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Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comebackEXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
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Another whistleblower comes for TwitterIs the real threat the company's "God Mode" — or its trust and safety team?
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A visit to TikTok's transparency centerFew companies have ever made their code so available for inspection. How much will it matter?
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Meta restores TrumpThree scenarios for what happens next
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Google's most serious antitrust challenge to dateThe US government is coming after the company's ad business — and it might win
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The consumer AI era has begunOpenAI beat Google to the market with its $42 monthly ChatGPT service. Can it handle the risks that come with it?
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The Supreme Court reckoning over content moderation is arrivingPlatforms might have a way around Texas's social media law — unless a separate case makes that illegal, too
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Extremely Hardcore: Our New York magazine cover storyTwitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive ranting billionaires — then one made himself the CEO
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Can 'radioactive data' save the internet from AI's influence?Artificial intelligence is about to create some serious propaganda problems, a new paper argues. One solution: to nuke the web
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Another Facebook content moderation company quits the businessAmid worker unrest and a lawsuit, Sama says it's done. Will others follow?
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How the Brazil riots change Facebook's Trump equationAfter a new string of riots against democracy, let's game out whether Meta should restore the former president's account
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Here come the ChatGPT bansBlocked in schools, forbidden at a machine learning conference. What should OpenAI do about it?
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