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How Russians are changing up their election interference
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A wave of new indictments tells us what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn’t
on Sep 6
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From the United States to the European Union, threats to the app are growing
on Dec 18
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How Claude uses AI to identify new threats
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PLUS: Exclusive data on how people are using Anthropic’s chatbot
on Dec 12
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After Trump passes up an opportunity say he will save the app, ByteDance is at a crossroads
on Dec 11
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What I learned from the “AI is fake and sucks” debate
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Gary Marcus (and many others) respond
on Dec 10
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The phony comforts of AI skepticism
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It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous
on Dec 6
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TikTok and the Romanian candidate
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An election interference case in Europe sounds oddly familiar to America's story in 2016. How seriously should we take it?
on Dec 4
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Australia bans young teens from social media
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It's a blow for free expression — and an enormous gift to YouTube
on Dec 3
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Google keeps meddling with the web
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With antitrust prosecutions in full swing, the company keeps giving regulators fresh reasons for concern
on Nov 27
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Inside Bluesky’s big growth surge
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After adding millions of new users in weeks, the company tells Platformer that it will quadruple the size of its moderation team
on Nov 26
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The search giant is pushing back on the government’s plan to break it up — but competition is coming anyway
on Nov 22
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The government has a breakup plan for Google
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Chrome away from home
on Nov 20
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AI companies hit a scaling wall
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OpenAI, Google and others are seeing diminishing returns to building ever-bigger models — but that may not matter as much as you would guess
on Nov 15
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Trump has vowed to make good on his promise to save the app. What will it cost the company?
on Nov 13
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The post-election social network realignment
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Bluesky and Threads are on the rise. Can it last?
on Nov 12
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Platforms and venture capitalists have a long wishlist for the president-elect — but can they survive the chaos of Trump 2.0?
on Nov 8
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The polls are closing — and the fight over the election could just be beginning
on Nov 6
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X’s plan to interfere with the election
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Elon Musk’s effort to deny Kamala Harris an election victory is already underway. Can it work?
on Nov 5
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It leapfrogged Google at launch. Now ChatGPT is reaching to the past to build its future
on Nov 1
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The Washington Post owner says the media must stay neutral to maintain its credibility — but misunderstands how trust is built today
on Oct 30
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The billionaires hedge their bets
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The owners and CEOs of America’s biggest platforms are playing nice with Trump. And it could come back to haunt them
on Oct 29
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Artificial intelligence can now compute for you on your behalf — and the web is never going to be the same
on Oct 23
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Google shuffles the search deck
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With a new Knowledge and Information chief and a new home for Gemini, can the company hit the reset button?
on Oct 18
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Anthropic makes an AI safety plan
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Can responsible scaling policies bring the future into alignment?
on Oct 18
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Anthropic is done with AI doomerism
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What happens when the safety-first AI company decides it needs to go faster?
on Oct 17
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The likeliest outcomes from the Google antitrust trial
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Breaking up is very hard to do. So what else is on the table?
on Oct 17
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The Oversight Board gets a lifeline
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A new initiative will handle user appeals in Europe — but it can be more effective for them than it has been for Meta?
on Oct 10
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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
on Oct 8
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Can AI regulation survive the First Amendment?
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California’s first effort to regulate AI slop hit a wall. What now?
on Oct 4
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How Snap ignored its sextortion problem
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A newly unredacted lawsuit reveals that the company failed to act on 90 percent of user reports
on Oct 2
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Meta’s Orion glasses made me want to throw away VR headsets forever
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The future of computing is starting to come into focus
on Oct 1
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What is going on over there? PLUS: X's hack-and-leak moment arrives, via Substack
on Sep 27
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At Meta Connect, it’s Zuck or nothing
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The company has an expansive vision for the future — and until then, some incremental updates
on Sep 26
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What I learned in year four of Platformer
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Everything that happened after we left Substack
on Sep 24
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Was it really a mistake — or a gesture of defiance? PLUS: What's Google hiding?
on Sep 20
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The company’s augmented reality glasses nudge the state of the art forward — but remain frustratingly limited
on Sep 18
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Instagram makes teen accounts private by default
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Under siege by state lawmakers, Meta makes its biggest move yet to address harms to minors. Will it be enough?
on Sep 17
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Mark Zuckerberg’s 20-year mistake
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Meta’s CEO says he’s done apologizing. Should we worry?
on Sep 13
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What the latest lie to go mainstream on X tells us about what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn't
on Sep 11
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But a new terrorism indictment shows the reckoning is only just beginning
on Sep 10
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For once, Elon Musk has a case worth fighting — but he has to do it in the courts
on Sep 4
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Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
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After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm
on Sep 1
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Zuckerberg draws a new line on government pressure
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PLUS: Telegram's French press
on Aug 28
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Pavel Durov’s arrest over the weekend was shocking. It was also inevitable
on Aug 27
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How influence campaigns stopped working
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It turns out that social networks are less susceptible to 2016-style attacks — and no one likes AI slop
on Aug 23
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California's controversial AI bill is on the verge of becoming law
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California’s SB-1047 is on a path to the governor’s desk. Will it kill the AI boom?
on Aug 16