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Casey Newton

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The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
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Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT
Meta negotiated an unusual provision in their landmark settlement: If TikTok and YouTube also agree to penalties and changes to their products, Meta will pay more.
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How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job
Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about it
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Meta settles with the states over child safety failures
Will significant changes to Facebook and Instagram be enough to beat back a global wave of bans?
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OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought
“It is the first time that we know of that a major lab has voluntarily slowed down.”
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The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI
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An LLM wiki changed how I work
And everything else I learned about productivity this year
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Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math
“The first rule of Mark Zuckerberg is never count out Mark Zuckerberg.”
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Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
Jean-Denis Greze on AI assistants, building a better corporate workspace, and avoiding "egg on face"
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Superintelligence is a dragon
What Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands about powerful AI
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The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express
A few details from the White House’s A.I. plan have leaked to the news media, but the administration has officially communicated almost nothing.
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Replit’s CEO on building a company that can run itself
Amjad Masad on the "self-driving company," why a CEO is a glorified router, and what's left for humans when agents do the work
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Notes on the third era of slop
Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
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Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton’s Dishy Google Memoir + Substack’s Slop Fight
“It just seems like the temperature is rising on Silicon Valley.”
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This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on invisible AI bots, the coming fight over who sees your transcripts, and why he turns down the companies that ask for them
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A big week for AI denialism
In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications
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OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
“The story that we’re talking about in this segment was science fiction until Tuesday, OK?”
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Congress proposes an AI kill switch
As more details emerge about OpenAI's cyberattack against Hugging Face, lawmakers are taking an interest. PLUS: Meta's cynical new ad + "pervert glasses" damage control
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The case for making your own apps
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 d...
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The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say ‘We Must Act Now’ + HatGPT
“I don’t know if the public understands this, but these companies hate each other.”
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China has a new top model
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is very good — but the hype may be getting ahead of reality. (For now.)
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The man who tried 200 to-do apps has some advice about AI
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
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The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet
200 economists and AI leaders say something big is happening. What should we do about it? Plus: Apple sues OpenAI
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Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time
“If the net result is that all the teens in Australia are still using social media, even after they’re technically banned from doing it, why are we doing any of this?”
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OpenAI's big launch — and bigger departure
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."
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Vibe coding has escaped the terminal
Adventures with Raycast’s new app-making app, Glaze
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Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama
What we learned from the government’s biggest attempt yet to control who can gain access to the most powerful new A.I. models.
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Why social media bans are gaining steam
How a recent talk by researcher Candice Odgers explains why ban critics are losing
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Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
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The CEO of AWS on why Amazon is hiring 11,000 interns and junior employees
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?
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