Can AI regulation survive the First Amendment?
California’s first effort to regulate AI slop hit a wall. What now?
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How Snap ignored its sextortion problem
A newly unredacted lawsuit reveals that the company failed to act on 90 percent of user reports
Meta’s Orion glasses made me want to throw away VR headsets forever
The future of computing is starting to come into focus
OpenAI is a weird company
What is going on over there? PLUS: X's hack-and-leak moment arrives, via Substack
At Meta Connect, it’s Zuck or nothing
The company has an expansive vision for the future — and until then, some incremental updates
What I learned in year four of Platformer
Everything that happened after we left Substack
X sneaks back into Brazil
Was it really a mistake — or a gesture of defiance? PLUS: What's Google hiding?
Snap’s latest spectacle
The company’s augmented reality glasses nudge the state of the art forward — but remain frustratingly limited
Instagram makes teen accounts private by default
Under siege by state lawmakers, Meta makes its biggest move yet to address harms to minors. Will it be enough?
Mark Zuckerberg’s 20-year mistake
Meta’s CEO says he’s done apologizing. Should we worry?
Trump’s dead cat bounce
What the latest lie to go mainstream on X tells us about what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn't
Telegram changes its tune
But a new terrorism indictment shows the reckoning is only just beginning
How Russians are changing up their election interference
A wave of new indictments tells us what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn’t
X gets banned in Brazil
For once, Elon Musk has a case worth fighting — but he has to do it in the courts
The three cases against Telegram
Pavel Durov has a lot to answer for — but how he is prosecuted could reshape the internet
Zuckerberg draws a new line on government pressure
PLUS: Telegram's French press
Telegram
How Telegram played itself
Pavel Durov’s arrest over the weekend was shocking. It was also inevitable
Elections
How influence campaigns stopped working
It turns out that social networks are less susceptible to 2016-style attacks — and no one likes AI slop
Productivity
Three apps that made me more productive this year
Lessons on taking smarter notes, reducing context switching, and building a better personal archive
Deepfakes
Trump deepfakes a Swift endorsement
The Shitpost Election continues
AI
California's controversial AI bill is on the verge of becoming law
California’s SB-1047 is on a path to the governor’s desk. Will it kill the AI boom?
Deepfakes
Trump’s fakes a deepfake claim
PLUS: Trump goes to Spaces
X
X is just a political project now
As Trump returns to posting, and Musk leans even further into right-wing conspiracy theories, X has reached its final form. PLUS: On Susan Wojcicki
AI
Three reasons we’re in an AI bubble (and four reasons we’re not)
AI critics are right about the industry’s challenges — but they risk missing the larger story
X
X sues the advertising industry
The case is part of a larger conservative project to weaponize the courts against content moderation — and it appears to be gaining momentum
Google has a search monopoly, judge rules
Europe never found a remedy that increased search competition. Will the United States fare any better?
AI
The AI companies are trying to go legit
The era of scraping and praying is coming to an end. But will the web be any better off when it does?
Child Safety
KOSA and COPPA 2.0 pass the Senate
But passing the House might be another story
Deepfakes
Welcome to the shitpost election
Forget what’s true and false. Did you hear about J.D. Vance and the couch?
AI
Sam Altman calls for an AI coalition
AI leaders are promoting the idea of an arms race — but the hype is getting ahead of the technology. PLUS: KOSA makes a comeback
AI
Meta unleashes its Llama
The company's open-source AI is now roughly on par with rivals from OpenAI and Google. Should we worry?
Kamala Harris
How Kamala Harris sees the tech industry
Plus: Zuckerberg and Trump, is X "back," and other questions about the brand-new 2024 presidential campaign