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
The First Amendment is a major obstacle, scholars say — but it isn’t insurmountable
TikTok
With the Senate counting down to a critical vote on the platform’s future, its problems are multiplying
Meta
Five ways of thinking about Llama 3, its latest large language model
Startups
Plus: Musk backs down in Brazil
AI
The tech industry's overpromising about generative AI is starting to catch up with it
Child Safety
Jonathan Haidt wrote a best-selling book about teens and social media. Not everyone buys its thesis
TikTok
A month after the House moved to force a sale, it’s crickets in the Senate
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Elon Musk defies a court order to restore user accounts — but there’s more to the story than free speech
Behind the rocky launch of a photo-sharing app was a co-founder about to quit and months of employee warnings that its new project wasn’t ready
Nine months in, what is Meta's text-based social network for? Recent feature additions offer some clues
Perplexity’s plan to add sponsored questions could be the future of chatbots — if it doesn’t destroy users’ trust
The company’s bet on AI boyfriends and other paywalled features is making some employees nervous
From Stability to Inflection, would-be challengers to the giants are failing to execute
States want platforms and websites to verify users' ages — but there's a better solution available
One way or another, real competition may be coming to the iPhone
It’s a pillar of the social web — but will it make a good investment?
Plus: the TikTok ban slows down
Meta is killing off a pioneering tool for platform transparency — but the movement it kickstarted is just beginning
It only kind of works. It’s everywhere anyway