OpenAI
Three big lessons from the GPT-5 backlash
In which an industry obsessed with benchmarks and evals finds that its products are being used by real people
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OpenAI
GPT-5 is alive
It's big news for free users of ChatGPT, but AGI remains elusive. PLUS: one AI safety idea other labs should borrow
OpenAI
OpenAI returns to open weights
An industry leader releases a powerful model that runs on a laptop. Should we worry?
OpenAI
ChatGPT adds a warning
It’s almost certainly not enough — but it’s a start.
Substack promotes a Nazi
The company has long wanted to be seen as neutral infrastructure — this week, we saw why that’s a fantasy
Child Safety
The UK's age gates are coming to America
The rocky rollout of age verification in the United Kingdom — and the privacy debacle at Tea — illustrate why a different approach is needed
Content Moderation
Trust and safety workers on why they're not speaking out
What readers say I got wrong in our last edition
Content Moderation
Is anyone left to defend trust and safety?
It’s under assault this year from users, politicians, and their own executives — but the industry has responded with silence
The Google study that told us what we already suspected
When users see AI overviews, clicks fall in half. How does the web survive?
Google and OpenAI fight over a high-school math competition
The race to AGI is getting petty
Let’s all try to help Substack live up to its new valuation
The company's new unicorn status has already led its founders to reverse their position on advertising. What other compromises are they prepared to make?
xAI
Grok's new porn companion is rated for kids 12+ in the App Store
AI companions are arriving faster than platforms can build guardrails around them. Parents need to pay attention
Jawboning
The campaign to make it illegal for ChatGPT to criticize Trump
The conservative pressure campaign against social networks was hugely successful — and now it's coming for AI
OpenAI
Sam Altman upstages the critics
And six other takeaways from Hard Fork Live
Meta
Meta's five biggest AI problems
The company clearly needs an infusion of fresh talent — but blank checks aren't going as far as they used to
Threads
The dream of the Fediverse is alive on Threads
Decentralized media is off to an agonizingly slow start — but there are glimmers of progress