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• Casey Newton
Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them
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• Casey Newton
A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era'
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• Casey Newton
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
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• Casey Newton
Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about it
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• Casey Newton
Will significant changes to Facebook and Instagram be enough to beat back a global wave of bans?
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• Casey Newton
Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI
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• Casey Newton
And everything else I learned about productivity this year
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• Casey Newton
Jean-Denis Greze on AI assistants, building a better corporate workspace, and avoiding "egg on face"
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• Casey Newton
What Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands about powerful AI
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• Casey Newton
Amjad Masad on the "self-driving company," why a CEO is a glorified router, and what's left for humans when agents do the work
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• Ella Markianos
Six months after trying to automate myself, I gave Claude Fable 5 a bigger job: replacing Casey
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• Casey Newton
Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
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• Casey Newton
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on invisible AI bots, the coming fight over who sees your transcripts, and why he turns down the companies that ask for them
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• Casey Newton
In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications
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• Casey Newton
As more details emerge about OpenAI's cyberattack against Hugging Face, lawmakers are taking an interest. PLUS: Meta's cynical new ad + "pervert glasses" damage control
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• Casey Newton
Glaze's Thomas Paul Mann on disposable software, the SaaS apocalypse, and why half the software you use in a few years will be something you made. PLUS: OpenAI's rogue model, and the distillation debate
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• Casey Newton
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is very good — but the hype may be getting ahead of reality. (For now.)
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• Casey Newton
The Verge's David Pierce kicks off our new series on staying productive in the AI era — starting with why you should stop trying to stay ahead
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• Casey Newton
200 economists and AI leaders say something big is happening. What should we do about it? Plus: Apple sues OpenAI
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• Casey Newton
GPT-5.6 impresses the critics, but Fidji Simo's exit leaves OpenAI's focus — and its org chart — in flux. PLUS: Meta plays catch-up, and the "AI 2027" authors present "AI 2040."
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• Casey Newton
Adventures with Raycast’s new app-making app, Glaze
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How a recent talk by researcher Candice Odgers explains why ban critics are losing
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• Casey Newton
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
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• Casey Newton
Matt Garman argues that junior employees are as necessary as ever. But AWS now sells agents that can recruit, code, and process claims. Will the balance hold?
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• Casey Newton
And yes, AI is a factor. Replika and Wabi founder Eugenia Kuyda on how advances in coding changed her hiring calculus
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• Casey Newton
Highlights from Hard Fork Live, including Figma CEO Dylan Field on why design isn’t dead
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• Casey Newton
Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder on why she's leaving her job to create solution for AI's "messy middle." PLUS: Claude Fable arrives
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• Casey Newton
After hundreds of users submitted public comments, the board says it's clear the company has a problem
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Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards isn't worried AI will create a new class of permanently idle Americans — but argues it's still time for the government to fix the social safety net
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• Casey Newton
After months of uncertainty, the company's oversight body has a new lifeline
