California regulates AI companions
As safety concerns mount, one state becomes the first to implement guardrails. Will they be enough?| Platformer
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?| Platformer
Hitting close to Chrome| Platformer
Principle-based content moderation is out. Chaos is in. Welcome to tech policy in 2025| Platformer
AI-generated media is generating millions of views. But some companies are beginning to rein it in| Platformer
As safety concerns mount, one state becomes the first to implement guardrails. Will they be enough?| Platformer
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Meta-backed Scale has a new leaderboard to challenge the industry leader. But has the AI industry already moved on?| Platformer
The numbers are all mostly going up. The worries are, too| Platformer
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| Platformer
It's cool. It's scary. It's a hit| Platformer
Hands on with Sora 2| Platformer
Will the rest of the industry follow? PLUS: Claude Sonnet 4.5's software-on-demand dream, and your responses to my anniversary post| Platformer
OpenAI’s latest experiment marks the arrival of a more proactive AI — and a new feed to scroll. Sound familiar?| Platformer
And where we go from here| Platformer
PLUS: What LLMs say when they think no one’s looking, and Trump’s visa chaos| Platformer
The right-wing activist used platforms to whip up a fury online and off — and we're now trapped in his edgelord politics| Platformer
After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm| Platformer
In which an industry obsessed with benchmarks and evals finds that its products are being used by real people| Platformer
It’s under assault this year from users, politicians, and their own executives — but the industry has responded with silence| Platformer
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?| Platformer
After adding millions of new users in weeks, the company tells Platformer that it will quadruple the size of its moderation team| Platformer
A startling statistic from Google’s antitrust trial raises fears that a long-predicted decline has now begun| Platformer
Hands on with Operator — a promising but frustrating new frontier for artificial intelligence| Platformer
“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer| Platformer
It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous| Platformer
With more than 175 million monthly users, Meta has its sights set on overtaking Twitter| Platformer
House Republicans attacked the lab’s reports on misinformation and election integrity — and now Stanford is pulling the plug| Platformer
With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background| Platformer
We’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it play out| Platformer
