Casey Newton

How This Tech Journalist Would Actually Use AI on a College Campus

Why the Hugging Face Attack Was Worse Than We Thought

This week, we’re diving into two new reports about the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack, which fundamentally changed our understanding of what happened and upgraded our worry about A. I.

What Meta's $17 Billion Settlement Means for TikTok and YouTube

Meta reached a landmark settlement this week, agreeing to pay up to $17.1 billion and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram over claims it endangered children with addictive social media…

Why OpenAI Is Rewriting Its Rules of Regulation

This week, we learned that OpenAI had stopped training new artificial intelligence models while the company reviewed its security measures. Will this encourage other labs to hit the brakes too?

Every's Dan Shipper on the "dirty secret" of writing with AI

For our penultimate episode, I wanted to visit someone running a version of that experiment in a somewhat unexpected place: the media business.

Seriously, Is This Sh*t Going To Destroy The World?

Zuckerberg's Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector ...

Town's CEO on the self-organizing company

Last week on the Platformer podcast, Replit's Amjad Masad predicted that within three years, we'll be using fewer apps and more agents — with the agents using apps on our behalf.

Replit's CEO: "You Don't Need to Code Anymore"

Last week on the Platformer podcast, Granola's Chris Pedregal told me we are only 5 percent into the AI transformation of work.

This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss

Last week on the Platformer podcast, Thomas Paul Mann predicted that within a few years, as much as half of the software on your Mac could be software you…