
Mark Zuckerberg
Everything Mark Zuckerberg has gotten from Donald Trump so far
One year out from Trump's threat to imprison him, Zuckerberg now has the administration fighting battles for him around the world
Founder and editor of Platformer, a publication about the intersection of tech and democracy. Prior to founding Platformer in October 2020, Newton was the longtime Silicon Valley editor of The Verge.
Mark Zuckerberg
One year out from Trump's threat to imprison him, Zuckerberg now has the administration fighting battles for him around the world
OpenAI
The chatbot mental health crisis is here
xAI
Stanford's Mark Lemley on xAI's whiny lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI
Productivity
What I gave up, what I kept, and what's new. PLUS: How I'm using AI
Labor
What new surveys tell us about the messy state of AI diffusion
AI
It's clear that therapy chatbots can benefit people — but states may have good reason to intervene anyway
OpenAI
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
xAI
Trailing ChatGPT on the charts, and suspended by its own maker, Elon Musk asks: is this Apple's fault?
OpenAI
In which an industry obsessed with benchmarks and evals finds that its products are being used by real people
OpenAI
It's big news for free users of ChatGPT, but AGI remains elusive. PLUS: one AI safety idea other labs should borrow
OpenAI
An industry leader releases a powerful model that runs on a laptop. Should we worry?
OpenAI
It’s almost certainly not enough — but it’s a start.
The company has long wanted to be seen as neutral infrastructure — this week, we saw why that’s a fantasy
Child Safety
The rocky rollout of age verification in the United Kingdom — and the privacy debacle at Tea — illustrate why a different approach is needed
Content Moderation
What readers say I got wrong in our last edition
Content Moderation
It’s under assault this year from users, politicians, and their own executives — but the industry has responded with silence