Glaze's Thomas Paul Mann on disposable software, the SaaS apocalypse, and why half the software you use in a few years will be something you made. PLUS: OpenAI's rogue model, and the distillation debate | Continue reading
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is very good — but the hype may be getting ahead of reality. (For now.) | Continue reading
The Verge's David Pierce kicks off our new series on staying productive in the AI era — starting with why you should stop trying to stay ahead | Continue reading
200 economists and AI leaders say something big is happening. What should we do about it? Plus: Apple sues OpenAI | Continue reading
GPT-5.6 impresses the critics, but Fidji Simo's exit leaves OpenAI's focus — and its org chart — in flux. PLUS: Meta plays catch-up, and the "AI 2027" authors present "AI 2040." | Continue reading
Adventures with Raycast’s new app-making app, Glaze | Continue reading
How a recent talk by researcher Candice Odgers explains why ban critics are losing | Continue reading
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them | Continue reading
Matt Garman argues that junior employees are as necessary as ever. But AWS now sells agents that can recruit, code, and process claims. Will the balance hold? | Continue reading
And yes, AI is a factor. Replika and Wabi founder Eugenia Kuyda on how advances in coding changed her hiring calculus | Continue reading
Highlights from Hard Fork Live, including Figma CEO Dylan Field on why design isn’t dead | Continue reading
Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder on why she's leaving her job to create solution for AI's "messy middle." PLUS: Claude Fable arrives | Continue reading
Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards isn't worried AI will create a new class of permanently idle Americans — but argues it's still time for the government to fix the social safety net | Continue reading
After months of uncertainty, the company's oversight body has a new lifeline | Continue reading
Anthropic's Boris Cherny tells me major job loss due to automation really is coming — but job creation is, too. PLUS: the Pope's AI encyclical, and Trump abandons an AI executive order | Continue reading
At Google I/O, new features bring AI agents into the inbox and YouTube in ways that further strain the relationship between publishers and platforms | Continue reading
Tasks are getting easier to automate — jobs aren't. What now? | Continue reading
Musk vows to appeal; the judge vows to throw that case out, too | Continue reading
A new report says X is resurgent — but it may be missing the bigger picture | Continue reading
In the first episode of the Platformer podcast, Box CEO Aaron Levie makes the case that you'll keep your job — but soon, you might not recognize it | Continue reading
Elon Musk had lots of reasons to make a deal with Anthropic — but he wouldn’t have done it if he were ahead. PLUS: The incredible testimony of Shivon Zilis, and a big new study on school phone bans | Continue reading
A year ago, officials all but sneered at the idea of AI safety. A new frontier model has them reconsidering | Continue reading
Think railroads, not crypto. PLUS: The government can't decide what to do about Mythos, and week one of the OpenAI-Elon Musk trial | Continue reading
On newsletters in the age of AI automation. PLUS: Musk and OpenAI in court, and China blocks Meta's Manus acquisition | Continue reading
Invasive monitoring and a fresh round of layoffs have workers I spoke to on edge. Is this the future of knowledge work? | Continue reading
PLUS: Everyone has feelings about Tim Cook | Continue reading
Tech companies hope a check in the mail will calm the AI backlash — but there are reasons for skepticism | Continue reading
New research confirms that LLMs often perform better when you encourage them. But why? | Continue reading
OpenAI’s CEO is asking the public to lower the temperature on AI. But who turned it up in the first place? | Continue reading
Nine months after an expensive overhaul, the company says it's back in the AI race — but the race keeps getting faster | Continue reading
The company says it has built its most dangerous model yet. Can its coalition of internet companies fix the internet before others catch up? | Continue reading
A strange purchase, executive reshuffling and a New Yorker investigation are raising questions ahead of an IPO | Continue reading
Shifting priorities and budget pressures could bring an end to the company’s experiment in independent governance, sources say | Continue reading
The verdicts in last week’s social media trials have alarmed open-internet advocates. But it’s possible to regulate platform design while also protecting speech | Continue reading
Meta’s CEO said he didn't want to be the speech police. Then he texted Elon Musk | Continue reading
The company is taking new steps to stop AI impersonation — but across the internet, the problem continues to grow. PLUS: Anthropic in court, and Meta loses in New Mexico | Continue reading
PLUS: the White House's new AI agenda | Continue reading
The company's new support chatbot is better than what came before — but still missing the one feature that millions are clamoring for | Continue reading
Do Sam Altman and Fidji Simo have an alignment problem? | Continue reading
In 2019, Mark Zuckerberg called privacy the future of social networking. Not anymore | Continue reading
Some overdue reflections by its CEO, and a class-action lawsuit, bring an end to “expert review” | Continue reading
Jay Graber built something impressive but stagnant. Can a new CEO get it growing again? | Continue reading
The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing? | Continue reading
A protest at OpenAI headquarters suggests the backlash to military AI is growing — even if its politics are still half-formed. PLUS: The Pentagon declares Anthropic a supply chain risk | Continue reading
Shunned by the government, and newly appealing to consumers, the company is at a crossroads | Continue reading
Sam Altman’s deal with the Pentagon seems too good to be true. What happens when the public realizes that? | Continue reading
AI safety researchers have long worried that a government would seek to use AI for domestic surveillance and autonomous killing. The Pentagon’s fight with Anthropic threatens to make it a reality | Continue reading
PLUS: The Substack post that tanked the markets, continued | Continue reading