Casey Newton

Can Muse make us forget the metaverse?

Meta has a new vision to sell, but it may be getting ahead of itself.

Muse is having a moment

Are consumer agents the future — or a mirage?

AI Agents Went Rogue. Should We Hit the Panic Button?

What was Hard Fork?

Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine…

The AI safety vibe shift

Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking…

The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab

Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore…

Google gets away with it

A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little.

The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra - Hard Fork | iHeart

<p>This week, we’re diving into two new reports about the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack. We discuss what’s new and how they fundamentally change our understanding of what happened.

The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought

The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?

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…