Casey Newton
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The A.I. Industry Is Asking to Be Slowed Down
This week, we break down why everyone is suddenly talking about A. I. safety, why frontier A. I. companies are asking for regulation and why the Trump administration is rejecting them.
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.
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.