AI
This founder isn’t hiring junior engineers anymore
And yes, AI is a factor. Replika and Wabi founder Eugenia Kuyda on how advances in coding changed her hiring calculus
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.
Five things I learned from a conversation with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
Highlights from Hard Fork Live, including Figma CEO Dylan Field on why design isn’t dead
AI
How to help knowledge workers who lose their jobs to AI
Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder on why she's leaving her job to create solution for AI's "messy middle." PLUS: Claude Fable arrives
Meta
The Oversight Board knocks Meta over unwarranted account bans
After hundreds of users submitted public comments, the board says it's clear the company has a problem
AI
An economist's case against the AI jobs-pocalypse
Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards isn't worried AI will create a new class of permanently idle Americans — but argues it's still time for the government to fix the social safety net
Meta
In a surprise, Meta increases funding to the Oversight Board
After months of uncertainty, the company's oversight body has a new lifeline
Anthropic
Claude Code's creator on the end of the software engineer
Anthropic's Boris Cherny tells me major job loss due to automation really is coming — but job creation is, too. PLUS: the Pope's AI encyclical, and Trump abandons an AI executive order
Is the web being summarized to death?
At Google I/O, new features bring AI agents into the inbox and YouTube in ways that further strain the relationship between publishers and platforms
AI
Google's James Manyika is betting that doomers are wrong about AI and jobs
Tasks are getting easier to automate — jobs aren't. What now?
Threads
Are the Twitter clones in trouble?
A new report says X is resurgent — but it may be missing the bigger picture
AI
The best argument I’ve heard for why AI won't take your job
In the first episode of the Platformer podcast, Box CEO Aaron Levie makes the case that you'll keep your job — but soon, you might not recognize it
AI
Did xAI just concede the AI race?
Elon Musk had lots of reasons to make a deal with Anthropic — but he wouldn’t have done it if he were ahead. PLUS: The incredible testimony of Shivon Zilis, and a big new study on school phone bans
AI Safety
The Trump administration's AI doomer moment
A year ago, officials all but sneered at the idea of AI safety. A new frontier model has them reconsidering
AI
We may now know what kind of AI bubble this is
Think railroads, not crypto. PLUS: The government can't decide what to do about Mythos, and week one of the OpenAI-Elon Musk trial
AI
How we're shaking up Platformer for the AI era
On newsletters in the age of AI automation. PLUS: Musk and OpenAI in court, and China blocks Meta's Manus acquisition
Meta
The week that Meta employees became training data
Invasive monitoring and a fresh round of layoffs have workers I spoke to on edge. Is this the future of knowledge work?