Casey Newton

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…

Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? ...

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?

AI Apocalypse... Now? | Crooked Media