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?
Latest
Australia bans young teens from social media
It's a blow for free expression — and an enormous gift to YouTube
Google keeps meddling with the web
With antitrust prosecutions in full swing, the company keeps giving regulators fresh reasons for concern
Inside Bluesky’s big growth surge
After adding millions of new users in weeks, the company tells Platformer that it will quadruple the size of its moderation team
Google wants to keep Chrome
The search giant is pushing back on the government’s plan to break it up — but competition is coming anyway
The government has a breakup plan for Google
Chrome away from home
What Bluesky has over Threads*
(*For now)
AI companies hit a scaling wall
OpenAI, Google and others are seeing diminishing returns to building ever-bigger models — but that may not matter as much as you would guess
So much for that TikTok ban
Trump has vowed to make good on his promise to save the app. What will it cost the company?
The post-election social network realignment
Bluesky and Threads are on the rise. Can it last?
What tech wants from Trump
Platforms and venture capitalists have a long wishlist for the president-elect — but can they survive the chaos of Trump 2.0?
America holds its breath
The polls are closing — and the fight over the election could just be beginning
X’s plan to interfere with the election
Elon Musk’s effort to deny Kamala Harris an election victory is already underway. Can it work?
OpenAI adds search
It leapfrogged Google at launch. Now ChatGPT is reaching to the past to build its future
Jeff Bezos’ view from nowhere
The Washington Post owner says the media must stay neutral to maintain its credibility — but misunderstands how trust is built today
The billionaires hedge their bets
The owners and CEOs of America’s biggest platforms are playing nice with Trump. And it could come back to haunt them
AI
Notion brings AI to email
Is artificial intelligence the solution to inbox overload?
AI
The AI agents have arrived
Artificial intelligence can now compute for you on your behalf — and the web is never going to be the same
Google shuffles the search deck
With a new Knowledge and Information chief and a new home for Gemini, can the company hit the reset button?
AI
Anthropic makes an AI safety plan
Can responsible scaling policies bring the future into alignment?
AI
Anthropic is done with AI doomerism
What happens when the safety-first AI company decides it needs to go faster?
The likeliest outcomes from the Google antitrust trial
Breaking up is very hard to do. So what else is on the table?
Oversight Board
The Oversight Board gets a lifeline
A new initiative will handle user appeals in Europe — but it can be more effective for them than it has been for Meta?
Facebook wants to get younger
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
Can AI regulation survive the First Amendment?
California’s first effort to regulate AI slop hit a wall. What now?
snap
How Snap ignored its sextortion problem
A newly unredacted lawsuit reveals that the company failed to act on 90 percent of user reports
Meta
Meta’s Orion glasses made me want to throw away VR headsets forever
The future of computing is starting to come into focus
OpenAI
OpenAI is a weird company
What is going on over there? PLUS: X's hack-and-leak moment arrives, via Substack
Meta
At Meta Connect, it’s Zuck or nothing
The company has an expansive vision for the future — and until then, some incremental updates
Journalism
What I learned in year four of Platformer
Everything that happened after we left Substack
X
X sneaks back into Brazil
Was it really a mistake — or a gesture of defiance? PLUS: What's Google hiding?
Snapchat
Snap’s latest spectacle
The company’s augmented reality glasses nudge the state of the art forward — but remain frustratingly limited