Supreme Court

How Texas’ online porn law could shatter a First Amendment precedent

After the Supreme Court declined to issue a stay this week, 20 years of court rulings may be about to go out the window

AI

Publishers gamble over AI licensing deals

Is it smarter to take the deal they can get — or fight it out in court?

Oversight Board

The Oversight Board prepares to shrink

To grow again, it will have to deliver on its mission 

TikTok

14 questions and answers about the TikTok ban

How it happened, ByteDance’s response, and what happens next

TikTok

How the TikTok ban could survive a court challenge

The First Amendment is a major obstacle, scholars say — but it isn’t insurmountable

TikTok

TikTok on the clock

With the Senate counting down to a critical vote on the platform’s future, its problems are multiplying

Meta

How Meta is paving the way for synthetic social networks

Five ways of thinking about Llama 3, its latest large language model

Startups

Airchat revives the clubhouse

Plus: Musk backs down in Brazil

AI

Humane’s folly and the AI hype hangover

The tech industry's overpromising about generative AI is starting to catch up with it

Child Safety

Inside the debate over The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt wrote a best-selling book about teens and social media. Not everyone buys its thesis

TikTok

The case of the missing TikTok ban

A month after the House moved to force a sale, it’s crickets in the Senate

X

X risks a ban in Brazil

Elon Musk defies a court order to restore user accounts — but there’s more to the story than free speech