle user appeals in Europe — but it can be more effective for them than it has been for Meta?
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Facebook wants to get younger
A redesign hopes to capture some of the app’s once-youthful energy — but its older users remain a problem in more ways than one
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Can AI regulation survive the First Amendment?
California’s first effort to regulate AI slop hit a wall. What now?
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How Snap ignored its sextortion problem
A newly unredacted lawsuit reveals that the company failed to act on 90 percent of user reports
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Meta’s Orion glasses made me want to throw away VR headsets forever
The future of computing is starting to come into focus
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OpenAI is a weird company
What is going on over there? PLUS: X's hack-and-leak moment arrives, via Substack
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At Meta Connect, it’s Zuck or nothing
The company has an expansive vision for the future — and until then, some incremental updates
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What I learned in year four of Platformer
Everything that happened after we left Substack
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X sneaks back into Brazil
Was it really a mistake — or a gesture of defiance? PLUS: What's Google hiding?
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Snap’s latest spectacle
The company’s augmented reality glasses nudge the state of the art forward — but remain frustratingly limited
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Instagram makes teen accounts private by default
Under siege by state lawmakers, Meta makes its biggest move yet to address harms to minors. Will it be enough?
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Mark Zuckerberg’s 20-year mistake
Meta’s CEO says he’s done apologizing. Should we worry?
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Trump’s dead cat bounce
What the latest lie to go mainstream on X tells us about what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn't