Productivity
What Google and Reddit's bad days have in common
AI search is underperforming for Google, and it's killing Reddit's traffic. What now?
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.
Elections
The AI election that wasn't
Voters have other things on their minds — for now. PLUS: OpenAI’s clever policy to fight deepfakes, and the Anthropic S-1
AI
Introducing Machine Gods
Why we're betting on AI realism. PLUS: The hell of PHP2Shell
Meta
Joel Kaplan leaves Meta
Long a voice for Republicans inside the company, he played a leading role in pushing Meta to the right
OpenAI
The states come for OpenAI
Will the approach that beat Meta in New Mexico work against ChatGPT?
X
X’s reverse eternal September
Why the onetime global town square now feels more like a clubhouse
AI
Does intelligence need a hard cap?
Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X
OpenAI
OpenAI connects the Dots
With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents
Meta
Can Muse make us forget the metaverse?
Meta has a new vision to sell, but it may be getting ahead of itself. (The VR Glasses are amazing, though)
Meta
Muse is having a moment
Are consumer agents the future — or a mirage?
Podcasts
What was Hard Fork?
Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods
AI Safety
The AI safety vibe shift
Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about