TikTok and the Romanian candidate
An election interference case in Europe sounds oddly familiar to America's story in 2016. How seriously should we take it?
An election interference case in Europe sounds oddly familiar to America's story in 2016. How seriously should we take it?
It's a blow for free expression — and an enormous gift to YouTube
With antitrust prosecutions in full swing, the company keeps giving regulators fresh reasons for concern
After adding millions of new users in weeks, the company tells Platformer that it will quadruple the size of its moderation team
The search giant is pushing back on the government’s plan to break it up — but competition is coming anyway
Chrome away from home
(*For now)
OpenAI, Google and others are seeing diminishing returns to building ever-bigger models — but that may not matter as much as you would guess
Trump has vowed to make good on his promise to save the app. What will it cost the company?
Bluesky and Threads are on the rise. Can it last?
Platforms and venture capitalists have a long wishlist for the president-elect — but can they survive the chaos of Trump 2.0?
The polls are closing — and the fight over the election could just be beginning
Elon Musk’s effort to deny Kamala Harris an election victory is already underway. Can it work?
It leapfrogged Google at launch. Now ChatGPT is reaching to the past to build its future
The Washington Post owner says the media must stay neutral to maintain its credibility — but misunderstands how trust is built today
The owners and CEOs of America’s biggest platforms are playing nice with Trump. And it could come back to haunt them
AI
Is artificial intelligence the solution to inbox overload?
AI
Artificial intelligence can now compute for you on your behalf — and the web is never going to be the same
With a new Knowledge and Information chief and a new home for Gemini, can the company hit the reset button?
AI
Can responsible scaling policies bring the future into alignment?
AI
What happens when the safety-first AI company decides it needs to go faster?
Breaking up is very hard to do. So what else is on the table?
Oversight Board
A new initiative will handle user appeals in Europe — but it can be more effective for them than it has been for Meta?
A redesign hopes to capture some of the app’s once-youthful energy — but its older users remain a problem in more ways than one
AI
California’s first effort to regulate AI slop hit a wall. What now?
snap
A newly unredacted lawsuit reveals that the company failed to act on 90 percent of user reports
Meta
The future of computing is starting to come into focus
OpenAI
What is going on over there? PLUS: X's hack-and-leak moment arrives, via Substack
Meta
The company has an expansive vision for the future — and until then, some incremental updates
Journalism
Everything that happened after we left Substack
X
Was it really a mistake — or a gesture of defiance? PLUS: What's Google hiding?
Snapchat
The company’s augmented reality glasses nudge the state of the art forward — but remain frustratingly limited