Substack's failed fundraise - by Casey Newton - Platformer
How an aborted Series C could make the company stronger| Platformer
How an aborted Series C could make the company stronger| Platformer
News at the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 5PM Pacific.| 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
Trailing ChatGPT on the charts, and suspended by its own maker, Elon Musk asks: is this Apple's fault?| Platformer
In which an industry obsessed with benchmarks and evals finds that its products are being used by real people| Platformer
It's big news for free users of ChatGPT, but AGI remains elusive. PLUS: one AI safety idea other labs should borrow| Platformer
An industry leader releases a powerful model that runs on a laptop. Should we worry?| Platformer
It’s almost certainly not enough — but it’s a start.| Platformer
The company has long wanted to be seen as neutral infrastructure — this week, we saw why that’s a fantasy| Platformer
The rocky rollout of age verification in the United Kingdom — and the privacy debacle at Tea — illustrate why a different approach is needed| Platformer
What readers say I got wrong in our last edition| Platformer
When users see AI overviews, clicks fall in half. How does the web survive?| Platformer
The race to AGI is getting petty| 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
