AI Safety
The AI safety vibe shift
Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about
Casey Newton
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.
OpenAI
The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab
Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them
Google gets away with it
A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era'
AI
The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
Platformer Pod
How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job
Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about it
Meta
Meta settles with the states over child safety failures
Will significant changes to Facebook and Instagram be enough to beat back a global wave of bans?
Productivity
The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI
Productivity
An LLM wiki changed how I work
And everything else I learned about productivity this year
Productivity
Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
Jean-Denis Greze on AI assistants, building a better corporate workspace, and avoiding "egg on face"
Meta
Superintelligence is a dragon
What Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands about powerful AI
Platformer Pod
Replit’s CEO on building a company that can run itself
Amjad Masad on the "self-driving company," why a CEO is a glorified router, and what's left for humans when agents do the work
AI
Notes on the third era of slop
Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?