My dinner with Altman
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
Grok is on the rocks
Trailing ChatGPT on the charts, and suspended by its own maker, Elon Musk asks: is this Apple's fault?
Three big lessons from the GPT-5 backlash
In which an industry obsessed with benchmarks and evals finds that its products are being used by real people
GPT-5 is alive
It's big news for free users of ChatGPT, but AGI remains elusive. PLUS: one AI safety idea other labs should borrow
OpenAI returns to open weights
An industry leader releases a powerful model that runs on a laptop. Should we worry?
ChatGPT adds a warning
It’s almost certainly not enough — but it’s a start.
Substack promotes a Nazi
The company has long wanted to be seen as neutral infrastructure — this week, we saw why that’s a fantasy
The UK's age gates are coming to America
The rocky rollout of age verification in the United Kingdom — and the privacy debacle at Tea — illustrate why a different approach is needed
Trust and safety workers on why they're not speaking out
What readers say I got wrong in our last edition
Is anyone left to defend trust and safety?
It’s under assault this year from users, politicians, and their own executives — but the industry has responded with silence
The Google study that told us what we already suspected
When users see AI overviews, clicks fall in half. How does the web survive?
Google and OpenAI fight over a high-school math competition
The race to AGI is getting petty