Child Safety
Why social media bans are gaining steam
How a recent talk by researcher Candice Odgers explains why ban critics are losing
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.
AI
Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
AI
The CEO of AWS on why Amazon is hiring 11,000 interns and junior employees
Matt Garman argues that junior employees are as necessary as ever. But AWS now sells agents that can recruit, code, and process claims. Will the balance hold?
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
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?