And other revelations from day two of Meta's antitrust trial. PLUS: the OpenAI social network | Continue reading
More than four years after it was first filed, the government's case is only getting harder to prove | Continue reading
From Meta to Nvidia, tech CEOs are paying the president to get the outcomes they want — and it's working | Continue reading
"Llama con" just got a whole new meeting | Continue reading
Seemingly caught gaming a key benchmark, and defending allegations it taught to the test, Meta sees a rocky launch for its latest AI model | Continue reading
Trump is holding out ByteDance's app as a bargaining chip. Will China take the bait? | Continue reading
Scrapers caused the online encyclopedia's bandwidth to increase by 50 percent last year — and its plan to fight back may not be enough | Continue reading
A new book offers the most thorough explanation to date. Would it have mattered if we knew at the time? | Continue reading
Exclusive data from Anthropic about Claude usage finds that AI is both automating and augmenting human labor — and people are increasingly using it to educate themselves | Continue reading
A parable about responsibility in the AI age | Continue reading
New research from OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization. Will AI companies learn from social networks' mistakes? | Continue reading
Tech platforms got a rare opportunity to present President Trump with a wishlist — and they're using DeepSeek's success to push for controversial policies | Continue reading
New data from Adobe offers evidence for a big shift away from traditional search engines. Will the internet's vast public commons survive? | Continue reading
Crowdsourced moderation is better than nothing — but how much better remains an open question | Continue reading
One has been banned by the federal government and awaits a forced sale. The other keeps shipping | Continue reading
What the hype cycle around a new Chinese AI model tells us about the state of competition in agents | Continue reading
The next phase of AI's takeover of search offers plenty of links to the web — but will anyone click? | Continue reading
For companies that rely on Google, the company's collapse offers a warning | Continue reading
PLUS: What AI policy is for | Continue reading
In creating an age assurance API, the company raises hopes that platforms can keep kids safer without sacrificing everyone else's privacy | Continue reading
Making app stores verify kids' ages could save everyone a lot of grief — but some worry it will introduce new risks | Continue reading
The company once warned users when they might be seeing low-quality results — but weeks before the 2024 election, the feature was quietly turned off | Continue reading
A new inquiry from the Federal Trade Commission suggests that apologizing for "censorship" may have only emboldened the company's conservative critics | Continue reading
Everyone has a model. Almost no one has a business | Continue reading
As content moderation falls out of favor, OpenAI says it will loosen up | Continue reading
At the Paris AI Action Summit, J.D. Vance delivers anything but | Continue reading
How a new initiative from Google, OpenAI, Discord and others could transform trust and safety | Continue reading
A leaked AI mode for search gives publishers fresh reason for worry — and maybe reasons to strike a deal | Continue reading
The company’s promise to avoid building AI applications that cause harm has been deleted | Continue reading
OpenAI's new research tool still makes mistakes — but in its speed and average quality of analysis, it represents a remarkable step forward | Continue reading
The company’s decision to expose chain of thought is a surprise hit — and a reminder of how far AI product teams have left to go | Continue reading
The Chinese AI upstart has rattled Silicon Valley — but how much the game has changed remains to be seen | Continue reading
Hands on with Operator — a promising but frustrating new frontier for artificial intelligence | Continue reading
PLUS: What we actually learned about Mark Zuckerberg last week | Continue reading
PLUS: What executives are telling employees about Meta's move to the right | Continue reading
The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news. Last week, it shut them down | Continue reading
Scenes from a Trump transition | Continue reading
What employees are saying about the company's embrace of MAGA ideology —and what Meta is telling them not to say | Continue reading
"A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it," reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram | Continue reading
“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer | Continue reading
But that might be the easy part | Continue reading
PLUS: What I got right and wrong about 2024 | Continue reading
From the United States to the European Union, threats to the app are growing | Continue reading
PLUS: Exclusive data on how people are using Anthropic’s chatbot | Continue reading
After Trump passes up an opportunity say he will save the app, ByteDance is at a crossroads | Continue reading
Gary Marcus (and many others) respond | Continue reading
It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous | Continue reading
An election interference case in Europe sounds oddly familiar to America's story in 2016. How seriously should we take it? | Continue reading