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Meta’s Oversight Board takes on the Israel-Hamas War
The board promises to move quickly for a change — but is it focused on the right problem?
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.
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Google unveils Gemini
CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product roadmap — of their answer to GPT-4
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How Facebook helps predators find each other
A new report on CSAM shows how platform dynamics are bringing bad actors together, years after a similar scandal unfolded at YouTube
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Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn
Some hallucinations could ‘potentially induce cardiac incidents in Legal,’ according to internal documents
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The AGs reveal their hand against Meta
A newly unredacted lawsuit suggests the company has a bruising battle ahead of it
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The OpenAI saga isn’t over just yet
A new board and a promised investigation could threaten Altman’s happy ending
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OpenAI's alignment problem
The company's board failed the institution. But did it have a point?
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Notion gets thrown for a Loop
Years after Teams crushed Slack, Microsoft clones another popular productivity app. Should regulators intervene?
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YouTube opens its doors to deepfakes
Newer AI companies are heavily restricting the use of their tools. Social networks are taking a different approach
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How banning one Palestinian slogan roiled Etsy
The company secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers’ wares. Some employees aren’t happy
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Humane pins its hopes on AI
What do we want from next-generation hardware?
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How Musk is borrowing from X to build Grok
From servers to people, Musk is looking across his empire to catch up in AI
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How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents
Building a GPT-based copy editor showcases their promise — but the risks ahead are real
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The case for a little AI regulation
Not every safety rule represents "regulatory capture" — and even challengers are asking the government to intervene
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Biden seeks to rein in AI
An executive order gives AI companies the guardrails they asked for. Will the US go further?
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Twitter is dead and Threads is thriving
One year after Elon Musk let that sink in, an elegy for the platform that was — and some notes on the one that is poised to succeed it