14 questions and answers about the TikTok ban
How it happened, ByteDance’s response, and what happens next
How it happened, ByteDance’s response, and what happens next
The First Amendment is a major obstacle, scholars say — but it isn’t insurmountable
With the Senate counting down to a critical vote on the platform’s future, its problems are multiplying
Five ways of thinking about Llama 3, its latest large language model
Plus: Musk backs down in Brazil
The tech industry's overpromising about generative AI is starting to catch up with it
Jonathan Haidt wrote a best-selling book about teens and social media. Not everyone buys its thesis
A month after the House moved to force a sale, it’s crickets in the Senate
Elon Musk defies a court order to restore user accounts — but there’s more to the story than free speech
Behind the rocky launch of a photo-sharing app was a co-founder about to quit and months of employee warnings that its new project wasn’t ready
Nine months in, what is Meta's text-based social network for? Recent feature additions offer some clues
Perplexity’s plan to add sponsored questions could be the future of chatbots — if it doesn’t destroy users’ trust
The company’s bet on AI boyfriends and other paywalled features is making some employees nervous
From Stability to Inflection, would-be challengers to the giants are failing to execute
States want platforms and websites to verify users' ages — but there's a better solution available
One way or another, real competition may be coming to the iPhone
It’s a pillar of the social web — but will it make a good investment?
Supreme Court
Plus: the TikTok ban slows down
Meta
Meta is killing off a pioneering tool for platform transparency — but the movement it kickstarted is just beginning
AI
It only kind of works. It’s everywhere anyway
OpenAI
He has his board seat back, and a new vote of confidence. Will he keep it?
TikTok
After a year of laying low, ByteDance’s crown jewel faces a serious new threat
From developer fees to chatbot criticisms, the Modi government is ratcheting up the pressure on platforms
Apple
The company accuses Spotify of being greedy — but fails to acknowledge how its own greed got us here
Meta
The board needs data to determine whether Meta is listening to its recommendations. It isn't always forthcoming
The company says it wants to free up journalists to do better work — but it might be automating more jobs away
Content Moderation
Justices seem skeptical that the Florida and Texas laws are constitutional
After a diversity initiative proved disastrous, it’s time to loosen chatbot guardrails
AI
Nearly half of people found influence campaigns written by GPT-3 effective, a new study finds
X
Was it Jack Dorsey or Elon Musk? Kurt Wagner and Zoë Schiffer, authors of two new books on the subject, interview each other about what they learned
Meta
The company won't show you political content on its apps unless you're looking for it. Should it?
Mastodon
Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol