News at the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 5PM Pacific.| 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
ChatGPT accounts will inform parents when their children express thoughts of self-harm. Will the move protect kids — or simply drive them elsewhere?| Platformer
After three extralegal extensions, Trump closes in on gifting ByteDance's jewel to his allies| Platformer
A new FTC inquiry into chatbots and children shows that some within the Trump Administration may be reconsidering their anti-regulation approach| Platformer
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?| Platformer
What the company's accidental legal filing and the Browser Company's acquisition tell us about the true future of the web| Platformer
After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm| Platformer
One year out from Trump's threat to imprison him, Zuckerberg now has the administration fighting battles for him around the world| Platformer
The chatbot mental health crisis is here| Platformer
Stanford's Mark Lemley on xAI's whiny lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI| Platformer
What I gave up, what I kept, and what's new. PLUS: How I'm using AI| Platformer
What new surveys tell us about the messy state of AI diffusion| Platformer
It's clear that therapy chatbots can benefit people — but states may have good reason to intervene anyway| Platformer
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| 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 next phase of AI's takeover of search offers plenty of links to the web — but will anyone click?| 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
The conservative pressure campaign against social networks was hugely successful — and now it's coming for AI| 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
